http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 – Friends Life T20 South Group – Middlesex triumph in thriller
Surrey’s embarrassing run in this year’s Friends Life T20 continued as they suffered a narrow 1 wicket loss to Middlesex at the Oval on July 6, 2012.
Despite both sides languishing at the foot of the table in the South Group, a packed Oval crowd witnessed some entertaining cricket, only to see the tourists overhauling the 155-run target set by Surrey in the final over of the game.
With rain washing out most of the matches, again dampening the impact of the competition which has considerably weakened in recent times, the game gave the tournament much needed respite.
Surrey began the proceedings reasonably after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 finally struck form to add 76 with fellow opener Steven Davies. Their contribution was not flashy but gave the home side a reasonable platform.
Davies departed on the first ball of the 11th over after he was cleaned up by Tom Simth for 37. Pietersen carried on to play a valuable run-a-ball knock of 42 and guided the team to 107 before falling to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dawid-Malan-c1344.
Jason http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Wilson-c1474, who remained unbeaten with 21. He went on add a brisk 40, which further included two more maximum strikes before falling
in the penultimate over off Steven Crook.
A target of 155 was always in reach and the early signs suggested in easy victory for the visitors, which collected 51 from the first four overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-Dexter-c2091, the skipper, started the innings in aggressive manner, hitting three successive fours.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-Paul-Crook-c91337, who had added 25 off just 10 balls, including three fours and two sixes.
The innings stalled in the middle overs which saw Surrey reducing the batting side to 106 for 7 in 14.1 overs. Dexter was sent back on 41 and out of the remaining specialist batsmen, only http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Simpson-c1722 managed to reach double figures.
However, the game swung again as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ollie-Rayner-c2139 (14) and Ollie Wilkin (28) played sensibly to add 46 for the eighth-wicket. The former fell on the first ball of the final over and was followed by his partner two balls later, but the last wicket pairing of
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tom-Smith-c2704 held nerves to clinch victory for their side with one ball to spare.
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