Sussex misses out on semi-final spot – Cricket News Update
In a recent battle, the unfortunate Sussex county side missed out on a chance to find itself a spot on the proceeding Clydesdale Bank 40, domestic competition after Kent went on to secure a cut throat 14 runs win.
The day/ night, 40 overs game took to the County Ground venue, in Hove on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 and was brought alive by Kent’s skipper c*m wicket keeper, Geraint http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jones-c69217, who won the toss and took on a fruitful decision to bat first.
The team’s batting session took off with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Liddle-c1245 as the attacking bowlers for the team.
The match began with Kent suffering a quick blow on its opening order with Denly making the first departure off Liddle’s delivery. The batter was caught out by keeper Brown on a disappointing score of 2.
However, with Kent’s star player, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Mahmood-c1116, joining Drummond on the crease, the newly formed pair took on some safe batting, and went on till the close of the inning’s first quarter.
With the arrival of the 10th over, more trouble came for the batting side after Drummond too exited the crease off another well pitched delivery by Liddle.
Following a couple wickets, the procession went on with Mahmood aiding the side into the innings’ second quarter. However, failing to retain his stumps, Mahmood went on produce an easy catch off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Dermott-Monteith-c65601 Panesar’s delivery that forced the player into walking
off the crease.
Mahmood delivered an impressive knock at the crease, scoring a notable half century worth 58 off 64 balls.
Following the team’s third wicket, the batting side proceeding into losing occasional wickets, with the manner continuing till the eventual wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JC-Tredwell-c1676, that brought an eventual wrap-up to the team’s line-up, at a modest total of 216 runs.
As for Sussex response, the team took off with a comparatively better start than Kent, thanks to side’s opening batters http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Nash-c1247 who managed to add a swift sum of 76 runs for the team.
However, in a successive blow, the batting side went on to lose four quick wickets bringing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sussex-c852 under fire despite holding on to a strong run rate.
With the middle order now taking on the chase, the batters failed to retain their stumps and stumbled into losing some more successive wickets but bringing the game to its eventual closure.
Delivering some potent blows to the line-up, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802 bowlers finally forced the batting side into falling 14 runs short off the chase, eventually marking the win in its favour.
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