http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 victory: Friends Life Twenty20 - Second Innings Recap
Hampshire would have been disappointed to concede 162 runs in the match, but they had the fire power in their batting line-up to chase the target down. They had some powerful hitters like Pakistan’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sean-Ervine-c2471 and England’s Dimitri
Mascarenhas.
However, the batting didn’t click for the visitors as they would have liked. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Vince-c1657 played well for his team and ended up being the top scorer in the innings with 52 runs. He lacked support from the other end though, which resulted in the team’s loss.
Essex’s promising player, Tim Southee, had a tremendous match overall, as he picked up three wickets in the match and scored 74 runs.
The playing conditions didn’t change much, as batting was not much difficult in the middle. However, the pressure of chasing down a big target proved to be too much for the visitors’ batsmen in the end.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jimmy-Adams-c1696, who has been in a good touch for his side in the recent past, failed to give a solid start to his team in yesterday’s match, as he was sent back to the pavilion after adding just five runs to the total.
Vince walked out in the middle to join http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Benny-Howell-c1147 and the pair put together 32 runs for the second wicket partnership. They put their team on track, but the latter failed to carry onto the start he got to his innings and was dismissed after collecting
11 runs from the same number of deliveries faced.
This brought South Africa’s, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-McKenzie-c2094, in the middle. He gave good support to Vince and both players took their team’s total to 80 with a solid 39-run stand for the third wicket.
However, the Proteas batsman was unable to capitalise on the start he got to his innings and had to take the long walk back to the pavilion after adding 25 runs to the total from just 18 balls. He smashed three fours in his cameo knock.
The wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nic-Pothas-c2100 got out cheaply for three, two and one respectively.
Vince completed his half-century, but failed to carry onto make a big one for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789. He proved to be the best batsman in his side, collecting 52 runs from 44 balls, striking three fours and a couple of sixes.
Hampshire were all-out for 136 in the 19th over, courtesy some brilliant bowling by Tim Phillips and Southee. They took four and three wickets in their respective spells.
Tags: