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This season's excellent midweek form continued as we warmed up for Friday's impending cup quarter Final against Sage, with an emphatic victory over Divison 3 strugglers Cooksons Old Boys at Percy Main yesterday evening.
After agreeing a 16 over affair, Johns won the toss and had no hesitation in opting to have first use of a flat, dry looking wicket.
West Indian dasher Marshall was asked to open the batting as he looked to re-aclimatise to the English conditions. After a slightly shaky start, he soon began working the singles, playing himself in. Wilson also opened but was slightly unfortunate to depart LBW for 1.
The in-form Wiseman arrived at the crease, fresh from a half century on Saturday. It wasn't long before both batsman were despatching the ball to the boundary, supplemented by some excellent running between the wickets.
The pair cracked along at 12 an over, putting on 116 for the second wicket until first Don was bowled by Patterson for a controlled 58 and a tiring Wiz not long after, also bowled for an excellent 63.
With 3 or 4 overs to go and plenty of runs already in the bank, the rest of the order was instructed to 'have a go'. Andy (2) and Ed Lord (9) didn't last too long but Craig (14*) and Henry (10)added handy runs in no time at all. Craig also provided the highlight of the innings with an audacious reverse sweep which so confused the scorers, they awarded the runs to the left handed Henry!
A great allround effort finishing on 176-6, comfortably our highest score of the season.
Laingers and Mulligan opened the bowling and wickets fell straight away, Iain striking with the 6th ball of the innings - Crowe mistiming to Don at mid on. He soon followed this up with an excellent double wicket maiden (including an excellent low diving catch from Mike behind the stumps) and concluded his spell with figures of 4-1-15-3. Impressive stuff.
Simon also struck in his first over, forcing Cadwallader to play on, The big fella followed this up by inducing Patterson into a caught & bowled and gave able support to Laingers finishing with 2-21 from his four.
Southern allrounder Hale replaced Laingers and there was no let up for the Cooksons batsmen, with his pace clearly too much for several of their batsmen. Only Hartley (23) and Ellinor (27*) put up any resistance as Henry swept through the middle and lower order, finishing with 4-0-13-3.
Johns bowled a couple of average overs before replacing himself with Moore who could not provide the final wicket but went for only 7 from his two overs. 86-8.
Victory by 90 runs. Outstanding. Promotion cannot be far way....
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