Early day for police
at Police field in a Green Division game.
After dismissing Warwick for a mere 54, opening pair Dennis Archer and Chris Graham-Ward polished off the runs from only 7.1 overs.
Archer led the onslaught with a brisk 40 not out, hammering six fours and two sixes while Graham-Ward finished on 16.
Michael Jackman earlier did the damage to Warwick by taking five wickets for 11 runs off 8.4 overs while skipper Ferdinand Thorne snatched three for 15 off 10 overs.
Opening batsman Wallace Minors was top scorer with 13 while Sheridan Ming had 12. The pair put on 25 for the second wicket.
St. George's 81 Western Stars 85-6 A fine fielding performance at St. John's field proved to be the difference in this match between teams depleted by the Bermuda national team's tour of England.
The stage was set from very early when Cleon Scotland took a marvellous one-handed catch in the covers to send acting captain Graham Fox back for a one-ball duck in the fifth over.
St. George's were now two for two and after Perry Scott ran out Eugene Foggo with a direct throw five overs later when the score was 10, the meat of the St. George's line-up was penetrated.
St. George's owed much of their final total to Troy Hall.
The wiry right-hander looked by far their most accomplished batsman before mishitting a Scotland full toss to Allan Brangman, who took a running catch at deep square leg. Hall scored 26, which included a six and two fours in 55 minutes.
Other contributions came from Ian Moe (19) and David Adams (16), who added 30 for the seventh wicket. But that stand was broken by a run out and the east-enders' innings was ended in the same fashion.
Brangman was Stars' top bowler with three for 12 while Scotland claimed three for 17.
Anthony Foggo (29) and Hasan Durham (seven) put Stars on the road to victory with 35 for the first wicket. But after Durham was trapped in front by Foggo, two more wickets fell on 39 with Dexter Smith run out for four and Scott, in his Stars debut, bowled for nought by Foggo.
Skipper Anthony Manders (18) stabilised the innings by adding 24 with Foggo before another three-wicket burst gave St. George's hope.
Dwayne Steede hit the winning runs through the vacant third man area off Foggo, who claimed three for 16.
Nationals 201-9 Flatts 61 Flatts ran into a buzzsaw as Nationals unleashed frustrations from the previous day's loss in the Central Counties Cup to overwhelm their unwitting opponents by 140 runs at National Sports Club yesterday in Gold Division action.
It was the home team's first win of the season in limited-overs play, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Gary Knight proved the main ingredient as Nationals set about building a solid total. Knight scored 46, hitting three fours and a six opening the innings with acting skipper Mark Ray (23). The pair laid a good foundation, producing 48 runs for the first wicket.
A mini-collapse ensued once Ray was removed by first change Kevin Hurdle. Mark Paiva did not hang around long as he fell to a Derek Wright delivery after scoring just one and Jason Lewis followed him back to the pavilion soon after courtesy of Hurdle, who had him caught by his captain Rodney Woolridge.
However, the tide was stemmed as Chris Wright (18) joined Knight, combining to add 36 for the fourth wicket before Wright became history. But John Ray (22) continued the attack as he and Knight carried the total past the century mark.
Also enjoying decent knocks were Wilfred Hodson (28) and Nigel Pichery (30).
Wright was Flatts' chief wicket-taker with three for 39 while Hurdle and MacDonald Woolridge captured two apiece.
Flatts were never able to recover from a disastrous start, which saw them lose their first wicket at nought and at one point stand at 18 for six.
A 22-run seventh-wicket stand between Hurdle (12) and James Bean (17) made things a little more respectable, but not much as they were all out in just over an hour and a half.
John Ray completed a fine all-round display picking up four wickets with his left-arm medium-pace and was aided by Chris Wright with three wickets.
Spinners Bruce Perinchief and Hodson took two and one wicket respectively to complete the rout.
Social Club 18 Willow Cuts 20-0 Ten-man Social Club were dismissed for the season's lowest total in this make-up Open League match at Royal Naval field on Saturday.
Just two bowlers were used by the west-enders against Social Club who found surprising difficulty batting on a true bouncing astroturf wicket.
Left-arm opening bowler Vance Gilbert mowed through the top order taking the first four wickets, leaving fellow paceman Rodney Fubler to clear out the lower order.
Gilbert ended up with match figures of five for six from seven overs, while Fubler was four for 11 in his six-over spell.
Player/coach Lee Raynor was high man for Social Club with six while Thomas Brangman scored five. In between there were three ducks as the visitors enjoyed a miserable afternoon of cricket.
Willow Cuts needed only 19 balls to pass the score.
Five-time defending Evening League champions Cable and Wireless got their 1992 campaign off the mark in style with a 64-run mauling of Bank of Butterfield.
Cable batted first amassing a total of 110 for five in their allotment of 12 overs with Cal Smith topping the list on 28, Clevie Smith next with 22 and former Somerset Cup Match player El James contributing 19.
Kevin James took three wickets for Butterfield as their attack came in for some harsh treatment.
When it came time to bat Butterfield found that James has not completely lost his touch as he ripped through the batting line-up for three wickets at a cost of only eight runs. Cal Smith showed his all-round ability by grabbing two wickets as did Dane Brown and R.Durham.
Zane Stowe top-scored with 11 for the losers as no other batsman managed double figures.
