Date of
Match: Saturday, August 5th, Home.
League: PCB Saturday Division 2.
Scoreboard: Swanage 179 - 7
( N.Clark 96, G.Watson 23. M.Burton 3 -
51. )
Shaftesbury 66
( G.Watson 4 - 26. )
Result: Swanage won by 113 runs.
Details:
The batting conditions were difficult
throughout on a slow, crumbly Shaftesbury
pitch and so Swanage had to work very
hard to build a respectable total. In a
patient knock, Nick Clark held the
innings together. Showing good shot
selection after long periods of necessary
defence, he drove well and later lofted
the ball into open spaces. Guy Watson
provided good support in a fourth wicket
partnership of 60.
In reply, Shaftesbury had no answer to
the Swanage bowling, especially that of
Watson. Ducking the ball in late, Watson
removed the middle stump of three top
order batsmen and caught and bowled the
fourth. The demolition of Shaftesbury’s
batting was completed in the thirty first
over to give the Division Two leaders an
emphatic victory.
Date of Match: Sunday, August 6th,
Home.
League: PCB Sunday Division 1.
Scoreboard: Bournemouth 200
( A.Dare 60, N.Staddon 43. G.Watson 4 -
49.)
Swanage First Eleven 204 - 1
( N.Clark 115*, J.Clark 66*.)
Result: Swanage won by 9 wickets.
Details: Terry Falck made two early
breakthroughs in an outstanding spell of
fast bowling at Day’s Park. First he
trapped C.Collins leg before and then had
Chris Insall caught behind.. Neil Staddon
steadied the innings until he was bowled
by Ryan Norman. Number 5, A.Dare, looked
to have set Bournemouth up for a big
score with a hard hitting knock, which
included three sixes. However, Dare was
bowled the ball after his last six by Guy
Watson, who took three more wickets in an
important spell, which reduced ten man
Bournemouth from 168 - 5 to 200 all out.
When Craig Wells went early, Nick Clark
was joined by his brother Jonny with the
score at 6 - 1. Together, they
consolidated the innings against accurate
the bowling of Ligtermoet and Haniff,
only reaching 50 in the nineteenth over.
Then Nick Clark hit four successive fours
to set up a momentum which was never lost
in an unbroken partnership of 198.
Dominating with powerful driving, he
scored his second century of the weekend,
hitting two 6’s and fifteen 4’s.
Jonny Clark provided the ideal foil,
constantly rotating the strike and
peppering the mid-wicket boundary with
superb shots off his legs. The target was
reached in the forty-fourth over to give
Swanage a most satisfying victory.
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Date of Match: Sunday, August 6th,
Away.
League: PCB Sunday Division 3.
Scoreboard: Bournemouth Second Eleven
266
( J.Bryson 64, J.Banfield 60, L.B.Clark
40, M.Bullen 24, A.Dunkeley 23.
R.Wilcox 4 - 55. )
Swanage Second Eleven 200 - 8
( N.Bishop 49, T.Buck 23, J.Hardy 23. L.B.Clark
3 - 45.)
Result: Swanage lost by 66 runs.
Report: L.B.Clark and A.Dunkeley opened
briskly for Bournemouth, 53 runs coming
off the first ten overs. Chris Elfes’
off spin put on a temporary brake, as he
induced two catches at extra cover, but
Banfield and Bryson batted aggressively
to put on 74 for the fifth wicket. In an
accurate spell, Roger Wilcox dismissed
them both and helped Swanage to pick up
the last six wickets for 42 runs.
After a poor start, Terry Buck and Nick
Bishop got the innings on its way,
putting on 80 for the third wicket.
Although never threatening Bournemouth’s
large score, all the other batsmen
contributed to enable Swanage to reach a
respectable total.
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