Fletching 1sts in thrilling last ball draw with Rye 1sts
This riveting contest ended with a scrambled Rye single off the last ball, leaving the scores tied but the result as a draw.
Rye had earlier won the toss and invited Fletching to bat. Dan Saunders 20 and Mark Horscroft 19 got Fletching off to a slow but steady start. It was Martin Blincow with 3-43 and Mark Cook 1-31 who made the intial inroads as Fletching reached 97-4 off 30 overs. Fletching then responded through Grant Horscroft 70 and Matt Lucas 28 who shared a hard hitting partnership of 70 runs. The introduction of Gary Willis 2-50 and Felix Nelson 2-39 removed both of them and chipped away at the Fletching lower order. Fletching however managed a respectable 192-8.
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Rye began cautiously after losing Fran Briley early on, but then began to accelerate as James Hamilton 46 and Mark Cook 65 shared a 78 run partnership but both fell in similar circumstances…Mark Horscroft swooping to claim two great catches on the boundary.
With Rye needing 100 runs for victory off 15 overs, Fletching’s Dan Saunders took centre stage, removing the middle order with 5-34. The game came down to requiring 12 off the last two overs with 3 wickets in hand. Off the penultimate over squeezed out 8 runs. 4 off the last over, but Sam Newman dismissed Gary Osborn 19 and then dismissed Nelson. With two for victory off two balls Rye ran a leg bye but a dead ball was called, no run. A single was scrambled off the last ball, leaving the scores tied but the result as a draw.