Wombat Sports Tamar League

St Stephens v

ON a fine day in St Stephens, Yelverton won the toss and elected to bowl on a green wicket.

Opening the bowling for Yelverton were Chris Vinson and Cameron Dawe, who soon removed Mike Stokes (1) and Andy Page (1) to leave the home side 3-2 and recovered to 40 before Simon Yeo was out for 13.

Steady wickets and a slow scoring rate meant that St Stephens were bowled out for 121 off 38.1 overs.

Top score went to Ed Stokes with 31.

All the Yelverton bowlers took wickets (C Vinson 9-1-21-2, C Dawe 6-1-16-1, Alan Munton 8-0-32-2, Ben Spear 10-4-18-2, Sandy Ralph 3-0-19-1 and Rohit Garg 2-0-5-1).

Superb opening bowling spells from Richard Court and Andy Dore saw Yelverton 20-2 after 13 overs with Andy Dore bowling five consecutive maidens. Their third wicket went on 54 before Richard Garland and Rohit Garg picked up the scoring and took Yelverton home with six overs to spare; Richard Garland finishing on 42 not out and Rohit Garg on 34 not out.

St Stephens bowling figures were (R Court 7-2-17-1, A Dore 8-5-12-1, Ben Lugger 4-0-16-0, Simon Court 6-0-27-1, Simon Yeo 4-0-31-0 and Dave Jones 3-5-0-15-0).

Points St Stephens 4 and Yelverton 18.