Mighty Muckamore chop Woodvale down to size
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Indrajeet Kamtekar and Wayne Horwood celebrate their winning 126 run partnership after the match against Woodvale on Saturday.
MUCKAMORE travelled to the Belfast Royal Academy grounds on Saturday to play Woodvale in a Senior League match missing key players Brian Dunlop and David Cardwell.
The game was played on one of the most scenic grounds in the country, just below Belfast Castle, overlooking Belfast Lough as Woodvale, like Muckamore are relaying their square and improving their drainage on their Ballygomartin Road ground.
The Woodvale Captain won the toss and deciding to bat first, sent Johnston and Connelly in to face opening bowlers Neil Gill and Craig Drummond.
The score had reached 12 runs in the third over when Gill struck first to bowl Connelly with an unstoppable delivery to make the early breakthrough.
Gibson was the next man in and with Johnston they saw Gill replaced by Indrajeet Kamtekar at the City End and Jason Van Der Merwe take over from Drummond at the School End.
Then the in form Kamtekar struck twice in his second over when he had Johnston caught behind by wicket keeper Jordan Mairs and had new batsman O'Neill top edge the ball to mid off fielder Ralph Coetzee two deliveries later to leave Woodvale on 34 runs for three wickets in only the seventh over.
Robinson joined Gibson and they very slowly added nine more runs in six overs before the latter was trapped lbw by Kamtekar.
Bunting was Robinson's new partner and a quick burst of runs from them forced on new bowlers Ralph Coetzee and Trevor Neill and both were unlucky to see reasonably easy catches dropped in their first over.
The score progressed to 92 runs into the 25th over before Bunting was unhappy to be given out to an lbw decision, claiming that the ball had hit his bat first on the way through.
Browne was the new batsman and his aggressive play against the returning Kamtekar was his downfall when he mistimed a shot into deep mid on fielder Horwood's hands in the 33rd over.
Burnside joined Robinson and the score reached 126 runs before the latter was given out to an lbw decision which he made pretty obvious that he was not happy about, from a looping Coetzee delivery.
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