Result - Lost by 12 runs

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Featherstone 157-9 , R. Davis 56, Ged McInerny 3-21

Stainborough 145 all out, Richard Umbers 32, M. Davis 5-19

Match Report

Featherstone won the toss and elected to bat first. Dave Kershaw and Phil Campbell opened the bowling for Stainborough and bowled tightly restricting Featherstone to 28-1 after the first 14 overs. The introduction of Kev Grimshaw then brought two further wickets. First a great bit of fielding saw Turner (17) run out, and opener M. Smith (15) followed in the next over. Ged McInerny continued to build the pressure and took valuable wickets to leave Featherstone in trouble at 60-6.

R. Davis then batted with aggression hitting 56 of which 46 came in boundaries. He was well supported by S McArbon (27) who seemed to be unfortunately given out LBW. Stainborough were unable to take the final wicket leaving Featherstone on 156-9.

In reply, Stainborough made yet another poor start losing an early wicket. However, Gilfillan looked in fine form before being unbelievably given out LBW to a bowl that was deflected down to fine leg off the outside of the pad. The wicket keeper moving down the leg side only seemed to confirm the poor decision.

Richard Umbers (32) and John Hall (19) moved the score along to 91-3, before the fall of two quick wickets gave Featherstone renewed hope. Stainborough continued to make steady progress but were falling behind the required run rate and the regular fall of wickets maintained the pressure.

With 36 runs needed from the last 5 overs and only 3 wickets in hand, Stainborough again suffered from some poor decisions. First a stumping and then a LBW decision when the ball had clearly come of the inside edge of the bat, went against the batting side. When the final wicket fell in the final over Stainborough were still 12 runs short of their target.

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