Clowne Town 123 all out.

After a fine tea from Jackie Clowne were confident of a result and Swannack and Fellows opened the bowling and restricted the opening pair of J Hardwick and Marshall to few scoring shots. The pressure built and resulted in Hardwick being run out. Marshall was next to go bowled by the in form fellows who finished with good figures of 12 overs 5 maidens 25-1, his longest ever spell. Neil pollard was then introduced into the attack and carried on from where he left off the previous week having both Mundell and Smithurst bowled. This brought Spray to the crease and he and Gibbs looked to take the game away from Clowne. Both offered a few half chances however Clowne could not manage the break through until Bennett had Spray bowled for 24. South Wingfield now needed 30 runs with 4 wickets remaining. Swannack then bowled Gibbs and Briggs in consecutive balls. Leaving Clowne with only 2 wickets to get. R Hardwick had decieded to hit out the other end and hit Steve Bennett for 16 in one over. Things were getting tense in Steves next over a massive appeal for LBW went up to a slow full toss which the batsman at first tried to duck, the ball dipped and hit him in front of middle stump all the team were up and all the people watching. We watched on as the South Wingfield opening bat turned down the decision, maybe knowing the last man in would not last long. After a few choice words between a number of the players the game continued. However the hard hitting Hardwick finished the game off quickly. Man of the match Hardwick then offered his apologies to the Clowne lads for the shocking LBW decision. Maybe his huge hitting would have been remembered from this game however only that decision will stick in the memory of the Clowne lads.