Durham Match Thread 2024

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69-4 at the half way point

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well these two are doing a job for us. 113-4 after 15

not much in the way of big shots, but lots of one's being turned into two's with the occasional big shot.... more than one way to skin a cat

Ackers brings up his 50 off 35 balls and is opening his shoulders now

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Raine falls with the score on 133, but he's done his job feeding Ackers the strike

The corporal comes in at 7

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153-5 after 18

Ackers moves onto 77 off 46

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Jones comes to the party. 17 off the 19th over and the score is now 170-5

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target is 186

that's a remarkable fightback from us. I can think of far too many occasions where we'd have ended up at 119 all out from where we were

90 off 52 from Ackers with 4 fours and 5 sixes. At the half way point he was on 15 off 16. Neither he nor Ben Raine panicked, they just rebuilt slowly and then steadily increased the pace. There were a lot of two's in that innings.

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we're underway again

lets hope BdL doesn't go at 20's an over

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Parky is straight in and strikes with his 3rd ball. Caught by Jones (blimey!)

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changed to 'caught Lees'... that sounds more likely

BdL has a wicket in his first over too... clean bowled

Craig Ervine is coming to the crease.... that feels like a blast from the past ........ 38 seemingly

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17-2 after 3

Parky stayed on

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BdL replaced by Ackers. 3 only off the over

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Young Luke goes for a few

feels great watching the cricket scorecard going around again

feels like Spring isn't too far away

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Ackers strikes... the hapless Ervine lbw

32-3

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Sowter comes on. Interesting that we bowled 4 overs of spin in the PP

Everyone knows that I like pace 'off' the ball in T20, so being able to field 3 spinners makes me happy

40-3 after 7

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Marumani is making a nuisance of himself, but Eagles are only just about keeping up with our early pace and we only accelerated from this point onwards