Premier One: Thwarted by the weather (From This is The West Country)

Premier One: Thwarted by the weather

10:33am Thursday 16th July 2009

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TAUNTON St Andrews were left thwarted by the rain on Saturday as their match at Corsham was abandoned as they began to move towards victory.

The Taunton side won the toss and elected to bowl and they soon made inroads into the Corsham innings.

After a slow start by the opening pair, Lloyd Alley struck to remove opener Steve Bullen for one with wicket-keeper Luke Hawker taking the first of four catches.

Corsham went from 9-1 to 11-2 when fellow opener Peter Dennett was caught behind off the bowling of Michael Parsons for five.

St Andrews struck again when Malinda Thotiwilage went for a duck for Alley’s second wicket of the afternoon when he was caught by Kevin Parsons.

Corsham were in deep trouble at 18-5 with Alley claiming two more cheap wickets, but the home team steadied the rocky ship with Thomas Hankins and Alex Senneck moving the score along to 57 before Hankins departed for 20 when he was bowled by Keith Parsons and caught behind by Hawker.

Andy Davis soon became Parsons’ second victim of the day for a duck and Parsons struck again when Senneck departed for 24 when he was trapped leg before.

By now number nine Peter Turner was at the crease and he wanted to give Corsham at least a fighting chance and he struck a memorable 72 off of just 42 balls to frustrate the St Andrews attack.

He walloped seven boundaries and four sixes before becoming the last wicket of the afternoon when he was bowled by Michael Parsons.

Corsham finished on 142 all out in the 38th over.

The rain was always threatening, but the Taunton side got their reply off to a start before Brian Hoyle departed for five when he was caught by Peter Turner off the bowling of Nick Harrison.

Fellow opener Luke Hawker and number three Ben Phillips took the score onto 60 before Phillips was trapped leg before by Craig Chaplin.

Skipper Keith Parsons went for a duck soon afterwards and then Chaplin struck to claim the wicket of Hawker (27) with St Andrews now on 61-4.

The collapse continued when Paul Lawrence went without scoring and St Andrews had lost four wickets for just one run.

Steve Jenkins added a quick-fire 15 off of just seven balls, which included three boundaries, to help St Andrews onto 77-5.

But the teams came off because of the rain at 5.10pm and the game was officially abandoned at 6.20pm.

n Taunton St Andrews will be hoping for sunnier weather on Saturday when they entertain Bath.

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