Three is the Coincidental Number

Nailsea 1st XI's symmetrical seasaw of a season continues.

Chipping

Sodbury 1st XI: 193 all out (42.5 overs)

Nailsea 1st XI: 101 all out

(36.2 overs)

The long journey and continental weather clearly

took its toll on the players this week as Nailsea's batsmen put in a

defensive display to rival Terry, Upson and the rest!

Nailsea's

bowlers (not preturbed by their captain putting them straight to work in

the record temperatures) started well, reducing Sodbury to 76-5.

Richard Morris (2-52) and Pete Hardcastle (0-28) bowled tightly, putting

the batsmen under pressure which allowed spinners Harry Hope (1-23) and

Russ Baker (2-24) to come on and turn the screw.

However, a key

partnership of 97 between John Rendell (51) and Craig Scully (46) got

the home side back on track, before Nick Jury (3-27) and Steve Allard

(2-36) claimed the remaining wickets to set up a tantalising second

half.

Unfortunately for the travelling supporters, Nailsea were

no sooner back in the game than they were out of it again.

Russ

Baker was back on the bench before the scoreboard had got going and the

replacements had as much impact as Emile Heskey, and equal difficulty

scoring!

The visitors were 57-6 when Richard Morris came to the

crease, but his resilient 21 (one of only two players to record double

figures) was not enough to save the day as Nailsea slumped to 101 all

out in the 37th over.

And so, a long journey home and plenty of

questions to be answered...shame we don't have a foreign coach we can

pin it on!

The good news for Nailsea is that their season now

reads LLLWWWLLL, following a third successive defeat. Tune in next week

therefore to read about the first of three sensational consecutive

victories to come!

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