L.A 1st's Blown Away For the Second Time By Bemmi

Saturday 15th July saw lowly Long Ashton welcomed to the clanage to face table topping Bedminster 2nd XI. Bedminster Skipper A.Tryfonos won the toss and chose to bowl first and after a scratchy opening partnership, Duckworth had the breakthrough with Haywood well caught by the returning Stephenson. Bedminster opener Knapp had been plugging away and soon got his rewards with figures of 9-2-36-2. Lovechild M.Tryfonos was soon brought into the attack and his spell of long hops and full tosses was surprisingly effective as he returned with figures of 9-1-15-5.

Millard (5-0-20-0) failed to repeat his exploits of the previous week and Newman (1-0-2-1) and Duckworth (7.2-1-25-2) picked up a wicket a piece as Long Ashton were left with a nasty looking scorecard, ending on 104 all out. You may have noticed I haven't mentioned any of the the Long Ashton batsmen, who frankly weren't worth mentioning as none of them managed to capitalise on a dreadful fielding display from Newman and M.Tryfonos.

The clubs favourite son and his son strode to the wicket to attempt the chase 105 to win. They appeared to be making light work of it until they both managed to get out to a 12 year old, something they were both rightly and heavily fined for. Joe Shean then did his best to throw his wicket away, perhaps trying to help McCormack avoid a pad rash fine, something McCormack later struggled to accept along with his other blatant fines. Shean and Patel eventually got over the line to claim a resounding 8 wicket victory to boost Bedminster's promotion push.
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