Bears/Pears Cricket Thread 2014

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22-2 3 overs
Webb Ct Finch b Sidebottom 15
Ambrose in

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29-3  4.3
Ambrose Ct Lees b Sidebotton 6
Clarke in

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37-3 7 overs
only 15 off the last 4 overs

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40-4
Chopra Ct Pyrah b Rafiq 9

Chuffin Joke this

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83-5  12.4
Clarke Ct Rafiq b Rashid 23

Evans hit a 6 straight into the Rugby ground via the roof a while ago.
83-5 13
9.3 reqd

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46 off 4 required

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23 off 2
Evans 49

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Evans 64
 7 wanted from 6 balls....amazing stuff from Evans

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Chuffin ell Bears have pulled that out the bag....
Evans a fantastic 69 supported by Javis 17 a partnership of 65 to see us home
Evans 69  (44) 9 x 4s and 2 x 6's
Won with 2 balls to spare.

[peter w]

Warwicks win.

Evans take a bow, son.

[jcsutv]

Awesome. You bears!

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Other North scores:
Durham 117 lost to Leic 120-7 19.5
Lancs 225-7 Derby 42-0 4.2
Worcs 162-9 Northants 28-0 3.5

[Villafirst]

Great victory for the Bears - good to win a tight game for once. But where was Woakes again? What the fuck are the England selectors playing at? Woakes has kicked his heels for a week! Absolute madness...

[peter w]

Have to say that to put aside what we think individually about the name change I think it's very disrespectful and dismissive of the BBC sports website and cricinfo to still refer to us as Warwickshire in 20/20 games. Whatever they think, or even if they hadn't even considered it, we should be referred to as Birmingham Bears on their cricket pages for 20/20.

[Steve R]

Just got back from Headingley, weird game. Warwick fielded well but were a distant second in both batting and bowling. Two exceptional performances from Patel and Evans tipped the balance for an unlikely win.

The wicket looked to be of variable bounce, any attempt to hit out soon resulted on a lofted catch in the outfield. Yorkshire did the right thing in taking all the singles on offer supplemented by the occasional boundary. 122 off 18 seemed like nothing but the two seamers were brought back and a further 25 rattled up with ease.

Patel's hat trick was excellent. An lbw which had the batsman throwing mucky looks at the umpire on his way back and two defensive strokes that were beaten all ends up.

At no stage did Warwick look in control of what they were doing with the bat until the final three overs. The 18th and 19th overs really turned the game on it's head. Sidebottom's final delivery was Dilshaned over fine leg for 6 and a near impossible 13 off Bresnan's final over became an even bet 7.

Not a bad crowd, the ground was between half to two thirds full and a very sporting round of applause for Patel's hat trick and Evans' 50.