Bedminster Cricket Club Sponsored By: Club Info Statistics Members Misc Bedminster 2nd XI vs. Bristol Pakistanis 2nd XI Played at The Clanage on Monday 30th May 2005 The second leg of the bank holiday double header brought the Bristol Pakistanis to The Clanage to face a severely under strength Bedminster team. The visitors won the toss and opted to bat on a good looking wicket, tribute to the time and effort spent in preparing it. The initial signs were inauspicious as Akbar hit Kevin Moore to the boundary twice of the opening over. With 23 coming from the first 4 overs, the visitors strategy of chancing their arm looked to be paying dividends until Moore induced Butt to offer a ctach which Sam Knapp gratefully accepted. Next ball he produced a one handed diving catch to his right off his own bowling to send Akbar back for 15. With both openers in the hutch the innings took a different complexion, especially when Chris Bailey was rewarded for a good opening spell as Shabir gave MacBean a catch a backward point. Bailey then made it two in two overs as Ijaz edged one through to keeper Weeks. The innings was then finely poised on 64-4. Sam Knapp came on down the hill and struck in his first over, Darr flashing hard and Ireland taking a great catch at gully. Bailey finished with 2-22 to herald the introduction of spin. MacBean then produced a top spinner to clean bowl top scorer Abushek for 39 and made it two in the same over, bowling Shaid for 2. Knapp finished an excellent spell with 6-0-24-1 to be replaced by debutant George Brimble who bowled a full line and length and was rewarded in his second over when he bowled Jahangir for 24. Brimble finished with 6-2-15-1, an excellent start to a promising career. MacBean finished the innings off at the other end, all four of his victims being bowled, as the Pakistanis were restricted to 172 all out from 39 overs. Unfortunately the absence of the entire regular top 5 proved to be the clincher, as the visitors bowled a hostile, tight line and were rewarded as the top 3 were all bowled to leave the score faltering on 19-3. Having hit a couple of lusty blows, Ireland was then unluckily given out caught behind for 15. Kevin Moore joined skipper MacBean at the crease and the pair started to rebuild the innings. Showing the virtue of a straight bat, mixed with calculated aggression they took the score to 89 before MacBean was undone by a shooter which clipped leg stump. Thereafter the innings fell away as Bedminster were bowled out for 115, Moore top scoring with 22 before edging behind from the bowling of left armer Darr. The Pakistanis ran out winners by 57 runs, leaving the home team ruing the fact that the decision to play league cricket over the bank holiday weekend had deprived them of so many players. Bristol Pakistanis 2nd XI: 172 all out (39.0 overs) Abushek 39 MacBean 12-1-36-4, Bailey 7-0-22-2 Bedminster 2nd XI: 115 all out (34.3 overs) Moore 22 (3 × 4, 0 × 6) Bristol Pakistanis (25 points) beat Bedminster (7) by 57 runs