Cardiff Northern went up against old rivals Cardiff Maccabi
Northern came back strongly following their opening game defeat against long time rivals Cardiff Maccabi. Gareth Jones bowled a sensational opening spell and he’d bowled 17 deliveries for no runs and 3 wickets (all bowled) before finally succumbing to a wide. He then conceded one run off the bat in his 4th over for figures of 4-2-2-3. Russell Palmer and Brett Clarke also took wickets in good spells and in the 11th over Maccabi were on the brink at 21-5. A good partnership and a slight drop in the bowling standard allowed them to recover to a score of 60. Once more a good start by Northern thwarted by a middle order partnership.
Jimmy Vaile and Russell opened the batting and following his duck in the first game the former was looking to play his way into form. Knowing that the best option for the team was to chase the score with wickets in hand both played circumspectly and while Russ was able to keep the singles flowing Jimmy was playing one of his more scratchy innings. The opening 8 overs went for 24 with Caplan conceding 8 and Steffan Rolnick 10. The rest were from a number of byes. The game finally closed in the 14th over when Russell was given LBW in contentious fashion only for Gareth to seal his man of the match honours with a first ball four to take Northern to maximum batting points on 62-1.
A Gordon Bowled Jones 6
A Salamen Bowled Jones 1
Steffn Rolnick Bowled Jones 0
Steve Rolnick Ct (Chatap) Clarke 4
A Joseph Bowled Palmer 1
M Caplan Not Out 19
J Rolnick Not Out 11
S Hamilton
M Joseph
Extras 13
Total 60-5
O M R W
G Jones 4 2 2 3
A Chatap 3 0 17 0
R Palmer 3 0 8 1
B Clarke 3 0 11 1
D Perkins 3 0 14 0
A Chedzoy 2 0 9 0
J Vaile Not Out 20
R Palmer LBW J Rolnick 19
G Jones Not Out 4
A Chatap
A Chedzoy
D Jones
B Willacott
D Perkins
D Manley
B Clarke
Extras 18
Total 62-1
O M R W
A Caplan 4 0 8 0
Stef Rolnick 4 0 10 0
A Joseph 3 0 13 0
Stev Rolnick 2 0 16 0
J Rolnick 1 0 7 1
bat bowl catch runout stumping play TOTAL
G Jones 4 54 10 68
R Palmer 24 28 10 62
J Vaile 25 10 35
B Clarke 19 10 29
A Chedzoy 6 10 16
A Chatap 0 5 10 15
D Jones 10 10
B Willacott 10 10
D Perkins 10 10
D Manley 10 10
Man of Match - G Jones
