The School - 97 - All out
BB - 98 for 2 off 15 overs
The BB completed a resounding victory over a weak King’s Canterbury to #keepthedreamalive winning by 8 wickets half way through the afternoon session.
Will Montgomery did a sterling job as proxy skipper by winning the toss and inserting the school. Ollie Mann and Piers Richardson shared the new ball and caused immediate damage with Mann picking up a wicket in the first over. Richardson then went to work on the top order reducing King’s to 24-5 with a probing line forcing a callow batting line up into a series of intermediate shots. Richardson was cruelly hauled out of the attack with figures of 5-3-5-4 to be replaced by Hector Raw who deserves special mention for the 12 hour drive from Scotland in order to make the fixture. He duly picked up an early scalp and was unlucky not to take a second due to an (un)characteristic drop from Ben Regan. This one aberration aside, the fielding with particularly sharp with nine catches being held close to the bat. Olly Reynolds chimed in with a well-deserved wicket before a stubborn 7th wicket partnership was broken by Finn Hulbert’s off breaks. Regan then finished off the tail with two wickets in three balls as King’s were dismissed on the stroke of lunch for 97.
The BB went about chasing the total with the experienced Marcus Pyke and Tim Kimber both of whom wasted little time in seeing themselves in. They were dismissed for 33 and 27 respectively to two sharp catches before Oli Tikare and Hulbert completed the job in dismissive fashion as BB reached the target in just 15 overs. All in all this was a vintage BB performance celebrated over a couple of afternoon ales at Ye Olde Beverlie.
