A good game that, and encouraging to get off to a good start
POTM, for me has to go to Matty Potts who bowled brilliantly in the PP overs 2-4 off 2 and 3 of the 4 runs he conceded were wides. He single handedly put Northants on the back foot right from the off, which is important I think when defending a smallish total. Imagine then, my amazement when only he or Carse could bowl out (Carse was going at 9 an over), and Poynter went for Carse.... it made the game much tighter than it probably should have been. When Potts came back to bowl the final over Northants only needed 15...eminently do-able, particularly when he found a genuine edge with his first delivery and it flew to the third man boundary..... it all got a bit twitchy, but he held his nerve and bowled 3 singles and 2 dots which included the farcical run out of White. An all round polished performance from him
Rimmer bowled well, Raine started tightly until Rossington ruined his figures with a consecutive 6 and a 4. Trevaskis bowled 2 really good overs before Keogh took him on.
Short got hit on the hand with a straight drive and looked to be in some discomfort, but fortunately was able to carry on. Not his bowling hand.... hopefully he'll be okay. Made a good start for us with bat and ball. He seemed to take his time batting in the PP, but I guess that's fair enough on debut.
For all I'm the first to criticise Poynter, I have to say he did okay tonight (apart from giving Carse the extra over, that is). He brought a bit of urgency to our last few overs when it looked as though we were limping along to a 130 score, and it was a really smart bit of work to dismiss Rossington when he did. It was a poor leg side ball from Short which Rossington tried to deflect behind, but Poynter snapped it up with a fantastic reaction catch. If Northants were going to win, it was going to be Rossington who did it, so his dismissal was pivotal
3 catches for Burnham
all in the deep in front of the pavilion, and one was a snorter. 668 will be flabbergasted
Clark and Trevaskis were going nowhere when they were batting. Sanderson who had gone for 11 in his first over came back in the 15th, when they were together, and went for 9 off his next 2 overs. they couldn't get the ball away at all. the first shot Clark hit in anger went straight down the throat of the fielder in the deep.
Steel was a bit pedestrian opening and then got out just as it looked as though he was getting going, which was disappointing
someone, I don't know who, dropped 2 catches at crucial moments. One was a difficult catch, but he did get there and spilled it low down, the other was an absolute dolly off Keogh who was just starting to look as though he was going to chase the target down.... huge groan around the ground. Didn't cost us fortunately