Story Kent - A Cricket07 Story - Season Finished

[Pakistani Army]

Woah stop the presses, Kev was actually challenged.

Sorry Evo......

 

[Kev]

Is it good kev?

Yes, excellent.

What star Kev?

5*

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 1 -1st Session

It's an overcast but warm day, dispite the overhead conditions Yorkshire decide to get first use of a decent wicket and decide to bat first.

The opening pair of Wood and Sayers make good progress and its not until just after 12:30 that Kent get their first breakthrough. Patel bowls Wood for 44 and Yorkshire are 73/1.

With 10 minutes to go until lunch fellow opener Sayers is bowled by Dexter for 35.

Vaughan and Lehmann see Yorkshire through to lunch.

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[plympilgrim]

wow kev this is more of challenge and they aren't going at too bad a rate

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 1 -2nd Session

Things slow down a bit after lunch and a stalemate between the pace bowers and the batsmen ensues. Key decides to bring on Stevens for a couple of overs and at 2:40, bowling from around the wicket, Stevens bowls Vaughan for 12.

Lehmann is next to go when he is bowled by Henderson for 26.

He is swiftly followed by Gale who is runout for a duck after facing only 1 ball.

The advantage has swung firmly in Kent's favour and at tea Yorkshire are 135/5.

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[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 1 -3rd Session

Brophy and McGrath put on a reasonable partnership after tea but with the score on 177 Brophy tries to reverse sweep Patel with disasterous concequences.

McGrath follows Brophy back to the pavilion when he fails to offer a shot and Cook bowls him for 35.

Yorkshire have the jitters and Dawson is runout for a duck.

Shahzad and Hoggard take the score past 200 before Shahzad is bowled by Patel.

Gillespie walks to the crease with a little over 15 minutes to go in the days play and the pair make it to the last ball before stumps before Hoggard falls. He's very unlucky, Khan bowls a short ball and Hoggard tries to take evasive action but the ball hits his glove and Patel shows panther like reflexes to take the catch.

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[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 2 -1st Session

Kent get off to a terrible start when Gillespie traps Walker LBW with the third ball of the innings.

For the second time in as many matches Kent are reduced to 0 for 2 when Fulton edges to Lehmann in the second over.

Key and van Jaarsveld are delighted when in the third over the rain arrives. Gillespie and Hoggard were causing havoc and managed to get far more out of the pitch in 2 overs than Kent managed in Yorkshire's entire innings.


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[plympilgrim]

ouch, kent in a bit of trouble, great bowling performance after their good start

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 2 -2nd Session
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The rain clears and play gets underway at around 2pm. Key and van Jaarsveld decide there is only one way to deal with Hoggard and Gillespie and thats to attack them. They are aproaching their fifty partnership when Key edges to Brophy, ironically not playing an attacking shot.

Martin van Jaarsveld continues and brings up his half century in double quick time.

He fails go go on and make a really big score though and is caught for 61.

Jones and Dexter are at the crease together and the pair take the score to 150 before Shahzad gets his first wicket.

Kent go in at tea 45 runs behind, with the score at 167/5. They will be looking to pass Yorkshire's total and turn a terrible start into a small first innings lead.

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 2 -3rd Session

McGrath is given a bowl after tea and he takes the wicket of Stevens to reduce Kent to 179/6.

Jones however is unstopable and soon makes his fifty.

His new partner at the crease, Henderson, is less fortunate and knicks one back onto his stumps for a duck.

Patel comes to the crease and the pair pass Yorkshire's total when Patel edges between the slips for four runs.

He is not so lucky a few balls later, this time Wood does his superman impression and takes the catch.

Cook doesn't hang around for long and caught with just 1 run on the board.

Jones is set on reaching his hundred though and blasts his way to 90. Unfortunatley for him, Khan clips a ball straight into the hands of Gillespie and Kent are all out for 252, with a first innings lead of 40.

Yorkshire face a difficult 7 over spell before stumps but make it without the loss of a wicket. Sayers scoring all of the 16 runs on the board.
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[plympilgrim]

252 off 42 overs in a first class game, nice going, nice work as ever kev

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 3 -1st Session

Cook and Henderson open the days bowling for Kent and as in the first innings the Kent pace bowlers are struggling to get anything from the pitch. It's not until the introduction of Patel that Kent take their first wicket of the innings.

57/0 quickly becomes 57/2 when Sayers leaves a ball from Walker that looks to be going down legside, unfortunatley for him, and to the delight of the Kent part-time bowler, it drifts back in and clips the stumps.

Lehmann fails to make an impression second time around and is caught by Fulton for just 2 runs.

At lunch Yorkshire are 73/3.

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[puddleduck]

Patel for England!

 

[Kev]

Yorkshire v Kent - Liverpool Victoria County Championship - Headingley
Day 3 -2nd Session

Yorkshire manage to add just 1 run after lunch before Stevens (coming around the wicket) removes Vaughan's middle stump.

McGrath and Gale move the score along to 102 before Khan bangs one in short and McGrath gets all out of shape, giving Cook a chance for a catch, which he takes.

Gale is bowled by Walker with the score on 105, but Gale escapes as the umpire signals a no ball. The next wicket isn't too far off though. Patel bowls Brophy for 2 and Yorkshire are 113/6.

Shahzad is next to go, he is run out for 4 off a no ball from Cook.

Yorkshire go in at tea with the score at 133/7.

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[plympilgrim]

this should be another easy kent win, they are being destryoed by patel..again