Colwall Thirds visited Bewdley on Saturday and departed with a fine eight wicket win to maintain their WCL title challenge.
COLWALL III v BEWDLEY III
Colwall won the toss and inserted the home side on what appeared to be a two faced wicket and a slow outfield.
The former was true but the latter was deceptive with the ball disappearing to the boundary with regularity. Bewdley got off to an excellent start scoring five an over and at one stage looked as though Colwall would be chasing a total of around 250.
However the Colwall bowlers tightened things up with useful contributions from Pete Thompson, Doc Colquhoun and Clive Kendall, all unlucky not to get a wicket.
With the re-introduction of Matt Berry (2-52) with his ever improving leg spin and Keith Holland (5-51), they slowed up Bewdley's progress. The home side finished their innings on 194 from their allotted 45 overs.
In reply Colwall dominated the home side's bowling with Tom Palmer (74) and veteran John Berry (54) putting on 148 for the first wicket.
Colwall were never in trouble with Kim Berry (20no) and Clive Kendall (14no) seeing them home with ten overs to spare.
Colwall visit league leaders Worcester tomorrow (Saturday) in the top of the table encounter.
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