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Jersey's Sporting Club win KPMG CI Club Championship
David Piesing
Sporting Club Francais, Jersey's domestic champions, completed a magnificent 100% winning record for the 2006 season with a comprehensive 7-wicket victory over Guernsey's Total Cobo in the KPMG CI Club Championship at KGV on Saturday.
Cobo won the toss and elected to bat first, but seemingly got the worst of the wicket early on. They got off to a disastrous start, losing Peter Vidamour (8), Jamie Nussbaumer (1) and skipper Stuart Le Prevost (1) with just 31 runs on the board. Mark Renouf, in a rare promotion to opener, dropped anchor to try to re-build the innings and scored a solid 20 from 76 balls before he became Tony Carlyon's second victim in a remarkable spell of 9 overs, 8 maidens, 2 wickets for 2 runs. At Renouf's dismissal Cobo had only made 59 from 27.2 overs, leaving themselves a lot to do from the last 18 overs.
Gary Rich and Robbie Moore then put together an excellent partnership of 74 to give Cobo real hope. Moore scored a find 52 from 55 balls and Rich made 44 from 69 balls but when the partnership was broken Cobo struggled again and their innings closed on 158 for 8 in 45 overs. Mark Reynolds was also miserly for SCF, conceding just 19 runs from his 9 overs, while skipper Matt Hague gave away just 23 from 7 overs.
In reply, SCF lost Steve Carlyon early, bowled by Blane Queripel, and when Justin Le Fort was bowled by Jamie Nussbaumer for 7, SCF were 36 for 2 and Cobo still had a chance. Unfortunately for Cobo, Hague and Meeku Patidar put together a matchwinning partnership of 110 before Hague was bowled by Queripel for 59 from 97 balls. Patidar saw his side home to win by 7 wickets with more than 5 overs to spare, making a fine unbeaten 64 from 97 balls. Renouf, who conceded just 21 from 9 overs, and Jamie Nussbaumer (1 for 28 from 9 overs) were the pick of the Cobo bowlers but they were probably 30 runs short of a defendable score once the wicket had flattened out.
SCF effectively won the game in the first 25 overs, restricting Cobo to just 2 runs an over. Not surprisingly, Tony Carlyon won the man of the match award for his miserly spell of bowling during that first phase of the game.
© Guernsey Cricket Board
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