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BASHLEY (RYDAL) WIN ECB CUP TIE - BUT ITS MIGHTY TENSE

30/4/2018

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Bashley (Rydal) clung on to beat Portsmouth by five runs in an ECB Royal London national club championship first round tie that reached an improbable nail biting climax in the gathering New Forest gloom.
Defending 179-5, Bashley looked home and dry after a three-wicket spell by Bournemouth University all-rounder Tim Taylor (3-35) left Portsmouth struggling at 62-6 (Ben Duggan 24).
But Asad Abbas, who has just joined Portsmouth from Fair Oak, hit a fierce run-a-ball 40 to put the visitors back in the reckoning.
With Portsmouth Grammar School captain Jo Kooner-Evans (16) in support, the pair turned the tide, leaving Abbas’s teenage son Monam licence to hit out in the closing overs.
The spin all-rounder followed in his father’s footsteps, hitting two big sixes and with Reuben McArdle (19 not out) eased Portsmouth to within 21 runs of victory off Patrick Holly’s final over.
He swatted the spinner’s first ball for a six and plundered more runs to take Portsmouth to within a six-hit of victory off the final ball.
To Bashley’s relief, Holly (2-41) kept his cool, Abbas missing the ball and being stumped by Chris Ridley to leave Portsmouth five runs short at 174-9.
Earlier, university media student Taylor (pictured) underlined his potential with a classy 49 for Bashley.
Fellow newcomers Daniel Andrew (24) and teenager Greg Havard (30) helped Bashley to 133-2 (Mitch Wilson 21) before Holly hit an important 23 not out to take the hosts to a competitive total.
The first round ties involving Toton & Eling (v Basingstoke & North Hants) and Ventnor (v Waterlooville) were postponed due to unfit grounds.

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Simon Watkins (2-16) wheels away for Bashley (Rydal).
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