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McKENZIE'S A FAIR OAK SIX-HIT : PURBROOK BOMBARDED

17/7/2018

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Sixes and fours flew all around The Heath as cavalier teenage Fair Oak left-hander Gregor McKenzie, pictured, launched a one-man assault on the Purbrook attack.
Blazing ten fours and seven maximums, McKenzie smashed a whirlwind 98 off 57 balls as the Southern Premier League Division 3 leaders swept past Purbrook’s 169 to win by five wickets with 20 overs to spare.
“A staggering 82 of Gregor’s 98 runs came in boundaries. When he hits the ball, it stays hit,” laughed Oak’s captain Ed Kemp.
Asked why he’d elevated McKenzie from his normal lower-order spot, Kemp explained: “We had plenty of batting so thought we’d stick him up to try and take any nerviness out of the chase.
“He got us off to a flyer and carried it on with some good, strong batting.”
Earlier, opener Martin Lee (76) held Purbrook’s batting together, eventually being the second of three victims for spinner Rufus Bullough (3-18) and eighth man out in the hosts' 169 (Brad Mengham 30).
James Holder (4-51) took four of the five Purbrook wickets to fall.
* It was the second time in little more than a month McKenzie had launched a 98-run blitz on a Premier 3 bowling attack. Fawley were the previous team to come under fire, Gregor’s 98 coming off 51 balls on June 2, with another seven sixes on that occasion.  A century still eludes him …


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