Mo Abbas
ECB Southern Premier League pair Mo Abbas and Ed Ellis starred as Dorset inflicted further pain on Shropshire as they opened their NCCA Cluberly Championship Western Division Two campaign with an innings and 40 runs victory inside two days at Wimborne.
The win came just 15 days after Dorset had defeated Shropshire in the National Counties Trophy final with Lymington slow left-armer Abbas, who sat out that game, the match-winner this time.
Abbas followed up his four first innings wickets with another career-best – 5-31 – which gave him match figures of 9-50.
Shropshire, who were shot out for 130 in their first innings, managed only seven more in their second. Earlier Dorset built scoreboard pressure by making 307-9 in their first innings with St Cross Symondians captain Ed Ellis (87*) playing the key innings with excellent support from Bashley's Ethan Baker (24) and Bournemouth University all-rounder Joe Carson (39). Ellis and Carson added 78 for the eighth wicket.
The win came just 15 days after Dorset had defeated Shropshire in the National Counties Trophy final with Lymington slow left-armer Abbas, who sat out that game, the match-winner this time.
Abbas followed up his four first innings wickets with another career-best – 5-31 – which gave him match figures of 9-50.
Shropshire, who were shot out for 130 in their first innings, managed only seven more in their second. Earlier Dorset built scoreboard pressure by making 307-9 in their first innings with St Cross Symondians captain Ed Ellis (87*) playing the key innings with excellent support from Bashley's Ethan Baker (24) and Bournemouth University all-rounder Joe Carson (39). Ellis and Carson added 78 for the eighth wicket.
Ed Ellis
