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Posted:
Sunday 20th June 2010
Source: Stephen Birley
South African starlet Jacobus Pienaar will not play again during
his time on this visit to England after sustaining a nasty
injury to a finger in the Francis Clark Devon League game at
Plymouth.
The pacey teenager was half-way through his eight over when the
ball was cracked straight back to him, causing a nasty injury to
the webbing on one of his fingers. A member of the hosts' club
took him off to hospital where it emerged his injuries are bad
enough to necessitate reconstructive surgery!
Bradninch were forced to play out the final ten overs of the
hosts' innings a man light and it certainly helped in their
closing total of 229-5 on a sun kissed Plymouth afternoon.
Haydn Murray (2-49 in nine), Gary Chappell (2-33 in 15) and Paul
Nott (1-34 in 8), were the Bradninch wicket-takers.
Richardt Saaiman (20) and Tim Piper (21) put on 48 for starters
in the reply but two further wickets fell cheaply, one of them,
Dan Hardy, for five.
Skipper Ross Acton (20), Gary Chappell (21no) and Nick Dean
(13), were the only other batsmen to hit double figures as the
ninth and final wicket fell four balls from the close of the
reply when Paul Nott was bowled.
The other batsmen to fall whilst young Chappell stood firm at
the other end were Joe Webb (4), Matt Jarrett (0) with of course
the unfortunate Pienaar being assessed at Derriford Hospital.
The reply ended on 171 after two balls of the 50th and final
over of the contest.
So a fourth defeat of the term for Bradninch who sit fifth in
the top-flight heading into Saturday’s Kensham Park game against
second in the table North Devon.
Bradninch are 34 clear of the bottom two and 34 shy of the top
two.
Skipper Ross Acton said of the Plymouth game:
“It was not an easy track to bat on and they probably had a
tidy sum with their 229-5. We were hamstrung with the missing
Jacobus and we all hope he makes a full and speedy recovery and
returns to the game sooner than later. We are doing okay, when
we are being beaten the margins are not great and we just need
to find consistency to our game. I’d have taken our current
position at the start of the season for, points wise we are in a
healthy state. Any sort of haul at home to North Devon on
Saturday will see us past a century of points at the half-way
mark of the campaign and that would represent good work in
progress for the team.”
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