Garbett Leads Yorkshire Visually Impaired Cricket Club to Twenty20 Cup glory
Published on: 29th September 2011
John Garbett scored a blistering 74 to help steer Yorkshire to a thumping 105 run victory over the Welsh Dragons to secure the Twenty20 Cup at Leamington Cricket Club.
It wasn’t all plain sailing though as the Yorkshire innings got off to a less than ideal start losing the dynamic duo of Mark Betts and Peter Blueitt fairly cheaply. Although in came master blaster, Tafazal Naqvi who soon accelerated the Yorkshire innings, scoring a quick fire 39 before being caught out in the covers.
Having built up some momentum, it was now left to Elliott Conway and man of the moment John Garbett to build a partnership, and it didn’t take either batsman long to get into their stride with both beginning to score quite freely thanks to some less than average bowling. With the runs starting to flow Yorkshire targeted the bowling of the Drangons B1’s, who between them conceded in excess of 100 runs off their 6 overs. This really put the Welsh side on the back foot and thanks to some late big hitting from Elliott and John Yorkshire amassed a daunting 207 of their 20 overs.
The Dragons innings started poorly, losing one of their openers inside the second over with not many runs on the board. The Yorkshire bowlers had started brightly and unlike the Dragons were much more disciplined, bowling good lines and lengths and in doing so kept the extras to a minimum. They were also ably supported in the field with Tafazal Naqvi taking some stunning catches out in the deep. Wickets soon began to fall at regular intervals which seriously halted the Dragons progress.
Special praise must go to Alex Towers who was most miserly, only giving away a handful of runs off his allotted overs. His efforts contributed massively in putting the squeeze on the Dragons innings leading their batsmen to panic. However once again it was John Garbett who stole the show, ripping through the Dragons middle order finishing with 3 wickets. It all meant that Yorkshire VICC had won the match by a whopping 105 runs as the Dragons innings ended on a modest 102 for 7.
Report provided by Atif Rafiq
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Mark Beckles-Willson – Head Coach – t_model@globalnet.co.uk
