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NatWest t20 Blast 2015 (North Division)
Durham Jets v Birmingham Bears
at Chester-le-Street, 5th June 2015
Umpires:
S. Gale & M. Gough
Toss won by:
Birmingham who chose to bowl
DURHAM
BIRMINGHAM
INNINGS
INNINGS
M. Stoneman *
lbw
b Gordon
6
I. Bell
c Stoneman
b Hastings
90
P. Mustard †
c Patel
b Hannon-Dalby
3
V. Chopra *
lbw
b Borthwick
15
C. MacLeod
c Porterfield
b Javid
41
W. Porterfield
not out
41
B. Stokes
lbw
b Javid
40
L. Evans
lbw
b Arshad
0
P. Collingwood
run out (Porterfield)
1
R. Clarke
not out
4
G. Muchall
not out
30
A. Javid
R. Pringle
c Hannon-Dalby b Rankin
3
J. Patel
J. Hastings
c Rankin
b Hannon-Dalby
21
T. Ambrose †
G. Clark
not out
0
R. Gordon
S. Borthwick
O.Hannon-Dalby
U. Arshad
B. Rankin
Extras
(3 lb 3 w)
6
Extras
(1 b 2 lb 2 w 9 nb)
14
Total
(7 wkts, 20 overs)
163
Total
(3 wkts, 19.1 overs)
164
Wkts:
1-6, 2-43, 3-89, 4-93, 5-115, 6-118, 7-155
Wkts:
1-52, 2-148, 3-148
O
M
R
W
O
M
R
W
Hannon-Dalby
4
0
33
2
Pringle
2
0
20
0
Clarke
2
0
9
0
Arshad
3.1
0
31
1
Gordon
4
0
33
1
Hastings
4
0
19
1
Rankin
4
0
34
1
Stokes
3
0
44
0
Patel
2
0
22
0
Collingwood
4
0
23
0
Rankin
4
0
29
2
Borthwick
3
0
24
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Match Result: Birmingham won by 7 wickets Points: Birmingham 2, Durham 0.
The Birmingham Bears recorded a seven-wicket
win against Durham thanks mainly to Ian Bell’s 90, the
highest individual score by any Bears’ player in t20
cricket.
In the windswept battle Bell gave the Bears the
initiative when he drove and pulled successive balls from
Stokes for six.
That was in the fourth over of their reply to 163 for 7,
but they fell behind the rate when Collingwood’s gentle
medium pace yielded only six runs in his first two overs.
There was no relief and when Stokes returned for the
sixteenth over, Bell straight drove two fours and guided
two more to third man either side of a high full toss.
Stokes had already had one warning for a full toss above
waist height but this was deemed a slower ball and he
was allowed to complete the over, which cost twenty one.
Bell departed in the next over when he hit a short
ball from Hastings to mid-off, but the stand of 96 had
left only sixteen needed off three overs. Evans fell lbw
to an Arshad yorker, but Porterfield’s unbeaten forty one
completed the task with five balls to spare.
Durham were put in and Mustard fell in the third over,
tamely pulling Hannon-Dalby to midwicket, but MacLeod
made forty one off twenty seven balls
With Patel at the other end, both batsmen proved
very adept at finding the gap between long-on and deep
mid-wicket as the total reached 82 at the halfway point.
But the momentum stalled as MacLeod drove Javid to
long-on then Collingwood was run out for four, sent back
at the non-striker’s end and beaten by Porterfield’s direct
hit from backward point.
Stokes hit a straight six, but the Bears’ gamble in
leaving Javid on paid dividends when he had Stokes lbw
for 40 attempting a reverse sweep.
Bell just ten runs short of his century
