Leicestershire v Essex
Leicestershire Foxes captain Jeremy Snape’s surprising decision to bat after winning the toss paid off as the Foxes progressed to their second Twenty20 Cup Final with a 23 run victory over the Essex Eagles.
The Eagles were always chasing the game from the start, England hopeful Stuart Broad opened the attack conceding just one run and trapping Ronnie Irani plum LBW, umpire George Sharp felt otherwise and let the Eagles off the hook.
Irani was soon gone tough being caught behind by wicketkeeper Paul Nixon for 0 off the bowling of a very happy Broad, despite Mark Pettini’s 57 the Eagles never looked in the chase.
Snape then came into the attack and ripped out the Eagles middle order finishing with figures of 4 for 22 and putting the Foxes on course for the Final.
Earlier after winning the toss Hylton Ackerman and Darren Maddy got of to a very slow start as Darren Gough and Andy Bichel controlled the game allowing only 20 runs off the first 4 overs.
The run rate slowly increased during the innings but the Foxes looked to have got bog down in the middle of the inning as Graham Napier took 2 wickets from his four overs.
After the slow start Ackerman looked to have found his form as the Foxes started to increase their run rate as he and Nixon enjoyed a 50 run partnership before Nixon tried to take a horrible single resulting in Ackerman being run out for 63.
It was left to Nixon and Snape to see the Foxes home hitting Gough and Bichel around the ground to set the Eagles a target of 174 which in the end was more then enough.
Trent Bridge: Saturday 12 August 2006 (20-over match) (1-day match)
Result: Leicestershire won by 23 runs
Toss: Leicestershire
Umpires: P J Hartley, G Sharp
Teams:
Essex M L Pettini, R C Irani, D Gough,
A N Cook, R S Bopara, R N ten Doeschate,
J S Foster, J D Middlebrook, G R Napier, A J Bichel,
T J Phillips
Leicestershire D L Maddy, H D Ackerman,
J Allenby, Mansoor Amjad, P A Nixon, J L Sadler,
J N Snape, C W Henderson, D D Masters, S C J Broad,
A R Griffith
| Leicestershire | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
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| HD Ackerman | run out | | 64 | 49 | 6 | 1 | | DL Maddy | c RC Irani | b GR Napier | 21 | 22 | 2 | 0 | | J Allenby | c TJ Phillips | b GR Napier | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | | +PA Nixon | not out | | 57 | 33 | 6 | 1 | | *JN Snape | lbw | b AJ Bichel | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | | Extras | (b 0, lb 3, nb 0, w 2) | 5 | | Total | (Close, 20 overs) | 173 | |
Did not bat:
Mansoor Amjad, JL Sadler, CW Henderson, DD Masters, SCJ Broad, AR Griffith Fall of Wickets:
1-42 (42 DL Maddy, 26 mins), 2-70 (28 J Allenby, 11 mins), 3-147 (77 HD Ackerman, 27 mins), 4-173 (26 JN Snape, 6 mins) | Bowling | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Extras |
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| D Gough | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | (1w) | | AJ Bichel | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | | GR Napier | 4 | 0 | 24 | 2 | - | | RS Bopara | 4 | 0 | 38 | 0 | (1w) | | TJ Phillips | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | | JD Middlebrook | 2 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - |
| Essex | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
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| ML Pettini | Hit wicket | b JN Snape | 57 | 32 | 9 | 0 | | *RC Irani | c PA Nixon | b SCJ Broad | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | | AN Cook | run out | | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | | D Gough | c J Allenby | b CW Henderson | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 | | RS Bopara | c J Allenby | b JN Snape | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | | RN ten Doeschate | c DL Maddy | b JN Snape | 19 | 14 | 2 | 0 | | +JS Foster | c HD Ackerman | b J Allenby | 14 | 10 | 2 | 0 | | JD Middlebrook | c J Allenby | b JN Snape | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | | AJ Bichel | not out | | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | | GR Napier | c Mansoor Amjad | b AR Griffith | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | | TJ Phillips | not out | | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | | Extras | (b 0, lb 2, nb 2, w 7) | 11 | | Total | (Close, 20 overs) | 150 | |
Fall of Wickets:
1-17 (17 RC Irani, 11 mins), 2-48 (31 AN Cook, 19 mins), 3-82 (34 ML Pettini, 16 mins), 4-84 (2 D Gough, 1 min), 5-108 (24 RS Bopara, 10 mins), 6-109 (1 RN ten Doeschate), 7-124 (15 JD Middlebrook, 5 mins), 8-127 (3 JS Foster, 4 mins), 9-140 (13 GR Napier, 4 mins) | Bowling | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Extras |
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| SCJ Broad | 4 | 0 | 23 | 1 | (2w) | | AR Griffith | 4 | 0 | 31 | 1 | (1w) | | DD Masters | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | | DL Maddy | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | | JN Snape | 4 | 0 | 22 | 4 | (1w) | | CW Henderson | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 | (1w) | | J Allenby | 2 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - |
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