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SAN FULGENCIO C.C SHOW IMPROVEMENT AGAINTS ALFAS
Contributor / 2010-03-06 14:19:43
Sporting Alfas C.C. of Albir invited San Fulgencio C.C sponsored by www.flightm8.com to send a team to Alfas for their first match of the 2010 campaign. This was a return fixture as S.F.C.C. had entertained Alfas in our Clubs very first match on the Market Place in La Marina.
For our team it was nice to get grass under our feet again after so many weeks and months training on tarmac
The fixture list will tell you that we played the Alfas first team in reality it was more a mixture of second teamers, midweek and Academy Players. Alfas didn’t have much choice in this as almost their entire first team squad were at the Spanish senior trials at La Manga
We did not think that there would be a more favourable time to give Alfas a close game, unfortunately when it came for us to select a side we too were short of a few recognised first teamers, but this gave us a chance to field some players who may not have had much of an opportunity otherwise
The toss was made and S.F.C.C. Skipper Bob Norton Invited Alfas to bat, the plan was for a few quick wickets then give our other bowlers a game however, things never turn out how they are planned, David Climent gave Alfas a solid start and his good work was continued by Chris Cooper who scored a half century. Then ex Nottinghamshire player Paul Taylor kept the scoreboard ticking over and was unbeaten at the end with an accomplished 59 under his belt, but our bowlers kept at it and showed good promise for the forthcoming League campaign, we restricted Alfas to 164 from 30 overs but at least 6 catches were dropped and if these had been held then an altogether different report would have been written, in any case congratulations must go to Adam Alger, Kieron Ward and Charlie Baker who each got one wicket
When it was our turn to bat we had our doubts because we had never scored more than 80 in a match, after both openers fell cheaply it was the turn of new player Leigh Blann from Gran Alacant to push the score along, and he top scored with 29 valuable runs to keep us up with the run rate. When Leigh fell Gary "smurf "
Williams tried some innovative shots but fell cheaply, Graham Shelton in the middle order looks better with each passing match, then it was the turn of Chairman Jon Alger and with some lusty blows he hit a quick fire 28
At the end it was down to David Riley and Michael Carter to try and bat out the overs but we were bowled out for 131 our best ever score as a team, and when we reviewed the match later in Mix bar on La Marina we all agreed that the day had been a very successful one
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