South Gloucestershire | Archive | 2005 | June | 3
From the Gazette, first published Friday 3rd Jun 2005.
An unbeaten century from Will Tyler was the highlight of Rockhampton's convincing eight-wicket victory at Marshfield.
Tyler (108*) was in imperious form as Rocks chased down the hosts' 202-6 target with five overs and eight wickets to spare.
Jeremy White's rich vein of form continued, the skipper cruising to 65 before pulling lazily to midwicket.
Matt Tyler (10) was the only other wicket to fall, as Will and Mark Beale (5*) safely saw the visitors home with ease.
Tyler manipulated the ball to all corners of the field with some impressive stroke play, including several lofted drives, one momentarily endangering several immobilised visiting supporters huddled at long-on.
Earlier in the afternoon the boisterous travelling fans had witnessed an innings of two halves from the home side, as Rich Jones (13-4-43-4) and Nick Gulwell (11-2-24-1) put on a fine exhibition of swing bowling to restrict Marshfield to 29-2 from 15 overs.
Ben Creed (56*) batted sensibly throughout, but it wasn't until J.Williams (46) arrived at the crease in the 28th over that the tempo was belatedly increased.
James Hancox (9-0-46-1) and Ben Johnson (10-0-63-2) both started well before falling victim to a dangerous late onslaught from Williams and T.Crockett (38*).
Johnson eventually got his man when another lofted shot from Williams was magnificently caught in the deep by Jimmy Cooke.
All in all, a fine display from Rockhampton, complete with a memorable century from Tyler.
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