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Allan Douglas Jr
Sea Breeze Oval (Western Stars gained toss): Cleveland beat Western Stars beat eight wickets
Allan Douglas Jr produced a devastating spell with the ball as Cleveland made gentle work of Premier Division 50 overs rivals Western Stars to return to successful methods on Sunday.
The second-change bowler bagged a season-best haul of six for 12 off eight overs, which included two maidens, along with his off breaks as Stars have been rolled over for a paltry 82 in 25.5 overs.
Douglas opened his account when he bowled Stars opening batter Jaiden Manders after which had player-coach Jekon Edness stumped and Jamori Manders and Seth Campbell caught behind by wicketkeeper Steven Bremar Jr.
The skilled all-rounder picked up his fifth wicket when he trapped Naquan Smith lbw and added the scalp of Rohan Davis, who was bowled.
Douglas stored the batters guessing along with his repertoire of deliveries and on a observe that held collectively regardless of having not been rolled forward of the match.
“They only couldn’t deal with my variation,” Douglas informed The Royal Gazette.
“I had the doosra, the carom and the little slider they usually have been struggling all through with the variations.
“The wicket wasn’t ready as a result of the curler had broke in order that they despatched themselves to bat first.
“It was ready yesterday [Saturday] however was good really and nonetheless performed respectable.”
Leg spinner Isaiah Greaves took two for 37 whereas off spinners Dion Stovell (one for seven) and seamer Gibbons (one for 5) claimed one every.
Stars have been 48 for one earlier than struggling an astonishing collapse, which featured eight wickets falling for 13 runs within the house of eight overs, they usually by no means recovered as an unrelenting Cleveland assault ran by way of their opponent’s order with little resistance.
Jaiden Manders (19), Tre Manders (16) and Kevin Hurdle (19) have been the one Stars batters making begins on the crease.
Cleveland raced to their goal in eleven overs for the lack of two wickets, with Gibbons main the chase with a boundary-laden 35 and Bremar (29), Mackih McGowan (13) and Stovell (10) all chipping in.
Opening pair McGowan and Gibbons added 31 for the primary wicket earlier than Hurdle made the breakthrough within the sixth over when he had the previous batter caught behind by wicketkeeper Khiry Furbert.
Gibbons added an extra 39 for the second wicket with Bremar earlier than being stumped by Furbert going through the bowling of Tre Manders.
Bremar and Stovell polished off the remaining 17 runs with out additional loss in simply eight balls.
“It was simply an all-round good workforce efficiency,” Douglas mentioned.
“I simply really feel Stars wasn’t ready to play and it made it simpler on us, scoring 82 on Saturday after which coming at this time and scoring 82 once more I felt like they aren’t even attempting to recuperate.
“However with my workforce I felt like we simply had an all-round efficiency. We took our catches and hats off to Bremar who had a stumping and two catches behind.”
Scorecard
Western Stars
T Wilson b Stovell 8
Jaiden Manders b Douglas 17
*T Manders b Greaves 16
D Wellman lbw b Greaves 0
J Edness st Bremar b Douglas 1
Jamori Manders c Bremar b Douglas 3
†Okay Furbert not out 5
S Campbell c Bremar b Douglas 1
N Smith lbw b Douglas 0
R Davis b Douglas 2
Okay Hurdle c & b Gibbons 19
Extras (nb 1, w 7) 8
Whole (26 overs) 82
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-48, 3-50, 4-51, 5-55, 6-55, 7-57, 8-57, 9-61.
Bowling: McGowan 5-0-21-0; Stovell 4-1-7-1; Greaves 7-0-37-2; Douglas 8-2-12-6; Gibbons 2-0-5-1
Cleveland County
*M McGowan c Furbert b Hurdle 13
T Gibbons st Furbert b Tre Manders 35
†S Bremar not out 29
D Stovell not out 10
Whole (2 wkts; 11 overs) 87
I Greaves, A Douglas, J Darrell, Okay Trott, T Robinson, Okay Whorms and T Tucker didn’t bat
Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-70.
Bowling: Campbell 1-0-9-0; Hurdle 4-0-25-1; Davis 3-0-18-0; Jaiden Manders 2-0-25-0; T Manders 1-0-10-1.
Umpires: J Pitcher and A Knight