Already trailing by 86 runs on their first innings, a poor batting display left GICC needing just 29 runs to win in their second inning which they achieved with ease.This was not one of JICC’s better bits of cricket of the season and GICC can justifiably say that virtually all the positive cricket came from them throughout.During the JICC’s first innings, apart from James Mashiter with 85, no-one else kept him company with a significant score.
Yesterday, apart from an opening partnership of 37 from Mashiter and Richard Gomersall and a stand of 50 from Tom Perchard and Ian Crocker, it was all rather depressing from a JICC standpoint.Matt Oliver’s first innings score of 75 and Jeremy Frith’s 56 proved a backbone to GICC’s total of 275 and with a tidy spell of 4 for 23 from 7.4 overs Frith swept aside JICC’s second innings middle order.Frith also took 2 for 29 in the first innings.JICC were honoured at lunch-time to receive a visit from their Patron, the Lt.-Governor Air Chief Marshal Sir John Cheshire, who met both sides, but he will have been disappointed that JICC lost as convincingly as they did.Perchard and Crocker at this point were mounting a rescue operation in their stand of 50.
Wickets fell quickly after Perchard’s dismissal and the innings folded on 114 all out, a lead of just 28.GICC’s Mark Renouf finished with three for 36 in 14 overs and the visitors reached their target for the loss of Mick Chambers who was smartly caught and bowled by Peter Blackburn.
