Devastating opening spell from Bhushan Mankar paves the way for Bradley Stoke victory!

Bradley Stoke 1^st team recorded their first win of the season away to Bitton whilst the 2^nd romped home to a comfortable victory against Bristol Pakistanis. 3rds and 4ths matches were lost to the weather.

The 1^st team were put into bat first on a two paced wicket but put on a solid start with Adam Davis and Joe Coles putting on **** for the 1^st wicket.   The opening partnership was ended by a C Diaper slower ball that deceived the batsman leaving BS at **/1.   From then on wickets fell regularly with Steve Davis contributing 44 off of 47 balls to edge Bradley Stoke on to a below par 130 all out.

However in the field, left arm opening bowler Bhushan Mankar struck early for BS to remove Bittons top four, and then ran out the Bitton skipper leaving them struggling on ***/5.     From the other end left arm spinner Wayne Passmore got in on the act, bamboozling the batsman to claim figures of **/5.   A great bowling and fielding performance led by Dan Tobin who claimed three catches including the opener and the final wicket of the game which claimed victory for BS.

The seconds had a potentially tricky home tie against the ever dangerous Bristol Pakistanis.   The Pakistanis were first to bat and it
wasn t long before Graham Purnell had removed the oppositions top three claiming match figures of 36/3. Bristol Pakistanis middle order rallied with scores of 44, 15 and 33 before being cleaned up for 157ao. Youngster Ashley Baber claimed 2/26 and a run out whilst spinner Chris Phillips took 2/11 and Captain Gareth Price claiming the last two wickets to leave himself with figures of 15/2.

Bradley Stoke lost two early wickets losing Tim Batt for 1 and No 3 Sriram Belakonda for 0. But the second wicket brought in skipper Gareth Price (61) and along with the ever consistent opener Paul Peterson (73) guided the home side to a comfortable victory with an unbroken 3^rd wicket partnership of 155 inside of 25 over s.

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