Seconds end of season slump finished off by Bramcote

The spectacular batting collapse last week to Newark had left matters out of the Seconds' hands and as it happens RoT won easily over Hickling to secure second spot to champions Bramcote who showed why at Little Bounds. Kamran Ul-Haq's superb season (a total of 46 wickets all told so far) continued. His slow swingers bamboozled the top order, two of whom holed out to deep set mid off and on. There was a good recovery from 38-4 thanks to Thorne and Watson, followed up with some greater aggression by Khalid Rehman who having smashed Kammy on his return for a 6 and 4 skied him for a first five wicket return for the 2nd XI. The rest of the inning rather tailed off but the feeling was that our currently fragile batting might find 181 a little taxing. This became evident as Rehman and Chamberlain settled into probing opening spells so that when a confident looking Matt Footitt was caught off Rehman the innings was stalled at 47-5 off 19 overs. Credit to captain Eddy George and Ryan Duggan for instilling a bit of life to proceedings, I particularly liked a beautifully timed six over wide long off by Ryan, but soon normal service resumed and an 8th defeat of the season arrived. Still, 3rd in Div D sponsored by FEET (etc) has been a good effort given the lack of regular run scorers apart from David Perry's early season form and Alan Lewis's 4 innings purple patch. The bowling has more often than not up to the task in hand with good support from Kammy, Vivek Parekh and Usman Aziz for Eddy G and Taimoor Tasnim who with their returns are in the top 10 wicket takers in the "D". Thank you to Mrs G for her excellent tea which was very well received and complimented by the friendly Bramcote team.