MINOR COUNTIES Peploe rescues champions at St Austell
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- Created on Monday, 19 August 2019 06:58
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 August 2019 00:29
- Published on Monday, 19 August 2019 06:58
- Written by PAUL BOLTON Minor Counties cricket correspondent
Berkshire are used to Peploe rescuing them with the ball but on this occasion the former Middlesex slow left-armer came to their aid with the bat, by making an aggressive run-a-ball 41.
Although Cornwall were severely depleted by unavailability they had Berkshire wobbling at 107 for six, with acting-captain Andrew Libby taking three of the wickets, before Peploe and Michael Williams counter-attacked.
They added 61 for the seventh wicket before Peploe fell to seamer Dan Lello. Tom Nugent (23) and Luke Beaven (26 not out) continued the recovery by steering Berkshire to 226 with Libby finishing with five for 46.
Peploe then took the wicket of opener Toby Whiteford but Cornwall ended an even first day on 99 for three.
Oxfordshire, the side best placed to capitalise on any slip-up by Berkshire, were indebted to a half century from captain Jonny Cater and useful lower order runs from Gareth Andrew and Matt Warner for steering them out of trouble against a Devon attack that included Somerset all-rounder Peter Trego, at Sidmouth.
Oxfordshire rallied to 211 from 99 for six with Trego among the five bowlers who took two wickets apiece.
Devon ended the day 100 behind with eight wickets in hand with captain Alex Barrow making an unbeaten half century.
Herefordshire’s delight at dismissing Wiltshire cheaply proved shortlived on an eventful first day at Brockhampton where 23 wickets fell.
Dan Conway’s six for 51 – his best bowling for Herefordshire and best championship figures in ten years – and three wickets from Barney Morgan saw Wiltshire dismissed for 140 with player/coach Tom Morton top-scoring with 40.
But Herefordshire slumped to 47 for seven against the new ball attack of Tahir Afridi and Arthur Godsal before being revived by a ninth wicket partnership of 62 between Ian Bullock and Tom Hage.
Hage fell the ball after he had reached his half century and Herefordshire scraped a lead of just two with slow left-armer Jake Lintott taking the last three wickets.
Opener Jake Goodwin bagged a nine-ball pair in the day before Wiltshire closed on 59 for three.
Cheshire made the highest Championship score in their history by piling up 479 for eight against Shropshire at Nantwich.
The total surpassed Cheshire’s previous best – 476 for eight declared – made against Herefordshire at Chester Boughton Hall in 2012 and featured a maiden century from Rob Sehmi.
David Wainwright, the former Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Hampshire slow left-armer, impressed as a makeshift opener with 71 before Luke Robinson Will Evans and Simon Normanton weighed in with brisk half centuries to help Cheshire to their record total.
Shropshire slow left-armer Warrick Fynn took his wicket haul to 21 in five innings but his four victims came at the cost of 157.
Dorset captain Luke Webb made 161, his maiden Championship century, against Wales at North Perrott.
Webb struck 19 fours and a six from 253 balls which, with a half century from Scott Currie, took Dorset to 340 for five.
Currie then combined with his brother Brad to reduce Wales to 39 for six with Brad ending the day with four for 23.
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