Outcasts bowed out of the Lincolnshire County Cricket League's George Marshall Cup at the first round stage when being beaten by Louth 2nds in a high scoring encounter at Hirsts Priory on what was a scorching day.
Home skipper Russell Fletcher won the toss and chose to bat first with youngsters Oiver Coulman and Darren Clark taking to the middle. They put on 20 for the first wicket before Coulman was bowled by Steve Gale for 12 from a delivery that kept a little low but that brought Scott Buttrick to the crease and along with the classy Clark they took the total past three figures with an array of terrific shots. Clark in particular was looking in sumtuous form , bringing up his half century before slow bowler Owen Roberts tempted him into a shot that spiralled high in the air for a return catch leaving the Priorymen on 101 for 2. Richard Wroot was next to go , caught by Steve Wright off Zain Siddiqui for ine then Buttrick and Andy Lawson put together a stand of 43 with some sensible batting before Lawson was very well caught in the deep by John Medler off Stuart Barker for a well constructed 27. Buttrick fell two runs short o a deserved half century when being bowled by Siddiqui and Graham Clark was soon to be the sixth man out when caught by Mark Duell off Barker without troubling the scorers. Matthew Teal madwe a quickfire 11 before being superbly run out by Henry Tye with a direct strike on the stum and it was left to skipper Russ Fletcher and Jason Whiteley to add seven apiece as Outcasts finished their allotted 45 overs on 189 for 7 , perhaps a dozen or so short of what they would have liked to achieve.
Opening bowlers Jonathan Wroot and Matthew Teal began well when Louth started their reply , keeping the run rate relatively low before Wroot had Steve Wright trapped LBW for 13 with the total on 16. Zain Siddiqui joined John Medler and steadily they built the Louth innings with some solid batting , pouncing on any loose deliveries which were in truth very rare. Wroot finished his nine over spell with figures of 1 for 33 and Teal no wicket for 30 then Jason Whiteley and Tom Sharpe took over and they too bowled quite economically. Whiteley bowled Medler for 28 with the overall total on 84 then he took an excellent catch to send Mark Duell back to the pavilion for nine , earning Sharpe his first wicket of the match. Henry Tye then joined Saddiqui at the crease and they took the total to 130 before Tye was caught and bowled by Whiteley for six which left the outcome on a knife edge. Siddiqui was batting splendidly and had reached his half century when Whiteley and Sharpe came to the end of their nine overs , leaving Scott Buttrick and Graham Clark to finish off the bowling for the home side. Siddiqui then played what was probably his one false shot of the match to be bowled by Clark for a terrific 80 but there was to be no more wickets as Stuart Barker ( 31 not out ) and skipper Mike Searle ( 13 not out ) guided Louth home with just seven deliveries to spare , setting up a home tie against Keelby or Haxey2nds on June 23rd.
So Outcasts once again came out on the wrong end of a thriller , this being the third game in a row when they suffered in the dying embers of the game and they will look to rectify things in their next match which sees them make the long trip to Honcastle on Saturday
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