The Rapids returned to Blast action 48 hours on from a difficult night at Edgbaston, facing a stern test against the reigning Vitality Blast T20 champions, Somerset.<\/p>\n
With Adam Hose leading the side, the skipper announced that there would be one change to the XI with youngster Henry Cullen coming in for spinner Fateh Singh.<\/p>\n
Inserted to bat first, opening pair Kashif Ali and Isaac Mohammed threw caution to the wind in a punchy opening stand of 33, which saw Isaac scorch a flurry of early boundaries through the off side.<\/p>\n
Kashif had made 10 before he was hurried by a ball that caught the splice of his bat and handed a straightforward catch to mid-on, as the visitors re-asserted some control to restrict the Rapids to just 14 runs from the second half of the powerplay.<\/p>\n
47-1, when the fielding restrictions were lifted, disaster struck when Isaac was trapped LBW for a quickfire 34 from 23 balls, but the new pair, Gareth Roderick and Adam Hose, saw their team past fifty midway through the eighth over.<\/p>\n
Targeting the legside to superb effect, Roderick whipped two fours and a huge six towards the midwicket boundary as he started to cut loose, taking a liking to Josh Shaw by taking the ninth over for 16.<\/p>\n
The Rapids hit the halfway mark 80-2, but the wickets of Roderick (29 from 21) and Hose (six) in successive overs caused a wobble in the Worcestershire camp.<\/p>\n
Both batters were caught at long-on, looking to up the ante, leaving the rebuild job in the experienced hands of middle order pair Sikandar Raza and Brett D\u2019Oliveira.<\/p>\n
They brought up the home side\u2019s 100 in the 13th over, with D\u2019Oliveira crashing the ball through point and midwicket, before Raza opened up the cow corner region with a lusty slog sweep for four before repeating the same shot three balls later, which was plunged onto the roof of the New Road stand.<\/p>\n
The replacement ball was deposited once again by Zimbabwe\u2019s all-rounder, who unleashed on Riley Meredith at the start of the 17th over, registering his fifty partnership with D\u2019Oliveira by slamming a six and a four in consecutive balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rapids returned to Blast action 48 hours on from a difficult night at Edgbaston, facing a stern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}