A top-tier club cricket match was abandoned due to an allegedly dangerous pitch on Saturday.<\/p>\n
With second-bottom Sevenoaks Vine having won the toss and elected to field at Tunbridge Wells, the hosts were 189-6 – opener Viraj Bhatia leading the charge with 44 despite wickets for Tom Richards (2-28) and former Kent man George Garrett (2-50) – when play was stopped on another warm afternoon in the 42nd over.<\/p>\n
George Garrett – had taken two wickets for Sevenoaks Vine before their weekend Kent League Premier Division fixture at Tunbridge Wells was abandoned due to an allegedly dangerous pitch. Picture: Barry Goodwin<\/p>\n
As it stands, both sides have been awarded nine points from the fixture.<\/p>\n
Sevenoaks Vine posted on social media: \u201c2s win at home, 3s win at home [and 1sts] is abandoned\u2026 not a usual statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leaders St Lawrence & Highland Court were nine-wicket home winners against Bexley.<\/p>\n
Oliver Smith (23) top scored as Bexley were bowled out for 135 in the 37th over, with John Grewar (3-25) shining for St Lawrence.<\/p>\n
Opener Dan Stickels\u2019 run-a-ball 72 not out helped to make light work of the St Lawrence run-chase.<\/p>\n
James Thompson – his excellent 148 helped guide Minster to a five-wicket home win over Bromley. Picture: Keith Gillard<\/p>\n
Second-placed Hayes remain just two points behind them, however, having hammered basement boys Lordswood by 111 runs.<\/p>\n
Aaron Burrage\u2019s unbeaten 100 inspired them to 230-7 while home captain Calum MacLeod (3-29) claimed scalps.<\/p>\n
In reply, Scott Gallagher\u2019s excellent figures of 5-20 left the efforts of MacLeod (34) in vain as Lordswood were dismissed after 33 overs despite an encouraging 62-run opening stand.<\/p>\n
Another five points further back are third-placed Blackheath, who edged to a 25-run triumph over Whitstable to end a three-match winning league streak.<\/p>\n
Matthew Golding – despite being run-out for 99 – helped Blackheath to 246 all out as Cameron Wilshaw (3-25) got among the wickets.<\/p>\n
Lordswood captain Calum MacLeod – his efforts with both bat and ball proved in vain as his team, bottom of the pile, were beaten again at home to second-placed Hayes. Picture: Allen Hollands<\/p>\n
The father-and-son partnership of Jaydn Denly (77) and skipper Sam Denly (61) again combined nicely but the hosts were dismissed inside the 47th over. Ex-Kent bowler Arafat Bhuiyan (3-39) best with the ball.<\/p>\n
Minster were five-wicket home winners against Bromley in a high-scoring affair.<\/p>\n
Wicketkeeper Agastya Tripathi\u2019s 61 guided Bromley to 276 all out, Enamul Haque Jr (4-35) best with the ball.<\/p>\n
Opener James Thompson\u2019s 148 off 91 balls, a knock that included 16 fours and some 11 maximums, led a successful Minster reply as he put on a 121-run stand with Ben Chapelhow (55).<\/p>\n
That left the efforts of Marcus Lilley (3-55) in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top-tier club cricket match was abandoned due to an allegedly dangerous pitch on Saturday. With second-bottom Sevenoaks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[222607,8835,1721,222604,8836,220047,220049,101,222605,56,54,55,222606],"class_list":["post-689202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bexley-and-bromley-sport","tag-canterbury-sport","tag-cricket","tag-isle-of-sheppey-sport","tag-kent-cricket","tag-medway-sport","tag-sevenoaks-sport","tag-sports","tag-tunbridge-wells-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-whitstable-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689202","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=689202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}