Saturday, September 1
A MAIDEN ton from Chris Glass was not enough to save the Twos in a high-scoring game at Warenford.
Losing the toss was always likely to mean a long day in the field for Warkworth as a team light on bowling faced the peren
nially strong home batting line-up.
Plumley's opening spell of 9-4-16-1 was accuracy personified but there was little to complement it and two of the four Thompsons on show Brian, 57, and Kevin, 58, took advantage of some wayward bowling and weak catching to post a hundred partnership for the second wicket.
By the time Warkworth had found their catching form, skipper Puddephatt plucking one out of the sky with a salmon-like leap, the game was probably already out of reach.
Sticking gamely to the task however, and with John Charlton, in his first game for seven years, returning a creditable 3-54 and young Adam Jobson picking up 2-36, the lads did at least garner three bowling points. Chasing 247 the Castle Field boys knew they would be reliant on the top order and it was perhaps about time that Glass fulfilled his youthful promise.
Against an all-Thompson bowling attack Glass's innings was anything but dull. Riding some early luck he hit the bad, and some not-so-bad, balls unerringly and even had the strength of will to survive running out his close rival for the batting trophy, Currie, for a duck!
Out-scoring his partners two to one Chris hit 12 fours and four sixes until he finally skied one of the youngest, M Thompson (the pick of the home bowlers with 4-25).
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