Blakeney bludgeons ton as St.David's stay clear at top
The following report was inadvertently left out of yesterday's Premier Cricket League round-up.
St. David's 347-7 Somerset Bridge 52 A sparkling century by Glenn Blakeney helped boost Premier League leaders St.
David's to a mammoth total of 347, which was always going to be too steep a task for perennial strugglers Somerset Bridge.
Blakeney, displaying the style and ruthless power that has made him one of the most exciting batsmen in the local game, put paid to any notions the home side may have had of dismissing the visitors for a low score, collecting three sixes and 15 boundaries in a spiralling knock of 126.
The left-hander added 80 runs with Chris Foggo (19) for the second wicket and 107 with Del Hollis (49) for the fifth, before he was caught by Adrian Burrows off Corvette Lambert.
Yet the misery continued as Shannon Raynor tallied 40 at number seven and then youngsters O.J.Pitcher and Fiqre Crockwell engaged in an unbroken 81-run eighth wicket stand, with the former not out on 51 and Crockwell likewise unbeaten on 26.
Lambert returned best figures of three for 60, while Anthony Smith took two for 50.
Bridge knew they had little chance of attaining the target required and batted as a team lost and lacking in confidence.
Only Shannon Tankard and Leroy Brangman managed to reach double figures, each scoring 15, as Bridge tumbled for 52.
Arthur Pitcher returned miserly figures of three for 13, while Delyone Borden, Crockwell, Hollis and Blakeney each bagged a pair and Phillip Pitcher's one ball reaped him a victim.
The Islanders thus took over sole possession of first place with 25 points, five more than a trailing pack of four.