Cricket: Bears back in groove; WARWICKSHIRE: Shantry has champs on ropes.Byline: By Brian Halford CRICKET is a gloriously unpredictable business and, over the last two seasons, Warwickshire have been among its most unpredictable forces. Remember this time last summer? The Bears travelled up to struggling Yorkshire and were trounced by an innings. Really ropey rop·y also rop·ey adj. rop·i·er, rop·i·est 1. Resembling a rope or ropes. 2. Forming sticky glutinous strings or threads, as some liquids. stuff. Next game, they faced champions-in-waiting Sussex - and beat them. From the ridiculous to the sublime. They are at it again. Turgid turgid /tur·gid/ (ter´jid) swollen and congested. tur·gid adj. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated; tumid. turgid swollen and congested. at Durham last week, their cricket in this match against Sussex has been aggressive, focused and skilful. They have the champions on the ropes. After Jimmy Anyon and debutant De`bu`tant´ n. 1. A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public. Adam Shantry Adam Shantry (born November 13, 1982) is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. Shantry has played for Shropshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. shared eight wickets to secure a first-innings lead of 265, Warwickshire declined to enforce the follow-on. This morning they increased that margin to more than 400 with four wickets still intact. Sussex will have to chase a huge target on a dusty, deteriorating pitch. Yesterday was, first and foremost Shantry's day. After Tim Ambrose's impressive 99 (170 balls, ten fours) lifted Warwickshire to 433, the left-armer, only drafted into the team minutes before the start when Nayan Doshi Nayan Dilip Doshi (born 6 October 1978 in Nottingham) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Derbyshire. He is the son of Dilip Doshi, who is a former Indian Test bowler. had to drop out, lodged a sensational first championship bowl for the Bears. After 20 balls, his figures stood at 3.2-2-5-4. If Richard Montgomerie Richard Robert Montgomerie (born July 3, 1971, Rugby, Warwickshire) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex, Northamptonshire and Oxford University. A right handed opener, Montgomerie made his first-class debut in 1991 for Northamptonshire. and Chris Nash hit the ball obligingly o·blig·ing adj. Ready to do favors for others; accommodating. o·blig  ing·ly adv. straight to close
fielders on the leg-side, Michael Yardy and Chris Adams fell to superb
deliveries - a perfectly shaped outswinger An outswinger is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is bowled by swing bowlers.An outswinger is bowled by holding the cricket ball with the seam vertical and the first two fingers running along either side of the seam. and a jagging leg-cutter. As Anyon and Naqaash Tahir worked over the rest, only Luke Wright resisted long. But his 61 was spectacularly ended by Anyon. The seamer had Wright dropped at long leg, Jim Troughton spilling the catch over the boundary for six, then two balls later did the job himself, blasting out off-stump. Sussex all out 168. What a leap from the last two first innings against Warwickshire - Kent's 550 for eight and Durham's 474. The Bears have bitten back hard. Full credit to them. Darren Maddy had no hesitation in batting again rather than enforcing the follow-on. Both openers perished last night - Ian Westwood played on and Maddy edged to slip - before the Warwickshire sought to build their advantage quickly today. They had limited success. Kumar Sangakkara lofted to mid-on and Anyon sliced to point. Troughton's breezy 26 steered the lead above 400 but he then edged Jason Lewry to the wicket-keeper before Alex Loudon badpadded to slip to bag a pair. CAPTION(S): ADAM SHANTRY. |
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