SPORTING CLUB won a cracking JEP Brighter Cricket Cup final at Grainville last night.
A star performance from man-of-the-match Matt Hague , whose opening partnership of 150 with Steve Carlyon is believed to be a record for the final, helped set a target of 171 which eventually proved to be too much, even for Dave Clark’s valiant St Ouen.
It could, however, have been ‘Oh, so different’according to Clark, if former Murratti goal keeper Jamie Brewster - a batting hero later in the match - had held on to a ‘normally pretty regulation catch in the gully’ to dismiss Hague in the second over of the evening, off a delivery from young Danny Blasco.
‘It wasn’t the most difficult of catches,’ said Clark, ‘but sometimes when the pressure’s on it’s not so easy.
‘You’d like to think that normally he could have picked that up quite easily, but unfortunately for us it’s gone down.
It could have been the turning point in the game’.
Even the most optimistic St Ouen supporter would have been hard pushed to envisage any realistic chance of them reaching the outstanding target (171) set by Sporting Club.
Brewster can though take much consolation from his fierce display with the bat, which pushed St Ouen on to a their eventual 161 total.
Full report in today’s JEP.
Article posted on 30th June, 2004 - 12.00am
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