da bet esporte： Griquas spluttered to 85 all out in 36.4 overs in reply to Province’s 229for seven
Telford Vice – MWP19-Oct-2000Alan Dawson took career-best figures of five for 13 asWestern Province thrashed Griqualand West by 144 runs in a Standard Bank Cup match in Kimberley on Wednesday nightGriquas spluttered to 85 all out in 36.4 overs in reply to Province’s 229for seven.Dawson’s previous best was the five for 39 he took against Free State in1994-95.The home side’s first three wickets crashed before they reached doublefigures, an achievement only four of their batsmen accomplished on thenight.Dawson wreaked his havoc by moving the ball appreciably off the seam on apitch that had not offered theGriquas bowlers noticeable assistance.Some of the credit for Dawson’s success must go to left-armer CharlWilloughby, who shared the new ball with him and obtained steepling lift intaking one for 10 off seven overs.Griquas, though, were their own worst enemies as they flashed expansively atdeliveries pitched on or about off-stump. It was all over as a contest asearly as the 11th over of their reply when Finley Brooker was caught in theslips off Roger Telemachus for one to make it 17 for five.There was no coming back from that, not after Province had batted sensiblyon a sluggish surface. Their hard work was done early on when HerschelleGibbs and Gary Kirsten put on 119 for the first wicket before Kirsten wasdismissed by part-time off-spinner Martyn Gidley for 51 in the 25th over.Gibbs went three overs later for 71 off 77 balls with eight fours and a six.Griquas’ batting disaster was enthusiastically but all too temporarilyforgotten by the fiercely one-eyed Kimberley crowd when Deon Kruis and AdriSwanepoel set about the bowling with the gusto that is the sole preserve oftailenders’ everywhere.However, Dawson had the last laugh when he caught Swanepoel off Neil Johnsonto end the last-wicket stand at 42, by far the biggest partnership of anignominious innings