da prosport bet： The highlights of the second day’s play between Zimbabwe A and the WestIndian tourists at Kwekwe Sports Club were a fine century by AlistairCampbell and an exotic fifty by the maverick Bryan Strang, either side ofa dramatic middle-order collapse
da bet esporte： John Ward15-Jul-2001The highlights of the second day’s play between Zimbabwe A and the WestIndian tourists at Kwekwe Sports Club were a fine century by AlistairCampbell and an exotic fifty by the maverick Bryan Strang, either side ofa dramatic middle-order collapse. The tourists finished the day 57 runsahead with all their second-innings wickets intact.Zimbabwe A resumed at their overnight score of 26 for no wicket in reply tothe West Indians’ 374. Campbell was soon playing the sort of innings thatmakes Zimbabwean cricket followers shake their heads in wonder andexasperation.Campbell has probably played as many “brief cameos” as any player in the world, but so rarely do they turn into anything substantial in Test cricket. Here he was playing the bowling with as much ease as Chris Gayle had on the previous day, driving and pulling with all the time in the world, completely unaffected by the swinging ball.Hamilton Masakadza less spectacularly matched him run for run, and this opening partnership had the potential to match that between Gayle and Daren Ganga the previous day. In theory, at least.Colin Stuart broke the stand, though, trapping Masakadza lbw with afull-length delivery, after making 33 of the 75-run partnership. Campbellby now had apparently run out of adrenaline, and he offered scarcely a shotin anger after morning drinks. He crawled past his fifty, and with Gavin Renniechoosing to fight his way back to form by defensive methods, the play wasfar from spectacular.The rather painful struggle continued after lunch against the West Indianspinners, the partnership coming to an end on 139 when Rennie (25) swungacross the line to Carl Hooper and was caught at the wicket. Campbellremained somnolent until he reached the seventies, whereupon he hit theunsuspecting Neil McGarrell for three fours in an over, and followed it upwith two more boundaries off Hooper.Soon afterwards, a delicate cut off Corey Collymore brought Campbell his20th four and his century, scored off 193 balls. He overshadowed thenormally lively Guy Croxford, who battled to score 16 before being bowled byStuart. He trapped Barney Rogers lbw first ball, and then bowled StuartMatsikenyeri in his next over to reduce Zimbabwe A to 236 for five at tea,Campbell still there on 133.Stuart struck again with the first ball after tea, bowling new batsman and homecaptain Mluleki Nkala with a ball that cut back in as he shouldered arms.Stuart was on a hat-trick for the second time in successive overs, but DonCampbell survived.Alistair had again run out of adrenaline and did little after tea beforebeing caught at the wicket for 140 off the second delivery with the secondnew ball, bowled by Marlon Black, who then had Don four overs later caughtdown the leg side for 12. Local ex-Academy player Travis Friend scored 17before departing to the same combination, a fine diving catch by RidleyJacobs this time.Then followed an entertaining last-wicket stand – no stand that includesBryan Strang ever fails to be entertaining – of 74 between Strang andRaymond Price. Strang as usual mixed the powerfully unorthodox with thealmost recognisable and the comical as he reached exactly 50 off just 34balls, whereupon Price (22) borrowed one of his partner’s strokes, only tomow a catch straight to mid-wicket. The tourists had their first-inningslead reduced to just 29. Black took three wickets for 49 and Stuart fivefor 58.As Strang injured a finger while batting, Price opened the attack with hisleft-arm spin opposite Friend, but to no avail. By the close the WestIndians had scored 28 without loss (Ganga 9, Gayle 17).
