The Semi Final of the Statewide Twenty20 Cricket competition saw leading TCA Club Clarence record a comfortable victory over HCCA Twenty20 Champions Kingston Crows at Kingston Beach Oval on Friday night.

The Crows batted first and struggled to come to terms with batting on the turf wicket against quality bowling. Runs were hard to come by, however they appeared to be in a position to set some sort of total when they reached 3/62 after 14 overs. The loss then of 3 wickets for a solitary run put a dampener on that and they reached 9/99 off their 20 overs. Levi Treptow top scored with 20 that included a towering six that certainly gave some joy to the large crowd that attended the game. Other batsmen made useful contributions but they missed that ounce of luck required in these types of games to make competitive totals. All of Clarence’s bowlers were tight and rewarded with economical figures with State Sheffield Shield player Jonathan Wells returning the best figures of 3/13.

Defending this total was always going to be a big ask for The Crows and their cause was not helped when two outfield catches, that in normal circumstances be swallowed, were missed. Wells was run out for 41 and Tom Flowers remained 38no as Clarence overhauled the total for the loss of only Wells’ wicket in the 14^th over.

Kingston Crows

J Knott c and b J Wells 10

D Elliott b D Meredith 9

B Stevenson b J Wells 12

J Wicks c J Wright b W Irvine 16

M Owen c D Dawson b W Irvine 12

N Townsend c S Tubb b B Harris 1

L Treptow c D Meredith b B Harris 20

M Godfrey c D Dawson b J Wright 3

R Chapman not out 10

D Punshon lbw J Wells 1

T Pearce not out 1

Sundries 4

Total 9/99

Fow. 16-34-35-63-64-64-86-87-93

J Wright 4-0-16-1

D Meredith 3-0-14-1

A Dykes 4-0-19-0

J Wells 3-0-13-3

B Harris 4-0-25-2

W Irvine 2-0-10-2

Clarence

J Wells run out 41

T Flowers not out 38

D Dawson not out 7

Sundries 14

Total 1/100

Fow 85

J Knott 3-0-19-0

D Punshon 2-0-8-0

J Wicks 2-0-15-0

T Pearce 1-0-16-0

N Townsend 1-0-14-0

D Elliott 2-0-15-0

R Chapman 1.4-0-12-0

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