{"id":12531,"date":"2019-06-02T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2019-06-02T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T22:00:24","slug":"stop-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=12531","title":{"rendered":"STOP PRESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After sterling work on the ground when the rain eventually abated today (2nd), the Club&#8217;s home Welsh Cup tie v Ammanford got underway at 3.30pm.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A strong Ammanford XI chose to bat first and struggled more or less throughout their innings against a bowling attack determined to right yesterday&#8217;s wrongs. All of Ryan Aingworth\u2019s bowlers deserved credit, with the captain (2-25), Roland Runout and off-spinner Max Phillips (1-22, the crucial wicket of Mathew Fisher (39, 3 fours &amp; 2 sixes) just as he was getting going) taking the first wickets to fall..105-4. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The hero of the day, however, was 15 year old Adam Lewis-Williams, bro of wicketless Dan, who basically wiped away the middle order and tail! During his six overs, ALW helped himself to 4-15, including two bowled. From\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">their allotted 35 overs, our visitors had mustered a teatime total of 135-9&#8230;surely below par and &#8220;gettable&#8221;?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Well, yep, it was and IT WAS!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>After early nerves (22-2), James Palmer (36, 6 fours &amp; a six), Max (28, 5 fours) and Dan (61no, 4 fours &amp; 5 sixes!) ensured there were no further scares, thrilling the home crowd in the process!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Ryan Aingworth&#8217;s team duly reached their target with 11 overs to spare&#8230;136-4!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Round 3 will be played on Sunday 23rd June with the draw to take place once all games in Round 2 have been completed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sterling work on the ground when the rain eventually abated today (2nd), the Club&#8217;s home Welsh Cup tie v Ammanford got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}