Corsham's new overseas player Neetan Chouhan shoulders arms and is bowled by Lloyd Alley (21776/6)
CORSHAM captain Michael Coles showed his top order how it should be done as
his half-century helped Corsham on their way to a 53 run win over Taunton St
Andrews.
The skipper called for his top order to take more responsibility last week
after the lower order contributed heavily on the opening day at Frocester.
Rich Foley, Neetan Chouhan, Thomas Hankins and Roger Sillence were all
dismissed for a combined 58 against Taunton, but Coles and Neil Shardlow
stepped in to get Corsham back on track.
Coles said:"Our overseas player (Chouhan) has come in and got a decent
delivery so he was a bit unlucky.
"Hanks got a decent ball and the only disappointing one was Sillo in terms
of his shot selection.
"We made a point of stating before the game that we needed to bat as long as
we possibly could.
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"I wanted to try and lead by example and in that sense I did okay. I got a
good delivery to get me out but probably at that stage I probably should
have looked to get more than I did."
Corsham were all out for 191 in the 44th over, meaning Taunton received
extra overs in their innings.
Coles said Taunton having added overs to reach the total ended up playing to
his team's advantage.
Coles said: "It was strange because they got our extra overs to get the runs
which sometimes means you don't approach it in the normal way. They were in
two minds and I don't think they were playing their normal game.
"If they had that target in front of them and only had 45 overs, they
probably would have approached it a lot differently and been a bit more
attacking, but as it was they weren't really going for it.
"They are obviously experienced, quality players but thankfully for us we
bowled pretty tight.
"Jason Searle bowled really well for his four wickets and Alex Senneck as
well. It took us 56 overs to get the last wicket and we needed the extra
overs to come out with a win."
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