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Cirencester outplay Gloucs Citizen to secure first CICA win
Saturday 25 October 2003

Cirencester (114/4) beat Gloucs Citizen (66 all out) by 48 runs
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For the first time in the Cheltenham Indoor Cricket Association, Cirencester fielded a team in which every player had experience of the indoor game. This proved telling as they secured their first win in the competition against the Gloucester Citizen.

The Citizen won the toss and chose to field first but this decision failed to pay off as Dan Hudson took advantage of being dropped by Haines to usher Cirencester to a positive start with 30 coming from the first 3 overs. It took a good piece of wicket-keeping from Hatch to make the breakthrough as he completed a sharp stumping off the medium pace of Bamford.

Rich Hudson and Dan Robbins set up building a partnership that kept the runs ticking over before Robbins called for a quick single that unfortuanately saw Hudson run out at the striker's end. Robbins remained unflustered though and greeted the arrival of off-spinner Godwin to charge down the wicket and hit him straight back over his head for six. Next ball saw the same response from the batsman but this time he only succeeded in picking out Bamford who completed the catch.

Andy Lobo had showed his proficiency at this form of the game in the match against Hempsted and again made sure Cirencester compiled a large total with a sensible innings that involved finding the gaps consistently. In partnership with wicket-keeper Alex Harris and captain Iain Butler, Cirencester finished the innings strongly registering a total of 114/4.

The Gloucs Citizen reply never got going thanks to some tight bowling and some excellent fielding. The first wicket arrived as quickly as the second over as Rich Hudson swooped from behind square to run out Hatch.

The run outs continued to tumble, interspersed with Lobo completing a rare caught and bowled at the second attempt, and the Citizen were still 48 runs short when their last wicket fell.