da blaze casino： Day 2 close of play: CFX Academy 222 and 117/8 (Soma 16*, Chari 0*); Manicaland250
da imperador bet： John Ward24-Mar-2001Day 2 close of play: CFX Academy 222 and 117/8 (Soma 16*, Chari 0*); Manicaland250.Accurate Manicaland bowling tilted the match against the CFX Academy by the close of the second day. After taking a first innings lead of 28, their bowlers seized the initiative by working steadily through a rather submissive batting order, and they should be left with not too difficult a target on the third morning.Patrick Gada and Gary Brent continued to build steadily on Manicaland’sovernight score of 122 for four, in reply to CFX Academy’s total of 222.Gada, 67 overnight and with a century obviously preying on his mind, wasfortunate to survive an easy chance to mid-off when on 71. He did not livelong to enjoy it, being caught at silly point a few minutes later withoutadding to his score; his four runs of the day took more than 40 minutes.Brent played a positive innings of 61 before being surprised andcontroversially given run out by a fine throw from Guy Croxford whenattempting a run off a push by his partner to mid on. He did not receivemuch help from the later batsmen, though, until a determined ninth-wicketpartnership between Andre Soma and Terry Denyer took Manicaland into thelead.After lunch the promising 17-year-old Soma opened his shoulders to goodeffect, but Academy brother Leon broke the annoying stand by bowling Denyerwith a low full toss for 12 and then finishing the innings by having hisbrother caught at mid-on for 22. Manicaland were all out for 250, a lead of28.The Academy second innings never looked confident. Under heavy skies, thebatsmen seemed to find trouble in getting the ball away and wickets fellsteadily against determined and accurate Manicaland seam bowling. GuyCroxford was the only batsman who looked capable of carrying the attack backto the bowlers, but by tea the Academy had lost four wickets and were only20 runs ahead.After the break the batsmen again got bogged down and Croxford added onlythree runs in 25 minutes before being caught off an uppish cut. For afurther hour it seemed as if the team was to subside slowly without spirit,but then Blessing Mahwire discovered that it was possible after all to scoreruns against these bowlers.A good partnership was developing between Mahwire and Leon Soma before they inexplicably seemed to go into their shells again, only for Mahwire (29) to be dismissed lbw just before the close after a 35-run partnership.Unless rain intervenes – which so far it has not – the Academy will have abig task in their attempt to snatch an unlikely victory on the finalmorning.
