da aviator aposta： After the events of recent days in Kolkata, it would come as little surprise if there was a contagious fear of following on sweeping through the cricketing world at present
Marcus Prior – MWP16-Mar-2001After the events of recent days in Kolkata, it would come as little surprise if there was a contagious fear of following on sweeping through the cricketing world at present.If there is, it struck at the beautiful winelands ground in Paarl on Friday where visitors Easterns produced a sterling bowling effort in oppressive heat and then opted not to ask Boland to bat again. By stumps, Easterns had reached 29/0 in their second innings, a lead of exactly 200.The Boland first innings batting performnce, where they could manage just169, was so poor that it might have been argued that the home side couldhave done with a bit of batting practice. Just as last week against Border,James Henderson was the only batsmen to properly take root, eventually ninthout for an extremely well compiled 86, which included nine fours.The damage was done at the top of the order, and it was done by anunlikely havoc-wreaker. Seventeen-year-old Brendan Reddy had picked up only onefirst-class victim before this game in his brief career, but the decidedlypacey youngster steamed in to take three wickets in six balls and leaveBoland in trouble at 19/3.Although Louis Koen (31) and Jonathan Trott (22) looked fluent as theymade brisk starts, they also fell at crucial moments. With both removed -Trott to a stunner of a catch by Dylan Jennings behind the stumps – GarethFlusk (3/55) dealt with the middle order and Pierre de Bruyn (4/34) wrappedup the tail.Earlier, the final two Easterns wickets had done well to stretch thefirst innings total to 340 on a pitch where the accumulation of runs isalways a methodical rather than a carefree exercise. Anthony Botha was leftstanding on 49, while Henry Williams (5-66) took the last two wickets toreturn his fourth five-wicket haul in consecutive matches.