Nail-biting Sunday league win for Kent
NZPA-Reuter London Kent snatched the 1976 John Player Cricket League title yesterday (New Zealand time) as Somerset failed by one run to get the points it needed for victory. Five counties finished on 40 points in the final table Kent. Essex and Liecestershire. who all won yesterday, and Somerset and Sussex, who were beaten.
] With Kent and Essex both I having scored five away I wins, Kent took the title because of its faster scoring Irate during the season — 14.988 runs per over against ; 4.560 for Essex. ; The title is contested over] '4O overs on Sundays. The destination of the title was not settled until the final ball of Somerset’s battle with Glamorgan. With Somerset needing four to win and capture the championship clearly on points, Graham Burgess could manage to take only two runs off Malcolm Nash’s final delivery and Somerset lost by one run. This gave the title to
nerve-racked Kent, whose' 123 runs victory over; Gloucestershire had ended: some time earlier. Kent, sent in to bat. rea-; ched 278 for five, with Asif] Iqbal hitting 106, with three: sixes and six fot s, in 82] minutes, Gloucestershire] was never in the hunt and; managed onlv 155 for nine. ; John Lever took three wic-; kets for 17 runs and David; Acfield three for 22 to lead: Essex to a 12 runs victory!' over Yorkshire, for whom] John Hampshire scored 77; not out. ] ■ Barry Richards, Hampshire's South African bats-1, man, took his John Player! aggregate for the season to 1
'7lO, a record for the competition. by scoring 25 against 'Lancashire. Hampshire wen ]by 39 runs. 1 In the final matches >n ■Sunday, Derbyshire beat ;Worcestershire ’ 34 runs. I Glen Turner, New Zealand, (test batsman, top-scon J fot ;Worcestershire with 59 ni . Derbyshire closed its inning, at 180 for seven and bund’ed I Worcestershire out for 14f (after 35.3 overs. I Turner's team finished ; eleventh on the final table, (with eight wins and eight (losses, giving it 32 points. (There were 17 teams in the ‘league. _
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