da cassino online： Steven Davies hammered a 19-ball half-century as Surrey eased to a six-wicketvictory over Gloucestershire, who finished bottom of the Friends Provident t20South Division
18-Jul-2010
ScorecardSteve Davies continued his impressive form at the top of the order for Surrey•Getty Images
Steve Davies hammered a 19-ball half-century as Surrey eased to a six-wicketvictory over Gloucestershire, who finished bottom of the Friends Provident t20South Division.Needing a win to have a chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals, Surreyrestricted Gloucestershire to a modest 147 for nine after Will Porterfield (37)and James Franklin (33) had got the home side off to a reasonable start.Chris Tremlett finished as Surrey’s most successful bowler with 3 for 18off four overs, while veteran leg-spinner Chris Schofield took 2 or 27.The outcome was never in doubt once Davies (73) and captain Rory Hamilton-Brown(48) had plundered 78 in the six power-play overs. Aware that run rate could be a factor in their attempt to qualify, Davies and Hamilton-Brown continued to score rapidly until the Surrey captain was lbw toRichard Dawson for 48 to make it 112 for 1 in the ninth over. His 30-ballinnings contained six fours and two straight sixes.Jason Roy was bowled second ball by Dawson and one-time Gloucestershire playerAndrew Symonds was dismissed by Aaron Redmond in the next over when Chris Taylortook a catch at long-on.Davies continued to pepper the boundary boards with some powerful drives onboth sides of the wicket until Redmond had him caught on the midwicket boundaryin the 12th over. His scintillating 73 came from only 30 balls and includedseven fours and four sixes.That brought Gary Wilson to the middle and he hit three successive boundariesoff Redmond to complete the win with 49 balls remaining.Earlier, Tremlett had struck twice in the first six overs of theGloucestershire innings when he had Redmond caught behind and dismissed AlexGidman lbw with a yorker.Ireland captain Porterfield played impressively in compiling 37 from 34 ballsbefore he skied a drive off Schofield and Hamilton-Brown took a well-judgedcatch, running back from mid-off.Porterfield’s dismissal prompted a Gloucestershire collapse in which anotherthree wickets fell for nine runs in three overs.Taylor was caught on the deep square leg boundary, off Matthew Spriegel. ChrisDent was bowled while trying to sweep Schofield and Steve Snell was caughtbehind off Andre Nel.Franklin was scoring at better than a run a ball until he was run out byWilson’s direct hit from deep cover, and Tremlett claimed his third wicket whenhe had Jon Lewis lbw with a yorker.Dawson made an unbeaten 24 from 28 balls, but Gloucestershire’s total neverlooked enough to trouble Surrey’s strong batting line-up.