Glover tips Clymping for a strong season next year

PORTSLADE Cricket Club captain Paul Glover has tipped Clymping to do well next year after the sides drew their final game of the season on Saturday.

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Sep 2013, 14:00 BST

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Portslade V Clymping. Action from the match. Batting for Portslade is Alex Smith. — S36176H13-CricketPortslade. Portslade V Clymping. Action from the match. Batting for Portslade is Alex Smith.

Portslade had already wrapped up the West Sussex Invitation League title a week earlier and posted 300-7 from 47 overs after winning the toss on Saturday.

Clymping responded with 250-7 from 47 overs as the game petered out into a draw but Glover said: “Clymping have got some very good players and I think they will do well next year, they’re going to be right up there.

“We didn’t want to lose our last game of the season, so we wanted to get up to a defendable total.

“They felt that we’d scored too many but if we’d declared earlier and had given them extra overs, they’d have got close to winning as they got to 250 quite comfortably. So, I definitely think it was the right decision to declare when we did.”

Full report and pictures in this week’s paper.

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