Mark Alleyne, the Gloucestershire skipper must be ruing his decision not toenforce the follow on as they finished the day at 11 for 2 when bad lightcurtailed play with 10 overs to go
Staff and agencies17-Aug-2000Mark Alleyne, the Gloucestershire skipper must be ruing his decision not toenforce the follow on as they finished the day at 11 for 2 when bad lightcurtailed play with 10 overs to go. Earlier in the day, Essex were bowledout for 174 with a deficit of exact 150 in a reckless diplay by its batsmenexcept opener Paul Grayson and Tim Mason who scored 56 and 24 not outrespectively.Michael Ball took 3 for 32 while Ben Gannon took 3 for 61 forGloucestershire.Earlier Gannon partnered with Jeremy snape to make 58 to carryGloucestershire to 324 in their first innings. Ronnie Irani and AshleyCowan took one wicket each in the Gloucestershire’s second innings byclaiming Windows and Dominic Hewson repectively.