Coach leads by example as Kimberley make a winning start
Kimberley Institute made a winning start to the new Notts Premier League season with a narrow two-wicket success over Wollaton.
Coach Dilhan Cooray led by example with two wickets and 45 in a vital eighth-wicket stand of 61 with Alex King, which rescued the match for Kimberley after they were staring down the barrel of defeat.
Kimberley looked to have done the hard part after they won the toss and bowled Wollaton out for just 158 – a total that would have been lower still without Zain Latif’s fine 67, while Harry Burnhill, George Scottorn and Mathew Campbell joined Cooray in taking two wickets each.
However, Kimberley were rocking in reply after being reduced to 81-7 by Wollaton’s James Cox, who took 5-46.
But Cooray and King steadied the ship with their match-winning partnership and when Cooray was out, King (26no) saw Kimberley home.
Other results: Attenborough 109-2, beat Clipstone 108, by eight wickets; Collingham & District 225, lost to Mansfield Hosiery Mills 231-6, by four wickets; Cuckey 152, lost to Cavaliers & Carrington 196, by 44 runs; Hucknall 233-6, beat Papplewick & Linby 218, by 15 runs; Notts & Arnold Amateur 212-8, beat Caythorpe 79, by 133 runs.