By Charles Randall
17 July 2015
The names of Warren Goodwin and Ollie Law are well known in club cricket circles as the opening batsmen who helped Chester Boughton Hall storm the ECB T20 title in 2014, but in 2015 they have topped even that with an unbroken opening stand of 240 to guarantee Cheshire won the Unicorns Twenty20 Championship.
Goodwin smashed 132 off 61 balls, including nine sixes, and Law weighed in with 101 off 59 as Cheshire demolished Oxfordshire by 119 runs in the final at Banbury. Faced with this extraordinary 240-0, Oxfordshire had a go when openers Richard Kaufman and Chad Keegan replied with 44-0 off the first four overs, but the innings melted away to 121 all out.
Karl Penhale, the Banbury and Oxfordshire opening bowler on Northamptonshire's books, was tanked for 43 off two overs by Goodwin and Law on his home ground – the same man who had taken 4-26 to destroy Bedfordshire in the semi-final. Cheshire beat Devon by only nine runs, with Goodwin and Law playing relatively minor parts. Matt Thompson's 69 for Devon off 31 balls brought a 166-run target within reach.
Goodwin, 28, South African born, shelved his Lancashire ambitions and has enjoyed success for Chester Boughton Hall and Cheshire. In the Unicorns T20 this season his scores were 64, 48, 33 and 132 not out, all made at a stupendous rate.
Penhale, a good prospect and Club Cricket Conference player, caught the eye at Oxford Brookes University and was signed by Northamptonshire this year, switching clubs to Banbury after Aston Rowant were relegated from the top tier of the Home Counties League. In July he recorded figures of 11-5-10-6 as Banbury bowled out Reading for 40 at White Post Road, the second lowest score yet recorded in the Home Counties League. Reading lunched on 40-9 and Penhale took the final wicket with the first ball after the resumption.
17 July 2015
The names of Warren Goodwin and Ollie Law are well known in club cricket circles as the opening batsmen who helped Chester Boughton Hall storm the ECB T20 title in 2014, but in 2015 they have topped even that with an unbroken opening stand of 240 to guarantee Cheshire won the Unicorns Twenty20 Championship.
Goodwin smashed 132 off 61 balls, including nine sixes, and Law weighed in with 101 off 59 as Cheshire demolished Oxfordshire by 119 runs in the final at Banbury. Faced with this extraordinary 240-0, Oxfordshire had a go when openers Richard Kaufman and Chad Keegan replied with 44-0 off the first four overs, but the innings melted away to 121 all out.
Karl Penhale, the Banbury and Oxfordshire opening bowler on Northamptonshire's books, was tanked for 43 off two overs by Goodwin and Law on his home ground – the same man who had taken 4-26 to destroy Bedfordshire in the semi-final. Cheshire beat Devon by only nine runs, with Goodwin and Law playing relatively minor parts. Matt Thompson's 69 for Devon off 31 balls brought a 166-run target within reach.
Goodwin, 28, South African born, shelved his Lancashire ambitions and has enjoyed success for Chester Boughton Hall and Cheshire. In the Unicorns T20 this season his scores were 64, 48, 33 and 132 not out, all made at a stupendous rate.
Penhale, a good prospect and Club Cricket Conference player, caught the eye at Oxford Brookes University and was signed by Northamptonshire this year, switching clubs to Banbury after Aston Rowant were relegated from the top tier of the Home Counties League. In July he recorded figures of 11-5-10-6 as Banbury bowled out Reading for 40 at White Post Road, the second lowest score yet recorded in the Home Counties League. Reading lunched on 40-9 and Penhale took the final wicket with the first ball after the resumption.