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Commentary on Day 6 at Surbiton

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Beard has two peels done and at one back

Johnston making diagonal spread

Evans makes 2 and lays up wired from James using hoop 2

Forster lifts the ball in E half of lawn and misses partner into corner 2

James moves to corner 2 and Marcus rushes to a yard in front of 3 makes it with a rush to 4

Marcus rushes 3 yards E of 4.  Makes hoop running it to the boundary for a 5 foot rush to hoop 5

Rushes half way between 3 and 4 and rolling back to guard corner 4

Beard peels rover before 3 back.  Chapman and Fulford preparing for long lifts

Fulford misses

James to 10 yards N of corner 1.  Marcus plays his peg ball and lays a wire in corner 4 using hoop 1

Emma says she is slightly nervous!

Chapman hit and Maugham is also in somehow presumably a hit lift.

James move to 10 yard N of corner 4 on the E boundary

Jenny makes hoop 1 and rolls her hoop 3 pioneer off the N boundary going to hoop 2 (giving the ball at hoop 2 a rush to the ball on the N boundary)

Marcus rushes to a 4 feet in front of 5 makes it and rushes to 4 feet in front of 6.  Makes it with a bigger cut than he would like to 1 back - this is a great chance

Beard has finished

rushes to 5 feet in front of 1 back does run 1back well and hits long rush to 4 yards NW of 2 back - thinking.

Beard hits partner turn 3 of a corner 2 opening

Marcus plays thick take off sending the peg ball off the E boundary 11 yards N of corner 1 and his 2back ball into corner 2

Grinding to a halt now prepare for a switch to notts list commentary

James takes lift from A baulk at an angle hit, cutting it immediately off E boundary puts it 3 yards S of hoop 3 and hits the ball in corner 2 (James is for 3)

Beard DL

Awful shot from James his ball is inside N boundary and has 35 degree hoop.  takes position 7 foot in front of 3.  Marcus moves peg ball from the other side of 3 to corner 2

Reg misses from A baulk

Forster hampered after hoop 1 again but this time hits a ball by hoop 3 and is going round

Dave hit near 30 yard shot to regain innings

James runs 3 hits the ball at 4 to nicely off the S boundary W of 4, takes off to the hoop runs it from 5 feet and has a good rush to 5

Rushes to 3 yards SW of 5 approaches to 1 yard straight runs it for a 5 foot rush to 6

rushes a yard from 6 does try to get a rush out of it.  Rushes back to the peg takes off to the ball in corner 2 approaches putting it to 2 back - 4 foot straight hoop

grovels through cant hit the ball by the peg will have a shot at the ball by two back

Johnston hasnt got any control of his delayed TP yet.

James misses

Maugham just made hoop 2 with a standard TP ahead of him

Marcus hits from 2 back to the peg rushing it to 4 yards NW of 6.  james ball is 6 yards E of corner 1.  Marcus laying up in middle of N boundary probably not wired

Forster has made a mess of a tight cross peg, played a scatter conceding the innings to the 4 back ball.  Jenny 2 and 4 back, Stephen 1 and 4 back

James hits, liked it the moment it left his mallet.

Johnston has just missed a hampered shot after hoop 1, no idea what has been going on since the lift was missed.  Rob has hit from hoop 2 to 1

Forster missed jenny's leave and Jenny has a good chance of establishing a break

James made 2 back with rush to E boundary - rolled to the ball still near the N boundary, rushed that to the middle of the W boundary - failed to roll up to 3back, failed to take wired position and marcus has hit with 2back ball.  Takes off to partner at 4 back and fails to get a rush by inches - rolling to corner 2

Another B spread from Beard.

Jenny has second break and not looking at any peels - shock

Bamford hits

Death hits

James gets a ball nearly to penult with an OK rush - gets it 4 yard NE of 3 back

Superb take off to 3 back gets 2 and half foot hoop but runs it into the escape ball still massive odds on from here

rolls and gets 3 yard cut to 4back.  middles it to 5 yards SW of 4back approaches to 2 yards runs it with a fairly gentle shot

Death wins 3-2

Beard has stopped at 3 back.  Reg failed to get going again - laid up in middle of W boundary.  hoop 1 ball at 3 back.. 3 back ball just out of corner 3

Maugham fails penult with just a straight rover peel to do

Lawn 1 Forster 1 v Clarke 2 - Jenny on second break - not peeling against 1 and 4back

Lawn 2 Burch 0 v Trimmer 3

Lawn 3 (Primary) Fletcher 3 v Avery 0

Lawn 3 (Secondary) Bamford 2 v Beard 0 - Beard has missed partner near corner 3 and reg is setting up his first break

Lawn 4 Death 3 v Evans 2 -

Lawn 5 Maugham 2 v Beijderwellen 0 - Maugham penult and rover.  Rutger making 3 back after the error with a ball that was already on 3back partner is on hoop 1

.Lawn 6 Chapman 2 v Hockey 1 - Investigator dispatched!

Lawn 7 Fulford 2 v Johnston 0 - Rob just making a one back leave against 2 and 4 back

 

Sorry Forster is 4 and 4back

Hockey is 4 back alone, Paddy is 3 and peg (innings but no break)

Johnston hits tea lady with hoop 2 ball

Paddy has just jumped through hoop 3 for a break

reporters suggest that Johnston could have had a lift due to a hampered crooked back swing with his 4 back ball

Jenny rolls a ball off in corner 2 when making a defensive reverse OSL.  the ball in the middle of E boundary has a 10 yard double - shot misses by a lot  

Paddy runs one back by an inch on his 3 ball break to win

Johnston failed to get going and laid up in corner 2 and rob has missed

jenny is finishing in the 5th not in the 4th as per earlier updates

Maugham missed his lift and rutger has established a second break

Reg making a one back leave

Paddy played to E boundary Hockey lifts his ball at 2back and is shooting from corner 3 - hits

Jenny finishes to win 3-2

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