Summary
Cornwall came out on top of an amazing opening day's play in their Minor Counties Championship game with Oxfordshire at Falmouth yesterday . No fewer than 25 wickets fell in the day with the visitors in danger of going down to an innings defeat when play resumes this morning (11am). They require a further 36 to make Cornwall bat again with only five second-innings wickets remaining. The day began with Tom Sharp receiving a presentation from club chairman Col Ronnie Potts to mark his achievement of captaining the county for the 50th time in a championship game and being the first Cornish player to achieve the double of 3,000 runs and 150 wickets.
The visitors elected to bat and it wasn't long before Sharp was celebrating the breakthrough when Rob Harrison knocked over Chris Sandbach for a duck. Richard Kaufman followed for 11, bowled by Sam Hockin. Richard West and Nathan Hawkes got the total to 43 before Kelvin Snell struck twice, and wickets fell at regular intervals from then. Chris Hunkin, who the previous day played an instrumental part with the ball in Grampound Road's win over St Just, was at it again. He took four for 29 with Snell and Sharp taking two each in Oxfordshire's sorry 104 all out in 35 overs.See the full content of this document
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Cornwall in Control As Wickets Tumble
In the Cornish reply Matt Robins (31) and David Roberts (30) added 65 before both parted ...
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