Alex So Close To Ton At Kidderminster
5 April 2013
Alex Gidman fell one short of a century as Gloucestershire’s two-day friendly against Worcestershire at Kidderminster ended in a draw.
The former captain warmed up for the new season by dominating his side’s innings of 178 all out, striking 18 fours.
Jack Taylor contributed 40 to a seventh-wicket stand of 91 after Gloucestershire had been reduced to 74-6 at lunch in reply to Worcestershire’s 275.
Resuming on 2-2 at the start of the day, the visitors lost their third wicket in the second over as Alan Richardson dismissed Gareth Roderick (1) and the fourth wicket fell at 25 when captain Hamish Marshall (5) fell to Gareth Andrew.
Then in the last over before lunch Richardson took the wickets of both Benny Howell (15) and Richard Coughtrie for a duck.
After lunch Gidman and Taylor frustrated the Worcestershire bowlers until Gidman was out to Andrew for 99 off 131 balls.
Taylor departed soon afterwards with the score on 168-8. David Payne (0) and James Fuller (2) were the last two wickets to fall as Gloucestershire were all out for 178 off 51.2 overs.
Andrew (4-27) was the leading wicket-taker for Worcestershire, with the other wickets taken by Richardson (3-22), Chris Russell (2-44) and Moeen Ali (1-10).
Worcestershire began their second innings after tea and when the two teams shook hands at 5:30pm the home side were 133-0 off 36 overs.
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