Throwback - Jack Taylor erupts against Durham
14 November 2019
As part of our Throwback series, we look back at some memorable moments at Gloucestershire CCC.
Despite defeat on Wednesday 10 August, 2016, in the T20 quarter final, supporters witnessed one of the most exciting T20 batting performances from a Gloucestershire player since the competition began in 2003.
Gloucestershire welcomed the Durham Jets to the Bristol County Ground for a highly anticipated T20 Blast quarter-final fixture.
After a strong Durham innings, Gloucestershire required 181 runs to reach finals day at Edgbaston later on in the summer.
A combination of good bowling from Durham openers Chris Rushworth and England’s Mark Wood and some less than judicious batting saw Gloucestershire slip to 6-2 before collapsing to 62-6 after 11 overs.
It was an uncharacteristic display from a team that had showed great consistency and calm under pressure throughout the group stages and it seemed as though all hope of reaching the quarter-final was lost.
Step up Jack Taylor!
Jack came to the crease and lit up The Brightside Ground with a swashbuckling career-best innings of 80 off 41 balls including seven fours and five sixes before being the last man out, run out off the final ball of the 19th over.
Coming in at 49-5 at the end of the ninth over, the allrounder struck his first boundary – Gloucestershire’s first in six overs – off Jennings in the 11th and never looked back.
He struck two sixes off Scott Borthwick in a 12th over that yielded 19 runs and followed it up with successive fours from the returning Wood in the 13th.
The Glos fans began to believe that a miracle could be on the cards after an extraordinary 16th over that yielded 24 runs including two sixes and a four for Taylor. Twenty-two of these came from the first three deliveries from Durham skipper Paul Collingwood who was then taken off by the umpires for bowling two deliveries above waist height.
But despite his valiant effort Taylor continued to lose partners at the other end before falling victim to his side’s fourth run-out of the innings with six balls still remaining.
Can Gloucestershire go one step further in 2017 and make it to finals day? Find out this summer!
