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Win double for Peploe

By Charles Randall at Southgate

(Filed: 10/06/2006)

 

Middlesex (415 & 74-2) bt Yorkshire (355 & 130) by 8 wkts

 

Seldom could a career-best with bat and ball on the same day have meant so little in statistical terms, but Chris Peploe, Middlesex's fringe left-arm spinner, played a crucial part in a crushing Liverpool Victoria Championship success at the Walker Ground yesterday.

 

Without his innings of 43 and four wickets for 31 Middlesex would have struggled to achieve their first victory of the summer, which lifted them off the bottom of the table to seventh, leapfrogging Yorkshire.

 

The visitors had their expectations completely turned round in the morning by Peploe's unlikely 78-run tail-end partnership with Johann Louw. More predictably, Middlesex's spinners then used a responsive, dry pitch more effectively.

 

Peploe, a tall languid Londoner, seems to have a cog missing from a creaking robotic action - his arm clicks into a different groove before wheeling over - but, unusual or not, he proved too good for Yorkshire's middle order.

 

The seamers had made good inroads with the new ball, with Louw having Michael Vaughan easily caught at first slip. When Chris Silverwood took his career tally to 501 wickets by dismissing the hapless Andrew Gale and then Anthony McGrath with a superb ball, Yorkshire must have sniffed danger.

 

Peploe had Michael Lumb, top scorer in the first innings with 144, taken at short leg, and Jamie Dalrymple spun one across Darren Lehmann for a slip catch. With the Australian's departure, Yorkshire's hopes quickly crumbled.

 

Yorkshire could hardly have anticipated how the day would unfold when they fired out three victims quickly in the morning. A decent lead looked in prospect when Ed Joyce snicked a tame edge after adding only one run to his overnight 154. Deon Kruis hit Ben Scott's off stump and Nick Compton, having been sent back, was run out by a direct hit from McGrath, fielding in the covers.

 

When Louw was dropped at mid-off by Vaughan, from a simple miscue, the batsmen changed tactics and let the bat swing through.

 

Peploe, having tried scuffing, prodding and missing, suddenly pulled Kruis for a meaty six over midwicket, and the left-hander could do little wrong after that. Runs flowed, and the game tilted towards Middlesex.

 

Having gone one run above his previous best, Peploe missed an attempted reverse sweep, ending his enterprising ninth-wicket stand with Louw. Yorkshire, meanwhile, showed little quality in this interesting match.

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