da stake casino： Openers Steve Titchard and Steve Stubbings have recorded the second highestpartnership in Derbyshire’s history but their feat carried little relevancebeyond the statistical as their team’s Championship fixture with Kent endedin a tame draw at
Staff and agencies31-Jul-2000Openers Steve Titchard and Steve Stubbings have recorded the second highestpartnership in Derbyshire’s history but their feat carried little relevancebeyond the statistical as their team’s Championship fixture with Kent endedin a tame draw at Canterbury today. Titchard and Stubbings battedundisturbed through the fourth and final day of the match to take thevisitors to a second innings score of 293/0 before play was called off inlate afternoon.Titchard’s unconquered 141 represented his highest score for his new teamsince his transfer from Lancashire at the start of 1999, while Stubbings’135 snared him a morale-boosting maiden hundred for the county. Bothplayed very straight – on and off drives were in abundance – but neitherthe pitch nor the attack posed too many terrors. It was a measure of theextent to which the match had lost any genuine meaning that Kent captainMatthew Fleming even found time toward the end to ensure that all eleven ofhis players received a chance to bowl at some stage of the day. The hometeam also took the opportunity of resting Rahul Dravid and Min Patel justafter tea, sending on substitute Ben Trott and physio Martin Sigley intheir places as the inevitable early finish loomed.By the time that the match was finally brought to a merciful halt at5:20pm, the teams had each taken nine points away from it. This a resultwhich leaves Kent entrenched in sixth place on the Division One table butwhich has seen Derbyshire relegate Hampshire to bottom position. It isHampshire which Derbyshire meets in its next match (beginning on Wednesdayat Derby). Kent’s players, meanwhile, stay at home to ready themselves fora clash with Leicestershire which starts the same day.