Jack Shantry top-scored for Worcestershire Pears on the opening day of a two-day friendly with Worcestershire Rapids at Kidderminster.
Shantry, fresh from his 10 wicket haul against Oxford MCCU, came in at number five and hit 60 off 91 balls with three sixes and eight fours.
He shared
in a fifth wicket stand of 91 with Charlie Morris who made 42 but after Shantry's dismissal, the remaining five wickets fell for 24 runs as the Pears were dismissed for 262.
Liam Smith was the most Rapids bowlers, taking the new ball and finishing with 3-39 from 12.4 overs.
Several Pears batsman got in, with the top four scoring between 23 and 31, without going onto make a sizeable contribution until the Shantry-Morris partnership.
The Rapids reached 78-2 off 18 overs by the close with George Rhodes and fellow opener Joe Clarke dismissed for 20 and 24 respectively.
The two sides consisted of a mixture of first team players not involved at Northampton, second team and academy players.
Worcestershire Pears – first innings
Oliver b Brown 31
Wynn b Rhodes 25
Haynes c Twohig b Badger 23
Hepburn b Whiles 23
Shantry c Rhodes b Badger 60
Morris c Clarke b Smith 42
Tongue b Brown 10
Manning lbw Rhodes 5
Shazad b Smith 3
Rashid lbw Smith 1
Lloyd not out 1
Extras 38
Total (all out) 262 in 71.4 overs
FOW: 40, 91, 99, 131, 222, 238, 256, 260, 260, 262
Bowling
Whiles 10-4-49-1
Smith 12.4-5-39-3
Brown 9-0-38-2
Twohig 16-3-55-0
Rhodes 14-3-34-2
Badger 10-2-42-2
Worcestershire Rapids – first innings
Rhodes c Wynn b Hepburn 20
Clarke lbw Rashid 24
Westbury not out 22
Malik not out 6
Extras 6
Total (for two wickets) 78 in 18 overs
FOW: 39, 54.
Bowling Rashid 7-1-27-1
Amphlett 3-0-32-0
Hepburn 6-1-12-1
Brown 2-1-4-0
