| While they did kick a few wides in the second quarter most of them were shots that just shaved the post on the wrong side. |
| Instead, the bowlers bowled a few wides and no-balls, in addition to the batsmen being lucky with a few edges. |
| They kicked a lot of wides in the first half and if they had put them on the board it might have been a different story. |
| Very soon the umpires' only duties could be to count the deliveries and call no balls and wides! |
| Westmeath certainly had their chances as they hit 10 wides in that opening half, double the Laois tally but all three home points were out of the top drawer. |
| A tendency to overhit the ball led to a couple of bad looking wides from what were really intended as passes for forwards running into space. |
