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Played at Victoria Park
Report by Suhail Shahid
Excellent start to the 2018 Victoria Park league with a close win
for Old Fallopians. A game played in wet conditions and hard to run.
Match went to the last over and that made it more exciting. Mad
Morrocas scored 95 for 6 in 14 overs. Old Fallopians chased with
loss of two wickets in 13.5 overs.
TOSS:
Old Fallopians won the toss and elected to field first. Match was
reduced to 14 over each. We had issues finding the 2nd pair of
stumps which delayed the start.
BOWLING: An
all round performance as we tried five bowlers. Rav and Sarwar
started with new ball. Sarwar got the reward for tight line with a
high catch by Sheraz at mid-off. Laurie ran out their main batsman
with a direct hit while the batsmen tried to steal a 2nd run. Bilal
started with really good pace and the middle stump of their batsman
in his first over. Sheraz then joined the sun with two wickets. One
caught by Farhad running in from long-on and other by Shameer at
deepish cow corner. Shameer also got rewarded in his 1st over with
Sarwar catching the ball at short fine leg. Overall it was excellent
display of bowling.
BATTING: Suhail and
Farhad started with a bang and got the score to 49 in five overs
without loss. Farhad lost his wicket trying to hit over mid-on but
had scored 25 at a good pace with two crisp boundaries. The ball had
lost its shape and was getting really hard to hit. Laurie joined
Suhail and made brought some urgency in running. With last over
starting we needed four runs to win. Lost Lairie to a good catch at
short fine leg for 8 with Old Fallopians within two runs of victory
in three balls. Shameer ran two leg byes. It was bit of drama on the
last leg bye as fielding side appealed for a run out which was not
there. Suhail remained not out on 47.
FIELDING:
Excellent fielding from all as outstanding catching by Sheraz,
Farhad, Shammer and Sarwar. Excellent run out from Laurie and not a
single miss field on the wet outfield. Laurie’s keeping was
outstanding – We had only 1bye and not a single no ball and only
three wides in whole innings. Fielding gear just like the score book
and cricket kit is taken by 2nd team so we had to borrow the keeping
gloves.
Mad Marrocas 94-6 (14 overs)
Edgar
run out 24
Alfie ct ? b Sarwar 8
Charlie b Bilal 12
Rob
ct ? b Sheraz 21
Tom ct ? b Sheraz
11
Tobin ct ? b Shameer 14
Billy
0
Ed
0
EXTRAS
4
TOTAL
94
Rav 3-24-0
Sarwar 4-19-1
Bilal 3-12-1
Sheraz 3-18-2
Shameer 1-6-1
Old Fallopians 1st VIII 98-2 (13.5 overs)
Suhail Shahid
not out 47
Farhad Waqar ct b Billy 25
Laurie
Roberts ct b Alfie 8
EXTRAS
18
TOTAL
98
Edgar 4-25-0
Charlie 2-25-0
Alfie
4-15-1
Billy 3-22-1
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