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Sept 2, 2018 Friendly vs Spartan CC Lost by 38 runs

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Boundary view
View from the boundary: Kafh Hasan faces the opening bowler with Bharath Bopanapally at the non-strikers end.
Photo: Steve Hamilton

 

 

Played at Winchmore Hill
Report by Hassan Khan

September sunshine saw Spartan CC win the toss and elect to bat on a greenish wicket. At 9-1 after 8 overs, their decision seemed to have backfired.

That was until the infamous Fallopians outfield catching allowed a partnership to build. With one side of the ground 20 yards shorter, several balls were deposited into the neighbouring tennis courts.

A opening score of 9-1 after eight overs, thanks also to some indifferent bowling, became 237-6 from 35 overs. The best of our bowlers was the evergreen John Shaw, 3-37 in 6 overs, including two wickets in two balls.

The sccoreboard pressure was overbearing, but our openers compiled a decent platform in reply. Silly runouts of key batsman Bharat and the stylish Mohit left us in a precarious state.

However, a classy 46 from debutant Chinni kept us within a glimmer of hope. Once he was caught in the deep, Sham joined me and his aggressive hitting reduced the target to 39 from 4 overs with 6 wickets remaining.

By now, Spartan were becoming agitated and began to appeal vociferously every ball. Their pressure on our umpire was duly rewarded with myself given LBW.

A promsing chase of 189-5 became 199 all out. The match was highly competitive and a couple of dropped catches separated defeat from victory.


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Spartan 236-6 (35 overs)

Mujahid Ali   lbw      b Khan      2
Muhammad Ali  not out            107
Keith Gunther          b Shaw     11
Umair Ali              b Shaw     27
Romy          ct Hasan b Shaw      0
Zain          ct Katha b Hamilton 38
Sabbi                  b Jain     14
Ranjeet       not out             19
Extras (nb 7, b 1, w 10)          18
Total                            236


Hassan Khan      7-1-22-1
Shyam Breemreddy 5-1-17-0
Kumar            3-1-11-0
Shaw             6-0-37-3
Sharma           4-0-35-0
Hamilton         3-0-30-1
Jain             4-0-36-1
Katha            2-0-22-0
Bopanapally      1-0-13-0


Old Fallopians 199 all out (30.3 overs)
Kafh Hasan          ct ? b Sajid   13
Bharath Bopanapally run out        34
Ilyas Mansha             b Romy    11
Chinni Katha        ct ? b Romy    46
Mohit Jain          st ? b Mujahid 24
Hassan Khan         lbw  b Bashir   8
Shyam Breemreddy    ct ? b Sajid   25
Naveen Kumar             b Sajid    0
Vishal Sharma            b Ranjeet  2
Steve Hamilton      run out         1
John Shaw           not out         0
Extras (35 ??)                      3
Total                             199


Sajid   5.3-0-20-3
Bashir  6-1-35-1
Romy    6-0-21-2
Ranjeet 4-1-29-1
Mujahid 4-0-26-1
Sabbi   6-0-28-0

 

 

 

 

 

 

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