Western Flyers (149/7) beat Dirty Dozen (112/7) by 37 runs.
Match Report -
Scorecard -
Match Report -
Flyers played their first match of the BAWA cup
against a team called ‘Dirty Dozen’ who consisted of Flyers legend Oliver
McCambridge. With captain Shehan running slightly late, VC Owen won the toss
and opted to bat first.
Opener Shehan finally turned up and in the absence
of Tim, Yameen opened up with him. The pair, more so Shehan had got off to a
bright breezy start before Yameen was caught out hooking in the deep. Mahdi
joined Shehan and the pair ran very well between the wickets thus ticking the
score along and were looking to build a solid partnership. Shehan’s knock came
to an end after hitting one back to the opening bowler for a well-made 27.
Imran had walked out and disaster struck where he
unfortunately took a blow to the head from the other opening bowler who had
bowled a beamer that just deflected off the side of his head attempting a pull.
The scenes were not pleasant following the blow but I commend everyone
including the opposition that gathered round to attend to Imran. Despite
wanting to bat on, Imran had to be dragged off (literally) and I must thank
Nathan for actively stepping in to take control of the situation and seeing
that Imran got the right care and attention before being taken to A&E for
proper medical attention. It makes me proud to say that the Flyers are truly
more than just a cricket club and I thank everyone for the way they all
attended to incident.
In the meantime the cricket continued with Ian
coming to bat alongside Mahdi. Ian batted particularly well striking 2 sixes
and 1 four making him the top scorer of the innings and essentially enabled the
lower order batsmen to capitalise from the solid platform with further good
knocks from Naufel and debutant Thiyanan (TJ) to set a competitive 149-7.
TJ and Owen shared the opening spell of bowling
where both bowled very tightly and gave away almost nothing. This set the tone
for the rest of DD innings where they were already behind the rate with TJ
getting the breakthrough taking a stunning return catch to dismiss the opener.
The remaining bowlers bowled well with good discipline and with added
variations. The young leg spinner Mahdi created lots of chances and was
unlucky not to get more than 1 wicket. Yameen (back from assisting Imran at
A&E) was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets although it could be said
the game was pretty much sealed from the tight opening spell by Owen and TJ.
Ground fielding was generally good with special
mention to Nathan for doing an exemplary job with the gloves in his comeback
game. The catching remains a concern with a total of 6 going down in the
evening. This will certainly be of concern for the Flyers and they must rectify this for future games with tougher opponents coming up. With all that and said, the Flyers had prevailed by 37 runs to
set them off to a solid start to their BAWA cup campaign!
The Man of the Match goes to Ian Randles for being
top scorer but more importantly binding the innings together thus ensuring a
solid platform for later batsmen.
Match Report by Yameen Hussain
Scorecard -
WFCC Innings (20 overs maximum)
|
R
|
B
|
4s
|
6s
|
SR
|
|
Yameen Hussain
Shehan Somaratna*
Mahdi Saleem
Imran Ali
Ian Randles
Simon Roberts
Naufel Saleem
Thiyanan Jeganathan
Nathan Sanders
Owen Gebler
Paul Remfry
Extras
Total
|
c Player b Jimmi
c & b Jimmi
c Player b Alex
Retired Injured
b Steven
Run Out
c Player b Craig
Not Out
Run Out
DNB
DNB
(w10, nb5, b4, lb1)
(7 wickets, 20 overs)
|
3
27
17
2
28
1
22
19
5
-
-
20
149
|
-
5
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
-
-
|
-
-
1
-
2
-
-
1
-
-
-
|
||
DD Bowling
|
O
|
M
|
R
|
W
|
Econ
|
Jimmi
Neil
Steven
Alex
Nick
Craig
|
4
4
4
4
2
2
|
0
0
0
0
0
0
|
19
39
20
29
18
14
|
2
0
1
1
0
1
|
4.75
9.75
5.00
7.25
9.00
7.00
|
DD Innings (20 overs maximum)
|
R
|
B
|
4s
|
6s
|
SR
|
|
Nick
Marbin
Jon
Oliver McCambridge
Dylan
Craig
Jimmi
Steven
Neil
Alex
Player
Extras
Total
|
b Naufel
c Owen b Thiyanan
lbw Yameen
b Yameen
b Mahdi
b Shehan
Not Out
b Yameen
DNB
DNB
DNB
(w9, lb1)
(7 wickets, 20 overs)
|
39
3
19
2
2
9
21
7
-
-
-
10
112
|
3
-
1
-
-
1
3
1
-
-
-
|
2
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
|
||
WFCC Bowling
|
O
|
M
|
R
|
W
|
Econ
|
Thiyanan Jeganathan
Owen Gebler
Mahdi Saleem
Yameen Hussain
Naufel Saleem
Shehan Somaratna
|
4
4
3
4
2
3
|
0
0
0
0
0
0
|
12
16
34
26
14
12
|
1
0
1
3
1
1
|
3.00
4.00
11.33
6.50
7.00
4.00
|
Match Detail -
Toss: WFCC won the toss and elected to bat first
Toss: WFCC won the toss and elected to bat first
