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Bessborough Cricket Club 4th Eleven v Crouch End on Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 1pm
Bessborough Cricket Club Won by 5 wickets (10pts)
Match report
Bessborough 4s got back to winning ways on Saturday with a comfortable 5-wicket win against Crouch End, writes Ravi Vyas.
The day’s conditions were just right for cricket as the temperature was warm with a bit of breeze. Bessborough Captain Simon Heaney won the toss and elected to give his confident young bowling side the chance to shine.
Bessborough took to the field and started with an opening seam attack of Oscar Farr and Praekash Belendra. It was club newcomer Praekash that struck the first blow to Crouch End with the wicket of Sam Steedman Thake for a duck thanks to an impressive catch at cover by Sammy Hawes.
At the other end, young colt Farr was bowling with venom and he came up with two wickets in his first three overs. Prakash then picked up another wicket by clean bowling Jeremy Bevan for 4.
When Sahil Hathi pulled off a stunning one-handed catch at second slip to give Farr his third wicket it looked like an early finish was on the cards as Crouch End had lost their top five with the runs total still in single figures.
However, Crouch End’s Dominic Seeber (39 not out) and Ian Hayes (30) managed to slowly rebuild their team’s innings with a vital middle-order partnership.
Bessborough’s bowling during this period was economical, but lacked the wicket taking threat of the opening bowlers Farr and Balendra, who were taking a well-deserved rest.
New Bessborough player Shyam Lakhani was given two overs and did well, ending up with 0-15 from 2 overs. Ravi Vyas produced steady figures of 0-12 from 4 overs, bowling a mixture of spin and seam, while regular spinners Dillion Popat (0-15 from 5 overs) and Richard Wilson (0-16 from 5 overs) all helped to keep the run rate down.
After drinks, Praekash and Oscar came back on to devastating effect, breaking-up the dangerous partnership between Seeber and Hayes and then clearing up the tail relatively easily to end Crouch End’s innings on 111.
Praekash finished his 10 overs with excellent final figures of 4-22, although Oscar managed to trump that with his first five-wicket haul of the season, ending up with 5-17 from 8.3 overs.
Play resumed after tea with club groundsman Lawrence Horsley, making his first league start of the year, and 14-year-old colt Dominic Baxter, opening up for Bessborough
Dominic was unlucky when he was bowled out in the early overs for 1, but Lawrence stuck in and made a solid partnership with new batsmen Sammy Hawes to settle any nerves.
The pair got Bessborough to within sight of the winning line as runs were coming freely from both bat and extras. There was a slight wobble when top-scorer Hawes was caught and bowled by Smith for 20 and the same bowler then had Horsley caught in the gulley for a patient 13.
Richard Wilson (11) and Heaney (17) smashed a few boundaries to get the side within a few runs of victory, but both gave away their wickets at the very end to leave the honour of hitting the winning runs to Praekash, which he did in fine style with a superb on-side drive that raced away for four.
Crouch End Batting
Player name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
2nb 17w 1b 4lb
for 9 wickets
24
111 (34.3 overs)
Peter Jenkins
lbw Farr
1
Sam Steedman Thake
ct Hawes b Balendra
0
Jeremy Bevan
b Balendra
4
Andrew Smith
b Farr
0
Nabil Ahmed
ct Hathi b Farr
0
Dominic Seeber
Not Out
39
Ian Hayes
b Balendra
30
Antonio Itamar
ct & b Balendra
0
Kiran Wanniarachchi
b Farr
9
Courtney Broni
ct Hawes b Farr
4
A.N. Other
Bessborough Cricket Club 4th Eleven Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Oscar Farr
8.3
3
17
5
3.40
2.00
Praekash Balendra
10.0
2
22
4
5.50
2.20
Ravi Vyas
4.0
1
12
0
0.00
3.00
Shyam Lakhani
2.0
0
15
0
0.00
7.50
Dillon Popat
5.0
0
16
0
0.00
3.20
Richard Willson
5.0
1
17
0
0.00
3.40
Bessborough Cricket Club 4th Eleven Batting
Player Name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Catches
Stumpings
Run outs
extras
TOTAL :
9nb 15w 6b 1lb
for 5 wickets
31
115
Lawrence Horsley
ct Unknown b Smith
13
Dominic Baxter
b Wanniarachchi
1
Sammy Hawes
ct & b Smith
20
2
Richard Willson
b Wanniarachchi
11
Simon Heaney
ct Unknown b Seeber
17
Sahil Hathi
Not Out
6
1
Praekash Balendra
Not Out
4
Shyam Lakhani
Dillon Popat
Oscar Farr
Ravi Vyas
Crouch End Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Kiran Wanniarachchi
6.0
0
18
2
9.00
3.00
Ian Hayes
5.0
0
21
0
0.00
4.20
Andrew Smith
5.0
0
15
1
15.00
3.00
Jeremy Bevan
4.0
0
31
0
0.00
7.75
Peter Jenkins
3.0
0
16
0
0.00
5.33
Dominic Seeber
0.0
0
0
0
0.00
0.00
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