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Bessborough Cricket Club Barbarians v Northwood Town on Thu 12 Jun 2014 at 6pm
Bessborough Cricket Club Won by 9 wickets
Match report
Barbarians made a winning start to their 2014 season with a hugely impressive nine wicket win over Northwood Town. Northwood’s captain Andy Burt won the toss and elected to bat first on a glorious June evening at Headstone Manor.
Despite a fast start by Northwood’s openers Suvin Mekwan and Ravi Kotecha, the Barbarians opening bowlers of Sharuban Kanthasamy and Steve Kimsey managed to gain some control and bowling very few bad deliveries. However it was Twenty20 specialists Ian Ridley and Richard Clarke who made the first inroads. Ridley picked up the first wicket bowling the dangerous Mekwan for only 12.
Clarke, playing his first game since the final Barbarians game of last season found the wicket assisting his quick off breaks and he managed to pick up three wickets from his four overs at a cost of only 25 runs. All three of his wickets were bowled including two in consecutive deliveries.
As well as bowling well, the Barbarians ground fielding was of a much higher level than in 2013 which made Northwood Town fight for every run as they limped along without ever putting the Barbarians under too much pressure.
Ridley and Kanthasamy returned to close out the Northwood Town innings both picking up a wicket each and restricting Northwood Town to 122-6 off their 20 overs.
Over the winter the Barbarians think tank had talked about being more positive in the opening six overs and Paul Jarvis and Nirav Ghantiwala certainly listened with a positive attack on the Northwood Town attack. Jarvis made a stylish 14 off only a handful of deliveries before being caught brilliantly at extra cover by Bentvelzen off Malik.
This brought the star Barbarians batsman Andy ‘Geezer’ Carr to the crease. Geezer’s absence for the majority of the 2013 season through injury played a large part. With a low sun just above the sightscreen and a swinging ball, Carr found it difficult early on as he was dropped twice by the wicket-keeper but he battled on and started to time the ball fluently.
Carr and Ghantiwala began to construct a matchwinning partnership of 97 with shots all around our Headstone Manor ground. Ghantiwala was very strong off his legs while Carr continued to pierce the off side with his booming drives including two which carried all the way for the 6.
With the pair finding the boundaries at ease it was no surprise that victory was achieved inside 15 overs with Ghantiwala finishing unbeaten on 51 and Carr unbeaten on 46. The win ended a run of three consecutive defeats in Barbarians games against Northwood Town and set the side up well for the rest of the 2014 season.
For his brilliant innings of 51, Ghantiwala was named Man of the Match.
Northwood Town Batting
Player name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
13w 3b 3lb
for 6 wickets
19
122 (20.0 overs)
Suvin Mekwan
b Ridley
12
Ravi Kotecha
b Clarke
40
Andy Burt
b Clarke
18
Sandip Thakrar
b Clarke
0
Aiden Lawrence
Not Out
24
Kyle Lawrence
b Kanthasamy
5
Pradip Pandey
ct J.Wheeler b Ridley
0
Jonathan Bentvelzen
Not Out
4
Mihir Patel
Sajid Shafique Malik
Ali Ghaffar
Bessborough Cricket Club Barbarians Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Sharuban Kanthasamy
4.0
0
21
1
21.00
5.25
Stephen Kimsey
4.0
0
22
0
0.00
5.50
Ian Ridley
4.0
0
20
2
10.00
5.00
Hemmen Jutla
4.0
0
28
0
0.00
7.00
Richard Clarke
4.0
0
25
3
8.33
6.25
Bessborough Cricket Club Barbarians Batting
Player Name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Catches
Stumpings
Run outs
extras
TOTAL :
11w 3b 1lb
for 1 wickets
15
126
Paul Jarvis
ct Bentvelzen b Malik
14
3
Nirav Ghantiwala
Not Out
51
5
1
Andy Carr
Not Out
46
4
2
Richard Edmands
Matt Wheeler
James Wheeler
1
Richard Clarke
Hemmen Jutla
Ian Ridley
Sharuban Kanthasamy
Stephen Kimsey
Northwood Town Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Ali Ghaffar
4.0
0
27
0
0.00
6.75
Sajid Shafique Malik
4.0
0
31
1
31.00
7.75
Kyle Lawrence
3.0
0
18
0
0.00
6.00
Mihir Patel
3.0
0
35
0
0.00
11.67
Jonathan Bentvelzen
0.3
0
11
0
0.00
22.00
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