KHUZAIMA AFRIDI MAIDEN '5FOR' AND MAIDEN FIFTY:

Belhus 5th XI 313-4 (K.Afridi 66 A.Raju 65* B.Edwards 56* A.Afridi 52*)
Ingatestone & Fryerning 256-8 (S.Cooper 53* K.Afridi 5-24).

Our U13 youth member Khuzaima Afridi had a day to remember at Widford Lodge School.  Batting at number 3 he made a finely-crafted 66, his maiden half-century.  But he was not done yet as he also grabbed his first five-wicket haul as his probing swing bowling captured excellent figures of 5 for 24 from his allotted 7 overs.  All of his victims were clean-bowled which is a great credit to a young player.

Belhus enjoyed the fine batting conditions as Brian Edwards and Akther Raju also made unbeaten half-centuries and Adeel Afridi on debut (Khuzaima’s Dad) made sure he didn’t miss out with an unbeaten 52 as Belhus racked up 313-4.

Ingatestone also cashed in with the bat with Steve Cooper muscling his way to an unbeaten 53, while together with Steve Fletcher (44) and Frank Ward (37) they posted a respectable 256 - 8 in reply.

Edwards added a couple of wickets to his half-century and Farhan Malik bowled well to take 1-34, but the day certainly belonged to Khuzaima.