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Belhus Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI v Gidea Park & Romford 2nd XI on Sat 11 Aug 2018 at 12.30pm
Belhus Cricket Club Won by 21 Runs

Match report Belhus hosted Gidea Park & Romford on Saturday, knowing that they would have to play very well against a historically strong, competitive opponent to continue their winning run. The visitors won the toss and inserted Belhus on a green, damp pitch suffering from the rain of the previous 48 hours. Batting would be demanding.

A watchful start saw 49 for the 1st wicket before the skipper hit one straight to mid-on. The pitch offered plenty to the bowlers but a series of scores in the 30s by the middle-order engine room pushed Belhus up to 222 at tea. Mark Sansom (30) and Imran (32) played particularly well adding 62 in good time for the 6th wicket. It was a particularly important partnership. 222 was a fine effort in the demanding conditions.

After a fine tea (Mrs Lewis's coronation chicken taking the plaudits this time) and a team photo of the handsome 2nd team by the pavilion, Belhus set about defending their total on a pitch that had dried out significantly. An early wicket, well caught by Antonio at mid-off suggested a good start but GPR rallied well and recovered. Collier (47) dropped anchor and batted well, allowing Elahi (41) to bat well and very much challenge Belhus's total. . . at 130 for 4 they were looking dangerous but then Braydon Scarlett decided enough was enough and took out Collier with a cracking delivery. . .pitching outside off but spinning through the gate to take middle. Brilliant. Mark Sansom then took a cracking catch down the leg-side to remove Amit and Antonio, as per usual, produced one of his exocets to bowl Elahi all ends up. Matt Williams again bowled very well to take 3 for 32 and Deepak his usual miserly, controlled spell took 2 for 24. Antonio is due a bagful pretty soon. . . hopefully a '7for' is on the horizon.

Still GPR continued to push for a win but Matt Williams and Braydon Scarlett then produced two moments of fielding brilliance to stop the away team's charge. . . Matt chased and then threw the ball 70 yards to run out Donnelly and Braydon hit the stumps direct from straight mid-wicket to take out Montakim.

Deepak was called upon to bowl the penultimate over and floated one up and Charlie Lewis took a good, pressure catch at deep mid-off to finally see off Gidea Park & Romford.

A very good game of cricket that Belhus had to work hard to win. Having had the worst of the conditions it was a very encouraging win.

Very well played Belhus.
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Belhus Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
1nb 20w 2b 5lb 
for 6 wickets
28
222		        
Matthew Williams lbw b Connor Donnelly 12 50 1 1 24.00 1
John Lewis Jnr ct Joe Gordon b Sam Farrow 31 42 4 1 73.81 1
Charlie Lewis ct and bowled Joe Gordon 33 37 3 1 89.19 1
Jake Wolfe run out (Connor Donnelly) 31 58 1 1 53.45
W.D. Read ct Connor Donnelly b Joe Gordon 23 29 3 79.31
Mark Sansom b Iftekhar Muntakim 30 26 2 115.38 1
Imran Mohammed Not Out  32 32 3 100
Jamie Fairweather Not Out  2 2 100
Antonio Darrell   1
Deepak Sinha  
Braydon Scarlett   1

Gidea Park & Romford 2nd XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Connor Donnelly9.0334134.003.78
Toufik Billah9.015000.005.56
Iftekhar Muntakim9.0053153.005.89
Sam Farrow6.0026126.004.33
Joe Gordon8.0131215.503.87
Anam Arafat Amit4.002100.005.25

Gidea Park & Romford 2nd XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2nb 21w 3b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
28
201 (43.2 overs)		     
Peter Collier b Braydon Scarlett 47
Richard Wall ct Antonio Darrell b Imran Mohammed 9
Callum Poultney† lbw b Matthew Williams 14
Anam Arafat Amit* ct Mark Sansom b Matthew Williams 11
MD Mostershed Billah -Touhid b Deepak Sinha 1
Sarosh Elahi b Antonio Darrell 41
Connor Donnelly run out (Matthew Williams) 32
Toufik Billah ct John Lewis Jnr b Matthew Williams 12
Iftekhar Muntakim run out (Braydon Scarlett) 5
Sam Farrow  C.Lewis b Deepak Sinha
Joe Gordon Not Out  0

Belhus Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jamie Fairweather4.002100.005.25
Imran Mohammed7.0040140.005.71
Antonio Darrell9.0135135.003.89
Matthew Williams9.0132310.673.56
Deepak Sinha7.2024212.003.27
Braydon Scarlett7.0044144.006.29

  • Umpire :
  • Scorer :
    Julie.