Parks Trophy game OFF - rearranged for Thu 14 May

[wheels]

Hi all

Sorry but the weather has beaten us this evening so the scheduled Parks Trophy game v Scottish Widows is off for tonight, rearranged provisionally for Thursday 14 May. Availability to me please.

Cheers
Tom

[anks]

Hello Hello,

Heres the team for this Thursday's game against Scottish Widows for the Parks Trophy in alphabetical order.

1. Adam Scott
2. Ankeet Vora (c_)
3. Asif Mohammed
4. Jigar Patel
5. Luke Hayes
6. Melvyn Clench
7. Paul Hubbard (w)
8. Raj Devanagare
9. Rajnish Singh
10. Sutha Rangaswamy
11. Vimal D'Souza

Game is scheduled for 6 pm at Roseburn. unfortunately the grass was booked up before we noted our game. we are thus scheduled to play on the Artificial. So no metal spikes please...

feel free to send in a text/email/call in case of any queries.

cheers.

Ankeet

[anks]

Hello all,

A delayed update on the scorecard for the Parks Trophy game against Scottish Widows last Thursday but here it goes.

MUFS having won the toss elected to bat in glorious sunshine. Paul Hubs and Asif M. opening the batting with a slow, cautious but steady start. Hubs scored 20 (off 31 balls) before he was run out (I believe due to Asif’s non-existent calling!!!). Asif however looked in great nick scoring 42 off 36 balls with 5 4’s and a huge six (which disappeared into Murrayfield stadium (we were playing on the artificial) and the ball never to be seen). Luke steadied the innings with 11 off 15 balls before Vimal arrived on the scene to show some fireworks. With some lovely strikes of the ball VImal scored 42 off only 24 balls including 3 4’s and 3 6’s. the first six was a pleasure to watch as it went sailing over the deep midwicket boundary. Had it been hit straighter, that would have definitely landed in the river if not crossed it!!. The other 6 landed into the murrayfield stadium. (SW had to go through 3 balls to finish their 20 overs!!) in between Jigar was run out for duck by a direct hit from the long-on boundary. Sutha then joined the party with a quickfire 27 off 14 balls before being run out. Tall Raj and Adam Scott played the last few balls with Mufs ending on 156/6. Anks, Raj Singh and Mel Clench finished as DNB. (and thanks to Mel for the excellent scoring with the balls faced also being tracked)

The SW innings started with Raj Singh and Mel Clench opening the bowling with both openers playing some good strokes. Adam Scott and Anks were the first and second change bowlers, however the opening batsmen were well set at 66/0 off 9 overs before Anks bowled batsman 2 at 68/1. Few catches dropped in between not helping; it took Adams outside the off stump line for Batsman 3 to give a straight catch at point to Anks. A caught and bowled to Adam made two quick wickets with SW at 97/3 off 13 overs. Batsman 1 was however looking solid and hitting all round the park. It required a one handed blinder from Anks (with the ball being ‘lost’ in the stadium’s background) at long off to dismiss him. Batsman 1 scored 71 and the score read 125/4 off 17. Tall Raj then bowled some quick stuff in fading light and took 2 wickets with SW ending up on 137/7 off 20.

A good win for Mufs. We play the CASUALS in the second round.

Paul Hubbard run out 20
Asif Mohammed Ct. 42
Luke Hayes bowled11
Vimal D’Souza lbw 42
Jigar Patel run out 0
Sutha Rangaswamy run out 27
Raj D (Tall Raj) 3 not out
Adam Scott 1 not out
Ankeet Vora, Rajnish Singh, Mel Clench DNB
Extras 10
Total 156/6


Bowling Analysis:

Rajnish Singh 4 – 0 – 23 - 1
Mel Clench 4 – 0 – 20 – 1
Adam Scott 4 – 0 – 35 – 2
Ankeet Vora 4 – 0 – 30 – 1
Raj D 4 – 0 – 22 - 2

cheers to all for a good win.

anks