League Weekend 4 - Saturday 23 May

[wheels]

Hi all

1st XI to play Carlton at Grange Loan, meet 12pm for 1pm start please.

In no particular order:

1. Tom Wheeler (c)
2. Paul Hubbard (wk)
3. Ian Shiels
4. Asif Mohammed
5. Jean-Pierre Cruz Rocha
6. Regan Black
7. Luke Hayes
8. Raj Sampath
9. Raj Davanagere
10. Jigar Patel
11. Melvyn Clench

Directions and bus details on Carlton's website:

www.carltoncc.co.uk/grange.htm

Congrats to 2s, 3s and 4s on their excellent wins last weekend, sorry we let the side down. We'll do our level best to redress that balance this week - time we had another MDCC clean sweep I reckon.

Cheers
Tom

[anks]

Hello all,
Team 2 play Dunnikier at home this saturday. however since there's heineken cup rugby at the murrayfield this weekend, the game has been rearranged to be held at Dunnikier itself. many thanks to them for hosting our home game.

the team for this saturday

Abdul Reyaz
Adam Scott
Ankeet Vora
Chris West
Danny Abraham
Heath Batwell
Raghvendra Kamath
Rajnish Singh
Siva Jayahanthan
Sivaram Sivasamy
Sutha Rangaswamy

the game is for 1 pm start and will be played at Dunnikier at KY13LP. i shall coordinate with the playing members for who will be driving to the ground by text messages / email (want to avoid meeing at murrayfield hotel due to traffic)

good luck to all the teams and may we get that clean sweep this weekend.

ankeet

[alacey]

Here is the 3s team for Saturday against Holy Cross 2s

The match starts at 1.30pm at Arboretum on grass (meet 1pm at away ground).

For those who have not been there before it is 50 metres up on the otherside of the road from where we have our winter nets.

Location for those requiring can be found at www.multimap.com/s/1B7Cm5l9

The following is the team for Saturday in no particular order:

Andrew Lacey (c) (wk)
Stuart Coull (vc)
Chris Banks
Lindsay Towns
Darryn Kidd
Henry Collin
David Clifford
Dale Simpson
Joe Gordon
Phil Hawkins
Vimal D'Souza

Cheers,

Andrew Lacey

[pawbroon]

Fresh from last weekends excellent win at the MCG, Meadows Cricket Ground for the uneducated, the 4s take on Kismet 2s at Roseburn.

This Saturday sees the Heineken Cup final at Murrayfield so there will be parking restrictions and traffic disruption in the vicinity. I would strongly advise that where possible you do not bring your car to Roseburn or try and find some parking away from the stadium.

To that extent we are planning on a slightly earlier start so that hopefully we can finish while the rugby is on before the crowds start leaving. Therefore can everyone please be at Roseburn for 12 noon for a 12:30 start. This will also greatly assist our opponents who do not have the luxury of getting buses down from Dunfermline.

Game is on the GRASS wicket.

Team (in order of chirpability)

Chris Brown (c)
Charlotte Bascombe (c + w)
Neil Yelland
Anand Ventatesh
Owen Kelly
Don Wilkie
Irfan Mahmud
Paul Leonard
Chris Richardson
Drew Barker
Rob Fotheringham

Up the Mufs.

CB

[boonie]

Good luck everyone (esp the 4s!) Sorry I won't be able to join in the celebrations for a 2nd succesive win.

[alacey]

Here is the details from the 3s game:

Mufs 162 for 9 off 45 overs
Holy Cross 132 ao off 37.4

Mufs won by 30 runs.

Phil Hawkins 6
Vimal D'Souza 4
Darryn Kidd 30
Chris Banks 28
Lindsay Towns 12
Andy Lacey 1
David Clifford 2
Stuart Coull 17
Joe Gordon 0
Dale Simpson 10*
Henry Collin 10 *

Extras 42

Coull 6-1-20-1
Clifford 6-0-29-1
Collin 7-0-27-1
Gordon 8-2-15-2
Banks 5-2-4-1
Simpson 5-0-32-3

Catches

Clifford, Hawkins, Towns, D'Souza, Banks, Simpson 1
1 run out

3 from 3. Lets keep this habit going. Great team effort with us being made to work in the middle part of both innings.

Cheers,

Andrew

3 from 3. Lets keep this up.

[elsec]

Congrats to 1s, 3s and 4s on their victories today.

Elsec, tempted by the rather good spectator teas for £1 no doubt, was at Carlton where the ones staged a remarkable recovery from 56-6 to overtaking Carlton's 142 with 2 balls to spare - skipper Tom and the two Rajs turning the batting performance round ans seeing us home.

3's details above

4's chasing 160 won by 6 wickets with 5 overs to spare thanks in the main to 96 not out from Anand Venkatesh. Good to also hear that the game experienced no problems from the 88,000 rugby crowd with huge cheers ringing round Roseburn Park when Fothers took a sharp slip catch off Anand. For the second game at Roseburn on the trot a streaker added to the atmosphere too!

The 2's had a tough day being bowled out for 65 but did make Dunikier work for the victory taking 5 wickets in return.

More details to follow from the respective games.

[Mr Belly]

Brief details of the Division 1 clash at Grange Loan

Carlton 2 142 ao 47.1 overs - Ben Duerden 39; Melv Clench 2-28, Raj Sampath 2-20, Tom Wheeler 2-22, Jean-Pierre Cruz-Rocha 2-25.

Murrayfield-DAFS 143-8 49.4 overs - Mohammed Asif 28, Tom Wheeler 27 not out, Raj Davanagere 25, Raja Sampath 15 not; Stevie Elder 3 wkts.

MDAFS staring down the barrel at 57-6 and then 102-8 but a fine skippers innings from Tom at no.10, ably supported by Raja, saw us home - just! Squeaky bum time indeed... partic for Melv padded up at no.11 !

[anks]

Congrats to all the three teams for some strong and some exciting wins. Alas we could not make it a grand slam.

After the high scoring game of last week, the two’s were brought down by some poor batting. Having won the toss, MUFS opted to bat first (to the surprise of opposition captain Richard Sorrell) on a pitch which was as soft as a refrigerated cake. The opposition strategy of starting with spinners on both ends took the top order by surprise. Anks played a very stupid shot in the very first over back to the bowler. Jaya was found lbw for 1. Chris West played as his watchful self before a nick was taken well by the keeper for 7. Danny stayed for some shots but then gave one straight to Point for 11. Some poor shot selection saw the middle order collapse with Siva bowled for 2, Sutha bowled for 2, Reyaz lbw for 6 and Kamath bowled for 0. Heath and Adam took the score beyond the 44 mark (which I believe is the lowest total for Mufs) before Heath got a screamer of the pitch and clipped the top of his off stump for 3. Rajnish played two good shots before getting caught at point of 12 which was the highest score in the team. Adam was not out for 9. The team folded for 62.

The bowling started with some very good pressure applied from both ends by Rajnish and Adam. The opposition were in a spot of botheration at 17 for 4 when Rajnish took two wickets of consecutive balls. Another wicket there and it could have been an open game. However the two batsmen watched the ball and waited for the loose balls (which were few) to work around. In the end the scoreline was too small to defend, and Dunnikier won by 5 wickets.

The bowling and fielding performance of MUFS however was better compared to the previous games and that is a positive sign. The batting is what did us in this weekend.

Ankeet V: ct 2
Chris W: ct 7
Siva J : lbw 1
Danny A: ct 11
Sivaram S: bw 2
Sutha R: bw 2
Abdul R: lbw 6
Heath B: bw 3
Raghavendra K: bw 0
Adam S: not out 9
Rajnish Singh: ct 12
Mr. Extras: 7

Total: 62/10 off 33.5 overs.

3 wickets for J Braid, 3 for Richard Sorrell, 2 for C Drysdale, 1 each for B Cutter and G Skene.

Bowling analysis for MUFS:
Rajnish S. 10 – 4 – 15 – 3
Adam S. 9.4 – 3 – 20 – 2
Ankeet V. 4 – 1 – 7 – 0
R Kamath 4 – 0 – 16 – 0
Heath B 1 – 0 – 1 – 0
Sutha R 1 – 0 – 2 – 0

[wheels]

Some excellent photos of yesterday's 1s game on Carlton's website - look out in particular for a faultless forward defensive pose from Mr Belly. None shall pass.

www.carltoncc.co.uk/TwosvDAFS09.htm

(They seem to have missed the winning runs being scored though... )

Yours with a very sore head
Tom

[cookie558]

Excellent photos.

I particularly like photo 2 which appears to capture Mr Belly practicing for London Fashion week!

Congrats on a very good win and keep the match reports coming

Cheers

Cookie

[pawbroon]

As indicated above the 4s won by 6 wickets against Kismet 2s. Match report to follow:

MDCC 4 v Kismet 2 - MDCC Won by 6 Wickets
1st Innings of : Kismet 2 - 159 for 33

Zubair Ahmed Tahir Naseem Mazhar Naseem Zahid Naseem Nadeem Ali Adnan Khalid Wijhid Ali Sohail Hamed Madasar Ahmed Athar Naseem Absent	caught caught caught caught caught	Fotheringham Yelland Yelland Fotheringham Mahumd	bowled bowled bowled bowled bowled bowled not bowled bowled not	Venkatesh Mahmud Brown Mahmud Brown Leonard out Venkatesh Yelland out dnb	16 26 46 12 5 2 11 5 1 1 -
				Extras Total	34 159

	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
N Yelland C Brown P Leonard A Venkatesh O Kelly I Mahmud	8 8 8 6 5 5	0 1 2 0 0 0	29 34 18 26 21 24	1 2 1 2 0 2
Total	40	3	152	8

1st Innings of : MDCC 4 - 161 for 4

I Mahmud O Kelly A Venkatesh C Bascombe N Yelland C Richardson P Leonard D Wilkie R Fotheringham D Barker C Brown	caught caught	keeper ??	bowled bowled not bowled bowled not	T Naseem Hamed out N Mazar Z Ahmed out dnb dnb dnb dnb dnb	1 1 96 10 23 2 - - - - -
				Extras Total	28 161

	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
S Hamed T Naseem Z Ahmed N Mazar Z Naseem M Ahmed	8 8 8 6.5 2 3	0 3 2 1 0 0	48 18 23 28 16 21	1 1 1 1 0 0
Total	35.5	6	154	4

[wheels]

Scorecard from 1s game also on Carlton's website, which saves me a job at least:

www.carltoncc.co.uk/Scorecards/CARLTON_2nd__MURRAYFIELD%20DAFS_23MAY09.pdf

Couldn't resist a smile at one aspect of Carlton's otherwise excellent website - their match summaries are well written and everything, but they do tend to be a little bit one-eyed - not exactly teeming with detail about the MDAFS performance...

"The third senior match on Saturday had no such happy ending as Carlton Twos lost a game they really should have won at home to Murrayfield DAFS. Batting first, Ben Duerden, Craig Marshall and Rob Thornton all got starts and were looking good before getting themselves out as the home side limped to 142 all out. However, a fiery start for Rob Thornton saw him pick up two wickets. A typically accurate spell from Steven Elder brought him three wickets and the visitors were reeling at 7 down and a long way to go. However, Carlton took their foot off the gas and the visitors eventually reached the target with two balls to spare."

That pretty much covers it then...