Scorecard

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 1st XI v Old Brentwoods (50/50) on Sat 09 Jun 2012 at 12.30
Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club Won by 42 runs

Match report It was a blustery start to the day, with seemingly gale force winds in operation. We arrived at the game, which after 2 straight losses was even at this stage a must win game against table topping Old Brentwoods, who had put in some very powerful wins this season. The need to deliver and get a result was the talk before the game.

The toss was lost and Old Brentwoods had no hesitation inserting us in perfect swing bowling conditions, no doubt the fierce wind was going to aid extravagant movement. We got of to a steady if non spectaular start in tricky conditions, with the need to keep wickets in hand with a strong batting line up the mantra. After seeing the new ball bowlers off, Rizwan Sadiq entered to play a power house knock of 122, featuring seven 6s. This was his first league ton for us and featured some tremendous hits. He was supported superbly in 2 notable partnerships, with debutant Jibran Azam scoring a solid 34 at a vital time. Then Numan Khan in the second partnership, came in to finish the innings of in a run a ball 45, which was superbly constructed with well placed shots and good running.

We felt that 277 was a good score and showed what we can do when we focus on batting the 50 overs. However, we knew that Old Brentwoods had posted some big scores this year and would have some batsman capable of causing serious damage if we did not bring our A game in the field.

Just like last week we started sloppily with our bowling attack not hitting the right areas. It must be said that the wind had now died down and the sun had come out to make good batting conditions. Old Brentwoods started positivley with both their openers batting well, with O Chaudhry constructing a fluent 74. However, despite their good scoring, they were always just behind the rate and we knew if we could keep picking up wickets the pressure could build. Harris Khan got the vital first break through with a change of ends and an aggressive second spell. Then Kirandeep Bansal got the big breakthrough, clean bowling I Singh who is Old Brentwoods danger man with his quality batting. Wickets kept coming, with Daud Arghandawi coming on to bowl another disciplined spell to turn the screw and also snaring Chaudhry. Daud bowled zero wides, which in a match featuring 69 wides showed how accuratley he bowled. By now the run rate was rising, Rizwan Sadiq then came on to to crank up the pressure and dry up the runs to put the opposotion under extreme duress. The wickets started to flow and we bowled them out for 235 to win a tough game by 42 runs.

This was a great win, against a very good team and has put our hopes back on track. However, the challenges keep on coming as we travel to high flying Harlow Town who are in 2nd place.

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
2nb 35w 1b 5lb 
for 7 wickets
43
277		        
Hermes Michael Solomonides ct Asif b Gabriel 19 35 2 54.29
Dave Singh Rai ct Singh b S Iqbal 5 58 1 8.62 1
Rizwan Sadiq b Ahmed 122 113 8 7 107.96
Jibran Azam lbw A Iqbal 34 43 3 1 79.07 1
Numan Khan b Ahmed 45 45 1 1 100
Adnan Aslam b A Iqbal 3 5 60.0
Haris Khan b Ahmed 1 2 50.0
Rushan Pandya Not Out  5 3 1 166.67
Ejaz Khan Not Out  0
Kirandeep Bansal  
Daud Arghandawi  

Old Brentwoods (50/50) Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
U Aslam8.024500.005.63
S Ahmed10.0158319.335.80
S Iqbal10.0237137.003.70
R Gabriel5.0122122.004.40
M Asif4.002400.006.00
A Baker1.001000.0010.00
A Iqbal10.0055227.505.50
I Singh2.002000.0010.00

Old Brentwoods (50/50) Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2nb 34w 2b 3lb 
for 10 wickets
41
235 (44.5 overs)		     
A Baker b H Khan 33
O Chaudhry b Arghandawi 74
I Singh b Bansal 0
S Iqbal b Azam 34
A Iqbal ct Azam b Sadiq 28
K Mahmood b H Khan 7
J Lall b H Khan 0
R Gabriel st Rai b Sadiq 1
U Aslam b Sadiq 4
S Ahmed Not Out  12
M Asif lbw E Khan 1

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ejaz Khan8.5151151.005.77
Haris Khan10.0154318.005.40
Rizwan Sadiq8.022237.332.75
Kirandeep Bansal6.0047147.007.83
Daud Arghandawi7.0028128.004.00
Jibran Azam5.0028128.005.60

  • Umpire :
    Tinker & Towler
  • Scorer :
    Geoff Page