Scorecard

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI v White Star on Sat 13 May 2017 at 1pm
Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club Lost by 4 wickets

Match report First outing for the OPCC 5th XI in 2017, plying at home at Oakfield.

The boys from White Star made the trek from Wembley to play in this friendly in superb conditions with a strong crosswind.

Oakfields skipper Subhash Patel won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Bal Diocee and Umar (Orange) Arbar made a solid and cautious start, before Orange opened up and strated to attack - dealing only in boundaries. Bal then joined the party and quickly progressed to his maiden half-century at the club, falling caught eventually at 54. Orange made a swift 29and the other notable contribution was Jigar Desai with a well made 38. Howard Berlin was run out after tripping but was very sportingly recalled by the opposition skipper Stephen, and then proceeded to make them regret that decision as he scored 25 valuable runs very quickly. Parks finished on 195 for 6 off their 35 overs.

After a lovely tea, White Star started their reply, in typical attacking West Indian fashion, punishing some loose bowling. Young Karan Bansel playing his first senior game at Parks impressed opening the bowling. After a nervous first over, that was punished, he came round the wicket with his left arm medium pace and troubled all the batsmen. He utilised the cross-wind to swing the ball in prodiguosly, getting the odd ball to rise, and hold its line. One of the opposition said "I could watch him bowl all day". Karan finished his 6 overs taking 4 wickets for 17 runs - 3 bowled, and one caught in spectacular fashion by young Samuel Varnes - a contender for catch of the season.

However, White Star made light work of the target reaching 196 for 4 in only 30 overs, with Vincent scoring a brutal half century and other contributions from Sheldon Raghav and Orn.

In the coming weeks Parks need to work on bowling, and fielding, but the batting department has made a good start to the season.


Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
14w 9b 1lb 
for 6 wickets
24
195
        
Balvinder Diocee ct ? b:Raghav 54 11
Umar Arbar ct ? b:Raghav 29 6
Sachin Fing b b:Kishor 8 1
Amar Desai b b:George 38 3
Jigar Desai ct ? b:Vincent 7 1
Samuel Varnes b b:Gregory 8 4 1
Howard Berlin Not Out  25 4
Rashmin Patel Not Out  0
Sarbjeet Singh  
Subhash Patel  
Karan Bansel  

White Star Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Orn7.013500.005.00
Hardeep6.003600.006.00
Raghav7.0032216.004.57
Kishor4.0031131.007.75
Vincent4.01919.002.25
Gregory4.0024124.006.00
George2.001800.009.00
Ashay1.00313.003.00

White Star Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
7nb 15w 7b 8lb 
for 6 wickets
37
196 (30.0 overs)
     
Vincent b B:K.Bansel 52
Hardeep b B:K.Bansel 3
Sheldon ct S.Varnes B:K.Bansel 42
Raghav Not Out  25
Gregory b B:K.Bansel 0
Orn Not Out  38
Kishor  
Tony  
Steve  
George  
Ashay42  

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Sarbjeet Singh4.003800.009.50
Karan Bansel7.021744.252.43
Sachin Fing3.002900.009.67
Jigar Desai7.012600.003.71
Subhash Patel3.002300.007.67
Amar Desai3.001100.003.67
Rashmin Patel1.001200.0012.00
Samuel Varnes1.00600.006.00