Scorecard

Wanstead v Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 3rd XI on Sat 05 Sep 2020 at 12.30
Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club Won by 14 runs

Match report After three straight wins mid-way through the season, the 3’s lost their last two games so were looking to get back to winning ways this week against a strong unbeaten Wanstead team.

Having won the toss, Oakfield decide to bat first on what looked like a good batting pitch. We soon found out that the pitch did not play as well as it looked due to the rainfall the night before and turned out to be a difficult pitch to bat on. It wasn’t long until Oakfield lost their first wicket, skipper Jamie Gordon gloved behind to a short delivery third ball of his innings and decided to walk.

Keerthi Thangavel (18) and Sujeev Suganthan (24) started to put on a bit of a partnership for Oakfield until they both lost their wickets. Wickets continued to fall for Oakfield with debutant Lakshmi Narayanan scoring 3 runs, Maran Mariyathas scoring zero with Reuben Chandy also getting dismissed without scoring a run. At 54-6, it was looking tough for Oakfield to recover, but Indi Bhatia & Anuj Tewari took the fight to Wanstead. Indi in his first game of the year batted a really sensible innings steadying the ship for Oakfield until getting out for 25. Anuj Tewari kept going for Oakfield and reached his 50 by batting a sensible innings and he did not stop there. In no time, Anuj Tewari reached his ton with some fantastic hitting. Anuj ended up on 107 not out hitting 16 fours and 3 sixes. A truly fantastic batting innings, it was a joy to behold. Along the way, Charith Jatla tried supporting Anuj before losing his wicket for one run. In came Zubair Raja who batted sensibly to stay there with Anuj until the end of the 40 overs with four runs not out.

Oakfield posted 200 runs from 40 overs setting Wanstead 201 runs to win which on that batting wicket would be a tough ask.

The skipper told his team what they needed to do and if they done the basics right knew we could win this game. From the very first ball, Oakfield were on it, fielding very well and bowling brilliantly. The opening bowlers Jigar Desai & Charith Jatla bowled exceptionally well, the batsmen were struggling to hit them off the square. Jigar bowled four maidens out of his first 5 overs and Charith opened up with two maidens in a row. Jigar dismissed Wanstead’s skipper early with a catch behind the stumps by Reuben Chandy. Soon after, Charith dismissed Wanstead’s number 3 batsmen with a great catch at short cover by Zubair Raja. Oakfield has Wanstead 16-2 and Oakfield kept believing.

Wanstead’s batsmen then out on a great partnership, batting very well but Oakfield bowled and fielding very well to restrict them as much as possible and it was looking like the home side had left themselves too much to do. With two quick wickets near the end by Indi Bhatia with a well watched catch by Maran Mariyathas & Keerthi Thangavel with a great caught & bowled, Oakfield managed to keep Wanstead’s run rate down and win the game by 14 runs.

The spirit shown by the team was exceptional, from start to finish was positive and disciplined in the way we went about our game and to get the win against the home side who haven’t lost all season was a great feeling for everyone. The skipper could not have asked for more from his team today. We aim to finish the season strong next week in our last game of the year.

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
11nb 4w 2b 1lb 
for 8 wickets
18
200		        
Keerthikan Thangavel lbw B. Ley 18 3 1
Jamie Gordon ct B. Ley 0
Sujeev Suganthan ct Digg 24 4
Lakshmi Narayanan ct B. Ley 3
Maran Mariyathas ct B. Ley 0 1
Reuben Chandy ct Digg 0 1
Inderpreet Bhatia ct K. Arrawawa 25 3
Anuj Tewari Not Out  107 16 3
Charith Jatia ct N. Raja 1
Zubair Raja Not Out  4 1
Jigar Desai  

Wanstead Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Digg8.0029214.503.63
B. Ley7.503649.004.60
T. Balage-Don1.101400.0012.00
N. Raja8.0223123.002.88
K. Arrawawa8.0137137.004.62
T. Bentley7.005600.008.00

Wanstead Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
3nb 4w 5b 1lb 
for 4 wickets
13
186 (40.0 overs)		     
R. Martin ct I. Bhatia 104
N. Raja ct J. Desai 2
H. Anderson-Elliott ct C. Jatla 0
T. Balage-Don Not Out  57
J. Feather ct K. Thangavel 0
T. Bentley Not Out  6
   
   
   
   
   

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jigar Desai8.0419119.002.37
Charith Jatia8.0238138.004.75
Keerthikan Thangavel8.0035135.004.38
Anuj Tewari8.003800.004.75
Zubair Raja6.003300.005.50
Inderpreet Bhatia2.0016116.008.00