There have been a few technical problems which is the reason I have not updated the match reports! Better late than never! Here is a summary for the season.
P W L T D A
22 7 6 0 4 5
Bowling Averages
Name O M R W Avg
R Hosein 41 5 122 13 9.38
I Rehman 54 8 179 14 12.79
C Sheeham 11 2 49 3 16.33
M Sutton 104.4 19 301 17 17.71
O Shah 58 11 177 9 19.66
Q Shah 50 4 245 12 20.42
C Bourne 73 18 229 11 20.82
Y Shah 30 4 136 5 27.20
H Butt 57 3 248 9 27.55
N Udoh 87 13 267 9 29.66
Batting Averages
I NO R Avg
T Bartlett 7 0 329 47.00
S Shams 13 0 326 25.07
R Hosein 6 4 48 24.00
T Smith 6 1 115 23.00
N Udoh 6 2 90 22.50
K Qamar 9 2 143 20.43
H Butt 9 1 143 19.71
O Shah 9 0 174 19.33
I Rehman 7 1 109 15.57
Q Shah 12 0 174 14.5
C Sheeham 6 0 87 14.5
A Crossley 7 0 73 10.43
T Mahmood 11 0 112 10.18
M Sutton 6 1 50 10.00
C Bourne 5 1 27 6.75
In writing the summary you have to mention the form of young Tom Bartlett who could easily have broken a few club records if he had been in 2nd XI for the entire season.
The rest of the match reports are as follows:
V Bournville
We won the toss and elected to bat and managed a below par 183-10 with Omar Shah top scoring with 43. They knocked off the runs in the 42 over with 6 wickets down.
V Kings Heath
There was confusion with the start times! The league handbook stated 1pm and our club handbook had a start time of 1.30pm – so typically there were only 3 of us at the ground at 12.45pm so they claimed the toss and asked us to bat first.
It was one of our strongest batting displays and we accumulated 214-10 from 48 overs. Main contributor Omar Shah (55). The bowling was as accurate as it had been all season and Riad Hosain – playing against his old team was at the receiving end of some banter from Kings Heath but he answered them in true fashion by getting 9-0-28-4 to go with his 23no. We eventually bowled them out for 146 from 41 overs.
V Bedworth
Another cracker! They won the toss and set us a target of 202 to win. Yasir Shah bowled with pace to claim 15-2-64-4
At one stage we were cruising to victory with 160-4 from 37 overs but with Qasim Shah (62) getting out it caused the castle to tumble. We were in it right up to the end where we needed 3 to win off the last ball with Yasir facing. He did all he could but top edged one to 3rd man and was held out. Only if it was a yard either side of the fielder it would have been 4 – the game is not played with ‘if and but’s’ otherwise we would have been top of the table.
V Atherstone
It was the last game of the season and about 9 of us turned up physically but not mentally. I said enough to the lads on the day so I will keep this short. They batted 1st and totalled 288-6 – we dropped approximately 9 catches.
The batting was not much better and we managed 195-10 with young Kamran Qamar 55no and Humais Butt (47).
