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Welwyn Garden City 4XI v St Albans Cricket Club 4XI on Sat 18 Jun 2022 at 13:00
St Albans Cricket Club Won by 114 runs
Match report
It felt like a bad toss to lose and Skipper Andy Saunders duly lost it . On a cold , damp , overcast day on a municipal pitch in the Welwyn hinterlands, and with a team stuffed full of bowlers fielding was the preferred option but into bat the Saints went .
Saunders was perplexed about who to appoint as openers , there were no obvious candidates , and in the end volunteers were called for .
Moksy Islam (obviously) was the first to stick his hand up and after some gentle encouragement veteran bowler Nadeem Arif also stepped forward .
We didn't really know what to expect but what we got was fireworks . Well , initially fireworks from Moksy as the opening pair raced into a 40 run partnership .... of which Moksy scored 36 , mostly in boundaries and including some breathtaking shots; a glorious in/out off drive for six was the pick of the bunch .
Nadeem soon woke up though and played beautifully , putting the bad balls away clinically as his accumulated steadily .
At drinks Saints were 125-2 at drinks with Moksy falling for a notable 69 , and Nadeem for an equally impressive 66.
Zach Tarrant playing his first league match of the season was out early which brought Najib Khan in for a classy 44 , full of his trademark , wristy cuts, drives and pulls .
James Lawrence added a forceful 29 with others chipping in for an impressive total after 40 overs of 251-7.
The decision to lose the toss was looking like a masterstroke from Saunders .
After 'tea' in the cold in the somewhat gloomy surroundings Prath Khatavkar with Tim Winfield . The former bowled 8 overs of nagging line and length that earned a wicket and an economy rate of 1.62. The older man , bowling up the incline bowler 6 solid overs and unusually for him didn't take any scalps .
The onus was very much on getting 20 overs in to constitute a game before any rain could render the batting heroics useless and there was plenty of hustle to get round and at the end of each set . And it was this intensity that certainly put the batsmen under pressure as young Jamie Spelling came on and ripped through the middle order taking an impressive 4-24 in his 8 overs .
A shout out to Prathamesh 'PD' Deshpande too, whose 8 overs while only yielding 1 wicket went at a miserly rate.
By the time first Sam Davey and then Saunders came on to bowl the 20 overs were in the bag and the game was won . Both bowlers ended up delivering their final sets in the rain with Saunders annoyance at two comical near collisions in the field resulting in dropped catches tempered with a wicket for him as an ill advised sweep shot saw the batsman clean bowled. With his glasses obscured with rain he elected to bowl the final 6 balls as fast as possible to "get this game done"
Handshakes all round and then off to the relative warmth and dry of the changing rooms where a cold and soggy 4XI celebrated 5th win in the last 6 league matches and second in the table .
St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Batting
Player Name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Ct
St
Ro
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 7w 1b 2lb
for 8 wickets
11
251
Nadeem Arif
Run out
66
Moksudul Islam
ct Galvin
69
Zachary Tarrant
ct Galvin
1
Najib Khan
ct Muhktar
44
James Lawrence
b Doran
29
Sam Davey
ct Muhktar
2
Prathamesh Deshpande
ct Vine
4
Prath Khatavkar
Not Out
19
Tim Winfield
ct Howes
2
Jamie Speller
Not Out
4
Andy Saunders
Welwyn Garden City 4XI Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
R.Dolan
7.0
0
50
1
50.00
7.14
P.Howes
7.0
0
40
1
40.00
5.71
D.Galvin
8.0
0
35
2
17.50
4.38
M.Shah
5.0
0
38
0
0.00
7.60
U. Muhktar
8.0
0
49
2
24.50
6.12
M. Vine
5.0
0
30
0
0.00
6.00
Welwyn Garden City 4XI Batting
Player name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 1w 2b 1lb
for 7 wickets
5
137 (40.0 overs)
T.Edwards
lbw Khatavkar
6
M. Priolo
st Deshpande
40
K. Shah
ct Speller
7
S. Willis
Not Out 
36
S. Patel
ct Speller
8
U. Muhktar
lbw Speller
0
M.Vine
ct Speller
2
M. Sanders
b Saunders
24
D. Calvin
Not Out 
10
R. Dolan
 
P. Howes
 
St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Prath Khatavkar
8.0
2
13
1
13.00
1.62
Tim Winfield
6.0
1
27
0
0.00
4.50
Prathamesh Deshpande
8.0
1
19
1
19.00
2.37
Jamie Speller
8.0
0
24
4
6.00
3.00
Sam Davey
6.0
0
28
0
0.00
4.67
Andy Saunders
4.0
0
16
1
16.00
4.00
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