07/07/2025
The winning run continued on Saturday with a 157 run win against Cookridge. Much to the opposition captain Charlotte's dismay, Martin win the toss and elected to bat. After his duck last week, Rian had a lot to prove 😂 and did so with yet another century albeit, by his own admission, it was a little sketchy.....most of us would take a little sketchy when it results in 109 off 94 balls to take him over 700 runs for the season!!! Other contributors to the 290-6 were Umar with 33 and Joe with 94 not out, bottling the 100 when he couldn't get the 18 off the last over he needed! Special mention to young Talha Shah who, in his first game, bowled that last over and only went for 12...well bowled young man. Cookridge set about their innings to occupy the crease and frustrate the bowlers, which they did, finishing on 130-9 underpinned by Hasan Shah 30 and Feroz Hassan 27. Martin was the pick of the bowlers with 3-38 with Faz, John B, Bilal, Jordan and Umar all picking up one each, with a direct hit run out from Aaron
as well. Great game played in an excellent spirit, lovely to see Martin helping out young Talha when he was batting. Hope Ron is OK after the bump on the head......wily old fox bowling his allotted overs then retiring from the field injured to then see out the final few balls to deny us full points. Special mention to JC, who fulfilled his duty of entertaining the match ball sponsor by pushing him round the boundary to get him to sleep!! Many thanks to Alfie Joseph for sponsoring the match ball this week.
