Scorecard

Parkfield & Headstone II v Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 3rd XI on Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 1pm
Northwood Town Cricket Club Lost by 5 wickets

Match report Northwood Town III played very well against a very strong team.

Having been put into bat in some pretty heavy drizzle, Town lost four early wickets against a good opening bowling combination, and found themselves 9/4. From then on, it was a valiant recovery by the middle order to get Town up to a score of 87. Special mentions to Rabi Motywala, who made the most of a situation tailor-made for his batting style, playing a solid anchor role and taking time out of the game, which was the order of the day. Master Blaster Salman Rizvi hit a quick-fire 15 and Taz Katira chipped in with 13 at the end to get Town to a reasonable score.

Against the quality of players that the opposition had already shown, it was likely to be a tough battle, but Town did very well in the field to pick up 5 wickets. The fielding was good; the highlights being a superb stumping by Prakash Tailor to remove the opposition's main batsman (who hit 61, with the next highest-scorer getting 9). The other highlight for me was watching Pradip Pandey chase one down to the square leg boundary, faster than I have ever seen him go in the field - a super effort, and probably one Dave Harding would have have expected before the day he retired.

The bowling was also good, and bad a clearly higher-than-Div-11-quality Ali, Town bowled very well to the opposition. Mitesh Parmar and Meeth Katira started off in their usual stingy style, with the former even picking up wickets like he used to "back in the day". Top stuff. Pradip Pandey today though was the pick of the bowlers, yet again bowling a brilliant line and length and getting two high quality batsmen out. As he had done against Boxmoor, he yet again showed that when the going gets tough, Pradip gets going...

Well done town, a great display today, and one that would have won us the game against any other team in this division. Onwards and upwards!

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
1nb 11w 3b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
17
87		        
Pradip Pandey ct Virgo 5 1 1
Jonathan Bentvelzen Run out  0
Vinodh Balakrishnan ct Kothari 2
Meeth Katira ct Virgo 0
Rabi Motiwala ct T Malik 10 2
Mitesh Parmar ct Virgo 5
Salman Rizvi b T Malik 15 3
Prakash Tailor ct T Malik 7 1 1
Arjun Sahay ct T Malik 8 1
Tarang K. Katira ct U Khan 13 2
David Harding Not Out  0

Parkfield & Headstone II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
V Kothari5.03212.000.40
C Virgo10.0140313.334.00
T Malik10.022947.252.90
U Khan4.22919.002.08

Parkfield & Headstone II Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
4w 2b  
for 5 wickets
6
91 (16.1 overs)		     
Arshad M b M Parmar 0
Kamal S b Pandey 3
Arjun D ct & b. M Parmar 0
Ali K st Tailor b. S Rizvi 61
Nim P b Pandey 9
Chad V Not Out  5
Vic M Not Out  7
   
   
   
   

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mitesh Parmar4.0128214.007.00
Meeth Katira3.001300.004.33
Tarang K. Katira3.002000.006.67
Pradip Pandey4.101527.503.60
Salman Rizvi2.00919.004.50