Scorecard

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI v Hitchin II on Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 12pm
Northwood Town Cricket Club Won by 3 wickets

Match report Town 1’s welcomed Hitchin II looking to put last week’s embarrassing defeat behind them! With hot weather forecasted both skippers wanted to win the toss and bat first. However, Hitchin won the toss and asked town to bowl first.

Hitchin batters started very well putting away anything lose as pitch did not offer must assistance. However, J Daly soon found his rhythm and Hitchin were 52/3 with Daly taking all the wickets. Maylin and Guest set about building a partnership despite skipper K Patel and I Anjum bowled tight without any success. Maylin was impressive playing shot all around the ground. Hitchin’s 4th wicket partnership of 75 runs got them back in the game and looked like they were on target to score 250+. However, I Anjum removed dangerous looking Maylin and Town’s top wicket taker J Halai removed Guest. N Madhavan bowling death over also kept it tight taking 3/41 in his 9 overs. J Daly also finished with 3/40. Given the weather and a good-looking pitch Town did well to restrict Hitchin to 239 all out.

Town started their inning with aggression. N Madhavan initially took the charge punish any lose deliveries in emphatic fashion. While Town’s run machine R Aggarwal conituned his fine form with the bat. Town lost N Madhavan and A Unalkat leaving them 73/2. However, M Patel joined R Aggarwal and started putting on a good partnership. They put on 57 runs together during with Aggarwal passed another 50 for the season. Only R Pant is in a better batting form than Aggarwal in the world cricket. But Town do not like doing thigs easy way R Aggarwal departed after a fine inning of 81. With M Patel and I Anjum also departing Town were 200-5. And still 40 runs away from the target. D Gairola though made sure from that point Hitchin bowlers did not get a sniff in. He took the attack to them scoring runs all around the ground as it started raining 4s. Gairola quickly raced to 33* in not time seeing Town home to win by 3 wickets.

Skipper K Patel spoke after the game: It is good to be back winning after last couple of weeks. Very proud of the boys the way they stuck out in the field with the weather. R Aggarwal once again was superb with the bat and credit to Gairola taking us home to win the game.

Hitchin II Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
3nb 5w 4b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
14
239 (47.5 overs)		     
C Maylin lbw  b J Daly 18
S Bayston ct  N Kalhan b J Daly 23
E Beard st  D Gairola b I Anjum 21
J Guest ct  & b J Daly 0
M Maylin ct  A Unalkat b I Anjum 61
W Guest ct  N Kalhan b J Halai 54
L Fox ct  M Patel b J Halai 12
D Moore ct  I Anjum b N Madhavan 17
B Guest ct  N Kalhan b N Madhavan 1
K Postlethwaite Not Out  16
T Whittle b  b N Madhavan 2

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jack Daly8.0140313.335.00
Rahul Aggarwal5.002400.004.80
Krunal Patel10.024500.004.50
Iqbal Anjum9.0132216.003.56
Neel Kalhan1.001200.0012.00
Nischay Madhavan8.5041313.674.64
Jesant Halai6.0039219.506.50

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
4nb 22w 1b 1lb 
for 7 wickets
28
240		        
Nischay Madhavan lbw  b S Bayston 35 47 4 74.47
Rahul Aggarwal ct  b D Moore 81 96 11 1 84.38
Amish Unalkat b  b D Moore 2 11 18.18 1
Mikhil Patel ct  b L Fox 32 56 5 57.14 1
Iqbal Anjum ct  b Postlethwaite 18 29 2 62.07 1
Deepak Gairola Not Out  33 31 7 106.45 1
Andy Burt ct  b B Guest 5 11 1 45.45
Neel Kalhan lbw  b B Guest 1 4 25.00 3
Krunal Patel Not Out  5 4 1 125.00
Jack Daly   1
Jesant Halai  

Hitchin II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
B Guest10.0055155.005.50
T Whittle9.014400.004.89
S Bayston9.0234134.003.78
D Moore8.0049224.506.12
K Postlethwaite9.2038219.004.07
L Fox2.0018118.009.00

  • Umpire :
    Colin Lynch
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