KEMPTON CRICKET CLUB MATCH REPORT

DATE :                                      22nd MAY 2011.

TEAM                                       SUNDAY 2nd XI

OPPONENTS                           CHIPPERFIELD CLARENDON 

TYPE OF MATCH                   FRIENDLY

VENUE                                     CHIPPERFIELD 

RESULT                                   LOST BY 9 WICKETS

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First game of the season for the newly formed Kempton 2’s, Kempton 2’s lost the toss and were put into bat by Chipperfield Clarendon.

Kempton 2’s came out to bat with Fabian and Mo Sandhu opening the batting.

Kempton made a slow start as one of their opening bowlers bowled well and a good line and made it difficult for the opening pair.

Our opening batsmen gradually started to score runs and with the odd boundary both batsman settled and started to look comfortable with contributions from Fabian and mo, scoring runs and taking the quick singles putting the opposition under pressure, Mo Sandhu carried his form of batting from the day before and looked more than comfortable with his flamboyant shots, The opening pair put on a partnership of 50 runs when Fabian got caught in the covers for 25.

Mo Sandhu had to take charge and bat responsibly with Mustafa coming in at 3 scoring a six of his first ball, he continued to attack the bowlers sending the ball to the boundary. Eventually Mustafa got bowled to ball which pitched on middle and hit the off stump for 30.

Kempton lost another wicket and but new batsmen Bhavish (lil sachin) who looked fairly impressive.

Mo continued scoring runs hitting consecutive boundaries of the medium pacers, Mo eventually started to take charge with 10 over’s remaining but eventually got out hitting the ball to cow corner and was caught on the boundary for 61.

After Mo had fallen hell broke loose as Kempton were losing wickets one after the other, Kempton's total score had come to 178.

After tea Kempton decided to open the bowling with Kenny Britto and Vishal Shah,  Kenny bowled well however later realized that the short bowl was not doing any help as the wicket was favoring the batsmen.

Vishal could not carry his form from Saturday to Sunday’s game as he was finding it difficult bowling to the opening pair of the opposition who looked without any doubt their Saturday 1’s players,

Chipperfield’s opening pair played extremely well with flamboyant cover drives and late cuts. Fabian tried all the bowlers available. However they were no match for the opening batsmen until Javed our guest player took a wicket. Though that was not good enough as their number three batsmen came into bat who looked in good nick sending the ball out of the ground for 6 and 4 seeing his club to victory.

Chipperfield cricket club had finished the game in 25 over’s with 9 wickets in hand.

As for Kempton, a collapse which lead to defeat and the team felt they were definitely 70 runs short of their total and 178 was not enough to see Kempton 2’s to their first victory.