Under 13's
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Sun 26 Jul 2020
Streatham and Marlborough CC
0/1
132/6
Addiscombe Cricket Club
Under 13's
Good start of the season

Good start of the season

raminder Chima26 Jul 2020 - 14:23
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It was a fantastic Win for the boys.

It was exciting to see all boys in their whites. Weather till Saturday evening was quite wet and we were not sure about the pitch. We have had few of the senior team matches abandoned or had their format changed due to rain. So, Sunday was big day with prediction stating some sunny spells giving hope.
Apart from weather, I was nervous about team selection process as this was the first time we were using club site and automating the process.
But kudos to parents , even more than selected reached the grounds, well within time. I think everybody was excited to get to ground and get going. I was happy to see covers and hoped we had the dry pitch. But my positive vibe was short lived when I learnt that groundsmen has refused to let us play. For some time we planned to move the pitch on side grass. However, thanks to opposition manager, we found an astro turf nearby. So, we were all good to go!
We lost the toss and were put to bat first. We sent couple of our nervous openers as they were batting a after long time and as openers, it was their first. However, we were surprised to see how well they coped up and gave us a good solid start. we were cruising nicely till 10 overs when break happened. We were amassing lots of wides and byes.
The second half began with us loosing few quick wickets. But this happens when you are playing 20-20, where pressure is on to score runs. especially me shouting from boundary to make each batsmen run causing some mix ups. Some of our batsmen are not very well averse with touch and run style, reason they became defensive and we lost crucial overs to score. The last two overs were quite expensive for us as we failed to score any runs.Anyhow, we ended with a decent total. I think in the end, all in all,we were 15-20 runs short.
I became a bit excited and had a bit of chat with team.
However we knew we need to pull our socks up and get going for bowling and fielding.
Our opening bowlers were wonderful. Right on the target. So, do was our keeper. What a player he is. Really up-to his job, standing like a wall behind the stumps. The first change was good. The opposition played few shots but our fielders responded nicely. They were diving to save bookbinderies restricting batsmen to single or double. After break, we resumed well but with all due credit to our harsh umpiring [in my opinion], we started giving few wides. Things started go tricky towards the end as we conceded few boundaries. But that was natural as we were coming towards end of the innings. But our tail end bowling did the job and restricted opposition well away from the target score. It was winning time for U13's...
How can I forget Mention-able moments..
It was an airborne single handed catch on mid off by our fantastic fielder.. [Eric] which looked like an action replay from some internal 20-20 Match..
Fantastic keeping was driven to higher level by first stumping in the juniors team.. by Ayub
Boundaries diving and stopping by Oliver..
Gully catch by Ahsen, Walls on both sides, Kaivin and louis..
Fantastic attempts by Tarun and Abdrman.. Nice chase from Brandon and Aditya..
Skillful Stopping by Franc, Azeem

All in all it was good to be back and on to green grass in whites.
Thanks to all the parents, especially Tim and Ali for helping out scoring and umpiring.
A Great win for Addiscombe to start the season....

Match details

Match date

Sun 26 Jul 2020

Kickoff

09:00

Meet time

08:45

Instructions

Please p lan toreach by 8:30,
Please message if anybody needs lift. Pickup and Drops are from Adiscombe Cricket Club.

Ground Address:
Streatham and marlborough Cricket Club,
Dulwich Common, Dulwich.,
London. SE21 7EX
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