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YAARS pick up 8pts = 14 played 110pts....and bag the LEAGUE DIVISION 2 TITLE....
Match Report
TWFS v YAARS (Gateshead Fell) on Monday 11th August 2008
Highlights:
YAARS 101 for 7 in 14 overs:
MOM N Iqbal
N Iqbal 28
R Saeed 22
Bowling
C Oakes 1-18
O Ahmed 2-16
TWFS 96 for 5 in 14 Overs:
MOM Hope
Batting
Hope 27
Murray 21
Bowling
Shepard 2-20
McGuire 1-11
YAARS fielded a young side led by Shahzad Alvi with Billy Ahmed, vice. Zammy ‘50pence’Ahmed returned to action after a lengthy lay-off to take the gloves off Faurooq Engineer who management decided to rest.
The YAARS pace department looked very healthy with young gun ‘Shoaib Nuclear’ Basit Akthar returned to the side alongside left arm seamer Wasim ‘Siam-saleem’ Akram.
Ricky and young Zayn opened the batting, Zayn looked very comfortable against the TWFS attack, Z played some glorious cover and square drives with Ricky playing the role as senior partner. TWFS go an early breakthrough with left arm pacer Sheppard cleaning up Zayn and then following it up with an inswinging Yorker to dismiss Basit who had been promoted up the order. Big Beefy aka Sachin, took longer to get to the wicket take his guard ang return to the most incredible, magnificent, fantastic, amazing catch ever seen at first slip….Obviously TWFS had done their homework and targeted the big lad, bowl outside off stump and big beefy will try and mow one to cows lick…..job done for the fireman, YAARS pro, departed.
Enter young Siam, S went in a played like his hero ‘Courney Walsh’ leaving the first twelve ball faced……getting usto the pace and bounce in the wicket. Siam showed the YAARS hierarchy (Commander) he knew exactly where his off stump was. Siam decided to open up and boost the run rate Ricky batted well before being caught. Siam followed shortly and enter the Marx brothers – Alfred 18, and Zammy…..they batted well to take the score from 70 odd to a respectable 101 for 7….a decent score.
Big Billy Ahmed and Oaksey opened the bowling, Craig bowling seam up with big in-duckers – and at the other end Billy showed he is a Batting allrounder who can tweak the ball, his flight and guile had the fireman in all sorts of trouble. Had it not been for ‘yellow-belly Vedhara bottling out a dolly catch – Billy could have picked up a couple. Instead he got tanned for 6 over long off…..Billy a little disgruntled let loose on Vedhara…..Omar came on to take 2-16, and Oakes as usual proved form is temporary, class is permanent picking up 1-18. Zammy done well standing upto all the bowlers except Nuclear Akthar, he also bagged a brace…so well done Zammy-lad. YAARS had kept nuclear Akthar ‘Basit’ up there sleeve – and Alvi, let the young paceman go…….and just like Elvis is was “GO man, GO” he bombed in and let loose frightening the lives out of the fireman. They were climbing back up their poles. The fireman need 18 off the last over and finished on 96 for 5 in their 14 allocated.
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