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Rowlands Take Their Medicals!

At long last Rowlands secured another win. YAARS were the victim after inserting Rowlands on a soft wicket. Ben o'Brien and Davo opened with confidence and put on 74 for the first wicket. Davo was caught out on the legside boundary for 17 with one six. Panic then as Fenwick Friskin was caught for 2 and Sam Malpass for 1. Rowlands only 80-3 in the eighth over of 14! Ben kept bashing away and diverting the buses along Heaton Road to amass a Man of the Match 86 with 6 sixes and 5 fours before he was also caught on the boundary. Meanwhile regular Roy had totted up the runs and made a very important 40 not out with 2 sixes and 4 fours. Faz Tahir hit a useful late 10 not out with one 4. Rowlands recorded 167-4 and made the third batting point for the first time! The change bowling of Bobby Vedhara and Omar Ahmed had proved more difficult to despatch than A Mukhtar and Zahn Ahmed but this was surely a good total.

The YAARS reply saw Navid Iqbal, aka DC and Zahn Ahmed at the crease but Ian Pratt and the returning Chad Koen opend up well in defiance of the YAARS aggression. Pratty had DC caught fr 34 by Ben in the deep, rather casually on the boundary with the sun in his eyes! Pratty's opening spell was 1-26 off 3 and Chad went for 38 off 3. The change bowling of Adeel Waheed and Don Catley had a challenge to avoid runs on the very short West boundary with YAARS just short of the asking rate. Don burgled the wicket of Omar Ahmed who was confused by the spin and swept the ball onto his stumps. Good! Adeel spurned the chance of a caught and bowled but was pleased that Ben made sure of a catch for him, again casually on the same long on boundary, to record 3-0-40-2 with a catch also taken by Davo at conventional mid off. Runs were still mounting but Don produced a magic second over going for only 2 runs and the caught and bowled of their Waheed for a duck. Waheed took a catch for Don to give him 4-0-38-3 and Pratty returned to complete with 4-0-35-1. YAARS fell short with 152-6 and Rowlands took 9 points from the game. Zahn Ahmed the opener was still there with 49 not out. This was a great team effort with Mike Steven keeping well and Faz Tahir retiring late on with a suspect broken finger.