Won
| Batsmen | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yousef Iqbal | Out | 16 | ||||
| Steve Simmons | Out | 44 | ||||
| Waqas Tahir | Out | 46 | ||||
| Khalilur Rehman | Out | 40 | ||||
| Gary Mott | Out | 34 | ||||
| Aamir Tahir | Out | 15 | ||||
| George Wilton | Not Out | 1 | ||||
| Amer Khan | Not Out | 4 | ||||
| Phil Wilding | DNB | |||||
| Extras | ||||||
| Bowling | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waqas Tahir | 10.0 | 3 | 29 | 4 | 2.90 | |
| Aamir Tahir | 10.0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 3.30 | |
| George Wilton | 5.0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 4.00 | |
| Amer Khan | 6.4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 2.85 | |
| Phil Wilding | 8.0 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 3.88 | |
| Extras | ||||||
| Fielder | Catches | Run Outs | Stumpings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khalilur Rehman | 2 | 0 | 0 |
On another lovely summer’s afternoon, Sonning won the toss and decided to bat first. Away side got off to a steady start, with Raja Iqbal, playing his first match of the season, particularly severe on anything full and on other side Steve Simmons severe on anything short. Raja and Steve started very briskly on a very good batting wicket and both found the boundaries with ease. Raja provided the necessary early propulsion and the speed of scoring was never really an issue throughout the innings. Raja missed a straight and was bowled on 16 and the opener partnership read 40 runs in under 7 overs. The best opening partnership of the season so far. The wicket brought Omar Shabir(5) and he was bowled when he tried to hit one out of ground. In came Captain Waqas Tahir and continued where he left off from his last inning. Having scored a maiden hundred in his last inning his confidence was high and he started to find the boundaries regularly. On other side Steve was building his innings steadily and soon the partnership reached 50 in very quick time. Their understanding between the wickets was excellent as they kept stealing the singles.
The pair were going well and the partnership had reached 71 in just 11 overs when Waqas hit on the air and was caught on 46. Soon after the wicket Steve(44) was run out trying to take a cheeky single. The score read 127 after 22 and Sonning needed some steady batting in the middle to reach a competitive score. The quick wickets brought Khalilur Rehman and Garry Mott to the crease and they started aggressively and found boundaries with ease. Khalil decided to take the attack to the opposition with some clean hitting and on other side Garry was going along nicely, hitting some powerful shots on the way to 34. The pair added a composed 77 for the fifth wicket in 11 overs and Sonning passed 200 runs inside 32 overs. With the last game in mind captain decided to declare this time to give enough time to his bowlers to get 10 wickets. He duly conveyed the message to the batsmen in the middle. Sonning lost both Khalil and Gary in the same over and this halted the charge somewhat. Jegan Srinisivan and Aamir Tahir gave some late impetus to the inning with Aamir hitting one big six over long on. With wicket tumbling quickly and scoring going nowhere Captian Waqas decided to declare in 41st over with the score 243/8.
After the tea, Phil Wilding and Aamir Tahir opened the bowling and both bowled beautifully. Phil bowling his usual line and length and didn’t took long to make his mark on the game, taking the first wicket in his first over. On other end Aamir was trying to his best to injure stand in keeper (The captain himself in the absence of regular keeper in the side) with his fast and aggressive bowling. He was unlucky not to take any wickets as he kept missing edge and when he did get an edge it was too fast for the keeper. Having injured himself in the process of taking the catch captain asked for volunteer to keep the wicket but nobody seems to be in the mood to keep. Raja thankfully offered to help but soon skipper realised it was a mistake. The wicket keeping duty were then trusted upon Khalil who did admirably a good job and took two good catches. Phil finished his opening spell with 2 wickets and Aamir going wicket-less. Jegan replace Aamir from the top end bowled a very tight and probing spell taking two wickets and he finished with 10-2-29-2. Young Amer Khan wasn’t his usual best and was off-colour in his first spell but later made up for this (more of that later).
Captain Waqas decided to bring himself and George Wilton on with Sonning still needing 6 wickets. Waqas bowled a very tight and penetrating spell of 10-2-29-4. His wickets seems to have brought the team to the brink of victory. George from other end bowled an excellent spell without any luck as umpire seems to miss couple of plumb LBWs. Aamir came back and took a wicket but couldn’t finish off the innings and he finished with the figures 10-0-33-1. With Waqas and Aamir finishing their spells Sonning still needed one wicket in 9 overs. It seems an easy victory for Sonning but somehow the last pair survived 8 overs with Sonning dropping some easy catches and some good batting from the home team. It was left to Amer Khan to bowl the last over with one wicket still to get. He bowled an excellent over with first three probing deliveries and it looked like a draw was on the card just like last week. But it was never to be as the 4th delivery rose up sharply which the batsmen tried to fend off and was caught by our brilliant stand in keeper Khalil and Sonning had claimed a deserved victory.
Overall it was again a very good batting performance and bowlers did very well on a batting wicket. Some notable performances in batting and bowling departments. Some catches were dropped and we will need improve our fielding going forward. A good team effort and excellent win.
