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La Manga v Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas Saturday on Sat 22 Jun 2013 at 11am
Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Won Low scoring win gives SACC the ECCL title.

Match report Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas 1st X1 113 for 9 beat La Manga 112 for 10

Sporting Alfas traveled to the La Manga resort, La Manga win the toss and bat first in this must win game for both teams. Roper opens and gets Brook with an unplayable delivery, Pennick then gets Williams with the perfect ball hitting the bottom of leg stump 15 for 2 from 5. Ranja and Gopi then hung around for 7 overs taking the score on to 41 before Pennick bowled Gopi(23), Ranja still playing very cautiously. After drinks (15 overs) wickets began to fall regularly and at 20 overs the score was looking dismal at 75 for 5. Roper and Crompton taking the wickets. The spin duo of Crompton and Spencer then took the game away from the home side with the last 5 wickets falling for 42 runs La Manga all out for 112, Pennick 2 for 28, Roper 2 for 31, Crompton 2 for 26 and Spencer 4 for 21, Ranja the pick of the batsmen with 29 Akash standing alone after reaching 19 and watching his team mates perish.
Atif and Talat had it all to do in the second half, but the Alfas pair Pennick and Spencer looked in control but in the 7th over Pennick was adjudged LBW with 32 runs scored, Crompton then joined Spencer and the pair took the score to 67 before the introduction of spin took the game to a new level, Crompton chipping the ball to mid off Akash the bowler, Ranja then bowed a magnificent spell that left the SACC middle order in ruins. Shahzad caught, Brown bowled, then a trio of LBW´s that left SACC reeling on 102 for 8, nerves getting edgy in both camps, Spencer mean while reached his 50 and then mistimed a short one from the useful Ranja caught at gully. 106 for 9 could Metcalf and Ali hold on for the last 7 runs, Atif bowled a maiden then Ranja stepped up to bowl his last over, a play and miss by Ali, another play and miss, a leg glance that raced to the boundary, 3 runs needed. another play and miss, another leg glance 2 runs taken all even! no an over throw gives the batsmen the chance to win the game. 113 for 9 and Sporting Alfas win the ECCL league title with a game in hand.

La Manga Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2nb 10w 5b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
18
112 (31.4 overs)		     
Williams Bowled  10
Brook Bowled  0
Gopi Bowled  23
Ranja Caught  29
Colbourne Lbw  2
Atif Caught  4
Talat Caught  5
Akash Not Out  19
Guffaf Lbw  0
Rizwan Bowled  2
Vitash Singh Caught  0

Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas Saturday Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Phill Pennick9.0128214.003.11
Jamie Roper9.0231215.503.44
Gary Crompton7.0026213.003.71
Mark Spencer6.412145.253.15

Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas Saturday Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
10w 1b 4lb 
for 9 wickets
15
113		        
Phill Pennick Lbw  4
Mark Spencer Caught  50 6 2
Gary Crompton Caught  18 3
Muhammad Shahzad Caught  1 2
Antonio Gomez Brown Bowled  0
Kevin Laundon Lbw  3
Grahame Ward Caught  9 1 1
Waqar Ashraf Parveen Lbw  0
Jamie Roper Lbw  5 1
George Metcalfe Not Out  0
Basharat Ali Not Out  7 1

La Manga Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Atif7.0025212.503.57
Talat6.0037137.006.17
Ranja9.042855.603.11
Akash6.3018118.002.77

  • Umpire :
    Allan Bacon Ron Graham
  • Scorer :
    DP Myers