First match of our one day season, and already gone crazy. Surray visited us, conditions were dry/windy. We've played with 4 spinners, and 1 medium pacer. We called the toss correctly, and our innings was on its way, the lads didn't started as well as i have hoped for, the scoreboard showed 24/2 after the 5th over. It wasn't a good sign, Adcock departed our 2 best batter, Ahmad Abolhassan and Holtbacher. The partnership of Rasmajinan and van Onselen lasted longer, the latter lost his wicket at 18.4, Lydamore bowled and finished the over with a wicket maiden. Nothing interesting happened, at half time we were at 94/3, not too good, i must admit. Rasmajinan left the pitch too at 28.4, Anwar followed him not long after by a great ball from Adcock again, at 30.6. Things didn't look too good for the home side.... and continued to be worse, Ismail Abolhassan bowled out by Lydamore at 33.3, and by this all of our decent batsmen were out. Farrell and Mazin did a decent partnership after though, Mazin got out at 38.2 ( Adcock again), Farrell followed him at 41.5 Score was 181/8 at this time, not good, not good at all. Ramparasad failed to score on a slow ball as van der Graaf bowled him out. By the end of over 44 we were down to only 1 wicket, managed to score a miserable 189.. Come on lads! Our last partnership last night was Haider and Rogers, a couple seemed incapable to bat, yet they have put up a solid 27 runs. At the end, we managed to finish with 214/9. That did not look bad at all.
Farrell and Ramparasad started to bowl, and Surray's batters was on rampage. Scoreboad showed 36/0 by the 5th, and 82/1 by the 10th run. Seemed like we will have serious problems, Ramparasad bowled awfully at this period. Things didn't get much better, however Rogers managed to bowl out Buckstein at 13.4, and he was bowling when Rasmajinan finally stumped Hodge at 19.4. Finally Surray slowed down a bit, still they have looked comfortable at the break with a neat 137/3. They needed 81 runs from 26 overs. After the break our 2 most experienced bowler came, and they made sure Verdi will get some more grey hairs. Surray's Hill started to hit boundaries from almost every ball, until Farrell finally caught him at 28.2. Surray still looked comfortable to win, Haider gave a bit of hope to the home side in the 34th over, when he took 2 wickets at 33.5 and 33.6. Rogers started to bowl strongly, with low ER and 2 wickets in the 37th over. Match could still go to either side, Surray was at 196/8, needed only 19 runs from 13 overs. Ramparasad corrected some of his earlier mistakes by bowling out Adcock at 40.1, and Haider put up a tricky ball when Rasmajinan managed to stump Lydamore at 41.4. What a game! Crni Zmajevi won by 6 runs.
I can only hope for games like that, these moments what makes cricket the best sport in the world. There was at least 4 turning points in this game, when Adcock took those early wickets, when Haider/Rogers batted greatly, when the openers of Surray humiliated the home side's bowlers. But at the end, Rogers and Haider saved the day for the locals. Both team deserved to win, Crni Zmajevi got the upper hand with luck, and thanks to its excellend spin attack in the late overs.
Players of the game for the home side are Rogers and Haider without doubt. They had an excellent partnership and managed the home side to survive till the end of their innings. Then they did an excellent job in the bowling department, the two combined took 7 wickets of the opposition. Can't really point out anyone else from the home squad, Rasmajinan did some decent keeping and managed to score 53 runs.
For the visitors, Hodge had an awesome stroll of runs, 69 runs out of 70 balls is admirable with this conditions. There was some great bowling display too, Adcock and van der Graaf had 7 wickets combined.
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