Crane Cricket Club

Scorecard

Crane Cricket Club Crane v Prestcold CC on Sun 20 Aug 2006 at 2pm
Crane Cricket Club Won Win by 4 wickets

Match report
Crane welcomed Prestcold CC to Cranford, on a wet and overcast afternoon, for a spot of Sunday cricket. On the back of two wonderful victories, Crane were full of confidence. They didn’t disappoint in this match either, as Crane made it three wins on the bounce since returning from the tour.

Crane’s Hardeep Khangura won the toss between the skippers and elected to field. He was rewarded for this decision in no time at all; Gurjit Sandhu made early inroads to firstly remove opener D. Rosier and then Prestcold danger-man H. King, with Prakash Pitroda and Sunny Atwal taking smart catches. Sunny Bajwa produced some cracking deliveries at the other end and unluckily saw a couple of them edged over the slip fieldsmen.

An opportunity for Crane to take full control seemed to slip away, as P. Desbois and S.Horne struck up a good partnership to inject vital runs into Prestcold’s innings. This was later bolstered by Prestcold’s R. Dance, who punished Crane for a couple of dropped catches by powering his way to 33 runs. Crane welcomed Prakash into the bowling attack, who duly obliged with the wickets of both Debois (33 runs) and Horne (31 runs). The unmistakable Dance, donning a bright yellow helmet, was eventually out to a wonderful catch by Oz, of the bowling of Gurjit.

Crane finished strongly and picked up wickets from Prestcold’s tail-end with regularity. This allowed Gurjit to pick up a fourth wicket, and saw Prakash finish with a superb five-wicket haul. Prestcold’s last wicket, that of Sanjit Sandhu (sportingly filling in for the opposition as they were a man light), was notched up by Sunny Bajwa.

Crane’s fieldsmen helped themselves to eight catches, including a fine effort from youngster Fiazal Hussain, as well as a couple of tidy catches from Anoop Sharma behind the stumps. Sunny Bajwa also leapt forward to snaffle one about a centimetre from the ground. By the end of the innings, Prestcold had set a victory target of 159 runs.

Great partnerships early on helped Crane move into a strong position. Opener Chaz Virdee and young all-rounder Gurjit batted with great concentration to put on a stand of 45 runs. Chaz managed to score 5 of his 28 runs in bizarre fashion, when he edged a ball that flew passed the Prestcold keeper and went on to glance the keepers’ grounded helmet.

Sunny Atwal also performed well and, together with Gurjit, kept the runs flowing to add another 45 runs to the total. The highlight of Sunny Atwal’s innings was his stand-and-deliver extra-cover-drive, which had the Crane fans in rapture as it whizzed to the boundary. This was equal to an earlier sweetly-timed cover-drive from Gurjit as well as a crunching hit to the cover boundary by Chaz.

A final stand of 38 runs between Sunny Bajwa and Hardeep Khangura proved to be the clincher, with Hardeep (27 runs) in particular batting in positive fashion. His quickfire knock included 5 boundaries which helped guide the Crane troops to victory with four wickets and 2 overs to spare.

Congratulations to Crane for yet another solid performance and many thanks to Prestcold CC for a good game. Crane also send their innermost thanks to Prakash Pitroda and Zak Brohi for playing for Crane, and at such short notice.


Crane Cricket Club Crane Batting
162 for 5
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Chaz Virdee Caught  28
Oz Hussain Caught  6 2
Gurjit Sandhu Stumped  56
Sunny Atwal Caught  13 1
Prakash Pitroda (G) Caught  0 1
Sunny Bajwa Bowled  11 1
Hardeep Khangura Not Out  27
Rishi Tind Not Out  0
Anoop Sharma   2
Fiazal Hussain   1
Zak Brohi (G)  

Prestcold CC Bowling

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Prestcold CC Batting
158 for 10
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Crane Cricket Club Crane Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Sunny Bajwa7.0026126.003.71
Gurjit Sandhu6.203248.005.05
Fiazal Hussain5.002000.004.00
Oz Hussain4.001700.004.25
Zak Brohi (G)5.002000.004.00
Prakash Pitroda (G)8.042555.003.12
Hardeep Khangura3.00700.002.33