Pacific v Graces

Sharma special not quite enough
Pacific v Graces

at London Marathon Playing Field Greenford
Sun 19 Jun 2016 at 1.30pm
Lost 44 runs
Friendly fixture

We lost for the first time since late April in yesterday's match against Graces in Greenford, bringing an end to a nine match unbeaten run in weekend cricket. After being set 228 by our opposition on a slow, low, tacky surface, Sumeet Sharma's masterful 115 kept us in contention deep into the contest. Once he'd perished going for a maximum as his partners rapidly came and went, our goose was well and truly cooked. Earlier in the piece Smith (four-fer) and Sam Howes (two-fer) stood out among the bowlers, with Davis, Chowdhury, Hussain, Saunders and Tambyrajah also making useful contributions. It wasn't our day in the field, and we rued dropping their powerful left hander at least a couple of times.

Graces v Pacific
Toss won by Pacific

Graces innings		R	M	B	4	6
D. Scott	st Sharma b Howes	17	0	0	0	0
S. Moran	lbw b Smith	10	0	0	0	0
K. De Silva	b Smith	62	0	0	0	0
Mendis	st Sharma b Howes	0	0	0	0	0
M. Pal	b Davis	70	0	0	0	0
Newton	c Chowdhury b Smith	12	0	0	0	0
S. Anthony	b Smith	27	0	0	0	0
Leo	not out	13	0	0	0	0
Anush	not out	1	0	0	0	0
Matthew	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Mamun	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b 0, lb 8, w 7, nb 1)	16
TOTAL	(40.0 Overs)	228

Fall of wickets: 1-21 [S. Moran] , 2-56 [D. Scott] , 3-60 [Mendis] , 4-172 [K. De Silva] , 5-173 [M. Pal] , 6-189 [Newton] , 7-220 [S. Anthony]

Bowling	O	M	R	W
Navid Chowdhury	7	1	25	0
Phil Smith	8	1	37	4
John Saunders	5	1	14	0
Paul Davis	7	0	52	1
Ahmed Hussain	6	0	57	0
Sam Howes	5	1	16	2
Tony Tambyrajah	2	0	19	0

Pacific innings		R	M	B	4	6
Sumeet Sharma†	c Bana b Mahenda	116	0	105	7	6
Navid Chowdhury	b Bana	13	0	14	1	1
Aly Duncan	c Scot b Bana	11	0	22	2	0
Kieran Mullens*	c Bana b Mendis	25	0	63	1	0
Sumant Kumar	b Bana	11	0	10	0	1
Sam Howes	b Bana	0	0	2	0	0
Paul Davis	run out Mahenda	1	0	5	0	0
Phil Smith	b Newton	0	0	3	0	0
John Saunders	b Newton	0	0	1	0	0
Ahmed Hussain	run out Newton	0	0	11	0	0
Tony Tambyrajah	not out	0	0	6	0	0
Extras	(b 2, lb 2, w 3, nb 0)	7
TOTAL	(38.2 Overs)	184

Fall of wickets: 1-18 [Chowdhury] , 2-45 [Duncan] , 3-135 [Mullens] , 4-157 [Kumar ] , 5-157 [Howes] , 6-170 [Howes] , 7-183 [Smith] , 8-183 [Sharma] , 9-184 [Saunders] , 10-184 [Hussain]