Pacific v Graces

Pacific see off battling Graces
Pacific v Graces

at Wray Crescent
Sun 14 Apr 2013 at 1pm
Won by 11 runs
Friendly fixture

A cracking match delayed by the usual footballing turf-war nonsense. Taken to the wire, Pacific's total of 204 proved just too much for a battling Graces who went down fighting by 11 runs. Some good performances all round but R Siddique's 24 minute 61 and 4-24 gave the hosts the decisive edge. Special mention also for J Thornton and S Richards who got stuck in for 50 apiece and a decent catch each to boot. Yatin took a wicket on debut and a classic Richards strop about boundary flags proved to be a negligible blip on the otherwise sunny horizon. Graces stuck around with some handy partnerships until N Shofiq's ominous innings was ended by a diving catch from keeper Janaway. With this key partnership broken Pacific grabbed the advantage through skipper Siddique and Lucius bowling aggressively at the death. A good win for Pacific, but surely Democracy is the real winner...

Rob Allum, Lucius Faisal, Ahmed Hussain, Steve Richards, Satish Thiagarajan, Stacey Harvey, Fred Janaway†, Ravi Patel, Rizwan Siddiqui*, Jon Thornton, Yatin Munssad

12th men: Max McGill Tom Ireland Luke Hollman Peter Hollman

Pacific v Graces

Pacific innings		R	M	B	4	6
Steve Richards	lbw b Anoush	54	68	0	11	1
Jon Thornton	c Mendis b Anoush	55	87	0	7	1
Rizwan Siddiqui*	retired	61	24	0	4	6
Rob Allum	b Newton	8	22	0	0	0
Lucius Faisal	lbw b Mamun	10	2	0	1	1
Fred Janaway†	b Abhi	0	7	0	0	0
Stacey Harvey	not out	1	3	0	0	0
Yatin Munssad	not out	0	2	0	0	0
Ahmed Hussain	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Satish Thiagarajan	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Ravi Patel	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b 2, lb 2, w 9, nb 2)	15
TOTAL	(30.0 Overs)	204-5

Fall of wickets: 1-110 [Richards] , 2-153 [Thornton] , 3-193 [Faisal] , 4-200 [Janaway] , 5-204 [Allum]

Bowling	O	M	R	W
Nadeem Shofiq	6	0	18	0
Newton	6	1	13	1
Ajay	2	0	25	0
S. Mendis	6	0	53	0
Anoush	6	0	43	2
Abhi	3	0	32	1
Mamun	1	0	17	1

Graces innings		R	M	B	4	6
*G Shorrocks†**	c Thornton b Patel	24	25	0	4	0
D Scott	c Richards b Munssad	15	67	0	1	0
S Mendis	c Patel b Thiagarajan	15	17	0	3	0
N Shofiq	c Janaway b Siddiqui	51	53	0	5	1
Anish	b Siddiqui	32	34	0	3	1
J Hardisty	c & b Siddiqui	3	15	0	0	0
Abhi	not out	22	20	0	2	0
Ajay	b Faisal	1	4	0	0	0
Anoush	b Siddiqui	0	2	0	0	0
Mamun	not out	5	9	0	0	0
Newton	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b 2, lb 3, w 16, nb 4)	25
TOTAL	(30.0 Overs)	193-8

Fall of wickets: 1-38 [G Shorrocks] , 2-59 [S Mendis] , 3-95 [D Scott] , 4-160 [N Shofiq] , 5-163 [Anish] , 6-170 [J Hardisty] , 7-175 [Ajay] , 8-180 [Anoush]