Club Statistics
Match Summary: vs. Merton, Sunday, 04 Aug 2019
Ground: John Innes Rec.
Captain: Bernard Leuvennink
Match type: 40 overs
Toss: Merton elected to bowl
Weather: Cloudy with occasional sun
Opposition: Merton scored: 122 all out (28.1 overs)
Exiles Score: 199 for 9 (40 overs)
Result: Won by 77 runs
Man of the match: Yahya Khan 58 runs
| Batsmen | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keith Roberts | ct. | 54 | 81 | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | Yahya Khan | ct. | 58 | 40 | 11 | 1 |
| 3 | Shahid Iqbal (W) | b. | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Omid Ayoobe | b. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Jonny Aloysius | ct. | 41 | 63 | 7 | 0 |
| 6 | Bernard Leuvennink (C) | ct. | 19 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | Jibran Ahmed | b. | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Jamshid Ayoobe | b. | 18 | 20 | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | Masie Musakhel | ct. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Alex Roberts | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Evan Roberts | not out | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Extra(s) 1nb 1w 2b 2lb | 6 | |||||
| 199 | 241 | |||||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | Avg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jibran Ahmed | 6.0 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 23 |
| 2 | Masie Musakhel | 5.0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Alex Roberts | 4.0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Jamshid Ayoobe | 5.0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | Bernard Leuvennink | 4.1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.3 |
| 6 | Evan Roberts | 4.0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 30 |
| Player | Catch | Run Out | Stumping | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Roberts | 1 | |||
| Jibran Ahmed | 1 | |||
| Jamshid Ayoobe | 2 |
On Sunday Exiles returned to an old feature against Merton on a slightly overcast day.
The toss went the way of Merton who elected to field first. K.Roberts and Khan opened the batting and got off to a flyer with Khan scoring a quick 58 off 40 balls before picking out a fielder to end a superb hitting innings.
Merton responded well by getting another 2 wickets in quick succession. Aloysius entered and between him and Roberts stabilised the ship with Roberts ending on a well played 54 and Aloysius unluckily just missing out on his half century with 41. The rest of the Exiles added on a quick fire couple of runs to get the total up to 199 of the allotted 40 overs.
After a great tea the Exiles took to the field and Ahmed and Musakhel struck early with Ahmed ending with 1 and Musakhel with 2 wickets leaving Merton on the back foot, but definitely not out of the game.
A good middle period saw Merton put a bit of pressure on the Exiles bowlers with especially their remaining opening batsmen getting into his stride. The skipper Leuvennink decided to bring himself on for a couple as he normally does and was in good nick eliminating the threatening opener and also finishing off the tail, ending on his best figures yet with 4 wickets for only 1 run in 4 overs bowling out Merton for 122.
Note should be made of an amazing wicket by Exiles' youngest member E Robert who bowled Merton's middle order left handed batsmen around his legs!
A good day out and the Exiles are back to winning ways after a couple of successive losses.
Report By: Bernard Leuvennink