Hamro Foundation Essex Cricket League Premier Division, Saturday June 5
It was back to Cricket for me on Saturday and another Hamro
Foundation Essex League Premier Division contest, and a first ever visit to
Wanstead Cricket Club for Wanstead & Snaresbrook Vs Chingford.
It is a very nice setting it must be said, also a nice walk
from the tube station to the ground past some extremely pricey homes I would
have thought, but it certainly is one of the most picturesque parts of The East
End it must be said and looking even better in the sunshine.
Bar service was also done on an app you scanned at an
outside table, I managed to get one under a tree in the shade, and it worked
very well as the two beers I ordered, and the coffee when I first arrived came
with a smile and friendly face within two minutes of me ordering it on my
phone, so that system was certainly a success, so thank you!!!
To the game and Chingford, who were mid table, won the toss
and decided to bat first on what turned out to be a slow low wicket and hard to
score runs on, and Wanstead, who were joint top of the division without a
defeat so far, certainly made use of this wicket with their bowling early on as
pace bowler Eshun Kalley reduced the visitors to 10/2 as he bowled both openers
Alfie Taylor and Ben MacGregor.
Chingford though managed to dig in and accumulate some runs,
Alexander Maskell, Peter McDermott, Harry Houldsworth, skipper Alex Stokoe and
Liam Lannen all made useful contributions to help their side get up to the
score they managed, but the main stay of the innings was wicket keeper Aryan
Gupta, whose patient 48 was the glue to the innings as Chingford managed to
scrape and struggle to 154/8.
Kalley ended up with figures of 3-49 from his nine overs whilst
Jahansher Akbar took 2-31 in his allotted overs, Zain Shahzad, Joe Ellis-Grewal
and Naivedyam Dwivedi also chipped in with a wicket each as all five bowlers
ended up with a dismissal, so it was a good all-round bowling display for the hosts,
and they now had to get 155 to win this game at a rather sedate 3.45 an over.
You expected Wanstead to get this target although as said
before the wicket was not an easy one to score runs on, and spinner MacGregor
managed an early breakthrough when bowling Tom Simmons with just eight runs on
the board, but Hassan Chowdhury and Robin Das soon set about rebuilding the
innings and with those two at the crease things were looking good for the
hosts.
They put on 61 for the second wicket until spinner Liam
Lannen made the all-important partnership breaker when Das edged into the gloves
of keeper Gupta, he did not look happy with the decision but had to trudge off,
and then Lannen soon had a second wicket when he had Dwivedi caught behind in
identical fashion for a duck, and the visitors now had a sniff of an unlikely
win.
However, with Wanstead at 88/3 with fifteen overs to go
requiring 4.47 an over with seven wickets in hand, and Chowdhury still at the
crease, you still fancied the hosts to knock them off, but after reaching 100/3
they lost four wickets for thirteen runs, including Chowdhury who was bowled by
pace bowler Haris Latif after he had made a decent 56, and the visitors spinners
of MacGregor, Stokoe and Lannen ended up being too much for the hosts as they
eventually were bowled out twenty runs short in the 43rd over of the
innings.
MacGregor and Stokoe both picked up three wickets a piece,
whilst Lannen took a couple, a very big couple of wickets when Wanstead looked
as if they would cruise away to victory, Latif and Alife Taylor picked up a
wicket each as the visitor’s superb bowling effort took them to a stunning win
and saw Wanstead fall to a first defeat of the season.
To see scorecards and bowling figures of this game in more
detail please click on link here https://essexcl.play-cricket.com/website/results/4644094
Here are some snaps I took of the day: -
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