Match Report Anza Div III vs Police at Police Ground

ANZA III's season got on the board with a resounding win against the Police, a team which has proved a real bogey side to the club over the past few years.


This really was a smashing victory in every sense of the word as batters and bowlers combined to leave the Police reeling after they seemed to be on course for yet another win against the Club.

The late arrival of the Police riot bus meant the game got off to a delayed 30 minute start by which time Clive had tossed to take advantage of the 33 degree heat and opt for extra time in the shade for the team.

A very heavy ground saw Garry and Shubham get off to a solid and steady start before before Shubham edged one behind and left for a well made 15. Garry went a few runs later to bring royal pair candidate Phil Davies in to join second gamer but already a half century scorer, Chris Walker.

The two came in for drinks at 51 with both looking comfortable playing dabs and drives (I'll let you work out who did what). But as is standard form now for ANZA, drink had proved a downfall for all of us over the years. Phil, Geoff and Clive all left in pretty quick succession without adding too much and at 5-65 at the end of the 19th over, it looked like early doughnut time for Singapore's Finest.

However in came Chiro and in a eye catching performance turned the game right on it's head and took us from hoping to crack 100 to wondering if 200 was possible. Chiro proceeded to tee off against everything the Police sent his way. A 50 in just 20 balls was built around one 25 run over where Chiro smacked four big 6s in consecutive balls. Just to prove he could swing from both ends, Chiro then took 18 from the next over.

Almost unnoticed in all this was another excellent innings by Chris who notched up yet another well paced 50 and he really is looking the goods for the season.

Chiro finally gave in to swing exhaustion and was bowled for 68 made off just 34 balls and which included seven 7s and three 4s.

Spainy added some additional pain including a six which even caused the Police Captain to remark that just benchmarked how poor they were performing.

On that pitch and ground our score of 181 would take some chasing down.

Their chances of doing this was pretty much at an end within 10 minutes of the re-start as skipper Clive's first two over see him end with figures of 3 for 6. Helped by some very tight bowling from James Howlett at the other end, our opening 9 overs saw the Police reeling at 4 for 19.

In fact it would not be till the 11th over that the Police total more runs than Chiro scored in just one over.

Chris had a good all round game picking up another wicket. However the other key performer of the day was Rohan whose crafty flight saw him pick up three wickets in a somewhat surprising seven over spell. yes seven overs according to the book. Thank you umpires. Thank you scorers.

Shubham wrapped up the tail with 2 wickets in two balls and he's now on a hat trick in the next game.

So in the end the Police were taken out by the outlaws for just 115 runs and thus a comprehensive and well-deserved victory for the IIIs who become the third ANZA team to notch up a win for the season. Excellent stuff.


Batting
Chiro Gupta 68
Chris Walker 51
Shubham Gupta 15
Andrew Spain 13no


Bowling
Clive Tillbrook 4-10 (5 overs)
Rohan Wilson 3-46 (7 overs)
Shubham Gupta 2-10 (2.3 overs)