Date 04/10/2015
Season 2015
Competition Friendly
Match format 40 overs
Opposition Gagan
Venue Wombwell Park Gravesend
Toss Lost
Decision Crusaders bowl first
Result Lost

Gagan innings

No Batsman   Runs
1 Nishan c Gajinder Singh b Harry Singh 17
2 Saby c Mahmud Riyad b Gajinder Singh 0
3 Naseeb c Himanshu Pathania b Lokinder Singh 28
4 Daljit c Harry Singh b Gajinder Singh 9
5 Mandeep c Jagdesh Singh b Chand Channa 37
6 Shabu c Himanshu Pathania b Mahmud Riyad 2
7 Singh. L b Sonu Singh 3
8 Padiyar not out 62
9 Camody b Upkar Singh 0
10 Ashoq b Upkar Singh 6
11 Walma c Harry Singh b Mahmud Riyad 0
  Extras b 20, lb 1, w 16, nb 2 39
  Total 10 wickets, 33.0 overs 203

Did not bat:




No Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
1 Gajinder Singh 6.0 0 35 2 2 0
2 Harry Singh 5.0 0 23 1 0 0
3 Mahmud Riyad 7.0 0 40 3 4 2
4 Chand Channa 4.0 0 11 1 0 0
5 Lokinder Singh 3.0 0 22 1 5 0
6 Sonu Singh 3.0 0 24 1 0 0
7 Upkar Singh 4.0 0 15 2 3 0
8 Jagdesh Singh 1.0 0 12 0 2 0





Crusaders innings

No Batsman   Runs
1 Himanshu Pathania run out 22
2 Goldy Singh b Nishan 46
3 Jagdesh Singh c b Padiyar 25
4 Chand Channa b Shabu 6
5 Gajinder Singh b Shabu 0
6 Sonu Singh b Shabu 0
7 Mahmud Riyad lbw b Shabu 1
8 Upkar Singh b Singh. L 5
9 Harry Singh b Daljit 14
10 Jony Singh b Mandeep 13
11 John Greggains not out 7
  Extras b 9, lb 3, w 23, nb 10 45
  Total 10 wickets, 35.3 overs 184

Did not bat:




No Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
1 Daljit 6.0 0 34 1 4 0
2 Ashoq 5.0 0 19 0 8 1
3 Padiyar 5.0 0 17 1 3 0
4 Camody 2.0 0 17 0 8 9
5 Mandeep 4.3 0 24 1 0 0
6 Nishan 5.0 0 18 1 0 0
7 Shabu 5.0 0 27 4 0 0
8 Najeeb 2.0 0 14 0 0 0
9 Singh. L 1.0 0 2 1 0 0

Match Report

I had prepared myself for World War III. Apparently this fixture last season had got quite feisty so I mentally prepared myself for a bit of grief.

Early October and you would expect cold and rain but it was a lovely sunny day in Gravesend – and it was (as it turned out) a lovely sunny match.

The opposition take their cricket seriously – you can tell that they are a useful league team – but they were friendly with it and were able to have a laugh. Generally, they could all bat well but had one stand-out score, young Padiyar making 62 not out. Of our eight bowlers, Riyad and Gurjinder were the pick of the bunch. Gagan finished their innings with 203 runs.

In response our top three batsman (Himanshu, Goldy and Jagdesh) made good scores, with Goldy top-scoring with 46. Then came Crusaders’ Mid-Order Collapse (CMOC) – 5 wickets for just 12 runs.

Harry at no.9 started the fight back with 14. At the end we had Johny Singh and Johny (Greggains) Singh with only 40 runs needed to snatch an improbable victory – could they do it – no. Still they had fun trying with the real Johny Singh being particularly entertaining by liberally employing his KP reverse sweep. Unsurprisingly, JS ended the match by playing one rash shot too many.

We wish to thank Director Lucky and all at Gagan for their warm hospitality and copious pizza and fizzy drinks for tea.