King’s College 163/5 in 31 overs
Rosmini College 158 all out in 26.4 overs
On a rain anticipated day, Rosmini had no hesitation in asking King’s to bat after winning the toss.
Intermittent rain resulted in King’s enduring three stoppages in their innings and lunch was taken after the 16th over with King’s on 46/2.
After lunch the umpires advised that the match was reduced to a 31 over encounter and King’s had to readjust once again.
The covers stayed on after the 16th over until after lunch. Rain dominated proceedings for most of the morning.
Earlier, Muhammad Abbas was removed in the 8th over with the score on 19/1 and Dimithri Gallage joined Nathan Robinson with the hope of building a match defining partnership.
Robinson was beaten in the 12th over with the score on 32/2 and Achindra Molamure continued the mission to reverse a sequence of two consecutive losses against the hosts.
This pair built a small partnership up to the third stoppage in play when lunch was taken. They resumed after lunch and the partnership blossomed until Gallage, unnecessarily played an extravagant drive to be caught at mid-off, bringing the 45-run partnership to an end in the 22nd over.
The skipper Cory Dickson joined Molamure and together put on an enterprising 42-run partnership before the latter departed for a well struck 34 runs.
Dickson continued untroubled to the end to be not out for 35 off 28 balls, a probable match-winning innings helped by lightning cameos from Patrick Maher 16 off 6 balls and Sebastian Macdonald, 14 off 5 balls.
Rosmini was set a target of 207 to win in 31 overs as a result of Duckworth Lewis coming into effect.
Jeet Bhatia (Year 13, School) being awarded his long awaited baggy by coach Dipak Patel.
King’s opening bowlers were punished as Rosmini raced out of the blocks as the top three batsmen smote anything short to the boundary.
The usually efficient King’s fielders seemed perplexed and lacking in clues but a word from the coach during the drinks break saw a change in attitude.
The bowlers were more disciplined and with a fair bit of luck King’s gained the ascendancy from a worrying 56/1 in the 9th over to 103/5 in the 20th.
Nick Tapper who came into the attack in the middle overs continued to show his knack of picking up wickets whilst Toby Irvine went wickless in spite of performing a magnificent job of putting the brakes on the Rosmini charge.
Dickson and Abbas mopped up the tail – the former with a fair bit of luck and the latter with his usual efficiency and zip.
After four wins on the trot, King’s host Westlake in a top-of-the-table clash, next Saturday.
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M Abbas |
7 |
N Robinson |
12 |
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D Gallage |
30 |
A Molamure |
34 |
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C Dickson |
35 not out |
P Maher |
16 |
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S Macdonald |
14 not out |
N Tapper |
DNB |
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J Bhatia |
DNB |
T Paranthoiene |
DNB |
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L Anderson |
DNB |
T Irvine |
DNB |
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M Abbas |
4.4-0-28-3 |
L Anderson |
3-0-17-0 |
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T Irvine |
7-2-21-0 |
P Maher |
3-0-25-1 |
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N Tapper |
4-0-22-2 |
J Bhatia |
2-0-32-0 |
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C Dickson |
3-0-11-3 |
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King’s win by 49 runs (D/L method)
