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Grass Roots Academy vs Harold Wood CC

Apr22
2012

Written by Gary Naipaul

On Sunday 22nd April, GRA played Harold Wood CC at Harold Wood Park in Essex.

GRA won the toss and bowled first on what looked like a wicket that would offer some assistance to the bowling unit. The bowlers took a while to warm to the task giving away 17 extras throughout the 40 overs but the spinners come on and did a fantastic job stemming the run rate and taking wickets at crucial times. Darren Ironside the pick of the bowlers with 4-28 from his 8 overs.

The GRA innings started well with a new partnership of Andrew Naipaul and Adam Senn starting cautiously. The run rate never got above 4 per over and with Adam Senn (56*) and Sadiq Hassan (74) the stand out performers in a clinical display.

Grass Roots Academy won by 8 wickets

Harold Wood CC Innings				Grass Roots Academy Bowling
Harold Wood CC Innings				Grass Roots Academy Bowling
Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs	Bowlers	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wkts
T Clarke	Caught	D Ironside	25	R McNeill	8	0	26	1
C Sher	Bowled	D Ironside	36	H Ikram	7.3	1	32	2
A Rehman	Bowled	D Ironside	15	A Naipaul	3	0	10	0
D Hollingsworth	LBW	H Kazmi	1	H Kazmi	8	0	24	1
C Sampson	Caught	D Ironside	6	D Ironside	8	0	28	4
S Hafeez	Caught	E Thompson	9	E Thompson	3	0	9	1
S klien	Run Out		13	A Senn	2	0	17	0
K Gibson	C&B	R McNeil	16
R Ellis	Bowled	H Ikram	2
W Shafique	Caught	H Ikram	5
B Morimer	Not Out		0
		Runs	128
		Extras	28
		Total	156

Grass Roots Academy Innings				Harold Wood CC Bowling
Grass Roots Academy Innings				Harold Wood CC Bowling
Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs	Bowlers	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wkts
A Naipaul	LBW	S Klien	11	S Hafeez	5	2	12	0
A.Senn	Not Out		56	S Klien	7	2	28	1
S Hassan	Caught	W Shafique	74	B Mortimer	4	0	27	0
E Thompson	Not Out		12	W Shafique	8	1	27	1
A Butler				K Gibson	4	0	31	0
A Rashid				R Ellis	8	0	38	0
A Iqbal
D Ironside
H Ikram
H Kazmi
R McNeill
		Runs	153
		Extras	10
		Total	163

Posted in Grass Roots Academy 2012 Scorecards

GRA shines in battle against Bromley Academy

May04
2011

Written by Gary Naipaul

On a good wicket with great weather Bromley won the toss and stuck us in to bat first. We amass 284/5 from 45 overs. Once again we had a solid start from opening pair Tom Smith and Adrian St. John. After doing all the hard work of seeing off the new ball Tom inside edged one on to his stump. Sadiq Hassan came to the wicket but soon after St. John was caught behind for a solid 23. Raymond Parkinson then came to the crease to join Hassan and the two built a partnership of substance with Hassan making 73 before being bowled by S. Sridhur. With the foundation was layed, the middle order came in and all made quick contributions while batting around Parkinson who made 61, cameos from Naipaul, Haylett and Cunningham GRA managed to get up to their total of 284. The pick of the Bromley bowlers were W. Hoque and S.Sridhur who both pick up 2 wickets apiece from their 9 overs.

With 284 on the board the GRA bowlers came out and went hard at the Bromley without much luck. Henri Peters and Les Edwards bowled quick and accurate with the new ball but only pick up the one wicket which went to Edwards, the second wicket partnership for Bromley then put on a massive 200+ stand with opener Miguel Barbosa and number 3 Michael Lawrence both scoring 107. The game was in the balance for most of the time, but with good bowling from the GRA spinners St.John and Cunningham in the middle over back up by some good fielding saw Bromley run rate rised. Just when the Bromley batsmen were looking to make a charge Edwards came back into the attack and took the wicket of Lawrence. The run rate drop and with the new batsman at the crease the required rate kept climbing and Bromley batsmen struggled to keep up and in the end fell short by 25 runs and ended up on 259/2 from their 45 overs.

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