EACA 40-Overs Tournament | Scorecard Below
With brilliant sunshine beaten down on a hard quick Hecksher State Park outfield the MMZ led by USA national player Azurdeen Mohammed was hosted by the powerful East Side Warriors cricket team.
Andy Mohammed (left) struck an unbeaten 115 before picking up five for 25, Glen Meyer (right) also remain unbeaten on 61. Photo by Amanda Beepat
The 40 over affair started on time with East Side Warriors winning the toss and without any hesitation decided to bat first. It was Saud Alvi and Usman Rafique who strode out to the middle and ready to do battle.
For the MMZ boys the white leathers was given to the young Rayhanul Islam and the experienced Shines Beepat. The opening pair batted aggressively especially Alvi who was the aggressor hitting 6 fours and a massive six in his 34. Alvi and Rafique put on an opening stand of 55 in 6 overs. Rafique was the first to go well caught by Glen Meyer for 18 off Beepat. Andy Mohammed replace Islam and he put a halt to the East Side Warriors batting, Alvi was next to go caught in the deep again by Glen Meyer who took a stunning running catch off Beepat, Sabeeh Rafique was joined by Gulam Mustafa who didn’t last long after stroking a sweetly timed boundary he was out lbw to Zaaid Majeed who was bowling well keeping things tight.
Umair Tahir came in and hit a few powerful blows but was undone by the mystery hands of Saumil Gandhi for 25. Sajjad Ashfaq came in and played sensibly for 33 before he was well caught on the long on boundary by Saud Hussain. It was all Andy Mohammed after that totally mesmerized the batsmen, First he had Ali Murtaza brilliantly caught by the wicket keeper Andre Persaud diving to his right who was filling in for Ajaz Asgarally who is nursing a minor hamstring . Yasir Nazir was the next man to go out caught in the deep by Imdad khan who took a well judged catch, Ricky Singh went via the lbw route for 1 and Kashif Naseem was cleaned bowled first ball for a duck. Andy finishes with figures of 7-0-25-5 East side warriors finish on 193 all out off 39.2 overs.
Bowling for MMZ: Rayhanul Islam 4-0-21-0, Shines Beepat 8-0-42-2, Azurdeen 7-0-25-5, Zaaid Majeed 6.2-0-35-2, Saumil Gandhi 6-1-18-1, Imdad khan 2-0-12-0 and Gangaram Lochan 6-0-21-0.
Meten –Meer –Zorg opening pair, the talented USA national player Azurdeen Mohammed and the elegant former Singapore player Glen Meyer walked out to the middle and from the very first over it was all MMZ, Meyer took 20 off the first over bowled by Yasir Nazir hitting some glorious shots across the quick Hecksher outfield. Mohammed and Meyer batted with pure class hitting the ball to all parts of the field. The way Meyer started off it looks like he would reach three figures first.
At the other end Mohammed was timing the ball well and hit some glorious shots, he brought up his 50 with a straight drive that went for the maximum, Mohammed was determined to bat for a long time and the pair was hammering the ball to all part of the ground with Mohammed being the one hitting some powerful sixes in the bushes. The Eastside Warriors players were all over the place literally laying down trying to get a rest when the ball was being retrieved from the bushes. Andy Mohammed brought up his century of the season with a glorious cover drive for four, his century which includes 15 magnificent fours and 5 massive sixes. Glen Meyer in the mean time was batting with sheer class, he stroke one crisply through point to bring up his half century which includes 7 sweetly timed fours. MMZ reached their target 194 without loss in 21.1 overs.
Summary of the game: ESW 193 all out off 39.2 overs: Saud Alvi 34, Sajjad Ashfaq 33 and Umair Tahir 25.
Bowling for MMZ: Andy Mohammed 5 for 25, Zaaid Majeed 2 for 35 and Shines Beepat 2 for 42.
MMZ 194 /0 off 21.1 overs: Andy Mohammed 115 not out and Glen Meyer 61 not out.
MMZ CC won by 10 wickets with 18.5 overs to spare.
