A youthful Atlantis Cricket Club sent Big Apple Cricket Club packing last Sunday at Riis Park.
Trestan Messena bagged 5 for 32 to help Atlantis restrict Big Apple. Photo by Shiek Mohamed
Big Apple taking first strike could only put a total of 100 on the board which was heavily assisted by 20 extras, 14 of them coming from wides.
Mark Gomes, ex Atlantis player Clain Williams and pacer Charlton Senior were the only batsmen to get into double figures, Gomes struck 23, Williams had 35 and Senior contributed 12 at the bottom.
Atlantis would only use three bowlers that of pacers Casper Davis, Trestan Messena and captain Prashant Nair. It was Messena who would create havoc for the Big Apple batsmen as he bagged 5 for 32, while Davis and Nair took 2 for 42 and 3 for 22.
Chasing down the meager total, Atlantis started in a flamboyant fashion as their openers Henderson Blades and Matthew Sandiford put on 75 for the first wicket. Blades went for 44 that included six fours while Sandiford contributed an unbeaten 35. The other two batsmen that contributed were Nicholas Standford 12 and Alvin Kalamootoo 3 not out, as Atlantis reach their target in 21.1 overs.
Bowling analysis for Big Apple were: Charlton Senior 3-0-15-0, Teron Blair 4-0-14-0, Telston Johnson 1-0-12-0, Kumar Nandalall 6-1-15-1, Shiv Raghubar 2-0-6-0, Mark Gomes 1-0-7-0, Shawn Thompson 1-0-15-0 and Zaheer Saffie 3.1-0-16-1.