RCC Cavaliers draw with Fleet Street Strollers

Clearly by winning the toss and choosing to bat Fleet Street Strollers were confident in their batting line up. And so it proved. There were some decent players in there and despite some accurate bowling by Will Hunting and Chad Potter making significant inroads into the batting order proved a bit of a challenge.

By over 30 (with Hunting and Potter rested) FSS were 165 for 3 and seemingly set for 220+. However, over the next 7 overs wickets fell and runs were harder to come by (as we were into the tail) which may have been the reason for FSS’s reasonably generous declaration at 37 overs on 192 for 7.

RCC’s pick of the bowlers Will Hunting (3-42), Saqib Abassi (3–40), Chad Potter who bowled well without success and special mention to RCC’s U13 player Sam Vahdati who took 1-2 in his 2 overs.

In response Henderson and Alway didn’t quite match the 134 opening stand of the previous week and it was Saqib (63) who, with a number of batting partners, kept RCC in the hunt. Saqib’s demise didn’t spell the end of the chase as a speedy 17 from Nathan Quick got us to a fighting chance of winning. Sadly, with 9 down, and in the gloom we finished 7 short of the winning target. Match drawn.

Nevertheless, a pretty good effort. I’ve been looking at the play-cricket archives and it was 2005 since we last beat FSS – since then FSS have won 5 and we have had one abandoned, so to get within spitting distance of a win was not a bad effort.

Man of the match: Saqib Abassi
(report by Mark Boag)