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 Vestli U13 A played back back to games against Drammen on 30th May. Two members from the core team were unavailable including the captain, so we invited Dylan and Hashim to join the squad who have since moved to the U15 squad.  In the first game, our stand-in captain Ismail won the toss and chose to bat first. Ismail and Arib opened the innings and gave a solid start. Arib had an unfortune dismissal in the third over when he dragged the ball onto the leg-stump try to play a flick. Kevin then joined Ismail and they went steady scoring 59 in 7 overs. We then introduced Saad and Hashim to bat at the beginning of the 8th over. Saad was caugth at mid off in the 10th over. Ismail went back for last three balls. Hashim and Ismail played till the end took the score to 85 for 2. The innings had nearly 25 wide/no balls so the boys did not get many balls to strike. Pranaov started the balling attack and just on the 4th ball got a nick that was cleanly collected by our 'senior' keeper Dy...

Vestli U13 A team had to play against United with just 7 players on the ground as 4 of our little champs were sick that day. Our batters did quite well and took us to 91 in the 9th over. In the 10th over, Ismail joined Pranaov. Together they made 23 runs in that over including 19 from Ismail in only 6 balls. before that Kevin played an aggressive innings and scored 16 in 13 balls. We gave United a target of 115. With only 5 fielders in the outfield and United captain, Aditya in full song, the match was humdinger throughout the second innings. Ismail and Rushank got wicket but the match was getting tilted towards United. Aditya reached his half century in the 8th over and United needed 31 in the last two overs which looked very much possible. But then Haider and Pranaov bowled two excellent overs together with sharp fielding from all the lads and restricted United to 101. Aditya remained unbeaten at 61 an we wonder what could have happened if he strategized to keep the strike for the la...

Vestli U13 B team with beginners had a tough start of the season with four games against experienced sides like City, Vestli A and Fossum. But the players kept their heads high and spirits up. In the last game against Fossum they bowled excellently but could not counteract some good hitting by Bilal from Fossum. Yesterday they met United U13, a new team just like them. This made up for an exciting context . Our boys were pumped with their bowling performance against Fossum and chose to ball after winning the toss. The first 4 overs went flawlessly and United were 4 down in no time. Nishal was our star with the ball. But then United Captain held his end and batted till the end with a brilliant 45 in 28 balls. This gave us a steep chase of 93 in 10 overs. Captain Aarav gave a brisk start but tides turned our way when Ali went to the crease and started hitting back to back boundaries. Ali made a quick 20 in 14 balls with 3 boundaries and 1 six before getting out. At this stage the game wa...

Vestli U13 A team comfortably won their first two games against Vestli U13 B and Nord. Nord boys are developing well and will be a strong side very soon. Vestli U13 A lost a close game against City U13. Our Vice captain carried his bat with 38 in 27 balls with 3 boundaries and 2 sixes. One of the best U13 batting innings by a 9 year old. They put up a competitive total of 74. However city made those runs in the eighth over despite good balling relying on strong power hitting by their 13 year old captain. Congratulations to both teams for an excellent U13 game with only 12 wide and no balls combined in both the innings.