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 Dylan. Haider kept the next over rather tight barring one wide ball. Rushank came into attack in the third over and bowed excellent lengths fetching him a wicket on the 5th ball that went for an easy catch to Pranaov. Next Kevin came in with his unique angle of around the stumps balling. This one is difficult to nail and that's why there were leg side wides and another one was hit for a six. But as we have full faith in Kevin's bowling style, we always ask him to 'keep it there' and keep working on nailing the accuracy. Next our speedster Ismail bowled an excellent over. Batters didn't manage to time his speeding balls and top edged two of them which were 'walk in the park' catches for Dylan. At the end of 5 overs Drammen were struggling at 23 for 4. Rushank got another wicket when bowled the batter in the 7th over. Arib executed a simple run-out with excellent presence of mind and in the 9th over Haider got two wickets bowling Drammen out in 8.3 overs for 40 runs. One of those was an excellent catch by Ismail at short mid-wicket.

A convincing win by 45 runs.











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