Our 1st placed Div 1 team again led the way with a decisive victory over Scotia Strikers CC, providing our highlight of the weekend with Div 3 and Div 4 both losing their games.
Batting first, Arslan Khan (84 of 59) and Shivam Verma (62 off 40) combined for a club record 108 run second wicket partnership, Shivam dominating the scoring in his first Div 1 fifty. Upon his dismissal, Arslan took over, quickly shifting through the gears to lead us to a commanding total of 3/185 off 20. In reply, Strikers were never allowed to get close as our bowlers put together a disciplined group effort. Parmveer Aujla (2/16 off 3) and Sagar Mandhan (2/22 off 4) had the best figures, while Ajay Kumar only conceded 11 runs from his 3 overs picking up a key wicket. Strikers ended their 20 overs at 8/119, a 66 run win that keeps us a win clear in first. Scorecard
Div 3 batted first and the top six all got going, but nobody carried on to exceed skipper Kazi Rahman's 34 off 17 balls. Despite being all out with 2 balls to spare, we still managed to accumulate 167, one our bowlers were confident of defending, especially when we kept them to only 33 in their powerplay. An unfortunate injury left our bowling lineup short of options, and unable to properly rotate our bowlers, Titans started scoring freely. Mohammed Tanweer (3/30 off 4) returned to take a couple of wickets to even the game up. We just couldn't slow the scoring enough though, and they passed us with 5 wickets and 5 balls left. Scorecard
Div 4 had a tough outing in the field, conceding 9/173 off the 20 overs. This was actually better than it was looking as Avengers were 3/159 off 17, but Tommy Upton and Tanmay Rajput bowled really well at the end to take 3 wickets each and keep the score from climbing further. Lacking explosive batting, we couldn't get close in the chase as we battled to 7/95 off our 20, Gurdeep Singh Boparai top scoring with 20. Scorecard