Bashers Business vs K2 April 8th Lumberjack Report

After having missed the opportunity to beat the reigning Div 1 champs the round before the Business were to play last year’s defeated finalists in their second game of the season.
The day dawned overcast and slightly colder than the days previous. 9 Biz Boys met at the Camel and departed by bus, leaving a miserably late Tiny to make his own way to ground. Paps and Leppa went direct as usual and as usual Leppa was late and thus claimed 12th man duties for the day!

Filthy won the toss and inserted the opposition were quickly in trouble. Dazzler was nipping it both ways and Paps was hooping the new ball round corners under the cloudy skies. Tiny clung onto an early Sajid waft at 3rd man giving Dazzler his first wicket at 7/1. Paps quickly followed that up with a viciously swinging delivery that caught the inside edge of Saleem’s bat and thundered into the stumps making it 20/2. 10 runs later Waqar took a suicidal single to Filthy, whose underarm lob from a few feet away found Waqar well short of his ground (30/3 after 6 overs). A maiden from Dazzler followed and in his next over he claimed his second wicket with a sharp caught and bowled to dismiss Mujahid with the score at 39/4 after 9 overs. This brought Meer and Shafqat to the wicket with their team in trouble. Shafqat had caused us and many others trouble in the preceeding seasons and his wicket is key to dismissing K2 cheaply. Tiny was brought into the attack following Paps’ sharp 5 over salvo and promptly had a Tiny meltdown as is his habit. 6 wides and 2 no balls later Tiny had finished with 16 off his over and it was drinks. K2 humming along at almost 7/over but 4 down.

That quickly became 5 as Tiny rewarded his captains faith in him by claiming Shafqat LBW in the first over after drinks. 93/5 after 14 overs. In came Najeeb to join his captain and the two put on another 15 runs before Tiny yorker shattered Meer’s stumps after another unseemly hoick. 108/6. Mehmood, in his first game back with K2 after a season with the Dogs, came in at number 8 and disappeared pretty quickly. Cassius claiming a sharp catch behind of the red hot Tiny. At 119/7 the Business really felt the business. That was all to change with Zahid coming in at 9. Along with Najeeb, Zahid put on 74 runs in quick time as Filthy and Growler both grassed catchable opportunities. Sinbad was introduced and deposited several times into the bushes sourrounding the ground including enormous 6s of consecutive deliveries. His 2 overs costing 39 runs. Stats finally held a catch for the Business to dismiss Najeeb of Tubby for 71 off 47 balls. 193/8. From here Zahid (40*) really put the foot down and dominated the remaining partnerships off 38 with Ziafit (7) and 15 with Shoaib (4). Filthy returned to mop up the tail and K2 were dismissed in the 35th over for 246.

Having tied with the Devils in the previous game chasing 242 the Business were confident they could do it (except Stats who later admitted to thinking we’d already lost by the halfway stage). Sir Dick and Oscar opened after their relative success in the first game. They more than matcched in on this occasion with Sir Dick thrashing his way to 41 off only 32 balls, including 6 4s as his first six scoring shots. He fell to a well judged catch at 73/1 off 10 overs. With the platform set Oscar and Growler set about accumulating singles, Oscar in particular accruing a large number of wides bowled to him (a direct result of his batsmenship if one was to ask him). At 91 Oscar fell LBW for the 2nd game running for 18 (off 38 balls). Stats joined Oscar and they put togther 25 off 7 overs before Growler was harshly judged caught behind (off his thigh pad) for 13 off 32 balls. 116/3 off 20 overs meant the Business were slightly behind the run rate at the halfway stage but with the big guns still to bat. Dazzler joined Stats and the two put on a quick 34 in only 4 overs before the introduction of Shafqat to the bowling crease saw Stats slash a wide delivery to Saleem at point. 150/4 off 24 overs. 97 needed of 16. Tubby joined Dazzler fresh of his bludgeoning 70 in the first game and was quickly into his stride the a boundary through cover point of his first delivery. Runs seemed very easy to come by as Tubby and Dazzler scored at almost 10 an over during a dazzling 78 run partnership. It was ended only when Shafqat held another sharp chance of a lofted Tubby drive to leave the Business 228/5 off 32 overs. Only required off 8. It took Dazzler and Cassius only 3 overs to polish of the runs and give the Business and the Bashers club an unbeaten start to the season. 249/5 off only 34 overs.

• Sunday 8 April 2012 Dulwich College
  K2 CCC 246/10 (0)
  Bashers Business 249/5 (4)

A strong batting performance by each of the top 7 rescuing the Business after another fielding/bowling meltdown. More than 40 wides conceeded and at least 3 droppes catches, including one from Tiny off his own bowling, which was awarded the ‘Sinbad’ Drop of the Day Award (a recently instituted award in the Business fine sessions).

Dazzler: 8-1-42-2, 59* off 44 (8 4s/2 6s) 1 catch = MOM
Tubby: 5-0-25-1, 37 off 23 (5 4s/1 6s)
Tiny: 8-0-56-3, 1 catch
Sir Dick: 41 off 32 (6 4s/1 6s)
Fithy: 4.2-0-31-2, 1 run out
Stats: 23 off 31, 1 catch

2012 Division One

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Monday 9 April 2012	P	W	D	L	F	A	P
Bashers Business	2	1	1	0	490	487	6
Daredevils CC	2	1	1	0	358	354	6
DPR Hot Dogs	1	1	0	0	155	152	4
K2 CCC	1	0	0	1	246	249	0
Pudong Power	2	0	0	2	265	272	0

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