First Class Round 1 Results and Match Reports

[Mister Wright]

Great write-up SBI, but I thought the game was at your ground, not ours as you were the first team listed.

 

[Mister Wright]

Titans begin campaign with close lose

Titans have began their campaign to gain entry into Division 1 with a closely fought loss against Karachi.

Karachi lost their first wicket at 1/105 and dominated the rest of the innings with bowling Karachi out for 289. Batters for Karachi were H Raza 63 (147), and T Ambrose with 78 (90). The main weapon for the Titans was fast bowler A Nel who finsished with 4/74 off 19 overs including the crucial scalp of T Ambrose.

The Titans run chase started a bit shaky after A Holland was caught behind for 13 runs to make it 1/31. However, T Darden (63) and H Kuhn (92) stuck around and made a valuable partnership of 120 to set the platform for the rest of the batters.

From there on it was the Titans match with valuable contributions from G Gow (99), M Aronstam (84), A Morkel (62*) and M Morkel (31), scoring 519, too which no body thought Karachi could come back from.

This proved somewhat incorrect with the Karachi men scoring 410 with half-centuries from S Bin Nazir, M Jenkins, T Ambrose and S Kabir. The main destroyer was once again A Nel with 3 wickets.

Set 180 runs the Titans seemed home if they batted like they did in the first innings. But this didn't count on some extroadinry bowling, ****ty batting and a quickly deteroating pitch. The odds on Titans scoring 180 runs were very low according to WCC sportsbet, $1.09. However at 5/16, it seemed Karachi were going to cause a great comeback. A 91 run partneship worried the home team to make it 5-107. But several qucik wickets made it 7-107. A Nel made the scoresheet a bit more closer wit 28 runs, but several more wickets to T Chaminda concluded this match with Titans losing by 26 runs.

Coach Matthew Luff said after the match "There are a lot of positives than can be taken out of that match, especially the first Innings batting and Bowling, however we need to not fall asleep like we did in the second innings with ****iness defintly being a large factor in losing the match. We just need to concentrate on the upcoming OD game and go from there".

Coach's award.

3. A Nel
2. H Kuhn
1. G Gow

Don't you mean close loss?

 

[luffy]

Don't you mean close loss?

Get over it. One letter.

But don't go over the whole thing, there are sure to be many a gramtical error in there.