| Traditional Corsairs won by 6
wickets
Chats Palace 88 all out (14.3 overs)
Traditional Corsairs 90-1 (7.3 overs)
Corsairs Leave Palace in
Ruins
By Ajaz Rashid of Traditional Corsairs
Following hot on the trails
of Liverpool's historic fifth European Cup triumph, the Traditional
Corsairs created their own piece of history by completing their fifth
victory on the trot against a Chats Palace side looking for their first
win of the season in the VPCCL last Thursday. Nimo, showing no mercy
and a Benitez like ruthless streak, selected a very strong line up against
the team propping up the table and for this latest adventure, the
twin turbo probelled speedsters Laeeq and Javio made their debuts on a
much warmer evening. Nimo's season's continued to be
contribution less as he lost the toss, and this was greeted by chants of
'loser!, loser!' from Faisal on the boundary.
Chats Palace decided to bat first and the corsairs opened up with Javio
and Emran. Jav (1-16 off 3) opened his account early with a caught
behind, well taken by Nimo, who was giving Faisal a rest. Both
bowled steadily against a side who defended resolutely, although there was
some playing and missing (quite a bit actually). The only blot
against Emran's figures (0-23 off 3) being a couple of poorly disguised
slower deliveries that my grandmother would have slapped into the middle
of next week. He could be forgiven however, as he had would have
been shell shocked from the previous over - witnessing his little brother
Faisal chasing a ball to the boundary with all the fury of Larry Grayson
in his prime, and all the speed of ' a drunken slug' as witnessed by one
of his team mates. It was quite a sight to behold and now the reason
why he is the corsairs regular keeper has been exposed to the world (i.e.
he runs like a girl).
Imi (0-12 off 3) bowled a
fine spell, and demonstrated real pace and hostility when bowling to the
female Chats Palace player ('boo...hiss....boo' could be heard from the
boundary and the infield) and Naz really went to town and ended up with
4-19 from 4 overs, easily the best bowler in town. Faisal also
managed to get a bowl and his first delivery was greeted with
encouragement from Bert on the sidelines of 'Come on Larry!' and that was
the highlight of that over - enough said. Overall it was an ok
bowling performance, but a bit lax in the field. Nimo making a fine
debut behind the stumps with 2 catches, 2 run outs (although, I don't know
how he can claim them, but it's not worth arguing with an MNM, as Mr Kurak
has found out to his cost) and lots of byes. Tim (20), James (16)
and Perry (12) all made starts but were unable to keep it up and Chats
Palace were bowled out for 88 in 14.3 overs.
In response the Corsairs lost an early wicket. Having blackmailed
the skipper to let him open the batting, Ajaz strode out Afridi like, and
strode back just as rapidly after slapping a quickfire 2 from 2 deliveries
and being castled by Jeff. It was fun for the crowd while it lasted.
This brought Laeeq to the crease to join the skipper and they duly
went about their business and brought the Corsairs close to victory with a
mixture of big shots and singles at a cruise. Nimo retired at 52
n.o. allowing Faisal the chance to demonstrate his ambidextrosity by
batting left hand, surviving a very close c & b to finish unbeaten on
1. Laeeq fittingly provided the final blow of this match and
finished on 25 n.o., the target being reached inside 8 overs.
Another win for the corsairs complete.
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