Div 2 Round 10: Aliens Vs Inter Lions
When: 09 July 2016
Where: Rommen
Inter Lions Cricket Club 166 9 (30.0 ov)
Aliens Cricket Club 168 2 (24.4 ov)
Aliens Cricket Club - Won by 8 wickets
Aliens register third consecutive win!
On a wonderful cricketing day in Rommen on 09.07.2016, Aliens on a high after winning the last two games, won this much awaited game with perfect team game topped by extraordinary performances from Damon Crawford and Damien Devlin, to reach 6th in the ranking table.
Inter Lions Cricket Club one of the stronger teams in the league which won the last match against Aliens comfortably, won the toss and elected to bat first in order to set a competitive target. Inter lions started with a defensive game and were playing comfortably against the Aliens’ new ball bowlers Damon Crawford and Tariq Omar, until Crawford got his first break through in the fourth over when he bowled Mahmood Khan, Damon got Asanga right on his next delivery, which pushed Lions on the back foot as they were reduced to 22 for 2, Crawford got his third at 27 in 6.3 overs and Dennis Peter got Lions’ fourth wicket at 31. Then the usual good partnership between Saqlain and Hansa in an innings arrived threatening to take the game away whilst the bowlers were rotated to get a wicket, David finally got Saqlain when he was 49 and Lions were 110 in 19.5 overs, there wasn’t a partnership worth mentioning for Lions. Crawford, Toufiq, Tariq and Dennis took the next wickets, by the end of 30 overs Lions reached 165 with the loss of 9 wickets.
Aliens opened the batting with Damien Devlin and David Kuhlwilm, the partnership between the openers for Aliens wasn’t long lasting, David lost his wicket when Aliens were 6 at 1.2 overs, the next to bat was Dennis Peter who made a wonderful partnership of 89 runs with Damien before he was caught at 33 of 34, it was time for Crawford bat after he took four of Lions’ wickets, Crawford and Damien worked 75 runs for third wicket, Crawford scoring 32 of 36 and Damien 92 of 75.
Damien Devlin’s unbeaten 92 brought up the Aliens a convincing win over their rival Inter Lions, considering this was his first league game this season the feat is highly commendable.