Unbeaten London Sports Club registered yet another victory in a row last weekend.
Congratulations to week 4 winners MCC, London Sports Club, Griffins Sports Club, London Desperados & London Strikers.
MCC beat Bedford Malayalee CC by 16 runs in a close contest at Mewsbury Park, Bedford on Saturday. Batting first MCC were all out for 136 against a well-disciplined blowing attack by Sumesh Subramanian, Johnley Jacob and Jijo Skaria for BMCC. Naseer Rana top scored for MCC with a well-made 43 runs. MCC responded with Ali Khan and Khashif Siddique taking regular wickets well supported by the rest of the bowlers to bowl out BMCC for 120 runs.
Griffins beat Thunder Boys by 65 runs at Hainault on Saturday. Batting first Griffins scored a decent total of 175. Thunder Boys started well with both their opening batsmen kept the score moving without losing wickets, but a brilliant spell from Anooj Syamala who took 6 wickets for 35 restricted them all out for 110.
London Sports Club beat Martians by 3 wickets to register their 4rd consecutive victory of the season at Peter May Sports Centre on Saturday. LSC managed to bowl out Martians for a modest total of 116 with the help of an outstanding spell of 6 for 28 by Mohammed Jasim. Martians responded back strongly by taking early wickets, but Matt Robinson scored a half century, played an exceptional innings stood firmly at one end to take the team over the line.
London Strikers beat Aztecs CC by 135 runs at Layton on Saturday. Batting first Strikers Scored a huge total of 243 on the board with the help of a fantastic batting display by Janish Pillai (81) and James Gilbert (60). Ronak Patel took 4 wickets for Aztecs who were all out for low score.
London Desperados beat Panthers by 6 wickets at Southall on Sunday. Batting first Panthers were all out for 141, thanks to Vishanth Vijayan & Sathish Nadar taking 3 wickets each for Desperados. In response Desperados comfortably chased the target for the loss of 6 wickets.
Congratulations to Global Study Link top performers of the week.
Player of the Week: Janish Pillai (London Strikers)
Star of the Week: Anooj Syamala (Griffins Sports Club)
Orange Cap winner of the week: Midlaj Mukriyan (Panthers Sports Club)
Purple Cap winner of the week: Anooj Syamala (Griffins Sports Club)
Man of the matches: Nazeer Ud Din (MCC), Matt Robinson (London Sports Club), Anooj Syamala (Griffins Sports Club), Vishanth Vijayan (London Desperados), Janish Pillai (London Strikers)