Hustlers 2 birthday at the Yard......

The Hustler squad took advantage of their walkover week with 2 practice games played between themselves on sunday as well as celebrating Basil's, the vice captain's birthday.

Plenty of food and drinks were supplied for the thirsty and hungry players. As the day went on we were joined later on in the day by their club sponsor Arnold and his friends. We even had a few guys from Breakaway and Superkings show up to celebrate Basil's birthday who has been around the SFSCL scene for many years now.

Not only he is one of the most passionate and hard hitting batsman of cricketers on the field of play but also one of the fairest and most respected by his other fellow players around the league.

The Hustler squad of Chris, Cliff, Ravi, Derek, Michael, Reetesh, Sookraj, Calvin, Terry, Mohan, Jai, Ameer and Seenauth split into 2 sets of teams and then played a quick 10 over game where Basil's side chased down 88 in 9 overs to beat Chris's team. Derek surprised a few onlookers when opening the innings as he scored 26. Michael and Reetesh both hit some big sixes as they reminded the older Hustler players the youngster coming through may be pushing them for their top order batting spots in a few seasons from now. Terry even chimed in with some boundaries of his own as well as Ameer who retired early after blitzing the bowling for a quickfire 28.

 

The second game was a quick 6 over slog fest with Basil's squad putting up a score of 63. Mikey and Reetesh took a liking to all the bowlers as they hit more big sixes.

 

Chris and Sookraj started up well before Sookraj was bowled and then with Ravi coming in later set about the target with Chris. Ravi helped himself to 24 off one over and with only 7 needed off 2 overs, Chris sent Basil over the rope for back to back sixes to complete the game with an over to spare.

 

The two games played showed the captain that their batting strength is looking very impressive and bodes well for the rest of the season with good contributions from all the middle order batters.

 

 

The rest of the afternoon was celebrated with a few cold ones and another beer run before everybody packed up and headed to Hibiscus for a few more farewell drinks.

 

 

Many thanks to the birthday boy Basil for all the hard work he did with all his food preparation which went down a treat with everybody.

 

Next week it's back to league action when the Hustler squad head off to Tamarac to face new team Vikings Canecutters CC in which should be an entertaining and competitive game in the SFSCL.