Hustlers lose to Miami Royals

Hustlers latest game in Round 4 resulted in a loss with all bowlers from both sides taking some serious tap in a high scoring game at The Yard.

Hustlers won the toss and elected to bat first in temperatures hitting somewhere near furnace degrees.
The Hustler openers scored at over 10 an over before Johnno was first out in the 5th over with the score at 53.

Hustlers went to the 13th over break sitting nicely at 100 for 2 and in a good position to score heavily in the second half. Skipper Basil contributed a swashbuckling 73 not out in the next 12 overs with Ravi scoring a more workmanlike 36 before he was out tired and drained looking for something cold to drink and by the look of things somewhere to take a nap as well. Hustlers skip Basil showed his class with an array of leg side shots effortlessly clipped over mid wicket for 5 maximums on his way to his highest score this season in his destructive undefeated innings of 73.

The final Hustler total was an impressive 224 for 5 off the 25 overs faced.

Miami Royals set off on their run chase with Altab batting aggresively and was soon finding the middle of his bat  regulary and soon passed 50 in quicktime. He was the dominant batsman for Miami in the first 13 overs as he helped his team to a superb 143 for the loss of only 3 Miami wickets. The Hustler bowlers tried to bowl flat, quickly and accurately but were no match for the dominating Altab as their bowling disappeared even quicker and more accurately over the boundaries every over all too often.

Altab reached an impressive and chanceless 105 before he was out as the Miami run chase ended with almost 2 overs to spare to get the win and the 6 points.

Miami deserved the win as they were the better side as all the Hustler bowlers all took some serious wood even though some of them still admit they bowled well. The Hustler bowlers gave up a combined total of 16 sixes and 15 fours when they bowled their 23 overs to go with 16 wides. A bad day at the office for the Hustler bowling attack was the most over used phrase after the game by them all.  Looking for excuses such as the bad pitch, the bowling run up, the ball, the sun, the food, the drinks couldn't save any of them from their limitless array of "hit me as far as you can" balls served up by the lacklustre Hustlers bowlers .( I guess they were at a different game from what I witnessed !!! ).

Congratulations to Miami for a well played win but bigger congratulations go out to our very own Hustler Devya for becoming the Divali Nagar 2014 Champion. Well done Devya for making us all proud of you for all the hard work you put in to accomplish your achievement. Good job.

Some Hustler players were last seen preparing the bowlers run up in the dark at the Yard while others were restocking the very small coolers.

Proud father Terry & Devya.

Sunday Winners Miami Royals & Devya

Match Highlights

Hustlers 2 
224 for 5 in 25 overs
Basil 73 not out 
Chris 61
Ravi 36
Mohan 3 for 41

Miami Royals
225 for 8 in 22 overs
Altab 105
Azam 35
Sunil 2 for 27