Florida Masters beat Orlando Masters by 7 wickets

Florida Masters Squad

South Florida Masters Yaadboyz

South Florida Masters lead by an aggressive 72 from Nazim Ali easily defeated their rivals Orlando Masters by 7 wickets at the Broward Cricket Stadium in the inaugural match of the Florida Premier Softball Cricket League.

South Florida Masters captain, Chris Arjoon, asked Orlando to take first strike and saw Orlando's top order struggle against some accurate bowling from the South Florida opening bowlers. They lost their first wicket on 20 when Azar Khan was comprehensively bowled by Amar Singh as he was trying to accelerate the scoring rate.  Orlando Master continued to loose wickets at regular intervals as they kept the pressure on what seems to be a nervous batting line-up.   Yamin Ifty top scored with 31 and was the only batsman that looked comfortable against the South Florida bowling attack.

Trevor Persaud  and Joe Ramgobin were the top bowlers for South Florida with three wickets each and were well supported by Deodat Ramesh, Kaiume Mohammed, Amar Singh, and Paul Roach who all had very economical figures.

South Florida Masters

In reply to Orlando's total of  132, South Florida got off to a flying  start with  Nazim Ali taking the attack to the Orlando opening bowlers.  Nazim Ali went on to score the first half century in the Florida Premier Softball Cricket league and he was well supported by the hard hitting  Kaiume Mohamed who scored an aggressive 32  which included four sixes.

South Florida Masters v Orlando Masters

The Florida Masters team managed to complete the run chase by the 18th over.

The squad itself was made up of 5 Yaadboyz CC (Basil, Ravi, John, Amar, Chris capt), 3 Guyana Heat CC (Ramesh, Paul, Joe), 1 Outlaw CC (Kaiume vc), 1 Hustler CC (Trevor), 1 Breakaway CC (Jay), 1 FiveStar CC (Nazim) and managed by Yaadboyz CC Cliff Rahaman.

Final Scores
Orlando 132/10
South Florida 133/3