Yaadboyz CC lose to President CC in Rd 5

Travelling awayYaadboyz shared mini cooler for the day.

The Yaadboyz team headed off down south for their latest game against President CC in Rd 5.

Having won the toss, we had no hesitation in batting first on a beautiful hot day at Southridge Park in perfect conditions to drink many samples of cold ones at the right temperatures later on.

The Yaadboyz openers got off to a flying start facing two Allstars who opened the bowling for President of Samuel and Anil. British set after Samuel with consecutive boundaries and then followed up with the same against Anil in the next over. 
Sitting at 36 in 4 overs, British was first out for a swashbuckling 20 before he was deceived by a by Marky and was caught behind.

Wickets came and went with only the legendary Cliffy 21, the only other batsman to master the pitch and the accurate bowling of the President attack with an array of sweeping which we all known he is world famous for. Vikash once again showed great promise with the bat.

President got off to a quick start before Cliffy grabbed 2 to wickets. Ravi got 1 and wicket keeper Johnno his first ever league wicket of primetime lashman Azam.

The runs on the board were never going to be enough to defend but we still managed to get Gussy, Azam, Anil, and Samuel out before the President batsmen reached their target in the 18th over with our bowling attack made up of part timers and guys who rarely bowled an over in the SFSCL before.

We enjoyed the catchup with players from Outcast and the Florida Lightning who were playing on the pitch next door, and did our very best to have a drink with all of them. It was again another great day out for the Yaadboyz socializing with everybody and to never to change our sunday routine, we then ventured off to Hibiscus to help celebrate Skips birthday with players from present and past and down a few more liquids.

Win or lose, Div 1 or Div 2, our team will still be playing the game the way it is meant to be. No dramas, no tantrums, and most importantly, no soft drinks please........

 
Match Scores

Yaadboyz CC

114 all out
Chris 20
Cliff 21

President CC
117 for 4
Cliff 2 wkts

Next week's game is against Diamond CC at The Yard in Round 6

Yaadboyz lose to Hustlers CC in Rd 4

Match Scores

Yaadboyz CC 107 all out

John 21
Romel 5 for 5 for 12

Hustlers CC

108 for 3
Anil 69 no

Altaf 2 wkts
Ravi 1

Next week's game v President at Southridge Rd 5

Match Report Yaadboyz CC v Berbice CC Rd 3

After much thought and a few polite enquiries from other players around the SFSCL, here is our match report of our latest fixture from Round 3 against Berbice CC.

Who can name this ground?

The Yaadboyz arrived at the ground in their usual manner, some on time, some running late, and some still lost and missing in action from the previous night. With only 7 players at the ground for the start, we wondered where and who the other 4 would be to make up our 11 starters. Ravi was running on Guyanese time as per usual and said he would be on time which really meant he would show up around 1 30pm. As for the others, we all started praying for 3 able cricketers to surface from anywhere to help us out.

Altaf was nominated to go and spin the coin this week and called correctly and without any hesitation told Berbice skipper Andy the Yaadboyz will be batting first. We actually had no choice but to bat first considering we only had 7 starters at 12 30 !!!

Johnno and British opened the batting and after a couple of sighters both of them opened up their shoulders to get the innings off to a flying start. Yours truly jockeyed the strike from Johnno regulary (unintentional...honest mate), and entertained his troops from the sidelines with some beautiful shot making all through the cover point  and covers region along the carpet and over the top. (Mr Classic from the touchline would have been proud to witness those classical strokes.....). With over 10 runs an over being scored early on with ease, it was no surprise British completed his 50 by the 7th over of the innings before he was out in the 9th over for a swashbuckling 62.( This 62 of mine was a gentle reminder for all the doubters out there who said I was finished as a batsmen and was over the hill and needed to retire....I guess I still have a little left).

At the break we sat pretty on 107 for 1.

The rest of the innings saw Johnno make 41, new member Vikash hit a promising 24, and Altaf bludgeon 21 to prop up our total to a respectable 197.

Berbice batted beautifully in their run chase with firstly H Muneshwar 53, Jerry 35, and Mikey 60 not out seeing them pass our score in the 23rd over with ease.( I will not embarass any of our bowlers with bowling stats......but they all tried their best on a tough day).

Even though we lost the game with a team short of numbers, we still managed to close down the Yard and helped Hibiscus up their bar sales well into the night as per usual.

Congratulations to Berbice for the win as it is always a pleasure to catch up with some of my ex team mates to share a story or two. Indeed, it was another great day out in the park playing cricket without any dramas and small time bickering between players as we both managed to play the game in the right spirit (the Mankading was nowhere to be seen).

Thanks going out for hosting us to Ramesh and his crew and good luck for the rest of the season.

Next week we play Hustlers 1 at Joe Carter Park in Rd 4.

Match report submitted by the random English Bloke....

N.B 
This match report is dedicated to Tariq from Florida Lightning CC as I  am only going to do match reports when I score runs......(lol)

Yaadboyz lose to Berbice CC Round 3

Match Scores

Yaadboyz CC 197 for 8 in 24.4 overs

Chris 62
John 41
Vikash 24
Altaf 21

Berbice CC 198 for 7 in 23 overs

Ravi 2wkts
Rudy 2 wkts
Cliff 2 wkts

Next weeks game in Round 4 is against Hustlers CC at Joe Carter Park.

Yaadboyz win in Round 2

Match Scores

Unlimited CC 120 all out
Ravi 4 for 29

Yaadboyz CC 121 for 1 in 12 overs
Ravi 73 no
John 34 no

Yaadboyz win by 9 wickets

Match Report to follow soon