Manor Make Winning Start

The League season arrived this past Saturday - hard to believe it was upon us, such has been the shockingly bad weather for the last month - and we're pleased to announce a winning start for the two Manor sides which managed to take the field.

The Ones were cancelled as early as Wednesday evening, and the Fours on Friday afternoon, but Vine Lane looked as lovely as ever as the Twos recorded a maximum 25 point haul against Chalfont St Peter. Justin Nicholls took to the pinch hitting role with a punchy 83 (albeit one during which he was dropped nine times!) and there were runs as well for Stuart Duce (75) and Rohit Seshadri (47) in a massive 296-8 declared. The visitors didn't find things quite so easy, as Seshadri picked up 5-23 (in what we must remind everyone was his first ever competitive game of cricket!) and Matt Read 2-33.

A further 25 points for the Threes at Coney - Gulam Sherali batted almost the length of the innings for 116* and Sid Moledina added 57 in a 45 over total of 266-5; skipped Mike Eyre then picked up a five wicket haul as Chenies & Latimer subsided to a heavy defeat.

Sunday was not as successful, sadly, as Matt Read's side slipped to a 52 run defeat against Stanmore Jaffries. Kannan Kasiviswanathan made 59 and Stephen Duce picked up three wickets in an overdue return to bowling form, but too many wickets slipped away.

The Week Ahead:

First XI vs Royal Ascot CC (Vine Lane 1130 meet)
Zab Akram (c/w) Julian Corbin, Dave Huntley, Mandeep Sarai, Aftab Akram, Adam Seymour, Chris Burles, Syed Hussain Shah, James Farrell, Giles Harper, Simon Webb

Second XI vs Royal Ascot CC (Away 1130 meet)
Iain Hodgson (c) Naeem Malik (w) Stuart Duce, Syed Naman Ali, John White, Justin Nicholls, Jay Malik, Imran Khaki, Gulam Sherali, Matt Read, Alex Neil

Third XI vs NPL Teddington CC (Away 1130 meet)
Mike Eyre (c) Anslim Williams, Sid Moledina, Sunny Sandhu, Pritpal Singh, Varun Natarajan, Justin Corbin, AN Other, Kannan Kasiviswanathan, Mark Seymour, Safian Ali.

Fourth XI vs Royal Ascot CC (Home 1200 meet)
Hamid Noormohamed (c/w) Feroj Shaik, Gajju Singh, Ricky Pannu, Paul Robinson, Chris Smith, Qasim Khan, Shin Sarpal, Simon Ward, Upender Singh Hada, Clifford Thomas (TBC)

Sunday XI vs Bushey CC (Away 1200 meet)
Matt Read (c) Naeem Malik (w) Iain Hodgson, Stuart Duce, Justin Nicholls, Adam Seymour, Zeerak Anwer, Don Mahendrasingh Avish Malinga Jayamanne, Safian Ali, Hamid Noormohamed (TBC), Aftab Akram (TBC)

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