Romany CC vs Leeds Super Kings CC – Match Report

Match Summary:Romany WIN

Romany CC 183-7

Leeds Super Kings CC 68ao

Match Report:

We were very grateful to Alistair Maiden for arranging this short notice replacement game, on a lovely day. The Indian side Leeds Super Kings were our opponents. For a lot of the early part of our innings they had 9 players- we lent them 2 fielders – eventually a 10th player for them arrived. They wanted a 25-overs a side game with everyone bowling and batsmen retiring on 25, so George agreed this.

Alistair also provided a new Romany player – who has an international cap for the Netherlands – Johannes Van Ee, known as “Vee”. We hope he will play for us again. Basically everyone for Romany did well – Alistair and George had a good opening stand till Alistair played on. Vee and George continued to bat well, Vee was eventually well caught in the deep, and George retired. Scott Munro came in, hit big sixes and fours and thus retired quickly. Runs continued through the rest of the batting order, Steve Hardy, Howard Elgot, John Surtees, Rob Bielby all contributed, Keith Egerton was unlucky, and Adam Bowen and Nick Hawkins were not out having stolen some quick singles at the end – Romany 183-7 not counting the retirements.