MAL Win Bank Holiday Ruislip Friendly
Bank Holiday Monday saw MAL play a friendly against Ruislip Victoria at Camdenians Sports Ground.
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MAL 228-6 (40 overs) Mark Landau 109, Jamie Breslaw 49, Fry 4-46
Ruislip Victoria CC 141 (37.5 overs) Almeida 34*, Vijay 28, Anthony Cowan 2-7, Mark Lazar 2-19, Michael Klinger 2-27
MAL won by 87 runs
Monday, 30 August, 2010
With the pitch a little green but looking firm and with the weather pretty decent, Mark Landau opted to have a bat. Ruislip's bowlers started well and kept the pressure on. The outfield was slow, and boundaries were tough to come by.
After 10 overs Landau and Josh Begner had only managed to muster 22 runs, but the changes of bowling released the pressure, with Landau able to put some short balls away. Just as Begner was looking to find his feet, he lofted a catch and was dismissed for a battling 19 off 60 balls, with the score on 70 in the 18th over. Jamie Breslaw joined Landau and was immediately able to attack.
At drinks the score was 88, and Landau brought up his half century in the first over afterwards off 48 balls, with a towering six over long on. The partnership between Landau and Breslaw garnered 88 runs, but was broken with Breslaw on the brink of a his own half century, as he walked across his stumps to be bowled for 49 in the 30th over.
Mark Lazar came in at 4 and he and Landau put on 52 in 5 overs, as Landau raced to his century, with the second fifty coming in just 30 balls. He was eventually caught behind off left arm spinner Fry for 109 from 83 balls with one 6 and seventeen 4's. Dan Susser was out 2nd ball for 1 in similar fashion, before Lazar's innings of 16 was ended as he tried to find the boundary, giving Fry his 4th wicket. Michael Klinger came in at 6 and pushed the ball in to the gaps and ran well, though Yoni Schurder was bowled by the impressive Legg for 1. Aubrey Sheena tucked the last ball of the innings away for a couple to take MAL's total to an impressive 228 from their 40 overs.
Yoni Schurder and Anthony Cowan opened the bowling for MAL. Both were excellent from the off, Cowan finding prodigious inswing to bowl two batsmen in his first over. No batsmen could get on top of them, and the Ruislip score was only 6-2 after 10 overs.
With the game effectively already dead as a contest, Mark Landau rang the changes and gave plenty of bowlers and opportunity to get some overs under their belt. There were useful spells from Leslie Allweis (0-17 from 4 overs), and Michael Klinger but it wasn't until after drinks that MAL could make the next breakthrough, Josh Begner bowling Vijay for a hard fought 28, with the score at 47 in the 22nd over.
Dan Susser took the 4th wicket, Mark Lazar making good ground to take an over-the-shoulder catch. With the score at 84 in the 29th Ruislip captain Almeida cynically ran out opener Mitchell who admittedly had taken an inordinate amount of time in making 18.
The sixth wicket at least generated a bit of fight, with a partnership of 33 before Mark Lazar picked up 2 wickets in 3 balls, bowling James Booth for 18 and then his brother Francis 2 balls later for 0. Klinger returned to finish the innings off, bowling Legg for 4, running out non-striker Fry off the sole of his shoe for 4, and then having Vasa held at mid off by Lazar. Ruislip were all out for 141 after 37.5 overs.
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