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Central Cats vs Backyard Cricket

Venue: Johannesburg Lions Arena

Round: 6 • Result: Chasing team won by 5 wickets • Winner: Central Cats

Man of the Match
Callum Hughes
Batting: 65 (36) • SR 180.56 • 4s 8 • 6s 2 | Bowling: 1/21 • 1.0 ov | Team: Central Cats

Innings

Innings 1 — Backyard Cricket
Score: 161/10 • Overs: 16.1
Bowling: Central Cats
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Arjun Mehta 2 5 40.00 0 0 b Mitch O’Connor
Callum Hughes 11 5 220.00 2 0 b Mitch O’Connor
Faisal Rahman 7 9 77.78 1 0 c Ishaan Malhotra b Jai Suryan
Kunal Bhatia 0 1 0.00 0 0 c Kieran Holt b Jai Suryan
Ravi Narayan 26 20 130.00 2 1 b Ben Callaghan
Imtiaz Ali 30 13 230.77 4 1 c Jai Suryan b Jai Suryan
Kenji Watanabe 28 13 215.38 1 3 c Kieran Holt b Yusuf Siddiqui
Noman Ashraf 10 12 83.33 0 0 b Diego Mendez
Tenzin Dorje 23 11 209.09 2 1 run out (Imtiaz Ali)
Bilal Khan 4 4 100.00 0 0 b Callum Hughes
Finlay Grant 20 4 500.00 2 2 not out
Fall of Wickets: 2/1, 13/2, 20/3, 20/4, 46/5, 76/6, 104/7, 114/8, 137/9, 161/10
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Jai Suryan 4.0 35 3 8.75
Mitch O’Connor 4.0 42 2 10.50
Diego Mendez 0.1 0 1 0.00
Ben Callaghan 3.0 19 1 6.33
Callum Hughes 1.0 21 1 21.00
Yusuf Siddiqui 4.0 44 1 11.00
Innings 2 — Central Cats
Score: 163/5 • Overs: 17.0
Bowling: Backyard Cricket
Batting
Batter R B SR 4s 6s Dismissal
Callum Hughes 65 36 180.56 8 2 c Noman Ashraf b Tenzin Dorje
Diego Mendez 2 4 50.00 0 0 c Arjun Mehta b Noman Ashraf
Faisal Rahman 0 3 0.00 0 0 c Tenzin Dorje b Noman Ashraf
Ishaan Malhotra 29 21 138.10 4 0 c Kenji Watanabe b Noman Ashraf
Imtiaz Ali 21 13 161.54 3 0 b Bilal Khan
Jai Suryan 24 16 150.00 3 0 not out
Mitch O’Connor 22 9 244.44 5 0 not out
Fall of Wickets: 65/1, 67/2, 67/3, 96/4, 117/5
Bowling
Bowler Overs Runs Wkts Econ
Noman Ashraf 4.0 27 3 6.75
Bilal Khan 3.0 19 1 6.33
Tenzin Dorje 4.0 42 1 10.50
Callum Hughes 1.0 11 0 11.00
Arjun Mehta 1.0 19 0 19.00
Kenji Watanabe 4.0 45 0 11.25