Aztecs v South Loughton (Jeff Rodrigues Trophy U13)

Aztecs Cricket Club Match Report
Date: 08/07/2021
Fixture Type: Jeff Rodrigues Trophy U13 (Pairs Cricket)
Home Team: Aztecs CC U13
Opposition: South Loughton CC U13
Result: South Loughton CC won by 4 wickets
Toss: South Loughton won (bowl first)

Squad:
1-Govind Menon
2-Dhyanesh Ramamurthy
3-Viraj Patel
4-Aahad Hussain (WK) (C)
5-Zeeruk Ahmed
6-Eisa Adam
7-Aariz Sheikh
8-Kalindu Attanayake
Scorer: Azher Hussain

Top Scorer: Dhyanesh (10)

Top Bowler: Dhyanesh(0-17)

The first innings:
*Lost 8 wickets. Lost wickets at regular intervals & running between wickets and calling was very poor. 3 run outs
*Started off positively, with a solid opening partnership between Dhyanesh & Govind (25 runs incl. extras) without losing a wicket, Aahad was our next best batsman with 4 without losing a wicket, after that we lost wickets regularly and the scoring slowed down to literally zero. (As re-iterated before, we badly need to get some solid batting training in for the u13 team).
*Despite the loss of wickets in the mid and lower order, we are not scoring any runs. Batsmen wasting too many balls only to score 1 or 2 runs. Saying that, opposition fielding was super tight and did not let team score singles.

The second innings:
*Most runs given by our team in the whole season.....a staggering 184 runs
*Line and length was non-existant and opposition took full advantage of the bad bowling
*Fielders were running scared of the ball. At times no attempts were made to stop the ball or even catch the ball. Not good enough!
*Got 3 wickets with 2 excellent stumpings by Aahad and Eisa

A match to be forgotten about. A match where we went backwards instead of forward. Players are aware of the mistakes made and a much better performance against Wanstead in the game has been promised. Only positive from the game was that wicket keeping was good.