On an increasingly gloomy evening the local derby was played out in good spirit. Moseley Ashfield captain Tom Colsby won the toss and chose to bowl.
Kings Heath opener Josh Baker strode out to the wicket and immediately picked up from his last two high scoring innings.He received intermittent support as he headed for an assured 53 before being caught. Callum Bird, Rashurd Ali and Hassan Farooq all contributed double figures as Kings Heath progressed to a commendable 133 from 20 overs.
Then came the Kings Heath Bowlers! Rashurd and Louie Turpie delivered a fast and accurate eight over attack. Rash achieved three maidens and gave only one run in his fourth over. At the other end Louie Turpie took the Moseley Ashfield opening batsmen LBW and bowled respectively. Naweed Uddin, Callum Bird and Pardeep Ruprai followed up with brilliant medium and slow bowling to pin the batsmen down and take wickets regularly. They were backed up by energetic and committed fielding all round with the whole team focused on keeping it tight.
Moseley Ashfield were all out for 56 after 17.4 overs and Kings Heath won by 77 runs.
Batting :
Josh Baker53;
Callum Bird 18;
Rashurd Ali 18,
Hassan Farooq 11
Bowling :
Rashurd 1 run off 4 overs;
Naweed 3 wickets for 19 runs of 4 overs
Callum 3 for 12 runs of 3 overs
louie 2 for 8 runs of 4 overs
Pardeep 1 for 4 runs of 2 overs
