League match at Kings Norton Boys School
Kings Heath 123 for 7 in 20 overs
Kings Norton 56 for 8 in 20 overs
KINGS HEATH WON BY 67 RUNS
Following the quickly re-arranged venue the sixth league game of the season began with captain Louie Turpie winning the toss and electing to bat. Josh Baker and Joe Jennings led the way against a young Kings Norton side; core scoring by Josh, Ben Rattley, Luke Baker and an accomplished 33 by Umar Rehman put a good score of 123 on the board. It was an unpredicable artificial wicket with a very slow outfield that made runs hard to get. Many balls did not rise and left batsmen in two minds about what shot to play. Umar’s innings was brought to an end by a catch taken by Jamey Field in the midriff off a sharp boundary bound shot by Umar.
Kings Heath went out to bowl on a tricky wicket; the bowlers run ups were on grass and with no spikes it was difficult to keep balance. Rashid and Naweed opened the attack and Naweed excelled with accurate line and length at medium pace – achieving figures of 4-3-1-3. Callum Bird and Pardeep Ruprai bowled beautifully to achieve one wicket for nine runs and one for 16 respectively. Louie came on for two overs and took two consecutive wickets from his first two balls. Rashid had a difficult session on the pitch that resulted in him being withdrawn following two consecutive unintended beamers after conceding only four runs off 3.5 overs.
