College Players in Leagues – Adil Bhatti blasts 98* , almost without running !
Adil Bhatti (MC) smashed 98* in 70 balls,including 9 sixes & 8 fours as his team,the Bengals, chased 230 runs (40 over game) for the win. An astounding 86 runs coming in boundaries – I guess Bhatti did not want to run.. Bhatti also took 2 wickets for 40 runs.
Last season Bhatti scored 2 centuries in the highly competitive Washington Cricket League. This 98* is his 3rd score over 50 so far this season.
Mohammed Kamran (MC), MVP of the 2009 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship scored 71* . It was Kamran’s attacking 63* (together with a Captain’s knock from Adil Bhatti) that propelled Montgomery to a defendable total in the Finals in 2009. Kamran also opens the bowling for Montgomery.
Robin Das (St John’s) and MVP & Captain of last year’s NYC PSAL High School Cricket Champions, Newcomers High SChool, took 5.4-1-8-5
Basit Zubair smashed 41 in 13 balls
Mohammed Ghous, Under World Cup USA player, and recent USA debutant, scored a century
Sid Dhume (Irvine Valley) cracked 138 in 126 balls . 11 fours, 3 sixes. An off-spin bowler he had figures of 8 ov , 26 runs and 2 wickets
Saisitarm Ramesh (USF) 61* and 2/30
Zahid Majeed 7-1-14-2
High Schoolers Prashant Nair & Kishan Dass were among the wickets as usual in their League games:
Prashant Nair 4 for 22
teenager left-arm swing bowler Yogindra “Kishan” Dass took 8-0-21-2.
Ian Latchman, younger bro of Leikram, 5-0-11-5
Teenager Asif Ali took 3 wickets in 4 balls, and finished with 5 for 34 off 8 overs,
Sid Dhume (Irvine Valley)
