T20 Oslo 2021 Match 8: Helsfyr vs Aliens
Aliens batting first
Match Summary:
A cricket match on weekday Thursday for Aliens and with quite a bit of traffic on road and familiar opposition Helsfyr having played some practice matches, We wanted to settle the score of our last loss. We won the toss and batted first. Dennis and Marcus opened for Aliens, Dennis, our in-form batter looped one to the hands of the catcher at square leg. Damon joined Marcus at the crease with the score standing 21 for 1, and both played sensibly and put on a 50+ partnership until Marcus got stumped with a personal score of 35 with a strike rate of 102. Ankush joined Damon after David K was adjudged LBW at 1 with the aliens score standing 81 for 3 at 12.1 over. Damon and Ankush put up a 37 run partnership in 4 overs before Ankush perished on 18 of 15 balls. Shahbaz was next in and next out “Run Out” without troubling the scorer. Benan played some beautiful shots for his 16 of 12. Damon alongside David M remained unbeaten on 50 aggregating Aliens total to 141 for the loss of 6 wickets.
Aliens defending 141
Dennis started the proceedings for The Aliens and it was 0/1 on the very first ball of the inning. Damon next got the other opener caught and bold in 3rd over. David M and Arif bowled tightly with well backed up in the field with some good catching particularly by Shahbaz behind the stumps and Dennis in the deep to remove middle order batters.
The rest of the overs still bowled quite economically with the score standing 77/5 in 13 overs , not giving too many extras and in the field we continued to back up the bowlers well. With the required run rate David K, Arif and Paul cleaned up Helsfyr lower middle order with a comfortable 21 run victory.
David K got 3 , Arif and paul chipped in with 2 each. Dennis ,Damon and David Maloney added 1 wicket each to their tally. A good team effort by the Aliens in getting a comfortable victory against Helsfyr towards the end of the shortened season due to Covid19.
Reported by Ankush
PS: Thinking of making voice memo´s for the next match report live from the ground. If at all , I remember of what I said.
Credit: Branson Belle