La Manga Cricket Club second XI took maximum points from Intellectuals of Alicante in the latest ECCL Division Two fixture.
Batting first La Manga amassed 286 for 6 with centurion G Singh being the mainstay of the innings. He was well supported by V Singh who scored a half century and Davies who remained 41 not out at the declaration of the home sides innings. Cormack and Faulkner took two wickets each for the visitors, who were opening their league campaign.
The Intellectuals batting was rusty and they could only manage to make a small dint into the La Manga score, eventually ewnding up all out for 102. Matt Copperwheat took five wickets for La Manga, with only three Intellectual batsmen making double figures.
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There was a tense finish to yesterday's league game between La Manga and Alcorcon running out with the Madrid based side the eventual victors by just FIVE runs.
Alcorcon batted first but it was La Manga who drew first blood when the had Alcorcon's key man Tariq Ali stumped of the bowling of Spanish junior international Akash Panchal for just a single. However Alcorcon showed they are more than just a one man team has they paved their way to a respectable 232 for 8 by the close of their innings.
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The Madrid second team had a productive weekend on the coast notching up a win against Torrevieja and securing a draw against last years champions Sporting Alfas.
First up was Torrevieja and the Madrid bowling attack pulled out all the stops to bowl out the home side for just 100. Manny Fernandez was the pick of the bowlers taking four wickets for the visitors.
Madrid's batting was rusty however and they made hard work of chasing down the low total, finally overcoming the Torrevieja score with three wickets to spare.
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After the success of our first ever Twenty-Twenty international tournament in March the Lanzarote Cricket Association held a Junior Cricket Festival in May encouraging youngsters to get involved in the sport and introduced them to cricket en la calle, street cricket, whereby a game can be held in any urban location, making it easily accessible to everyone.
Ideally played by 6 members a side cricket en la calle is a fast moving and fun game where everyone gets to bat bowl and field in a short period of time and where everyone is always involved in the play. The day was a great success as over 30 children turned up and thoroughly enjoyed the cricketing activities. Members of the Lanzarote team were on hand to demonstrate and explain the basic skills involved in starting out.
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IBIZA WIN BALEARIC CUP
Ibiza Cricket Club have won the Balearic Cup for the first time since 2007. A truly momentous occasion for everyone connected to the best cricket team in the Balearics. Let the celebrations begin, festoon the streets with bunting and flags and book the open-top bus for a tour of the island.
A squad of elite cricketers and supporters, led by Captain Graeme Cooper, sallied forth to Menorca last weekend with one intention in mind. To win the Balearic Cup for the island and return for tea and medals.
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Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas 1st X1 232 for 3 beat Madrid United 231 for 9
This week´s opposition Madrid Utd first team gave the SACC players a bit of a scare amassing 61 runs from the first 10 over´s. As always the spin of Alfas´s cooled things down and wickets started to fall at a steady rate, Tayloy removing the top three in yet another memorable display his 9 overs getting rid of Waheed(53), Khasif(42), Asif(10) and a poor bit of cricket allowing Dhabyana a easy run out.
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Less than a week after making their first ever appearance in the Spanish League (ECCL 2), members of the Levante Cricket Club were back out on the field in Valencia, this time spreading the cricketing word to youngsters. The opening bowling partnership of David Tivey and Andrew Pilkington, combined with former ICC Development Program participant and Spanish national team player, Scott Burchell to put on a clinic for 11- and 12-year-old students at the Nuestra Señora del Carmen primary school in Barrio del Cristo, Aldaia.
The original idea came from Tivey’s wife, Veronica Garcia, the school’s English teacher who thought it would be a good opportunity for students to experience a new sport as part of the school’s ‘culture week’. Following the clinic, she said “it has been a really rewarding experience giving our students the opportunity to discover and try an alternative sport, which they have all enjoyed greatly”.
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The 2-hour clinic consisted of short skills stations in which children learned and practised some of the basics of batting, bowling and fielding with the three guest coaches and then got to put it all in to action with some adapted games.
“The focus was on exposing the kids to something new, but most importantly letting them have fun with it” commented Pilkington. “There were definitely a lot of smiles and laughter, especially when they got to try on the pads and helmets at the end, although many of the children also showed some real athletic ability.”
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From a development perspective, the exercise is just a starting point for the recently-formed Levante club who in the future hope to expand their predominantly ex-pat base by attracting local players and furthering involvement with local schools. In particular, Levante CC will be looking to run more workshops within the new ICC Europe initiative ‘Street Cricket 20’ in which Spain is fully involved.
Current First XI captain, Jason Noon noted that “we really hope to be able to increase awareness and participation in the Valencia region by holding more clinics and events for players of all ages and backgrounds. This was the first of many events planned for this coming summer and has very much been an initial step towards increasing such knowledge and creating long-term sustainability for our club.”
LEVANTE CRICKET CLUB
EN ESPANOL
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Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas 1st X1 204 for 1 beat Madrid 202 for 8
Sporting Alfas totally dominated the second game of the weekend against Madrid CC to cruise to a nine wicket victory and storm to the top of the Division One table.
Madrid, officially the home team for this fixture batted first and were soon in trouble, losing three quick wickets, as the opening bowlers for Alfas immediately found their line and rhythm.
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Sporting Alfas Cricket Club Sporting Alfas 1st X1 128 for 4 beat Madrid 127 for 10
First League match of the season and the first team started well. Visitors, Madrid Cricket Club, won the toss and elected to bat first, SACC bowlers got into gear very quickly with newcomer Mohib(6-13-2) and Roper(6-12-2) starting excellently.
Twelve overs gone three wickets taken. The evergreen Taylor came on and again looked comfortable against a team determined to knock him out the attack, his 3 wickets for 27 from 9 taking out the middle order. Spencer also claimed 3 wickets from his 5.3 over spell.
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La Manga's second string were just too strong for their Sporting Alfas counterparts as the hosts beat last years Division Two champions in the ECCL 2.
Batting first La Manga posted a gritty 183 all out with openers Kevin Buckley and Guppy Singh sharing an half century partnership. Young Keiron Perman bowled an excellent economic spell for the visitors and he was ably assisted by the ever youthful Bobby Nix as the pair bagged two wickets and three respectively.
Alfas did not have the batting strength to overcome the home sides total. They started well enough but with numerous youngsters in their side they lacked the experience to last out the allocated time and were finally bowled out for just 133 to lose by 50 runs. Bowler Phull took four wickets for La Manga to complete an excellent day for the Murcia based club.
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