With Captain Douglass-Todd on holiday it was down to Wade to sort of lead a rag-tag army of people of whom most were complete newcomers to cricket in the capital.
Batting first the Red Lions posted 113 for seven in their 20 allotted overs, O'Toole top scoring with 24, with Wade and Jay (I need some last names please) scoring 10 a piece not out at the end of the innings.
On to the bowling and it was Ben Byron who started off a great innings in the field with a magnificent catch that Cookson later said he had given up any hope that it might be caught. There was also one hell of a brilliant run out by Niranjan. Some great bowling from Jay, Gwillam, Satish and Deva set up the Red lions for one hell of a final few overs.
Tension was high as the Tomer XI needed only 17 from 18 bowls towards the end but it was their failure to keep wickets intact that sealed their fate, that and the fact that they gave away 16 more extras than the Red Lions' bowlers.
O'Toole came on for his first over in the 19th over and three balls later the match was wrapped up.
Scoreboard (please note this may be slightly wrong due to difficulty in reading the scoresheets):
Red Lions batting first.
O'Toole hits one down the leg side. 
Friedman saved the Red Lions many a run with some great keeping.
Gwillam comes in.
A big shout out to the scorers.
Cookson sends down another dot ball.
A relieved acting Captain Wade at the end of the match.
Nothing like a victory to get the smiles going.
The Red Lions pose post victory.
Altogether now.
O'Toole accepts his man of the match award.
5 comments:
Jayaseelan (Jay) is a great bowler.. i know him from childhood.. make use of him!!!!
Keep going jesse!!!
Run out was by Niranjan deshpande
thanks to red lions ankara for their participation in the game
thanks to all CAPTAİN TOMER SALMAN ALİ
Thanks Salman. It was a great game.
Let's see if you can get revenge next time.
yes i am planning to get the revenge lets see in next tournament preparing my team for next tournament btw deva great spinner hard to play him but we should make some tactics for that
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