Weekend Cricket from sunny Albir

SACC Captain Laundon

The Sporting Alfaz cricket boys had a very busy Saturday - playing 2 games against visiting side Madrid 20x20 in fairly searing heat... sorry about that for those of you in wet and windy Britain!

For the first game which had an 11.00am start, SACC asked Madrid to set a score, Laundon and Pennick opened and Pennick struck with his second ball Fernandez caught by Fell, 1 for 8 off 2. Madrid then took 56 runs from the next 7 overs before Baker fell caught by Pennick off Fletcher, next over wicket keeper Brown held on to a sharp chance and Healley followed his skipper back, Fletcher again the bowler. Compton claimed 3 from his 4 over's as Couldren and Lanhans misread his wrong one and were bowled the after Khan was missed by Fletcher he reached a 6 ball 22 but fell to Compton caught by Taylor in the gully. A spell of tight bowling then restricted the Madrid team to 139 from 20.

Spencer and Pennick found the Madrid bowlers had a plan and 50 did not come up until the 9th over. A change of pace by Khan removed Pennick for 16 hard earned runs. Compton (16) also found the bowling tight and unusually did not hit a boundary before knocking one back to Couldren. Fletcher (15) joined opener Spencer and the pair took the score past 139 to win the game with 1 ball to spare. Spencer batted through unbeaten on 73 to a great innings.
Yet again SACC took all the overs to compete a win, SACC 17 points to Madrid 4.
Final score SACC Alfaz 1st XI 140 for 2 beat Madrid 20x20 139 for 6.

The second game of the day started at 14.30pm and the final score was SACC 1st XI 185 for 6 beat Madrid 20x20 119 for 8... so a good day for the local boys!

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