Tanzania: FITCO Wanderers Blast Towards Semi Finals

Hameed Sheriff

12 March 2011

Fifteen sixes, 9 fours, not by the team, but by Chris alone, sent every bowler of AMMA to the boundary, piling up a huge total of 248 runs for FITCO Wanderers. His personal score of 156 runs now stands as second best score for the 20-20 format in Arusha. (Tinson’s record of 168 runs last year remains as is.)

Chris was assisted by Wayne (39) and Domynick (36). Rajesh was the best of AMMA’s bowlers claiming 3 wickets for 47 runs. In reply AMMA’s batsmen scored 156 for 6 wickets, Tinson (33), Bharat (25), Joseph (23) and Nair (20) chipping in towards their score. Clint and Chris bowled well picking 3 and 2 wickets respectively.

Kilimeru beat Lion Kings in the afternoon game to proceed to the semi finals. Batting first, Kilimeru scored 130 runs, with Abbasali controlling the innings to the end. His 29 runs not out, and Iqbal’s 27 runs, got Kilimeru a comfortable target to defend, and their bowlers did them good.

Abbasali was good again with the bowl, taking 4 wickets for just 9 runs. Other wicket takers were Hussein Abbas (2), and Mazaher Punja (2).

Kamran and Abdul Hamid were Lion King’s main stays on the wicket,

scoring 35 and 23 runs respectively, but the team managed 116 runs, 14 runs short of the required target.

The Semi finals of the KILIMERU CUP will be played at the FRC ground on 13th March 2011 as follows:

Date v/s Umpires TIME

13-Mar FITCO Wnd Kilimeru Mayanda/Abdul 9.30am

Expats Swamibapa Mayanda/Hameed 1.30pm

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