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Radlett CC Sunday III v Maccabiah GB under 19 squad on Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 2.30 p.m.
Radlett CC Won by 52 runs

Match report Radlett Sunday III v Great Britain Maccabiah Under 19

Sunday 28 June 2009


A game that I never thought would take place, having witnessed the Radlett CC swimming pool on the Saturday night, was played in glorious sunshine on a road of a track with 2 sides intent on playing cricket the right way and in a fabulous spirit.

The Maccabiah have in their squad, four young Radlett players, Daniel Cohen, Joshua Hirschowitz (who missed this game) Marcus Freeman and newcomer Jacob Reza. Simon Moses, a non travelling reserve was selected for Radlett to dish some dirt on his opponents.

The Radlett side was a strictly Under 19 squad as that is the age of the squads they are up against in Israel. Trying to get a balance was hard but hopefully it worked out. Radlett welcomed back the mercurial talents of Phil Simmons and Rob Watson for their first games for 11 months, the super spinning Sahil Shah for his first competitive game of the year and Kailash Morjaria and Matt Soffair were welcomed back from University.

With a crowd approaching 3 figures watching from all corners of the Radlett square, Matt Soffair “won” the toss and elected to bat. The Barbecue side of the ground came alive as the players took their place in the middle as Daniel Cohen prepared to bowl the first over at Matt Soffair. Matt survived, not sure about Daniel’s ego!

Matt and Kailash were able to smash the wide balls for four on a lightning outfield and raced along until Matt hooked Daniel straight into Andrew Greenwall Cohen’s hands. This brought JB to the wicket and the Maccabiah boys stuck manfully at bowling at JB. This will hold them in good stead in Israel. JB and Kailash were scoring quickly until Jacob Reza and Huddy Lieberman got some control back and Jacob snared JB with a good caught and bowled.

Enter Simon Moses with a point to prove and he scored freely after a cagey start until Daniel Cohen caught him, quite brilliantly, in the slips,, for a good 21. Meanwhile Kailash was still going until he succumbed to tiredness and jug avoidance university debt on 44, caught from the impressive left arm spin of Steven Allweiss. This made Rob angry and he attacked the bowling with gusto until Josh Charles got fed up of Rob scoring and him not and did not run, to leave Rob 28 yards from the batting crease!!!

Josh and Shameel hit out gamely and got the score to 230 which allowed Phil Simmons to come and entertain us with his Dwayne bravo pads as he faced Daniel for the last over!! A swing and a miss followed a swing and a miss and a sledge from Daniel followed by a swing and a miss and a sledge from Phil. 235 was about par on that track.

Pick of the bowling was Steven Allweiss who is not 17 until August. Pity he lives in Manchester for Radlett. Daniel and Andrew also bowled with pace and fire but just a bit short, and Huddy and Jacob bowled with a lot of control.

A sumptuous tea was enjoyed by the large crowd (nice to see so many parents of both sides watching) and thanks for providing the tea go to Sue Cohen, and to Meryl Charles for running the kitchen side with help from Clair Soffair and Tony Cohen.

The Maccabiah innings started with 15 year old Joseph Greenwall Cohen, the youngest squad member, opening up with the oldest 18 year old Alex Ziff. Joseph has scored lots of runs this year in his travels for Vale, School and Finchley and looks a neat compact player and he played very well against some good bowling. He was helped get a sighter by Phil’s first over that cost 6 but not one from the bat!!

Yasir and Phil bowled good spells and Rob came on for his first bowl in over a year and looked superb, as he bowled Joseph for a good 33 and got skipper Schusman with a snorter to have his caught by his opposite captain.

With Ziff anchoring the innings, Scotty Gerard and Jacob Reza were able to score at the other end, despite a probing spell of spin bowling from Sahil Shah and some serious pace from JB. Again hopefully the Maccabiah boys have learned from playing against JB. Shameel was a bit expensive for him but got some serious turn.

Jacob who has been working with Shane over the last few weeks, batted beautifully and finally delivered the score that his talent deserves, with a well made and fluent 44.

Once Olly Layton was out Daniel came in and played a good thinking innings (yep you all read right) and showed that he can bat, if he thinks about it and hit Shameel for a 4 and nearly hit a 6.

The last over came with Maccabiah some 50 runs behind and Daniel on strike so Matt asked JB for some Radlett revenge on Daniel. JB hit Daniel on the glove and Ben Charles commented he was glad it his DC’s glove as he couldn’t see the ball, in the falling gloom.

Overall a good game played by 2 good sides, with the experience of Radlett just proving too strong for the Maccabiah boys.

Radlett CC wish the Maccabiah boys the best of luck in Israel and a return match could be on the cards if you win the medals!

Thanks must go to:

Brendan Jones for umpiring
Doreen Browne for scoring and keeping the scorebox moving and ensuring the game was arranged
Bernie Soffair for his unerring support and advice
Piero Guerrini and Vijay Morjaria for umpiring one innings each
Steve, Neil and Jeremy for their boys fantastic attitude during the game
Matt Soffair for agreeing that all 13 Maccabiah boys could take part
All the parents for turning up
Rob, Silla, Mowgli, Shane, The Riddler, Softy, Ratbone and all the other for cheering and sledging Daniel and the others (added to the atmosphere)
Sue Cohen for the teas
Meryl Charles and Clair Soffair for their fantastic work in turning the teas round in record time, and for clearing up.
The Radlett boys for playing a great game
Vikram for his work behind the bar
JB/Nick for getting the pitch and outfield ready
Any one else I have forgotten

Radlett CC Sunday III Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 7 wickets
0
235
(0.0 overs)		    
Matthew Soffair Caught  c A Greenwall-Cohen b D Cohen 12 1
Kailash Morjaria Caught  c Ziff b Allweiss 44 1
John Barr Caught  c & b Reza 29
Simon Moses Caught  c D Cohen b Allweiss 21
Rob Watson Run out  66
Yasir Sayed Caught  c & b Godden 18
Joshua Charles Not Out  15
Shameel Ahmed Caught  c Godden b Allweiss 12
Phil Simmons Not Out  4
Ben Charles  
Sahil Shah  

Maccabiah GB under 19 squad Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Daniel Cohen7.0034134.004.86
Andrew Greenwall -Cohen7.004700.006.71
Jacob Reza5.0024124.004.80
Huddy Lieberman4.003100.007.75
Seb Schusman6.013100.005.17
Steven Allweiss8.0144314.675.50
Jordan Godden3.0021121.007.00

Maccabiah GB under 19 squad Batting
Player name Runs
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 6 wickets
0
183 (0.0 overs)
Joseph Greenwall Cohen Bowled  b Rob Watson 31
Alex Ziff Bowled  b Shameel Ahmed 32
Seb Schusman Caught  c Soffair b Rob Watson 0
Scott Gerard Bowled  b Sahil Shah 27
Olly Layton Caught  Kailash Morjaria b Sahil Shah 5
Jacob Reza Not Out  44
Daniel Cohen Bowled  b JOHN BARR 17
Marcus Freeman  
Andrew Greenwall-Cohen  
Huddy Lieberman  
Steven Allweiss  

Radlett CC Sunday III Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Phil Simmons5.003300.006.60
Yasir Sayed6.021300.002.17
Rob Watson7.0327213.503.86
John Barr7.0219119.002.71
Sahil Shah 8.0028214.003.50
Shameel Ahmed5.0037137.007.40
Joshua Charles1.00800.008.00
Kailash Morjaria1.001200.0012.00

  • Umpire :
    Piero Guerrini (possibly) and Brendan Jones
  • Scorer :
    Doreen Browne (to whom we are grateful)