It was a glorious day when BP pitched up at Hucknall in Nottinghamshire, the birthplace of “Stato” and the resting place of Lord Byron!
This was also the nominated Sponsors and Committee Day so we were joined by representatives from G4S, Motorola Solutions, Arc Legal, George Burrows, Uberfone, NARPO and Eco Fire Safety along with the Chairman Simon Cole (CC Leics), Vice Chairmen Lee Freeman (CC Humberside), Chris Noble (ACC Humberside) and Jav Oomer (Ch/Sup. Staffs) plus other members from the Committee.
Mick Martin lost his 3rd toss in succession in this inaugural fixture with NACC who decided to bowl first.
Jabba Atiff (3-58) and Fazal Wazeem (4-20) opened the bowling with pace and accuracy, the first spell resulting in 29-3 after 9 overs.
Mick Martin (37) & Sean Tindale dug in to put on a fightback in a stand of 55 before the loss of the skipper. Sean Tindale having had a successful week with the ball showed his talent with the bat against top opposition, becoming 7th man out on 173, his total 69 with 7x4’s & 1x6.
His maiden 50 coming from 59 balls in 90 minutes.
In all 5 further BP players reached double figures, Shaun Smith 10, Duncan Midgeley 24, Simon Olphert 13*, Stuart Drakeley 10, & Mitchell Harris 10 but none going on to a score having got a start with this lack of resilience giving a total of 215 all out in 48 overs.
The Asian Conference never looked in trouble with stands of 77, 25, 92 & 17 taking them to the required total.
Mansoor Zahid top scored with 97 (11x4’s, 6x6’s) before he was caught in the deep gleefully by Mitchell Harris off Drakeley.
They didn’t know it but this was the 1,650th wicket taken by BP. (Mitch must really get out more!) Bazny Saqbain (31), Muzahar Ali (48) & Mohamed Ali (17) all got starts, with Drakeley, Harris and Campbell taking a wicket each.
NACC comfortable winners by 6 wickets with Zahid earning MoM presented by Mark Singh from Uberfone.
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