24 All Out!!!

No that is not a typo, it's not 124 or 42. If you
happen to go to the midwest webpage (which you
probably have since you found this Midwest Cricketer
link ;) ), click to view the scorecard behind the
first headline of Division 1 this week (by the way my
name is spelled Raheel not Rahil, who's incharge of
the headlines?!). Pak Gymkhana vs Milwaukee CC played
on Sun, May 21 was looking like an even contest with
Milwaukee having the slight edge after they had
reduced us to 153 all out (from being 100-odd for 3 at
the 20 over mark). The total was a fighting one,
nothing more nothing less and we were one bowler short
wth Farman bhai injured. Myself and Imran Ahmed (a new
recruit) got the ball rolling and we struck some
telling blows early on with Imran dismissing both the
openers and I dismissed 3 middle order batsmen
including the lynchpin of Milwaukee CC Asif Mahmood.
The score was 19-5 and Milwaukee were looking to
restore some respectibility to the scoreboard more
than anything else.

At this point the captain Rashid bhai took Imran off
and gave the ball to Shahid Munir. After warming up in
his first over which went for a solitary run, Shahid's
2nd over read like this W-W-W-W-0-0. First 2
unfortunate batsmen were bowled, the third managed to
somehow get his front pad (or foot shall I say) in the
way and was lbw, the fourth again bowled! The last 2
balls inexplicably missed the stumps and the over came
to an end! It was exhilerating stuff, high pace and
bull's eye accuracy. I completed the rout in the next
over by bowling the last man with the first legal ball
and Milwaukee CC were 24 all out in 10.1 overs. Mr.
Extras top scored with 10 and the highest score with
the bat was 4 !

Written by: Raheel Akhtar (Pak Gymkhana)

( Note from Editor: Raheel, I'm not the editor for the MCC Home Page. That is done by the webmaster. I hope he reads this and makes the necesary correction - Hari)