{"id":17062,"date":"2023-05-07T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T21:29:24","slug":"welsh-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=17062","title":{"rendered":"WELSH CUP WIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After losing all cricket to the weather yesterday, the Club eased to victory over Swansea Warriors at Marespool this afternoon (7th) in the Preliminary Round of this year&#8217;s Welsh Cup Competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Choosing to bat first, our visitors wasted little time, reaching 46 in the 6th over when opener Salman Muzzammal was first out. He had contributed 36 runs (4 fours &amp; 2 sixes) from just 14 balls faced! However, off-spinner all-rounder Greg Thomas had now come on to bowl and the game changed in truly dramatic fashion!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greg proceeded to take the first 7 wickets to fall! 46-0 to 70-7 within 10 overs!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teammate Vinnie Sabharwal (2-3 from 4 overs) was also in fine form, taking the next 2 wickets for no extra runs! Finally, Greg chipped in again, finishing with 8-22 from 7 overs! The Warriors finished 70 all out in the 20th over.\u00a0 And, of those 10 wickets, 6 were lbw &amp; 4 were bowled!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After the break, MCC opener Richard Gibby (15, 1 four) was the first to go..25-1 in the 6th over. 8 overs later, the scoreboard read 41 when the third wicket fell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Davies (29no, 1 four) and Ben Jones (16no, 1 four) saw off any possible danger, however, as they kept cool heads to see the 1st XI over the line in the 23rd over to win by 7 wickets! Great work, lads!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Round One will now see the Club travel to play Swansea by 25th May.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing all cricket to the weather yesterday, the Club eased to victory over Swansea Warriors at Marespool this afternoon (7th) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17071,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions\/17071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}