U15 vs Botkyrka

A long weekend for the U15 youngsters with another match on Sunday against Botkyrka. Ved won the toss and elected to bat. Botkyrka only had 8 players so we gave them our 12th man Vir. A first over misshap, by Arnav Singh saw him being runout, but after that it was plain sailing for our batsmen. Rishabh and Rohan both madde 20 odd before retired and replaced with Arnav Dubey and Ved. Arnav went cheaply and Nethyll joined and the two of them again scored rapidly until Vir got his brotherVed out. The match was shortened to 15 overs due to time and the last remaining batmen all tried to score quick runs in the remaining overs leaving DIF on 182 in their 15 overs. The bowling was quite tight in the begining and so after already 5 overs it was clear that DIF would win, but Dhulik who has been bowling in nets took his first wicket of the season. Ved took a further two including his brother Vir in revenge. And Arnav Dubey took more wickets than he scored runs again. Jhanik also took a wicket and a catch to finish an impressive weekend for the Abeyratne family. Botyrka ended on 81 and the first win for the DIF U15 boys for the season. Ved and Arnav are currently ranked 2 and 3 in the bowling stats. Even though it was an easy win in the end, there is still a lot of room for improvement with some tough matches in the coming weeks.

Benedict Chambers