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Organisers
Asian Cricket Sixes Tour (ACST) 
Southerners CC 
Harrow International School See the Location on Google™ Maps
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Ban Chang Bulls 
Beijing CC 
Bounty Buccaneers 
CBBs 
Etihad CC 
Falcon KOTC 
Floggers & Robbers 
Garden International School 
Josephite 
NT Crocs 
Pattaya CC 
Pelicans |
TEAM REVIEW 2008The Thailand International Cricket Sixes Tournament, played over the weekend of the 25th and 26th of October 2008 at the Harrow International School produced some outstanding cricket. Eight teams travelled to join the two sides entered by the hosts, Southerners CC, which gave the event a truly multi-cultural feel. Some sides played better cricket than others, but this was only to be expected. The overwhelming and important fact is that all sides played within the spirit of the game and made friends through cricket while taking to the tournaments theme of ‘quality time’. The performance of Cup Champions Etihad Airways was thoroughly exhilarating. They specialised in the dramatic finish as on three separate occasions they grasped victory when they looked out of the game with just a couple of balls remaining. Anton Du Preeze led his charges well and was rewarded by some excellent performances, most noticeably from Sankat Nayak’s superb stroke play which included four retirements. This was backed up by his batting partners, Sohail Khan and Azam Qazi. Cup runners-up, the CBB SCs came so close to lifting honours but fell just short. They too provided good entertainment in a fine united effort. Saurav Chatterjee led the way with the bat with some big hitting but there were also solid contributions from Imran Indrees, Ian Liddell, Mark Woods and Tony Miller. Southerners Gold just missed out in the semi-final despite playing some fine cricket. Richard Oster played some terrific innings as well as performing with the ball to match his fine sportsmanship. He deservedly picked up the Player of the Tournament award. He was backed up with the bat by the stylish Ian Kincaid. Shanghai Dragons pushed hard throughout and contributed with some excellent individual performances. Sanjay Anagula led the way with three retirements, closely followed by the amiable Jon Newton with two. Rajaq Mahmood backed up his excellent bowling with a good knock. Southerners Black generally played some good stuff. They tended to lose more wickets than any other team in the competition and had just two retirements from Johnny Giuffrida and Jay Lamey whose effort secured him the man of the match award in the Plate Final. However the leadership of Marty Peters coupled with a good all round effort saw them lift the Plate. Jakarta Rebels were Plate runners-up and could point to Robbie Whiteman’s injury to the start of the game as a major factor, especially as he had previously chipped in with a retirement. Dick Slaney’s 31 in the semi had put them within touching distance of honours. Again, the Rebels push was based on a fine team effort. The other two CBB teams, the Postels and SKs were the defeated Plate semi-finalists. Both teams brought a great example of the spirit of the game in their performances. The Postels, under the stewardship of Ken Acton can point to their excellent early demolition of the Rough-Edged Gents as their highlight, whereas who’ll ever forget the penultimate ball victory and great team effort by the SKs in beating Southerners Black? Cyrus Maybud’s smile lit up the whole of the ground! The only retirements came from Rob Bernard and Carl Gavin. It had taken some persuasion from ACST chairman, Michael Maher to convince the Rough-Edged Gents of Pattaya to attend. They must be glad he succeeded as they did themselves proud on and off the pitch and left their debut tournament as Bowl winners. Lee Keohane produced consistency with bat and gloves while Stuart Tasker’s retirement in the final proved decisive. Unfortunately this meant there was to be no third trophy for the Bounty Buccaneers this year. They put in their usual hard working performances off the park, while playing with a smile on their faces on it. Their stand out performance was the game against CBB SKs when they made a stiff target look easy. Everyone did their bit for the Buccs, with Lee Kennedy excelling. The tournament was an excellent advert both for the organisers, the Asian Cricket Sixes Tour in conjunction with Southerners CC and the game of Sixes cricket in general. The standard of the top four teams was excellent and any of them would have been worthy Cup winners. As it transpired, it was the turn of Etihad Airways in 2008. No doubt there will be plenty of teams looking to dethrone them when the tournament returns to the City of Angels next October. |
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