Old Tiffinians Cricket Club

Due to key player absences and the fragility of our squad particularly in the batting department we were fielding a slightly weakened team. We had a couple of debutants today, Ardil a new addition to our pace line up and Afzal builder to the stars. Athar unavailable. Rumour has it that the Darby and Joan [...]

It was an overcast day and all but one of us arrived in good time for the match. Aumran had the customary 3 jumpers on. Adam being our overseas player arrived after the 6th over of the match. Gradually he is gaining more of our hallmarks of someone who originates from the sub continent. Sooner [...]

Pleasant spring weather blessed our much anticipated first match. We were playing at home; as usual the pitch looked like it could do with a quick sort back and sides. Usually I would put in an Adam joke regarding rolling here; however since his spectacular inter- season BMI reduction I am denied this opportunity. The [...]

For a change, the Old Tiffinian captain – Mohammad Ali won the toss and put the opposition in to bat first. On a typically fine June day (sunny, hot & dry), with a pitch seeming likely to offer some variable bounce, bowling first second seemed like the obvious move! Ali, opening the bowling along with [...]

Having won the toss and elected to field first, Old Tiffinian bowling attack should have made better use of the prevailing helpful overcast & wet conditions. Too many loose offerings to the opening Old Suttonian batsmen allowed the score to mount rapidly, the 100 was passed with the loss of just one wicket before some [...]