Hi Guys:

Due to an unavoidable committment, I was to report late for the game.  Ashwin as 
acting captain won the toss and invited Mr. Wilson and company to bat.  

The 2nd ball of the 2nd over saw Mervyn Fernando clean bowling Mr. Wilson's son. 
In the 3rd over Arvin Varma made new batsman Blake flash at a ball outside the 
off-stump and Dr. Lareef Idroos took a test class diving catch.  Caribbean II 
8/2.  Raj Sundararaman held a well judged catch off Swami and Arvin Varma had a 
brilliant run out to have the opposition reeling at 50/4.  

I walked in with the score at 59/4 in the 14th over and Wellington of Caribbean 
II opened up.  At the 17th over (water break) they were 81/4.  In the 18th over 
Aravindan induced Wellington to hit in the air towards the deep extra cover/wide 
mid-off region.  I was at deep extra cover and covered quite a lot of ground in 
lunging and holding on to what I consider a rather difficult catch.  In the very 
next ball Ashwin Rao threw the ball in a flash to have the new batsman at the 
non-striker's end run out via a direct hit!  Ashwin then held on to an easy 
catch to have Caribbean II at 87/7.  Dr. Lareef Idroos and Aravinthan 
Wijayachandran bowled in tandem unchanged.  Dr. Lareef wrapped up the tail with 
some very intelligent bowling.  He had excellent figures of 3 for 26 off 5.5 
overs.  Caribbean II - 118 all out.

Dean and Atul put on 20 runs for the 1st wicket before Dean was out caught 
behind for 7.  Atul who had quite a number of lives, was eventually  out for 16. 
>From 29/2, Aswhin Rao (57 not out) and Dr. Lareef Idroos (34 not out) put 
together 90 runs to see Colts through by 8 wickets.  Ashwin, dropped once early 
in the innings made the West Indians pay with a focussed 57 not out which had 4 
fours and 1 six.  Dr. Lareef Idroos gave an exhibition of some calm and 
uninhibited stroke play to remain not out on 34 inclusive of 6 fours!

A great catch, 3 wickets and a lesson in batting; there was no better way for 
Dr. Lareef Idroos to celebrate his return to competitive cricket.  Overall, 
after our poor performance against Pacifica, Colts C.C. fielding showed much 
improvement, and that indeed was the key to this handsome victory.

Thanks.

Ranesh Peiris