U14 Sir Alastair Cook T20 Finals Day
Drapers Farm Sports Club, Maldon
Monday 26 August 2024
Semi-Final 1: Coggeshall Town CC U14 v Chingford CC U14
10:00am start
Team News
Coggeshall Town: Tom Golding, George Wild+, Finlay Jackson, Joey Blackwell, Archie Tebbutt, Benedict Clarke, Harry Martin, Alex Bond, Elliot Fatt, Freddie Finch, Jake Barrow, Freddie Maynard
Chingford: Morne Reynders, Tariq Qaderi, Ali Rizvi, Mano Biswas, Benick van Arkel, Eddie Leuillette*+, Zachary Hayes, Samuel Butcher, Jared Smith, Aadam Ali, Zachary Shakeel, Imran Jamal Chaudhry, Ashton Gascoigne
Match Details
Toss: Coggeshall Town won the toss and elected to field
Result: Coggeshall Town won by eight wickets
Scorecard: View here
Match Report
George Wild hit an unbeaten 46 in 36 deliveries to steer Coggeshall Town to the final of the Sir Alastair Cook T20 Cup with a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Chingford.
Chasing just 71 to win, set after Harry Martin had led the Coggeshall attack in taking figures of 3/19, Wild contributed almost two thirds of the required runs as the chase was completed in just 10.1 overs.
Wild hit ten fours in his knock, beating the six that the entire Chingford team combined managed, for whom only Eddie Leuillette and Mano Biswas made it into the teens.
Semi-Final 2: Frenford CC U14 v Harold Wood CC U14
1:00pm start
Team News
Frenford: Ayman Patel, Adwaaith Shanmugha Sundharam, Zayn Hussain, Aradhya Mukherjee+, Saif-Ali Zahoor, Fuzail Bacha, Rome Bopara, Syed Muhhammad Hussain Saeed, Adam Choudhary*, Mohammed Azlan Shaikh, Ibrahim Mir
Harold Wood: Idrees Hakeem, Aneeq Abdul Samad+, Azlan Kumar, Robin Singh, Gurmaan Singh*, Rohan Guruswamy, Leo Polling, Aman Bahra, Shaurya Kumar, Ansh Nassa, Azmain Sikder
Match Details
Toss: Frenford won the toss and elected to bat
Result: Harold Wood won by seven wickets
Scorecard: View here
Match Report
Azlan Kumar top-scored with 23 as Harold Wood chased down a target of 64 to record a seven-wicket win over Frenford and advance to the final of the Sir Alastair Cook T20 Cup.
Kumar hit his runs in 18 balls and underpinned a comfortable chase that was successful in 10.2 overs to follow up on four Harold Wood bowlers all claiming two wickets apiece.
Only Rome Bopara and Fuzail Bacha made it to double figures for Frenford, who were easily seen off in the chase despite Zayn Hussain admirably fighting back in returning 1/25 from his four overs.
Final: Coggeshall Town CC U14 v Harold Wood CC U14
4:00pm start
Team News
Coggeshall Town: Tom Golding, George Wild+, Finlay Jackson, Joey Blackwell, Archie Tebbutt, Harry Martin, Benedict Clarke, Freddie Finch, Elliot Fatt, Freddie Maynard, Alex Bond, Jake Barrow
Harold Wood: Aneeq Abdul Samad+, Robin Singh, Idrees Hakeem, Azlan Kumar, Gurmaan Singh*, Aman Bahra, Shaurya Kumar, Tanishq Miriyala, Azmain Sikder, Leo Polling, Rohan Guruswamy, Ansh Nassa
Match Details
Toss: Harold Wood won the toss and elected to field
Result: Coggeshall Town won by 52 runs
Scorecard: View here
Match Report
George Wild continued his fine individual day by striking a swift 72 as Coggeshall Town lifted the 2024 Sir Alastair Cook T20 Cup with a 52-run win over Harold Wood.
Wicketkeeper Wild hammered his runs in just 52 balls and found helpful support from captain Joey Blackwell, who made a 27-ball 41, as Coggeshall piled up 167-5.
In response, Idrees Hakeem put up a fight by hitting 23, but two wickets apiece for all of Alex Bond, Benedict Clarke, and Tom Golding bowled Harold Wood out for 115.
