SPAIN LOSE OUT TO GERMANY

Posted on 28 July 2010 by conrad_a_bedford

SPAIN UNDER 17´S V GERMANY UNDER 17´S

Pre-Game Report

Spain play their fourth and final group game today in the ICC Europe Division 2 torneo at Kings William College. Their opponents will be Germany, whom to date, have had a dissapointing tournament by their standards.

Spain still have an outside chance of making the final, but they need the Isle of Man to lose heavily against Austria, and a convincing win themselves to overturn the Isle of Man´s superior net run rate.

Spain also have a couple of injury concerns, wicket keeper Charlie Johnston has a hand injury and will have a late fitness check, with Callum Murphy on standby to replace him behind the stumps if Charlie is unable to keep wicket. Jim Cobb also has a slight thigh strain which kept him out of the game yesterday against Switzerland, and again a late decision will be made on Jim´s fitness.

Germany v Spain, 29th July 2010, ICC Europe Division 2, Isle of Man

Post Game Report

Germany and Spain served up the match of the tournament so far before the Germans won their first match of the week by three wickets off the last ball.

When the bottom team in Group B lost three wickets in three overs and scored only 15 runs from eight overs, it looked as if their pursuit of Spain´s 146 all out would go out with a whimper. After their faltering middle, Germany had left themselves 47 to win from just six overs. It was Krishna Cholleti who upped the tempo in the 35th over when he hit his sideâ€™s first boundary in 90 balls. Eight came off that over and there was the first hint of an exciting finish.

However, only five came off the next and when Sandeep Singh had Cholleti caught off the first ball of the 37th, Spain were firm favourites. But at the other end, Steven Richards was just warming up. The Germany captain hit three fours in the next three overs and intelligently keeping the strike at every opportunity got the target down to 12 off six balls.

(Spain appeal for a run out against Germany)

Christian Hein took a single off the first ball of the last over and Richards then did the rest, with a two, four and two more off the fifth to level the scores. Having lost fewer wickets that would have been enough for Germany but just to make sure Richards hit the final delivery down the ground for the winning run.

It left all that had gone before in the shade but the second wicket stand of 77 between Konrad Fuchs and Jaskaran Singh give Germany the confidence to go on and produce their best performance.
Tom Vine was top scorer for Spain, he hit 42 from a marathon 113 balls, the backbone of an innings which was ended with a flourish by Singh who hit 28 off 23 balls. But it was Richards and Germany who were to have the last word.

Spain remain in second place in group B, by the narrowest of margins on net run rate, and they will contest the 3rd-4th play off against France tommorrow.

Spain U-17 Vs Germany U-17

1-Innings Match Played At King William’s 1, 28-Jul-2010, ICC European U-17 Division 2

Germany U-17 Win by 3 wkts

Toss won by	Spain U-17
Umpires	Mike Carpenter (Jersey); Mike Rawle (Malta)
Scorers	John Jones; Wraye Wenigmann

Spain U-17 1st Innings 146/10 All Out (Overs 39.3)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs	Bls	4s	6s
J Brook*		b H Singh	2	8	0	0
C Johnston	lbw	b L Gerhards	10	28	0	0
J Cobb	c O Filby	b H Singh	4	12	0	0
T Vine		b S Richards	42	113	4	0
C Cook		b L Gerhards	0	1	0	0
A Harris	c K Cholleti	b J Singh	24	49	2	0
r Panchal	c K Fuchs	b T Marwaha	0	3	0	0
S Singh	c J Singh	b R Marwaha	28	23	2	0
B Girling	run out		8	7	0	0
A Danish	run out		0	0	0	0
C Murphy+	dnb		–
extras		(b9 lb4 w8 nb7)	28
TOTAL		10 wickets for	146

FOW

1-5(J Brook) 2-19(J Cobb) 3-33(C Johnston) 4-33(C Cook) 5-93(A Harris)

6-94(r Panchal) 7-129(T Vine) 8-141(S Singh) 9-146(A Danish) 10-146(B Girling)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	wd	nb
J Singh	8	0	17	1	2	–
H Singh	8	1	21	2	4	–
L Gerhards	8	2	29	2	–	4
T Marwaha	8	1	31	1	2	–
O Filby	5	0	19	0	–	3
S Richards	1.3	0	12	1	–	–
R Marwaha	1	0	4	1	–	–

Germany U-17 1st Innings 147/7 Closed (Overs 40)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs	Bls	4s	6s
L Gerhards		b B Girling	0	3	0	0
K Fuchs	c C Murphy	b S Singh	28	68	0	0
J Singh	c J Cobb	b A Danish	35	54	6	0
D T Singh	run out J Cobb		2	20	0	0
T Marwaha		b B Girling	9	27	0	0
H Singh	c A Harris	b T Vine	0	2	0	0
S Richards*	not out		37	41	4	0
K Cholleti+	c A Danish	b S Singh	11	23	1	0
C Hein	not out		4	4	0	0
R Marwaha	dnb		–
O Filby	dnb		–
extras		(b5 lb3 w11 nb2)	21
TOTAL		7 wickets for	147

FOW

1-0(L Gerhards) 2-77(J Singh) 3-77(K Fuchs) 4-85(D T Singh) 5-85(H Singh)

6-93(T Marwaha) 7-113(K Cholleti)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	wd	nb
B Girling	8	1	22	2	1	–
T Vine	8	1	23	1	4	–
r Panchal	6	1	29	0	1	–
J Brook	5	0	24	0	1	2
A Danish	7	2	17	1	1	–
S Singh	6	1	24	2	3	–

Germany v Spain at KWC 1.
Germany beat Spain by 3 wickets
Spain 146 (39.3 overs) Vine 42
Germany 147-7 (40 overs) Richards 37* J Singh 35

Group B

             P   W  NR   L   Pts     NRR
Isle of Man  4   4   0   0     8    2.01
Spain        4   2   0   2     4   -0.05
Switzerland  4   2   0   2     4   -0.18
Germany      4   1   0   3     2   -0.86
Austria      4   1   0   3     2   -0.93