Naik helps Sileby to summit

by Harry Josephs

Sileby Town moved to the top of the Everards Leicestershire and Rutland Premier League with a winning draw against Lutterworth last weekend. 

Lutterworth won the toss and elected to bowl, Charlie Hack shone with the ball taking four wickets from his eight overs. He was ably supported by Craig Wilson who took three wickets from his nine overs in conceding just 44 runs. 

With the bat for Sileby Dave Torr top scored with 40, Mitchell Buck scored 39 and Jake Gillett 35, getting Sileby up to 231. In reply Lutterworth got off to a solid start with Ollie Pickering and Matt Pickering putting on 53 for the first wicket. 

Alec Hill and Hack then put on 50 for the third wicket and at 106-3 Lutterworth would have fancied their chances of chasing Sileby’s 231. However, Sileby captain Jigar Naik had outstanding figures of 10-2-19-5 to blow away the Lutterworth middle order. In the end Sileby couldn’t take the final wicket with Lutterworth finishing up on 186-9.

Kibworth and Barkby, who are second and third, played out a high-scoring draw in the final game of the division. Barkby won the toss and elected to bowl but Sundeep Patel and Matt Craven put on 205 for the first wicket.

Patel scored 135 and Craven fell agonisingly close to his century, posting 99. Pite van Biljon and Patel then put on 61 for the second wicket. Kibworth finished up on 297-5 from their 50 overs. 

For Barkby Aiden Morris took 3-47 from nine overs and was his side’s best bowler. Ian Kirk top scored in Barkby’s innings with 91 and Barkby captain Steve Flowers scored 48. Barkby finished their 50 overs on 245-7. Charlie Page-Morris took three wickets for Kibworth, however Barkby were able to bat through their 50 overs to secure the draw.

Syston Town ran out comfortable winners against Rothley Park. Winning the toss Syston inserted Rothley and this decision was vindicated with George Corbett running through the Rothley top order bowling 10-6-18-4, Umar Razzaq, Pete Howard and Mo Pardesi then each took two wickets apiece meaning Rothley were bowled out for 117. 

In reply Syston lost three early wickets to give Rothley hope but Charles Wootton steadied the ship with 45* to see his side home for the loss of four wickets.

At Market Harborough there were 18 wickets fell with just 171 runs scored. Barrow Town batted first and were bowled out for 85. Former Leicestershire all-rounder Rob Taylor doing most of the damage taking four wickets for just 19 runs, Kevin Innes and Josh Bott also took two wickets a piece. 

Taylor then top-scored with 33 and wicketkeeper Max Levine scored 17 but only these two reached double figures in the innings. Market Harborough did scrape over the line with Rob Collins and Salman Mir the not out batsmen.

Sardeep Salgotra and Stan Galloway had given Barrow hope taking seven of the eight wickets to fall but despite their best efforts Market Harborough just got home.

Loughborough Town recorded a 95-run win over Kegworth. Kegworth won the toss and elected to bowl. Loughborough reached 249 for the loss of eight wickets from their 50 overs. Skipper Anish Patel was the mainstay of the innings scoring 103, he was well supported by fellow opener Joe Purvis 73. For Kegworth George Scottorn was the standout bowler taking 3-44 from his 10 over allocation.

Kegworth’s innings got off to a steady start with openers Brent Williams and Simon Glover putting on 37 for the opening partnership. However from 76-2, Kegworth lost eight wickets for just 78 runs resulting in them being bowled out for 154. James Rishton and Nathan Bowley both took four wickets for Loughborough.

Leicester Ivanhoe beat Enderby by 106 runs on Saturday. Leicester Ivanhoe batted first scoring 217-8, Sam Evans top-scored with 40 and Abdul Malik made 34. Enderby’s response was in trouble when every member of the top 4 all scored single figures. Mark Johnstone hit 43 but Enderby were bowled out for 111.