Bowlers emerge from batters shadows
Aug 21, 2007
BOWLERS emerged from the shadow often cast by their more celebrated batting colleagues as the final day of the Coca-Cola Schools Cricket Week preliminaries came to a close.
By Joseph Opio
SCHOOLS CRICKET WEEK
Preliminaries
selected results
Ntare 34 Mwiri 35-0
Mwiri win by ten wickets
Kololo 165-6 Jinja SS 47
Kololo win by 118 runs
Nyakasura 93 Ndejje 94-7
Ndejje win by three wickets
Buddo 80 St James 33
Buddo win by 47 runs
BOWLERS emerged from the shadow often cast by their more celebrated batting colleagues as the final day of the Coca-Cola Schools Cricket Week preliminaries came to a close.
The sparkling returns by the game’s normally unsung heroes provoked a spate of spectacular batting collapses that accounted for the respective demise of Ntare, Jinja and St James.
Ndejje’s Eddie Mugumba spearheaded the bowlers’ crusade with figures of 4 for 8 that sent his team into the Super Six round-robin while crippling Nyakasura, who set their opponents a paltry 93 runs to chase at the Nakawa oval.
Ndejje’s triumph, aided by Deo Muhenda’s knock of 36, came at a cost of seven wickets, three of which were plundered in vain by Alex Mwesige.
At Lugogo, the wicket proved similarly bowler-friendly as Busoga College Mwiri crushed meet punch-bags Ntare by 10 wickets to progress into the Super Six.
Ntare, who were dragged off the wicket at 36 all out by Makerere College on the second day, plumbed to further depths when they were bowled out by Mwiri.
Ronnie Gonahasa was Ntare’s tormentor-in-chief, taking a wicket per three runs on average to end up with returns of 3 for 9.
Mwiri’s demolition of Ntare is a statement of intent but the Busoga giants will have to overcome an equally dominant Kololo to regain a title they consider a family heirloom.
Defending champions Kololo kick-start the Super Six with Mwiri today and the former will be buoyant after they humiliated Jinja.
U-19 starlet Roger Mukasa was the highlight of a half-century partnership alongside Derrick Amone that saw both score 38 runs each to set Jinja a target of 165.
Mukasa will be missed when he flies to South Africa for the U-19 World Cup on Thursday.
SCHOOLS CRICKET WEEK
Preliminaries
selected results
Ntare 34 Mwiri 35-0
Mwiri win by ten wickets
Kololo 165-6 Jinja SS 47
Kololo win by 118 runs
Nyakasura 93 Ndejje 94-7
Ndejje win by three wickets
Buddo 80 St James 33
Buddo win by 47 runs
BOWLERS emerged from the shadow often cast by their more celebrated batting colleagues as the final day of the Coca-Cola Schools Cricket Week preliminaries came to a close.
The sparkling returns by the game’s normally unsung heroes provoked a spate of spectacular batting collapses that accounted for the respective demise of Ntare, Jinja and St James.
Ndejje’s Eddie Mugumba spearheaded the bowlers’ crusade with figures of 4 for 8 that sent his team into the Super Six round-robin while crippling Nyakasura, who set their opponents a paltry 93 runs to chase at the Nakawa oval.
Ndejje’s triumph, aided by Deo Muhenda’s knock of 36, came at a cost of seven wickets, three of which were plundered in vain by Alex Mwesige.
At Lugogo, the wicket proved similarly bowler-friendly as Busoga College Mwiri crushed meet punch-bags Ntare by 10 wickets to progress into the Super Six.
Ntare, who were dragged off the wicket at 36 all out by Makerere College on the second day, plumbed to further depths when they were bowled out by Mwiri.
Ronnie Gonahasa was Ntare’s tormentor-in-chief, taking a wicket per three runs on average to end up with returns of 3 for 9.
Mwiri’s demolition of Ntare is a statement of intent but the Busoga giants will have to overcome an equally dominant Kololo to regain a title they consider a family heirloom.
Defending champions Kololo kick-start the Super Six with Mwiri today and the former will be buoyant after they humiliated Jinja.
U-19 starlet Roger Mukasa was the highlight of a half-century partnership alongside Derrick Amone that saw both score 38 runs each to set Jinja a target of 165.
Mukasa will be missed when he flies to South Africa for the U-19 World Cup on Thursday.