Costa del sol cricket match reports by egandantis.com

1. COSTA NEWS, January 25-31, 2018
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Crusaders back to winning ways
after defeating Fuengirola Lions
Fifties for Nushan Alwis, Nasir Dar and Afzal Shah; four wickets apiece for Nasir Dar and
young sensation Jaime Riley
By Egan Steven Dantis
CRUSADERS all round per-
formance helped them to beat
Fuengirola Lions by six
wickets on an eventful day at
the Cártama oval. Crusaders
strong batting line up clicked
at the right time after a few
hiccups in recent matches. 206
was the target for the Cru-
saders after they bowled out
Fuengirola Lions in 32.4 overs.
Crusaders lost two quick
wickets in the first eight overs
and then Nasir Dar 69 and Nus-
han Alwis 57 steadied the in-
nings and both got to their re-
spective half centuries and
shared 107 runs partnership
between them. Once Nushan
Alwis and Nasir Dar were dis-
missed it was Egan Dantis 31*
and Thomas Tobin 17* who
took the Crusaders home with-
out any further damage.
Earlier in the day Jaime
Riley the young sensation from
the Crusaders derailed Fuengi-
rola Lions's innings after Fuen-
girola opted to bat first. Nasir
Dar 69 runs 4-12 and Jaime Ri-
ley's 4-30 composed all round
performance helped the Cru-
saders to win convincingly
with over seven overs to spare.
Fuengirola Lions stuttered
early on with loss of their
openers in the first two overs.
That left the responsibility to
Afzal Shah 67 runs and Ehtis-
ham Khan 27 runs of steering
the Fuengirola Lions to a re-
spectable total. Ehtisham
Khan and Afzal Shah at-
tempted to up the run rate but
were soon dismissed after
they had a steady partnership
of 72 runs between them.
Waqas Ali made some
handy contributions down the
order with quick fire 32 runs
which took the Fuengirola
Lions over the 200 run mark.
The Fuengirola Lions scored
205 off 32.4 overs.
Fuengirola Lions CC
205-10 32.4 overs ( Afzal
Shah 67, Waqas Ali 32, Ehtis-
ham Khan 27, Nasir Dar 4-12,
Jaime Riley 4-30) lost to
CDS Crusaders 211-4 32
overs (Nasir dar 69, Nushan
alwis 57, Egan dantis 31*,
Waqas Ali 2-56, James riley
1-32)
Jaime Riley was ad-
judged Man of the Match for
his brilliant 4-30
Mick Button was
awarded the Extraordinary
Moment of the Match award
for taking outstanding
catches
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Jaime Riley, Man of the Match All round performance by cap-
tain Nasir Dar
Mike Button won Extraordinary Moment of the Match
Yet another fifty for Nushan
Alwis
Afzal Shah gets to his fifty