The Yorkton Yorkers kicked off the 2015 cricket season with a win against the Queen City Cricket Club in Regina May 30.
Queen City won the coin toss and chose to field first.
Yorkers captain Mandeep and all-rounder Dhaval led off the batting for Yorkton putting together a good partnership that netted 37 runs before Dhaval was caught out in the fourth over with 16 runs.
That brought in Yorkers newcomer Anurag who would stay at the wicket for 15 overs.
Mandeep was bowled out in the seventh over, but not before putting a nice total of 36 runs on the board.
Anurag remained steady at the wicket as batsmen Kush, Akhil, Hitesh and Balwant came and went with 15. 6. 12 and 0 runs respectively.
Queen City finally bowled out Anurag with 46 runs in the nineteenth over.
In total the Yorkton club put up a strong 181 runs for six wickets for Queen City to chase.
The Yorkers struggled to get their bowling and wicket-keeping up to par in the first few overs of the Queen City innings giving up numerous extras on wide and passed balls.
Combined with some clever batting by the Regina side’s opening batsmen, it looked like Queen City might be up to the task of chasing down 182 for the win.
The Yorkers fought back, though, tightening up their bowling and wicket keeping and steadily took wickets.
At the end of 15, however, Queen City had 148 runs. With one of their opening batsmen still at the wicket and needing just five runs per over to best Yorkton’s total, the match was definitely in the balance.
The Yorkers’ big breakthrough came in the 16th when Dhaval took the Queen City slugger’s wicket on a leg bye.
With excellent bowling and tight fielding, the Yorkton side held Queen City to just 24 runs in the last five overs and won by 11 runs.
The Yorkers are next scheduled to play a double-header June 20 against two Regina squads, the Rangers in the morning and the Jaguars in the afternoon.
