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Cricket in Bali

Phil Glass August 5, 2002

Bali Defeat Jakarta

Cricket action from Indonesia Photo © ICC

In the first official National League Cricket match played in Indonesia, Bali inflicted a convincing defeat upon the more favoured Jakarta side. The latter flew down for the match on Sunday the 28 th of July at the Bukit oval as the International Cricket Conference program for cricket development in Indonesia gets into full swing. The win was all the more meritorious for the fact that 8 indgenous Indonesian players played in the Bali side. They were Soni Hawoe,Agus Abadi, Zachariah Awang, Umbu Frenki Shoni, Wayan Suandi,Yeri Rosangnya, Wellinson Soni 2, and Ozzi. These were aided by 3 expats,Dan Metcalf, Bali cricket legend Ray Elliot, and Paul Jarvis, who captained the side. Jakarta ,under the astute captaincy of Sachin,were far from disgraced but began badly by losing the toss. They were subsequently asked to bat on a pitch of variable bounce and pace and struggled to reach a total of 117 from only 28 of their allotted 50 overs. Soni Hawoe ripped into the heart of their batting with a splendid 4-39 from 8 overs. He was ably assisted by Soni 2 with 2-11 from 4 and Zac with 1-26 from 7. However it was Umbu Frenki Shoni who snuffed any chance of a recovery with 3-4 from his last 3 overs of left arm medium swing bowling, to give him 3-23 from 6 for the innings.

After a solid start of 40 by openers Prakesh and Rob Hindmarsh, the Jakarta batting showed little resistance apart from a stubborn 38 from captain Sachin. They always appeared ill at ease on a wicket to which they were not accustomed.. The Bali side took 6 catches, including 2 to keeper Dan Metcalf and a couple of rippers by Wayan on the boundary and Ray Elliot in close. Greatly relieved at not having to field for 50 overs, the Bali side began their run chase of 117 with Agus and Yeri. After a competent start the former was bowled by Andrew Richards for 5 , and the latter by Jim Howlett for 14. However Yeri stuck around to put on 51 for the 2nd wicket with Ray Elliot. Ray went on to make 48 with his usual tenacity and astute judgement. He was finally bowled by Pakistan Vice Consul Maozi, whose competence and demeanour ,lent a stamp of class to the game. Dan Metcalf steered Bali home with 21 not out, and Soni was undefeated on 9 to give the Bali side an emphatic victory by 7 wickets. Bali will now meet the winners of the other semi final in Jakarta on August 18, to decide the National Champions for 2002. Mick Catoni, Paul Ingram, Geoff Atkinson and young Suda Arsa must be thanked for their efforts in scoring and umpiring, and of course I.C.F. President Alan Wilson was everpresent behind the scenes, tying up loose ends. filling in potholes,and as ever, fortifying the structure of cricket in Indonesia. Sachin and his boys are to be congratulated on the great spirit in which they played the game. A few drinks at the match post mortems revealed that he and deputy Deepak are producing a half hour program for television in Jakarta which will include Bali. I cannot emphasise enough the importance of this for the development of the game in this country. To inspire great Indonesian players of the future, the kids of this country must have something to aspire to. They ,and their parents must see the International dimensions of the game and the media is the obvious vehicle to this end.

JAKARTA innings
PRAKESH                b Soni       21
R.HINDMARSH c Metcalf  b Soni        2
PRASAD                 b Soni        4
MOAZI       c P Jarvis b Soni        2
SACHIN                 b Soni       38
DEEPAK      c Wayan    b Soni        1
VIBHU       c Elliot   b Zac         7
HOWLETT     c Metcalf  b Umbu        2
KRISHNA     c Agus     b Umbu        0
RICHARDS               b Umbu        2
KAMLESH     not out                  0
Sundries                            24
TOTAL                              117
Bowling
            O   M   W    R
ZAC         7   0   1   26
UMBU        6   1   3   23
SONI        8   0   4   39
SONI2       4   1   2   11
WAYAN       3   0   0   17
BALI innings
AGUS                   b A Richards  5
YERI                   b J Howlett  14
R ELLIOT               b Moazi      48
D METCALF              not out      21
SONI HAWOE  not out                  9
Sundries                            23 
TOTAL       3 wkts                 120
Bowling
            O   M   W    R
A.RICHARDS  7   0   1   28
KRISHNA     3   0   0   14
J.HOWLETT   4   0   1   17
DEEPAK      4   0   0   26
VIBHU       2   0   0    7
MAOZI       4   0   1   20
R.HINDMARSH 1   0   0    8

Keen Indonesian Juniors Photo © ICC

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