Shaimon hammers his way to double century

DUBAI - Shaimon Anwar Butt of Yogi group continued with his onslaught of local bowlers and struck a whirlwind double hundred in the Mobil Cup conducted by the Dubai Cricket Council and sponsored by EMA Lubricants.

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Published: Tue 10 May 2011, 1:06 AM

Last updated: Tue 7 Apr 2015, 7:29 AM

He has been on a run rampage and has stretched his purple patch for more than a week in which he has taken bowlers from most of the elite teams to the cleaners scoring a massive number of runs.

It was Mashreq Bank’s turn this Friday as he slammed their bowling to all parts of 7he Sevens cricket ground in Dubai, smashing an unbelievable sixteen sixes and twenty-one fours to rattle up an exact 200 runs in only 56 balls.

Swapnil Patil played the perfect foil to him as he too blasted the hapless bowling making an unbeaten 94 runs in 43 balls with nine fours and six sixes putting on a 223 runs for the second wicket partnership with Shaimon.

Vinod Banda, Swapnil Patil, Rasheed Abdul and Avadoot Amonkar then bowled a telling spell to skittle out the dazed Mashreq batsmen for a paltry 115 runs in 12.2 overs as only two batsmen contributed with Nabil making 29 runs with six fours and Mahmood Pir Bux scoring 20 runs to hand Yogi group a huge 218 runs win.

He also scored 86 runs in the UBL T20 in 44 balls including five sixes and eight fours against Unilever Brooke Bond and his only failure in the last seven days came against Royal Gymkhana when he was out stumped for 11 runs.


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