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In what was billed as the biggest match in the short history of Oceans CC, the captain has today spoke about the emphatic win over Sparta last night and his delight at regaining the number one spot,"Well what can I say, everything went according to plan.There was a lot of tension beforehand with the stakes being so high, and I am sure there were a lot of nerves in both dressing rooms. I did say that the team that will hold there nerve will win and we managed to hold it at the right times today.My team was absolutely maginificent today, and I praise each and every individual today for there efforts they put in and the desire they showed.They deserve so much praise, and have shown a lot of love for there club.They gave me everything last night, and getting to the number one position just caps a truly memorable day for us".
Khan also payed a glowing tribute to his bowlers A.Rahim and R.Rian for there early spell and also the brilliance of U.Aziz with the bat,"We were especially pumped up today and I had no hesitation throwing the bowl to A.Rahim and R.Rian.They are two outstanding bowlers, and are in a league of there own.They ripped into there line up and set the game up for us.They were unplayable and it was goodt to watch great seam movement for a change.It was that spell that had won us the game.Then when it came to batting, our own BOOM BOOM turned up and took the game away within a blink of an eye.He shifted the momentum back our way, and played a match winning innings.When he is in that type of form, he really is unstoppable.All of the batsman played well, Rian, Sonu,Arsalan and Ali all got into double figures quickly to win us the game comfortably with 2 overs still to go".
Khan later confessed, Sparta had simply not scored enough,"It was a tremendous batting wicket, and I think 160 would have been a comptetive score.Even though they scored them runs towards the end of their innings, I told my team not to panic and we will get the runs easily because it was a good batting wicket".
Khan will also now make sure complacency does not set in with two home game coming up against Stocksfield and Parkhouse,"The work has not been done yet, we still have three games to go and must play like this in them too.We will treat each and every game with the utmost respect, and there will definetely be no let up on our part.I always have said our goal is to finish the best team in this division, and we have taken another big step towards it.We have another three steps remaining to complete our goal".
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