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Article: Cricket: St Georges celebrate with top win BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE DIVISION THREE
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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TELFORD side St Georges celebrated winning the title after
humiliating their hosts Old Wulfs Tettenhall.
St Georges won by a staggering 281 runs to inflict possibly the
heaviest defeat ever recorded in Birmingham League cricket.
After St Georges had amassed 305 for five, already relegated Old
Wulfs were then dismissed for a paltry 24.
Indian left-arm spinner Hitshu Bachani helped himself to the
astonishing bowling figures of seven for eight.
Seven of Old Wulfs' batsmen failed to register a score in the
carnage.
Earlier in the day, Steve Taylor - better known as Shropshire's