The inaugural Wisden City Cup, a competition to discover untapped cricketing talent in the inner cities, was won by Times Tigers, a team from East London sponsored by this newspaper, who beat Barclays Eagles by 24 runs at Hornsey Cricket Club.
The Tigers made 129 for seven in the Twenty20 match, bolstered by 45 from Maruf Chowdhury, before bowling out the Eagles in the nineteenth over for 105.
The idea for the competition came from a conversation between Scyld Berry, the editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, and Angus Fraser, the former Middlesex and England bowler, in a bar in Sri Lanka on England’s tour there in 2007. Fraser complained that Middlesex had only one player of Asian descent — Owais Shah — and no