Kenneth Waiswa and his team, the Blasters, are top of the table of the Batball Maxx Challenge Cup at the halfway stage of the tournament at the Lakeside Oval in Entebbe.
Blasters are tied on the same number of points with Gladiators but ahead on Net Run Rate.
All the teams have played the same number of games, but the leaders are staying to pull away from the rest.
The Royals and Warriors are stuck at the bottom with three losses each, with only one win to their names. Titans and Strikers have picked up two wins and lost twice but they stay in touch with the top two teams.
Gladiators led the way for the first two days, and they are the highest scoring team in the tournament but once the Blasters managed to defend a modest total against them, their unbeaten run ended. The young Gerald Olipa leads the Gladiators, who are a great all-round unit with a good balance of bowlers and batters. Paul Mulongo has been their go-to man for runs with some match-winning knocks. Mulongo has so far scored 93 runs at an average of 31 runs in the four games.
Table Standings
Kenneth Waiswa has been able to extract maximum performance from his unit, with Matthew Musinguzi picking up the wickets, while Simon Ssesazi has been the go-to man for runs. Ssesazi is the leading run scorer with 218 runs, a whole 106 runs ahead of his closest competitor, Ronald Lutaaya, with 116 runs.
Matthew Musinguzi, with nine wickets, is the second leading wicket taker, just four wickets behind Joseph Baguma, the leading wicket taker with 13.
Conrad Lubwama has been impressive at the top of the order for the Titans. The Baby Cricket Cranes batter has amassed a total of 111 with a highest score of 55 in his four innings.
Abdul Aziz Tandia of the Gladiators has the best bowling figures of 5/4, with Joseph Baguma the other player to pick a fiver in the tournament. Pius Oloka is the only player to have picked a hat-trick so far in the tournament.
At the halfway stage, the tournament has seen a lot of action with 194 boundaries and 60 maximums struck, with 5 half-centuries so far in the tournament.
The Blasters have the tournament’s highest score of 170/8.