Majed Ali joins MCCL 6000 run club

Majed Ali, a legend of Brentham and the Middlesex County Cricket League, joined the exclusive club of men to have scored 6000 MCCL 1st XI league runs this weekend.

In the process, he also moved into the top 10 run scorers in the history of the league, dating back to its formation in 1972.

Heading into our Week One game at London Tigers, Maj needed 11 runs to pass his latest milestone. And he did that with a four off the final ball of the fifth over of the innings. 12 balls earlier a two had taken him to 5994 league runs, above Enfield's Neil Tilley and into the top 10 all-time.

Ending on 34, Maj now sits on 6023 league runs from 307 matches, itself the joint fourth-most matches played in the history of the league.

Maj made his Brentham debut in 2001 and scored 3012 runs for the club before moving to Finchley in 2010. The 2007 season, his best, saw Maj plunder 592 runs, the fourth most in the league, only 12 fewer than future England international Dawid Malad.

Maj's decade in North London brought a further 2493 league runs before a return to Brentham in 2023.

In total, Maj has now scored 3530 league runs for the club, only behind Luke Budden and Daniel Rodgers on our all-time MCCL list. His highest score is 98* against Southgate in August 2008.

The full top 10 is as follows:

Player	Pld	Inns	High	Runs	Ave	50s	100s
Jim Gatting (Winchmore Hill *)	335	308	159	9,079	33.14	43	18
Carlos Nunes (Twickenham)	286	271	127	8,448	34.91	50	15
Evan Flowers (North Middlesex)	278	270	178	7,522	29.97	45	8
Jack Plumb (Enfield)	230	218	128*	7,466	41.71	53	13
Paul Weekes (Hornsey *)	195	176	206*	6,999	56.90	51	11
Luke Stoughton (Ealing *)	248	233	127	6,656	30.96	38	9
Schopun Jooma (Kenton *)	251	241	158	6,233	27.22	41	4
Jake Milton (Finchley)	307	275	138	6,200	27.07	29	3
Tom Simpson (Brondesbury)	199	188	158*	6,139	37.66	35	9
Majed Ali (Brentham *)	307	287	118*	6,023	22.90	32	1

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