Bees V/s Sunnyvale-I - Match Report

A-div: Sunnyvale -I @ Santa Clara-II
Date: 09/21/2008
Played at: Wilson Adult School, Santa Clara
Umpires: Ganesh Seetharaman (L-III) & Naren Puppala(L-III)(Stanford-A-I)
Toss: won by Santa Clara-II and elected to Bat First
(Matched was played for 40 overs- Mutual agreement between captains
and with the consent of umpire)

Santa Clara-II 154 for 9 in 40 overs(Sujesh.P 66 Not Out, Ahmad 27,
Rajiv 8/0/29/4, Dhruv 7/3/26/1)

Beat

Sunnyvale -I 86 all out in 32.1 overs(Ankur 24, Shiva.V 5.1/0/10/4,
Sujesh 7/2/18/2, Hamel 8/0/23/2)

by 68 runs.

Santa Clara Won the toss and started batting with Gaja and Krishna.
Krishna was removed by Rajiv in his very first over. SCCC-II lost
Shiva.V early as well. Dhruv got Gaja and SCCC-II in serious trouble
with score reading 14 for 3 in 8 overs. Dawood and Amit slowly took
the score to 30 in 12 overs. Amit got out off sudhakar. DAwood gets
out very next over after settling in for 12 against Chandra. Score
reads 30 for 5 in 13 overs. Sujesh and Ahmad batted wiht purpose and
stitched a very good 59 runs partnership for the 6th wicket. SCCC-II
89 for 5 in 28 overs. Another 12 overs to go and 5 wickets in hand
SCCC-II decided to attack a very disciplined sunnyvale-I attack. Ahmad
got out to shesha. Mahendran followed him by a superb caught and
bowled by Arun. S. Hamel Nayak looked to accelerate and got bowled to
a beauty from Rajiv. The score suddenly reads 109 for 8 in 34 overs.
In walks vijith the crisis man ever for santa clara. Sujesh and Vijith
had a 43 runs partnership in which 25 runs were scored in last 2
overs. Vijith got out in the 4th ball of last over. Jwalant remained
not out and sujesh ended the innings with a 66 Not out.

Lunch Was served with variety of choices since Chandrodaya had got
some food from home too.
Sunnyvale started their Innings thinking the target was easy but 154
runs in 40 overs isn't that easy. Eventhough the outfield was
lightning fast bowlers can still do well on that wicket. Ankur and
Shesha started the proceedings slowly. Ankur looked in good touch and
played soem good shots. Shesha was his usual self building the
innings. Sunnyvale-I were 42 for no loss in 14 overs. But if u don't
get big runs while chasing @ santa clara the middel overs are going to
be difficult with slower bowlers operating with a steady line and
length.
Ankur got out for 24 gettign LBW to sujesh. Shesha got out scoring 18
to vijith miscuing his shot to square leg where max took a very well
judged catch. Ayan came and started few bang bang shots. Sunnyvale
score read 67 for 3 in 22 overs. Run rate pressure was climbing and
SHiva.V removed ayan of the very first ball he bowled where ayan
couldn't clear mid wicket boundary. This was the turnign point and
from then on sunnyvale-I were playing lot of shots in the air. Arvind
batted around for a while not timing enough to push the score against
Shiva, Vijith and Sujesh. Sujesh got aravind bowled and then it was
just a formality to finish the game. Hamel was brought back into the
attack and he got Arun.S bowled. Govardhan walked in a hit a huge shot
to mid wicket where ahmad took a spectacular catch sliding at the
boundary. Suresh was bowled behidn by shiva. Shiva was decieving the
batsman with flight and turn and his mix up of good faster ones
skidding. Dhruv was run out in a mix up with Sudhakar. Rajeev and
chandra looked like they wanted to bat few overs. They both played
staright to stretch the game little bit but it was too much from them
to finish this game. they needed 69 runs in 8 overs with 1 wickeyt in
hand. Sunnyvale who had a strong team couldn't stop santa clara-II
from finishing the final game of the season with a good Win. Shiva
finished with 4 wickets for 10 runs given in his 5.2 overs. Vijith
Bowled with immaculate control and hamel have been unplayable all day.
Jwalant and sujesh supported other bowlers well with crucial spells.

Umpiring: Excellent and consistent Umpiring by Ganesh Seetharaman and
Naren Puppala.

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara Cricket Club

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SOX keep it close at Spartans

SOX lost a close game yet again playing against Spartans. Earlier in the season SOX lost to Spartans at home by a handful of runs, a performance repeated yet again by the team that, in the spirit of looking at the silver lining, seemed to have found its bowling strength against quality batting.

 

SOX started by winning a crucial toss. The pitch was wet and the grass on the football field end was squishy in places with a big puddle on one side. It took a couple of big buckets to help clear that to a certain degree. Rest was left for the hot sun which was promising a warm day even during the early hours of the morning.

 

Spartans started with Jigar and another batsman (Name?). Rajan and Karthik started for SOX and while Karthik wavered a little he pinned down the batsmen just enough for Rajan to take advantage on the other end. Rajan kept his line and length for the most part making batting, which was already a tough task due to the pitch being wet, no picnic. Jigar batted well for Spartans and continued to take advantage of select few balls that were offered on the leg. Hasan kept wickets for SOX and did a phenomenal job behind the stumps. SOX fielding was just below par with a couple of catches going down. Bowling was substantially better than previous games where minimal amount of extras were given. Spartans kept loosing their wickets and were not able to score at an accelerated rate at any point in the game except for a couple of overs in the end. Spartans ended up with 167 on the board at the end of the 25th over. Rajan, Shahab, Sam, and Karthik were among wickets.

 

SOX started with Hasan and Shahab. Hasan was his usual self but the pitch continued to bother the batsmen. The ball was sticking to the pitch for just a touch longer than it should have and while Hasan managed to be more careful in his approach, SOX were finding it difficult to score. Hasan played some beautiful strokes though that included a six and three boundaries. Shahab and Hasan also ran some quick singles and twos while they were on. Eventually, he mistimed a shot and was caught by the short mid off fielder after scoring 29 runs. Rajan joined Shahab and showed a good deal of intent to fight with his intelligent batting. Just before the drink's break, Shahab was stumped after scoring 23 runs and with the total at 83 runs, and SOX needing 85 runs more, the slide began. Karthik was not able to get going and was out on the first ball he faced. Rajan and Sam got together but before a partnership could develop, Rajan got out mistiming a shot. Jagat joined Sam where Sam took centerstage and carted Mahendra all around the ground in one over. He scored 22 runs in an over with 2 massive sixes and 2 fours alongwith a couple of runs between the wickets. But just as SOX started to breath easy, Jagat got out trying to flick the ball on the legside, loosing his stumps in the process. Sandeep joined Sam in the middle and for sometime was not able to adjust to the pitch. Runs dried up once again and that compelled Sam to take charge. He tried to run one too many of the risky singles and unfortunately was caught short of his crease. Satish joined Sandeep in the middle and immediately set about the task of setting things right. Sandeep, in the meanwhile, was called back, and Gajja joined Satish in the middle. Both the batsmen were in the process of threatning to take over the game however, Gajja was not able to contain his instint to drive on the up and was caught in the covers. Satish was then joined by Saurabh. SOX needed 24 in 3 overs followed by 16 in 2 overs. At that critical juncture, Satish was run out and it was all over for SOX. SOX eventually loosing to Spartans after a tough fight. SOX have two crucial games coming up in August and the last game of the season is in Sept. In order to ensure a place in the playoffs, SOX have to win 2 out of the three remaining games.

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Fwd: Bees beat satnford-A @ gilroy - Match Report

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From: Sujesh Pulikkal <sujesh@santaclaracc.org>
Date: Aug 11, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Bees beat satnford-A @ gilroy - Match Report
To: members@santaclaracc.org

PS: AGAIN another outstanding knock by Amit. V well supported by
fareed, chandru, shiva.

I guess shiva got 11 wickets in 3 games playing for bees!! he is
goign to be another Imran in the making!! Great to have 2 leggies in
the team. Amit valia didn't bowl and we didn't use krishna at all.

Great to have 6 spinners in 1 team.

Great team effort fellas!!

A-Div: Santa Clara-II at Stanford A-1
Date: 08-09-2008
Venue: Winery, Gilroy, CA
Umpires: Sher Ali (Carribean)
Toss: Santa Clara-II - Elected to bat first

Santa Clara -II 203 for 7 in 50 overs (Amit. V 75, chandru 26, Fareed.
A 23, Shiva. V 18 not out, Ganesh 5/0/26/2, Abbas. R 8/0/41/2, chandra
8/3/21/1)

Beat

Stanford A-1 184 all out in 48 overs (Anwar. A 53, Ganesh. S 32, Saeed
22, Bilal 22 Not out, Shiva. V 7/1/23/3, Imran. M 10/2/30/2, Fareed
10/2/35/3, Sujesh 10/4/14/0)

by 19 runs

Santa Clara-II lost 2 early wickets to great bowling by Ganesh
removing Hassan. A and Krishna. Sujesh and Fareed had a 45 runs
partnership to take the score to 55 in 20 overs for 2 wickets. Fareed
and Amit valia had a small partnership. The big partnership of 76 runs
came between chandru and amit when they played aggressively. chandru
got out for a well made 26 runs. Shiva and Amit had another 35 runs
partnership. Amit valia played an amazing knock to take the score to
203 with the support of chandru, fareed, saad and shiva. Chandra and
Bilal kept things tight for stanford A. ganesh took early wickets and
abbas bowled well in the death. Bilal was unlucky not to get a wicket
but bowled really well. Abbas Jaffery is a good find and that kid
bowled with lot of pace.

Stanford-A were cruising @ 70 for 1 wicket @ 7th over chasign 204 .
Saeed scored 22 runs in 3 overs and got out. The score was 30 runs in
4 overs. Like usual spinners came on to bowl in the 9th over and the
game changed. Saeed and anwar were hitting sixes and made it look like
the groudn was small specially against the wind. They hit soem good
shots and weren't bad balls. Anwar was hitting shots @ will against
medium pacers and was unable to control it once the spinners were on.
Fareed cleaned up mushi, anwar and nishant. Ganesh was batting with a
hamstring injury and was unable to open up and santa clara-II
controlled the game from then on. They never looked to chase since
sikander, Nauman and Abbas were unable to score freely and pressure
got to them. Imran was unplayable on that wicket and middle order
struggled to have any momentum. Abbas looked comfortable but was out
played by a beauty from shiva and got stumped. Bilal and ganesh gave
some threat after Bilal playign soem good shots towards the end.
Sujesh supported from other end with a maiden on 45th over and run
rate climbed to more than 6 runs per over. Finally saad came back and
bowled few brilliant overs to finish the game @ 184. Shiva bowled
beautifully to take 3 wickets.

After such a great start santa clara-II snatched the game away from
stanford-A. Good game and beating a team with solid batting line-up
speaks volume of the performance as a team.Great game to be part of
and good win for Santa Clara-II

Good umpiring by sher Ali from carribean.

-Sujesh Pulikkal
santa clara cricket club

Bees lose to davis by 27 runs on saturday @ home - Match Report

From: Sujesh Pulikkal <sujesh@santaclaracc.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Bees lose to davis by 27 runs on saturday @ home - Match Report
To: members@santaclaracc.org

A-div: DAVIS @ Santa Clara-II
Date: 08/02/2008
Played at: Wilson Edu. Center, Santa Clara
Umpires: Brian Whitford and Vijay Goel (San Mateo -(certified)
Toss: won by Davis and elected to bat

DAVIS 167 all out in 46 overs[Jay. K 43, Anit 25, balbir 24,
Imran(10/2/32/3), Jwalant(9/0/42/3), Sathya(7/0/31/2),
sujesh(10/1/22/1)]

Beat

Santa Clara - II : 140 all out in 44.3 overs(Amit. V 40 nout out,
Sujesh 39, jwalant 19, sushant (8.3/0/24/3), Jay(8/0/20/2),
shevar(9/2/21/2)

by 27 runs

Excellent game and well deserved win for davis for the fight they
showed. Arun started with few good hits but jwalant cleaned up the top
order including shevar. Jay played sensibly and was keeping the score
board moving. Davis lost 5 wickets for 83 runs in 24 overs. Balbir
came in and chanced his arm against imran and hit few good shots and
the crucial partnership of 40 runs came between balbir and Anit who
held one end. Shehzad chipped in with few runs and they were all out
for 167 in 46 overs. Jwalant, Imran and sathya bowled well and picked
up wickets.

Santa Clara-II started the chase badly by poor shot selection and lost
4 wickets for 10 runs. This included the run out of Harsh who was
batting well by a direct hit from the super man RAY when batsman took
a start from non-striker end for a run. Dawood and sujesh had a 40
runs partnership and was looking on course to chase the score. dawood
got out to shevar who gave the break through with his off spinners
after doing his wicket keeping duty. In walks Amit the batsman in form
who have been scoring consistently for santa clara-II for the past 4
games. Amit and sujesh had a partnership of 30 runs and Aman got
sujesh out LBW. Jwalant and amit had a sweet little agressive 30 runs
partnership. This was looking good to seal the game with 12 overs and
60 runs on a fast outfield with 3 wickets in hand. jwalant got out LBW
and Sushant ran through the last 2 batsman to end up with 3 important
wickets to seal the game for Davis. Santa Clara -II got all out for
140 with 5.3 overs to spare and 27 runs required. Amit remained not
out @ 40 without any support.

All credit to davis boyz for fighting hard till the end and winning the game.

Good umpiring by brian and Vijay from san mateo.

-Sujesh Pulikkal

Seas beat spartan by 3 runs !

C-div: Spartan @ SCCC III
Date: 07/26/2008
Played at: Wilson Education Center
Umpires: Khem Raj & Vijay Naik (Bay Area II)
Toss: Won by SCCC III and elected to bat

team batting first: 238/5 in 45 overs(Chandra S 50, Harsh 42, Malav 35, Govind 41*, Ravi V 42*, Rupal 2/39)

defeated

Spartan: 235/10 in 45 overs(Nishant 34, Shailesh 41, Jassi 46, Rupal 42, Dinesh 2/39, Nikul 2/46, Chandra 2/42)

After winning the toss,  on a hot day seas started the innings with Chandra and Vicky. Chandra and Harsh steadied the  innings  after Vicky was out caught behind. At the first drinks break seas were 48/1 in 15 overs. Chandra was his usual self, not missing any scoring opportunities while playing to the merit of the ball. Soon after the drinks break Chandra completed his 50 and spared no time in getting out. Malav joined Harsh and both batted beautifully cutting down risks, and running well between wickets, while not letting the heat get  to them. At the second drinks break the score read 119/2. Both got out after  the drinks break trying to push the scoring rate, and so did Dinesh. Govind and yours truly provided the late flourish to score 76 runs of the last 7 overs as seas secured all 5 batting points.

After the lunch break  Seas  opened the bowling with Dinesh and Govind. Govind was replaced by Satish after 1 over due to recurring trouble with bowling shoulder.  Dinesh picked up the wicket of Deval, brilliantly caught by Chandra running backwards from point. Chandra followed the catch with a nice throw to catch the other opener short of his crease while trying to steal a quick single. Satish bowled with fire but with out luck. Govind returned to bowl one more over and picked up a wicket before a brilliant  pick up and throw from short extra cover caught Nishant short of his crease who backed up too far at the non-striker's end. Nikul and Mangesh bowled few tidy overs to reduce spartan to 97/6 by the 20th over. When the seas were planning to wind up the Spartan innings, Jessie and Shailesh had other plans, as they kept  plugging  away  at the  asking  rate , chancing  their  arm  as needed in 82 run partnership for the 7th wicket. Although Jessie was superbly caught by Malav at short midwicket,  Spartan were back in the chase with 60 more runs in the last 10 overs. More boundaries were scored before Spartan needed 17 runs in the last 3 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Nikul (43 rd over) , Dinesh (44th over) picked up a wicket each to turn the game around. In the last over bowled by Chandra, spartan needed 5 runs with 1 wicket in hand. The first 4 were dot balls, a single was scored of the 5th ball leaving spartan spartan with 4 runs on the last ball.  Mahendra Patel took a big heave at the last ball only to see the timber disturbed.

The bowlers  and  fielders held  their nerve  in the  last  few overs to pull off a hard fought win.

Cheers,
Ravi V

Bees v/s Aces game Match Report

A-div: Santa Clara I @ Santa Clara II
Date: July 27, 2008
Played at: Wilson adult school
Umpires: Nishant (level III) & NO SHOW by the second Umpire (Spartan CC)
Toss: Won by Santa Clara II and elected to bat first.

Santa Clara II: 76/10 in 26.2 Overs (Ahmad. A 16, sandeep patel 9.2/1/22/7, Shantanu 7/0/19/2)

Lost to

Santa Clara I: 77/1 in 12.3 Overs (Umesh 54 Nout out, shantanu 12 not out, Nand 1 wicket)

by 9 wickets.

Sandeep was the wrecker in chief. First 5 overs every over he picked up a wicket.4 batsman bowled and 3 LBWS says it all. Shantanu, Hasan Imam and Hamel bowled good spells around him to ensure that santa clara II did not get any partnership going. Sandeep was on a song and some balls were unplayable.

Umesh scored an attacking 54 nout out chasing down the 77 runs in 12.3 overs. Shantanu came and gave the boost required to chase it down fast. Nand after a big break was coming and bowling with fire where he beat the batsman number of times with his leg spin.

Good game to learn how to bowl with discipline and make a huge impact to the game.

This is the first time spartan have ever missed an umpiring assignment and one umpire showed up. So i will not take this as an intentional miss.

 

special thanks to sandeep peddada (12 year old) for being 12th man and help out both teams.

 

Thanks Gaja for showin up for the game with 45 mins notice in the morning. Raj Raman had to pull out last minute due to personal reasons

 

I guess this is the highest wickets taking by a bowler for santa clara in a league game.

 

I do remember puneet's 8 wicket haul against East Bay pajjis. but that was price cup or so.

 

-Sujesh Pulikkal
 

 

Match Report Bees v/s central valley.(bees won by 26 runs)

Bees beat CVCC by 26 runs

 

Bees had an Awesome recovery from 35 for 4 in 15 overs.

Chandru and govind (23) had a good [partnership going

Chandru and raj raman had a small partnership going.

The best was chandru and Amit valia who played a scincillating innings out of the skin to score a brilliant 58 not out batting @ #9.

They had 66 runs partnership for 8th wicket.

chandru got out in the 46th over and batted out 40 overs from 6th over to score a captains innings (chandru have been leading bees since Marin game). Responsible fifty with some crisp shots .

Saad and Amit valia had a small partnership for 9th wicket and that took the score to 175 plus and Amit hit a 6 and 4 in the last over to give bees a competitive score.

CVCC were 73 in 10 overs for no loss and saad gave the first break through (vatandeep who was taking too many chances)

Dawood amazing stumping off saads bowling.

Govind was bolwing banana outswingers in the beginning but they got away with lot of shots and hit soem huge sixes and boundaries in the beginning to get a good start.

I got shahid who was hitting @ the other end.

Saad removed carmo first ball off a beauty which cut off the wicket and Raj took a brilliant catch @ gulley

They never had a partnership going other than prabhjoth who played beautifully and stayed not out @ one end.

I cleaned up satinder and shiva took care of both lefties rana and babby.

Bees played this game with 5 spinners and rich with slow bowling options.

Amit tunrned the game when they needed 56 in 14 overs.

Amazing ball to remove Sunil.

Shiva cleaned up sukhi with another caught and bowled ( a skier).

Equation 42 required in 10 overs with 3 wickets.

It came down to 7 overs 39 runs

5 overs 29 runs

finally run rate pressure with 2 wickets 4 overs 27 runs (almost 7 runs per over)

Shiva bowled beautifully again in his second spell from benton end flighting the ball.

Amit was given a break and Saad came back to clean up the sticks of the last 2 batsman and prabhjoth stranded @ one end.

46. 4 overs game overs with cvcc losing by 26 runs.

Saad bowled like a champion on our wicket with good pace and hitting the seam from home stead end.

Wicket was dry and nothing for bowlers in the afternoon specially medium pacers unless u can hit the deck.

Outfield was still fast other than few areas where the ball stops.

All in all good cricket and good fight to win this game.

chandru mixed the bowling well and everyone responded well.

Shiva is a great leggie in the making (poor guy got a bad LBW decision while batting)

 

Amit valia and Shiva bowled great spells of leg spin and supported saad, govind, guru and myself to make it all happen

 

Raj Raman was unfortunate to discontinue bowling after a one run over. Amit gave the break through desperately needed and continued a spell of 7 overs.

 

Special thanks to shiva for doing substitute fielding for 4 overs.

 

Thanks to shantanu for all support along with Gaja, ravi vellanki, thatha, mohit, harsh and jagat.

 

Excellent captaincy by chandru

 

-Sujesh Pulikkal

 

SOX loose yet again in a low scoring game

The official NCCA ground on Chromite Ave in Santa Clara was the venue for the game b/w SOX and Mammoths. Mammoths lost to SOX playing at home last month and seemed to have showed up to play with almost the exact same team.

 

SOX started the day well with Jagat winning the toss. He promptly decided to bat. The pitch was wet because of sprinkler activity the night before and with Mammoth's slow bowling line up batting was not going to be an easy task.

 

Prasad and Shahab opened for SOX facing Jai and Ashok who started with wides gifted to SOX total so much so that the scorer had to get inventive in keeping track of all of them for these two bowlers on the score sheet.

 

All in all, in the first three overs, there were atleast 12 wides bowled. On the flip side, it was making batting none the easier simply because a couple of legal deliveries among lots of illegal ones that the batsman could only watch go by were that much more difficult to negotiate. On top of that there were wet patches on both ends which were quite large and were making the ball stick to the pitch just enough to create problems for the batsman. Prasad succumbed to just such a problem when he played too early to a ball that rose from a good length spot to take the shoulder edge of the bat and balloon onto square leg. Shahab was joined by Nipun in the middle who was intent on accelerating the score. He was unable to help much unfortunately, because of a brilliant catch taken by Prajwal at covers when he drove uppishly. Rajan then joined Shahab and started building a partnership with some energetic running in the middle. He also took advantage of some loose deliveries to play some calculated shots in the outfield where the ball was not travelling as easily. He  hit a four and a six before getting caught at mid-on when he mis-timed his shot and ended up getting the top of his willow on the ball as opposed to the sweet spot. SOX were motoring along nicely at 60 runs in 8 overs however, wickets falling quickly were creating a few problems. Sam at that point joined Shahab and while the initial discussion was around not loosing another wicket, the next bowler Vinay appeared too tempting for Shahab simply becuse unlike other bowlers he was bowling at a somewhat good pace and was bowling short as well. Shahab hit him for a four and charged him in the same over to hit him over the top but ended up playing a slash that went high and was caught by Jai at Deep third man. Sam was then joined by Vaibhav who started very confidently playing with his full face of the bat to most deliveries bowled at him. Sam had got his eye in by that time and hit some powerful shots over mid-off to see one of them cross the boundary. He also ran with a lot of energy and put a good deal of pressure on the field. He was ably assisted by the new man Vaibhav who did not get the opportunity to settle down when Ashok came back and cleaned him up. Sam was then joined by Bhava however, Sam in trying to play another lofted shot mis-calculated and gave a skier to an eager fielder. Zill-e-Rehman debuted for Santa Clara in this game and was instrumental in holding one end for SOX. Bhava got out playing a rash shot as well when he got caught in gully and Jagat too was back in the hut cheaply after getting caught brilliantly by deep mid-on almost alongside the cone.Zille who goes by Zill then partnered with Anshuman and while they tried to accumulate as many runs as possible for SOX, the middle order collapse and failure of the top order to get starts or converting their starts to big scores inhibited the target for Mammoths which turned out to be 114 runs. Zill was also caught out and Prashant did not get a chance to bat as Anhsuman got out at the next ball.

 

Some excellent bowling from Mammoths especially from Hitesh, Prajwal and Ashok aside from the wides but kudos to the whole team for some amazing catching in the field. Not a single catch was put down and at the end of the day that was the critical difference.

 

SOX started with great flourish when they started picking wickets right away. Prashanth and Rajan picked wickets pretty quickly and before Prajwal got onto the crease Mammoths did not seem to have their batting strategy together. The only blot on the SOX bowling were the extras that were bowled in the first few overs that really helped Mammoths make up for not being able to make those runs off the bat. Sam, Vaibhav, Anshuman and Jagat, were the other bowlers however, Prajwal stood all tests and was able to shepherd Mammoths to victory. He was crucially dropped on Jagat's bowling which may have turned the game however apart from that he played mostly a chanceless inning and deserved the MoM if there was one. Vaibhav bowled very well along with Sam who bowled with a lot of fire. Jagat was his masterful self for the most part however, the pitch did not provide him with the bounce that he can be so effective with. Even so, he created the critical chance bowling to Prajwal that was put down in the field. Vaibhav, Sam, Rajan, Prashant shared the wickets. Anshuman bowled well without much reward.

 

In the end, batting did not deliver a defendable score and bowling was unable to muster the needed discipline to contain the opponent. Shahab, Sam, Rajan were among those who got starts and scored 20 odds but were not able to convert them into big scores. Vaibhav, Nipun, Prasad were unable to get the starts that they needed and got out cheaply. Fielding can use some more practice around supporting their bowlers better and taking those early starts with the bowler to make up the difference that can be between taking a catch or dropping one. Prasad was very efficient behind the stumps for SOX and kept well especially during the interval when SOX bowling was wayward and extras were plenty. There were a couple of questionable umpiring decisions from the leg umpire however SOX did not dwell on them and moved on pretty quickly.

 
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SOX loose yet again in a low scoring game

The official NCCA ground on Chromite Ave in Santa Clara was the venue for the game b/w SOX and Mammoths. Mammoths lost to SOX playing at home last month and seemed to have showed up to play with almost the exact same team.

 

SOX started the day well with Jagat winning the toss. He promptly decided to bat. The pitch was wet because of sprinkler activity the night before and with Mammoth's slow bowling line up batting was not going to be an easy task.

 

Prasad and Shahab opened for SOX facing Jai and Ashok who started with wides gifted to SOX total so much so that the scorer had to get inventive in keeping track of all of them for these two bowlers on the score sheet.

 

All in all, in the first three overs, there were atleast 12 wides bowled. On the flip side, it was making batting none the easier simply because a couple of legal deliveries among lots of illegal ones that the batsman could only watch go by were that much more difficult to negotiate. On top of that there were wet patches on both ends which were quite large and were making the ball stick to the pitch just enough to create problems for the batsman. Prasad succumbed to just such a problem when he played too early to a ball that rose from a good length spot to take the shoulder edge of the bat and balloon onto square leg. Shahab was joined by Nipun in the middle who was intent on accelerating the score. He was unable to help much unfortunately, because of a brilliant catch taken by Prajwal at covers when he drove uppishly. Rajan then joined Shahab and started building a partnership with some energetic running in the middle. He also took advantage of some loose deliveries to play some calculated shots in the outfield where the ball was not travelling as easily. He  hit a four and a six before getting caught at mid-on when he mis-timed his shot and ended up getting the top of his willow on the ball as opposed to the sweet spot. SOX were motoring along nicely at 60 runs in 8 overs however, wickets falling quickly were creating a few problems. Sam at that point joined Shahab and while the initial discussion was around not loosing another wicket, the next bowler Vinay appeared too tempting for Shahab simply becuse unlike other bowlers he was bowling at a somewhat good pace and was bowling short as well. Shahab hit him for a four and charged him in the same over to hit him over the top but ended up playing a slash that went high and was caught by Jai at Deep third man. Sam was then joined by Vaibhav who started very confidently playing with his full face of the bat to most deliveries bowled at him. Sam had got his eye in by that time and hit some powerful shots over mid-off to see one of them cross the boundary. He also ran with a lot of energy and put a good deal of pressure on the field. He was ably assisted by the new man Vaibhav who did not get the opportunity to settle down when Ashok came back and cleaned him up. Sam was then joined by Bhava however, Sam in trying to play another lofted shot mis-calculated and gave a skier to an eager fielder. Zill-e-Rehman debuted for Santa Clara in this game and was instrumental in holding one end for SOX. Bhava got out playing a rash shot as well when he got caught in gully and Jagat too was back in the hut cheaply after getting caught brilliantly by deep mid-on almost alongside the cone.Zille who goes by Zill then partnered with Anshuman and while they tried to accumulate as many runs as possible for SOX, the middle order collapse and failure of the top order to get starts or converting their starts to big scores inhibited the target for Mammoths which turned out to be 114 runs. Zill was also caught out and Prashant did not get a chance to bat as Anhsuman got out at the next ball.

 

Some excellent bowling from Mammoths especially from Hitesh, Prajwal and Ashok aside from the wides but kudos to the whole team for some amazing catching in the field. Not a single catch was put down and at the end of the day that was the critical difference.

 

SOX started with great flourish when they started picking wickets right away. Prashanth and Rajan picked wickets pretty quickly and before Prajwal got onto the crease Mammoths did not seem to have their batting strategy together. The only blot on the SOX bowling were the extras that were bowled in the first few overs that really helped Mammoths make up for not being able to make those runs off the bat. Sam, Vaibhav, Anshuman and Jagat, were the other bowlers however, Prajwal stood all tests and was able to shepherd Mammoths to victory. He was crucially dropped on Jagat's bowling which may have turned the game however apart from that he played mostly a chanceless inning and deserved the MoM if there was one. Vaibhav bowled very well along with Sam who bowled with a lot of fire. Jagat was his masterful self for the most part however, the pitch did not provide him with the bounce that he can be so effective with. Even so, he created the critical chance bowling to Prajwal that was put down in the field. Vaibhav, Sam, Rajan, Prashant shared the wickets. Anshuman bowled well without much reward.

 

In the end, batting did not deliver a defendable score and bowling was unable to muster the needed discipline to contain the opponent. Shahab, Sam, Rajan were among those who got starts and scored 20 odds but were not able to convert them into big scores. Vaibhav, Nipun, Prasad were unable to get the starts that they needed and got out cheaply. Fielding can use some more practice around supporting their bowlers better and taking those early starts with the bowler to make up the difference that can be between taking a catch or dropping one. Prasad was very efficient behind the stumps for SOX and kept well especially during the interval when SOX bowling was wayward and extras were plenty. There were a couple of questionable umpiring decisions from the leg umpire however SOX did not dwell on them and moved on pretty quickly.

 
SHAHAB
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Seas beat Indus II by 45 runs, 7/12/08

Allround performance by Govind helped seas put this game across Indus II.

C-div: Indus II @ SCCC III
Date: 07/12/08
Played at: Wilson Education Center, Santa Clara
Umpires: Sriram K and Harish B (East Bay I)
Toss: Won by SCCC III, elected to bat

SCCC III: 123 a.o in 26.3 overs (Govind 23, Ramesh 8.3-0-42-6, Pavan 3-0-5-2, Extras 39)

defeated
 
Indus II: 78 a.o  in 29 overs (Mayank 20*, Govind 9-4-8-4, Mangesh 5-0-8-3, Saurabh 2/20, Extras 16)

Seas Innings : After winning the toss, seas opened with Chandra S and Govind. After a good start seas were reduced to 72/4 by 15 overs. Chandra (15), Govind (23), Harsh (9) had good starts but could not carry on play bigger innings. After the drinks break Rohit and Ashish continued to repair the damage before Ashish was bowled of an inside edge for 13. Dinesh and Rohit continued to steady the innings before 2 wickets in a single over of Rohit and yours truly changed the tempo of the game.  More wickets fell in subsequent overs due to couple of dubious umpiring decisions as the Seas lost the last 5 wickets for the addition for 15 runs. Overall  the Seas batting fell through in this game,  due to  injudicious shot selection, good bowling and dubious umpiring decisions.

Indus II Innings : After the lunch break, seas recouped and entered the field with strong resolve to bowl and field with high intensity. What followed was an exceptional out swing bowling from Govind who opened the bowling with Dinesh. Every batsman was clueless and struggled to put bat to ball as seas tightened up things. Govind bowled 9 overs on the trot and his bowling analysis read an amazing 9-4-8-4. I have not seen this kind of bowling performance from an SCCCian in a long time. One batsman was caught behind, 2 were  squared up and lost there middle stump, one more batsman tried to hit his way out of trouble only to be superbly caught by Saurabh at point. Dinesh was unlucky not get any wicket as he could not hold on to a caught and bowled chance. Mangesh  replaced  Govind and picked up 3 wickets ( caught by Harsh at slip, skier caught by Rohit and an LBW ) as there was no let up in the pressure for Indus II. Nikul bowled his left arm seamers coming around the wicket kept it tight at one end. His 7 overs cost 19 runs and picked up a crucial wicket, caught by Puneet Konghot  at covers. Indus II were reduced to 53/9 before the last batsman chanced his arm to add 25 more runs. Saurabh picked up the last 2 (LBW and bowled) wickets bowling good stump to stump line.

Although the batting came a cropper, it is heartening to see the bowling and fielding respond brilliantly to defend such a low total, which was definitely 100 runs short.

Cheers,
Ravi V

Bees lost to cougar-I by 122 runs @ home

Hi all,

 

A-div: Santa Clara -II @ Cougars -I
Date: 06/29/2008
Played at: Wilson Adult School , Santa Clara
Umpires: Ayan. B & Ankur. M(Sunnyvale -I)- Certified
Toss: won by Cougars team and elected to bat

Cougars- I: 263/8 in 50 overs(KRISHNA.P 113 Not out, Sunny.S 42, Majid 21, Manjit 19, Imran 10/0/42/4, Saad.K 9/0/43/2, Sujesh 10/3/26/1)

defeated

Santa Clara II: 141 all out in 37.4 overs (Krishna.V 33,Ahmad 16, Sujesh 13, Doane.G 10/0/25/3, Sunny.s 6/1/27/2)

by 122 runs

Match Report:
Krishna's 113 Not out(97 balls) was the best paced innings I have seen @ santa Clara ground in a long time.
First fifty came with 68 balls and he was dropped twice. Next 50 came off 22 balls with 5 sixes and then 7 balls for 13 runs.
Cougars scored 89 runs in last 10 overs. (9th wicket unbeaten partnership of 89 runs as well between fahad and krishna. He ran whole bunch of twos and singles in his innings. Sunny gave the required start by scoring 42 runs of 40 balls. Cougars were 140 odd for 7 wickets and manjit and krishna had a very good partnership in which Manjit did chunk of scoring. Sujesh, Imran and krishna bowled well for santa clara -II. Medium Pacers finsihed badly on a day where krishna was timing every ball. All the sixes he hit were sweetly timed and the ones he hit against the wind was a treat to watch. We paid the price for droppign him twice and None other batsman were looking comfortable @ the wicket. truely an amazing knock to provide an awesoem platform for cougars 263/8 in 50 overs.

Santa Clara Ii started badly by losing Hassan.A and chandru early. Krishna and Sujesh had a 45 runs partnership for 3 rd wicket. Ahmad and Imran had a 35 runs partnership for the 8th wicket. Otherwise Santa Clara-Ii after lsoing early wickets and sunny bowling with fire didn't look like chasing this big score. New player Doane played with lot of heart. He Bowled a good spell too. Akash and Manjit gave a good start to cougars with the new ball.

Cougars outplayed Santa Clara-II and Krishna's innings defined the result.

There are days where you are an opponent captain but could only admire certain things. Krishna's innings was one of them in my career. Every shot he hit was cleared with ease on a long boundary.

We will Boucne back by correctign our errors. We will come back strong. Every team member wills pent some tiem to fix their errors and bring back the glory we used to cherish before.

No worries guys it was just a bad day where someone outperformed us. Giev credit where it's due.

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara cricket club

Seas beat spartan by 7 wickets.

C-div: SCCC III @ Spartan
Date: 06/29/2008
Played at: Spartan Cricket Ground
Umpires: Ghayoor Ghumman (Level III), Wasim Aslam (Level IV) Tracy CC
Toss: won by Spartan and elected to bat

Spartan : 107 a.o in 34.2 overs( Ravi S 22, Dinesh 2/28, Satish 3/17, Rajesh R 4/18, Extras 44)

lost to

SCCC III : 108/3 in 30.1 overs ( Harsh S 45*, Malav 23*, Rajesh R 22)

After Spartan won the toss, seas opened the bowling with Dinesh and Karthik. Dinesh started well by cleaning up Nandu and followed up with the wicket of Jigar, nicely caught by Harsh S at first slip. Satish replaced Karthik and bowled a forgetful 15 ball over. With the help of extras spartan were 58/3 after 15 overs. After the drinks break Gundan and Mangesh bowled tight overs in tandem and Gundan picked up 4 wickets in the process. Mangesh was unlucky not to get any wickets, but he effected a good run out of his bowling to get rid of Ravi S. Satish come back for the second spell and bowled with lot of zip to clean up the tail and pick up 3 wickets. Seas bowled more wides which helped the spartan score of 107. Harsh finished with 4 sharp catches at 1st slip.

After a nice lunch seas started the chase badly loosing both openers Chandra and Vicky by the 4th over. Harsh and Gundan played with lot of application and commitment in the midst of some tinght bowlig, to take the seas to 30/2 by the 15th over. After the drinks break Rajesh was run out pushing for a 3rd run of an overthrow. Malav joined Harsh and  both batted sensibly, scoring of bad balls while defending the good ones and took the seas home with out further loss of wickets. Harsh finished off with couple of nicely times 6s.

Seas hope to continue the momentum forward, however bowlers need to put more work to contain wides.

Cheers,
Ravi Vellanki

Winning Streak comes to an end - SOX loose against Tracy United by 3 runs

SOX and Tracy enjoyed an exciting game with a controversial ending involving an umpiring gaffe.

SOX lost the toss and were asked to bowl. Tracy's ground had incredibly short boundaries compared to some of the other grounds in the league however, grass in a few patches here and there was fairly thick so shots along the ground were not as effective in getting runs. Everyone expected it to be a high scoring game and not one to be dominated by the bowlers. Apparently Rajan begged to differ and started a top order slide for Tracy, the likes of which have rarely been seen. Rajan ended up with 4 wickets giving away only a handful of runs while Nikhul from the other end got into the act as well reducing Tracy to 55 for 6 at break. Rajan bowled with a lot of control and aggression and got the important wicket of Tarun. He also bowled out most of his victims with sharp incutters that were very accurate, one of which notably hit the top of the off-stump. Extras were well in control and SOX were looking to dominate the game. After the break, the picture changed just a bit when numbers 7 and 8 from Tracy hung around longer than they should have chipping runs into their total. Karthik and Anshuman bowled very well to contain the batsmen and after some struggle, SOX started the slide yet again where Tracy lost two quick wickets in the same over. Shahab and Puneet bowled the last few overs giving away minimal amount of runs and accounting for the rest of the batting line up. Harsh probably took the finest catch getting Raj's wicket off of Puneet's bowling and got a stumping resulting in a wicket for Shahab as well. Rajan contributed in fielding as well with an amazing catch off of a flat drive at the boundary. There were some dropped catches that elongated the Tracy innning (three in all) but Tracy was eventually all out for 125 runs.

 

SOX started out very well with Harsh and Prasad taking advantage of some loose bowling in the beginning. Harsh particularly looked good and was making steady progress when he got out with the total at 47 which turned out to be the best partnership from SOX for the day. He was followed by Nipun and when Prasad fell after a good knock and only due to a misunderstanding between him and Nipun, Rajan walked in and immediately started to dominate the proceedings. Nipun departed after giving a dolly of a catch to short mid-on. Karthik walked in and partnered with Rajan to push the score into the 90s. Rajan, after belting a boundary, tried his luck again and was caught out very close to the boundary. In walked Jagat at a point when SOX needed less than 35 runs and was not able to get going against Raj. He was out LBW on a ball that struck him curiously high above his knee roll. Shahab walked in to partner Karthik who at that point was trying to play along the ground without much success in getting runs. Karthik got out after his attempt at trying to go over the top of the infield resulted in a mishit. Puneet and Shahab got together on the pitch but the frustration of not being able to score with along the ground shots got to Shahab as well and he skied a short ball in an attempt to pull it to mid-wicket boundary. Anshuman walked in and ably assisted Puneet who was making the last stand against a charged Tracy line up. At the time, SOX needed about 24 runs in 4 overs however, with only one wicket in hand, Puneet was trying to help the situation without taking too many risks. Anshuman and Puneet pulled the game within a whisker of an advantage for SOX when they needed 6 runs in 6 balls. The equation then became 3 runs in 4 balls and that is when disaster struck. A ball that took the bottom edge of Anshuman's bat and appeared to have missed his pad completely went behind the wicket keeper. The bowler was the only one who appealed and kept appealing for an LBW. Everyone saw the umpire raise his hand registering 2 bye runs with the scorer. The scorer and half the SOX team acknowledged him and next we look up to see Anshuman walking back. Apparently the umpire had decided after giving the bye runs that it was not bye after all and that Anshuman was out LBW. Umpire later clarified that he made a mistake in thinking that it was a bye and re-considered his decision to reverse it. SOX still had 2 more balls to play to get the three runs however, it was not to be and SOX lost the game by a close margin of three runs.

 

The day did belong to the bowlers of both sides. From Tracy, everybody bowled very well and controlled the extras. Same from SOX as well. A little more application on the batting side of things could have seen more scoring from both the teams. However, that does not take away from an intense match up. SOX are 4-3 after playing seven games in total. The schedule shows SOX as being off for the next few weeks coming back on Jul 13th weekend against Mammoths in an away game.

 

This is hopefully a minor blip on the graph and SOX hope to continue the upward climb in the Team table.  

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Seas beat Bay Area I by 138 runs.

Seas beat Bay Area I yesterday, here are brief details of the game.

C-div: Bay Area I @ SCCC III
Date: 06/15/2008
Played at: Wilson Education Center, Santa Clara
Umpires: Shiva V & Happy (NCCA Youth)
Toss: won by SCCC III and elected to bat

SCCC III Innings: 246/8 in 45 overs(Chandra S 43, Harsh 20, Malav 23,
Rohit 48, Dinesh 22, Ashok 3/31, Biju 2/16)

defeated

Bay Area I: 108 a.o in 26.2 overs(Sunny M 28, Kartik 2/12, Mangesh
2/33, Rajesh R 3/23, Govind 2/5)

The game was played in good spirits with excellent umpiring from Shiva
and Happy.

Seas posted a good score, highest on the home ground this year, due on
the platform set by openers Govind and Chandra. Seas were 99/1 at the
end of 15 overs. Both the openers played positively punishing bad
balls as they were offered in plenty by Bay Area I. Chandra and Harsh
got out soon after the first drinks break. Malav and Rohit ensured
that the momentum was not lost and took the score to 178/4 by the 30th over. Bay Area
tightened up the bowling in the last session as the Seas looked to
push for a big score. Rohit eventually got out in the 38th over for a
well made 48, missing 2nd consecutive half century in as many games.
Dinesh and Kartik ensured that the Seas played all 45 overs with out loosing
scoring opportunities.

Bay Area started badly loosing a wicket in the very first over of the
innings. Dinesh and Kartik, the opening bowlers for Seas, bowled with
excellent control to 46/3 by the 15 over. After the drinks break,
Gundan weaved his magic and picked up 3 wickets, leaving various
batsman clueless several times during his spell. Mangesh bowled well
from the other end to pick up 2 wickets. Govind tried his golden arm
for the first time for SCCC and picked up 2 wickets in the only over
he bowled.

Excellent win for Seas and hopefully the momentum will be carried
forward to the next game against Spartan.

Cheers,
Ravi Vellanki

Match Report - SOX in a Blowout

This past Saturday SOX played against Mammoths at Home in what turned out to be a very exciting and gratifying contest for the Home team. SOX won the toss and deciding to bat first sent in Prasad and Harsh. While Harsh was looking good and scoring at a consistent rate, Prasad was struggling due to an injury he picked up while practicing the day before. He bravely faced up to the bowling and the new ball with the nagging injury but was not able to score as steadily. In trying to flick a ball past fine leg, he missed the line completely and lost his leg stump. Heston joined Harsh in the middle and the left-right combination started to make things difficult for Mammoths who seemed to be struggling with their bowling specially giving away extras at a very quick and consistent pace. Harsh was out LBW and he was followed by the player-of-the-day Rajan. Rajan played a very steady hand with Heston helping him with quick singles on the pitch. At break (End of 13th over), SOX had blasted more than a hundred runs with Rajan looking extremely well settled. During the break everyone encouraged Rajan to think about playing out the entire 25 overs. It turned out that Rajan did exactly that. He formed partnerships with Heston, Jagat, Gaja and Sam, each in excess of 30 runs. He hit three consecutive sixes, two of them hanging in the air for a long time before landing outside a long boundary. Rajan registered his 100, first for the SOX season, in the 24th over. His 100 came in 60 balls faced with 4 sixes and 9 fours. He got an elongated ovation and even the Mammoth field enthusiastically joined in congratulating him on his day. From Mammoths, all the bowlers gave away lots of wides and struggled with their line. Prajwal stood out with his bowling.

 

SOX also smashed their earlier highest score record of 222 and posted 223 for the loss of six at the end of 25 overs.

 

The match looked out of Mammoth's hands as they had resigned looks on their faces. They started poorly against Rajan and Prashanth who were accurate and quick. Some very sharp bowling saw very little given away in extras. SOX showed amazing agility in the field with 2 run outs off of direct hits. Heston took a blinder at Cover-Point region and Mammoths were never able to make a serious attempt at the target. They fought as best they could since they were also playing with only 10 players however, the total, the spirited SOX performance and a long day (made longer because of the extras SOX were able to pick up while batting) took a high toll. Puneet made an amazing comeback after a poor first over to pick up wickets especially Prajwal's critical wicket who had started to pick up runs against the SOX bowlers.

 

Rajan, Prashanth, Puneet, Jagat, Sam and Shahab bowled well to contain Mammoths in the end and SOX were able to carry the day without the theatrics for once.

 

SOX are now 4-2 after 6 games. We have a week off with some umpiring assignments coming up and the next assignment is in Tracy against Tracy United on Jun 22nd.

 

SHAHAB

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Bees beat Sunnyvale by 80 runs

A-div: Santa Clara II @ Sunnyvale I
Date: 06/08/2008
Played at: ortega park (sunnyvale)
Umpires: Sunny singh and asim(Cougars-I)- CERTIFIED
Toss: won by Santa Clara II and elected to bat

santa clara II 195/9 in 45 overs: (Hassan.A 78, Govind.U 30, Chandru.v 19, arvind 6/40, shesha 2/14)

defeated

Sunnyvale-I: 115 all out in 34.5 overs(Srini.S 23, Raj.C 18, Ahmad 3/21, srinivas 2/12, Sujesh 1/11) 2 run outs.

by 80 runs

Umpiring: very good umpiring by Sunny singh and asim

 

Imran 6 overs 1/14, satish 1/23, Dawood 16 runs, Kundam mama 13 runs all contributed. hassan 3 catches

-Sujesh Pulikkal

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Bees lost to Cougars by 119 runs on june 1st

Match report posted by cougars team on NCCA message board

 

Posted - 06/01/2008

A-div: Santa Clara II @ Cougars Date: 06/01/2008 Played at: Cougars/Cruisers Umpires: Rohan C and (Can't remember his name.. apologies!) (Stanford III) Toss: won by Cougars and elected to bat Cougars: 278/9 in 50 overs(Majid 98*, Sunny S 63, Mihir(Mon2)53, Akash 21, Shirish 4-42) Defeated Santa Clara II: 160/10 in 39 overs(Sujesh P. 51*, Govind 25, Dawood 21, Asim 2-10, Akash 2-27) Match Report: Cougars started off with an early runout of Saami to only bring Sunny and Majid together for a whirlwind partnership and were always cruising at around 6 runs and over. Sunny contributed 63 blazing runs while Majid played yet another invaluable and very solid knock to help put Cougars for a launching platform for the last 20 overs. While the familiar middle order debacle continues but finally Akash and Mon2 played couple of ideal knocks in the middle to set an example of what needs to be done after getting good starts. Mon2 in particular was quite brilliant scoring his maiden 50 of the season while Akash stepped out of his love for the teens.. well u know what i mean! One thing of note was the lack of running between wickets from Cougars. Cougars easily gave up 20 - 30 odd runs in singles and doubles that should have been converted and the person who suffered unfairly was Majid being stuck on 98* even though he throughly deserved a hundred for his brilliant back to back effort. Shirish for SCII picked up 4 crucial wickets to help reduce the damage when Cougars were threatening to post past that illusive 300 run mark. Santa Clara run chase went haywire from start as Hasan looked to carry on from his 100 last game but was caught off Manjit immediately after drilling him for a couple of 4's. Akash struck from the other end and SCII were in trouble early only to be briefly rescued by Dawood and Govind putting up a good partnership. Dawood played well for his 21 and Govind got 25 before the procession of batsmen marching in and out started. Sujesh put up a lone fight at the end with a really well played 51* but unfortunately did not have the kind of support needed to chase down a big total of 278 and Santa Clara was eventually skittled for 160 runs in 39 overs. For Cougars Akash and Asim picked up two wickets each and rest of the bowlers picked up 1 wicket each. Cougars bowlers however conceded plenty of extras and 26 extras was the other big contributor for the SC2 totals. Another aspect cougars certainly needs to improve upon along with extras is the catching. With close to 6 catches being dropped this could have easily for the other way.

 

-Sujesh Pulikkal

SOX make it exciting yet again!!!

SOX had a very cold day to start with and they were happy to bat first after the Berkley captain won the toss and decided to field first, hoping they won't have to field in cold and wet conditions towards the middle of the day.

 

A very inspired Harsh opened with a cautious Prasad. SOX did not loose their first wicket until the end of the 11th over when Prasad who scored 17 valuable runs while blunting the new ball was bowled out by Anish. Harsh continued to play some lovely strokes including the very elegant leg glance that fetched him multiple boundaries. He missed his half century by two runs when he was caught out. Unfortunately, Rajan was not able to contribute to the total much and credit goes entirely to the Berkley bowler (captain), who showed amazing reflexes to throw down the stumps after collecting a sharp straight drive from Rajan and seeing Rajan on the front foot and outside the line.

 

Sam played a helpful hand with Vikram at the time to steady the innings and to ensure that SOX do not loose too many wickets and play the entire set of 25 overs. SOX scored 152 in their inning at the loss of six or seven wickets.

 

From Berkley, Anish, Athar and Sid bowled very well. The fielding was patchy with a couple of dropped chances that could have turned the game.

 

SOX started confidently with Rajan and Chandru bowling their entire quota of 5 overs each and reducing Berkley to 39 for 4. Chandru started the slide with a sharp catch to the slips which was taken by Shahab. He continued with a catch in second slips to Gajja who handled it very well. Chandru also got a batsman run out with help from Sam in the same over. Berkley then lost another wicket to Rajan who got through Sid's defenses to get the middle stump. Berkley were all but out of the game at 48 for 7 when Sam picked up another wicket with Chandru taking a blinder at mid-wicket, however, SOX started to feel a bit more relaxed at that time and a couple of dropped chances saw Anish taking the game away. The equation at the end of 20 overs was Berkley at 102 for 8 with Anish playing the lone hand in everything scored after the grand total of 50 runs.

 

Vaibhav and Shahab bowled very well in the end to contain the batsmen and finished the quota of Berkley overs with them coming short by 10 runs in the end. Gajja contributed with his over as well however, he was unlucky to miss out on wickets when Jagat dropped a catch at deep square leg off his bowling. Jagat, unfortunately, was a victim of the same when he bowled his three overs with a chance going down once in every over.

In the end, Rajan and Chandru stood out for their efforts. Harsh stood out for his batting and his valiant effort behind the stumps.

Vikram was very quick in the field and made sure that everyone kept talking throughout the game. Murali,

 

A very entertaining game that goes to show that SOX need to ensure that they stay on top of the game once they get there otherwise better teams will take advantage and stage improbable comebacks. SOX are now 3-2 after five games. The next game is on the 7th. Please send your availability as soon as it is requested.

 

Thanks,

SHAHAB

 

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From: Sujesh Pulikkal <sujesh@santaclaracc.org>
Date: May 18, 2008 10:49 PM
Subject: Bees beat united by 7 wicket @ home- Match Report
To: members@santaclaracc.org

Good win folks and a job well done.

 

let's keep the momentum going forward!!

 

Congrats aces, seas and Sox for their wins

 

A-division: Santa Clara-II vs United-I
5/18/08 @ Santa Clara Ground
Umpires: Sundaram and Sashi. A.S(both Certified)
Toss: Santa Clara-II elected to field.

United-I: 120 all out in 36 overs (Harry 41, sonu 19, aditya 2/21, Imran 2/12, ahmad 2/32)

Lost to

Santa Clara-II: 121 for 3 in 36.0 overs (Aditya.T 38 not out, chandru.v 24, Krishna. V 23, Sonu 1/15, Steve 1/23, Ajay 1/13)

by 7 wickets

United Lost malhi early but Harry was playing lone hand and played some excellent shots on the off side. Ahmad and sathya picked up early wickets and at one point united where 63 for 3 wicketsin 15 overs. But tight bowling from sujesh and srinivas restrcited united in the middle overs  to 83 in 25 overs followed by an amazing spell of leg spin by aditya thyagarajan and Imran. They got all out for 120 runs. Sonu was the last batsman out trying to accelerate for a a well made 19 runs. United team tried but couldn't beat the field on a nicely mowed ground.

Santa Clara-II started their innings with hassan amin and krishna. they put on 24 runs before hassan amin got bowled to a good ball by Sonu. Chandru walks and keep the score board moving and had another 30 runs partnership with krishna. United bowled tight and tried hard but 120 were too less to defend. krishna got out for a well amde 23 runs to a soft dismissal getting a leading edge of steve's bowling. In walks Aditya the coolest bastman u can find in california. he milked the bowling initially and played some superb drives along the ground to make the game one-sided. Aditya and chandru had a 40 runs partenrship before chandru got to a caught and bowled by Ajay for 24 runs. Chandrodaya joined aditya and ensured no body else batted on a day where santa clara-II did everything right. Aditya finished the game like usual in style by scoring 38 not out and chandrodaya remained not out scoring 10 runs.

Execellent umpiring by Sundaram and shashi. A.S from stanford-A-II. very impressed with their judgement and consistency. A job very well done.

The game as usual was played in great spirits.

Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara-II

SOX Win - Report

Tracy and SOX got in a hot contest on a warm Saturday at SCCC ground. Tracy won the toss and decided to set a target for SCCC. They started well but did not push for runs from the beginning. One of the openers (Unknown) was batting with a fairly straight bat while the other as part of a plan was trying to go after Hamel and Prashant. Hamel drew first blood with a catch in the first slip to Shahab. He eventually ended up with 4 wickets, two of which were on consecutive deliveries. Prashant and then Rajan supported him very well. One of Rajan's wicket was a perfect line and length delivery with a little extra zip so much so that it only took a single bail off when it hit the stumps. Sam got a wicket as well when Shahab took a skier at long on while keeping very tight control on the proceedings.
Anshuman was rewarded for his hard work with a wicket as well when he bowled out a batsman who was starting to look dangerous. Tracy scored their 143 runs on the backs of Harry (53) and Shahid (33). Jagat and Prashant did well to control the scoring in their stints.
 

SOX started with Prasad and Shahab however, the partnership did not last long when Shahab nicked one to the keeper in the third over. After another dismissal, the slide in the order was halted by Rajan who partnered with Sam to carry the team with a marvellous 50. Sam supported him throughout with some amazing along-the-ground strokes of his own that made their way to the boundary. Tracy missed a couple of chances in dropped catches but for the most part they grabbed everything that came their way  While Rajan and Sam solidified and got SOX close to the victory, things started to seem to slip again when both got out in quick succession. In a rush to finish things off, the batsmen that followed gifted their wickets away and in the end SOX were down to the last two wickets with only three runs needed in the last over. Hamel and Anshuman kept their nerves about them and managed to make the final push together. SOX finished the game with three balls to spare.

 

Manish, Kuldeep and Harry were among wickets for Tracy.

 

SOX will be in action again at Home on the 31st of May.

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SOX win by 2 wickets

TRACY UNITED WON THE TOSS

TUUU 143 ALL OUT

hAMEL 5/22/4

rAJAN  5/31/2

SAM 5/28/1

ANSHUMAN 2.5/23/1

SCORERS FROM TUUU

HARRY 53 1X4s AND 1X6s

SHAHID  33  2X4s AND 1X6s

 

SOX 144 FOR 8

RAJAN  50 OF 43 BALLS  4X5 AND 1X6s

sam    38 of 58 baills 3x4s

 

TUCC WICKET TAKERS

MANISH   5/28 /3

KULDEEP  5/27/2

HARRY   5/24/1

 

 

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Seas beat Indus II by 4 wickets.

Hi all,

As per the news you have already received, seas beat Indus II by 4 wickets.

Brief scores :

C-div : SCCC III @ Indus II
Date : 5/18/08
Played at : Rancho Milpitas middle school
Umpires : Shaqib S (Level 3) and Mohammed D (Level 4)
Toss : Won by Indus, elected to bat

Indus II : 129 a.o in 36.1 overs (Rakesh I 30, Masi M 35, Pravin B 24, Rajesh R 3/27, Satish 4/22)

lost to

SCCC III : 132/6 in 24 overs ( Ashish 24, Chandra S 40* (29 balls), Ravi V 23*, Masi 3/38)

Match report :

Seas started the day with minor disruption as Govind was delayed and Satish had to drive back to SCCC home ground to hand over the rest room key which inadvertently ended up in his kit bag. Nisarg accepted to be 12th man for this game and SCCC had no issues fielding 11 right from the start of game after Indus choose to bat. The umpires were delayed as well and the match started at around 10:25 AM. Dinesh and Mohit opened the bowling for the seas. Mohit got the first breakthrough with a caught and bowled dismissal of one of the Indus openers. Seas bowled a few wides and Indus hit a few streaky boundaries to take the score to 53/1 at 15 overs. After the drinks break Masi and Rakesh from Indus continued to bat with caution punishing bad balls and defending the good ones. By the 23rd over Indus were 91/1. At this stage Satish was introduced in to the attack and the situation dramatically turned around in the favour of Seas. Satish had the Rakesh caught behind, and followed it with a fast inswinger to uproot Masi's middle stump. In the subsequent overs, two more wickets fell to scorching yorkers, one resulted in a LBW and the other knocked the middle stump over. At the other end Gundan bowled a tight line and picked up three wickets, including the important one of Praveen K, caught behind. Dinesh picked up the last wicket with the first ball of his second spell and the Indus innings folded at 129 as they lost 9 wickets for the addition of 38 runs.

After a good lunch from swagat Seas began the chase by loosing Dinesh in the second over, LBW to Masi. Govind continued his good form by hitting 3 consecutive boundaries before knicking one to the first slip to leave the seas to 29/2 in 5 overs. Ashish started well, severly punishing bad balls as the seas were cruising nicely at 53/2 by the end of 8 eight overs and against the run of play Ashish got run out pushing for a non existent single. Three more wickets followed as Vicky was caught at 1st slip, Rohit played on while trying to leave the ball and Harsh given out LBW. The flurry of wickets reduced the seas to  66/6 by the 15th over.  After the drinks break seas resumed batting with Chandra and yours truly. Chandra changed the tempo of the game by scoring quick boundaries (intially of bad balls and subsequently even good balls weren't spared) as seas chased the score with out further loss of wickets.

Finally a satisfying win, but the issue of loosing to many wickets in the first 15 overs needs to be resolved. Many thanks to Nisarg for helping out as 12th man for this game.

Cheers,
Ravi V

Match report for bees v/s davis @ davis

Hi all,

 

A-division : Santa Clara-II @ Davis CC
Date : May 10, 2008
Played at : Davis CC
Umpires : Tushar and Linesh (Bay Area-I)
Toss : Davis CC won the toss and elected to bat.

Davis CC : 209/10 in 46.1 overs
(Shevar 40, Nirav 36, Balbir 15,
Sathya 6/0/39/3, Sujesh 10/0/22/2)
defeated
Santa Clara-II : 106/10 in 34.2 overs
(Sreenivas 26, Satish 14,
Dan 10/0/24/3, Sushant 5/3/10/2, Saleem 6/0/21/2)

by 103 runs..

Bees lost the toss. tried soem luck through chandru and he lost the toss as well.

Davis elected to bat and started with an unusual opener of ray sahdeo the baseball player and balbir.

Ray connected 2 balls of the first over outside the fence for 2 big sixes.

He got out same over to guru's bowling plump infront.

Davis kept losing wickets and they were 80 for 4 wickets durign first break.

Shevar stuck in and played a patient knock with some lusty blows to score 40 runs.

Nirav played with tail and showed us how someone can score runs with tail .

He patiently waited since we bowled 46 extras which pretty much gave them the runs they needed.

Satish started badly but came back and bowled a brilliant second spell of 6 overs for 15 runs.

He was bowlign fast and hitting the spot. Imran had a off day by not getting any wickets.

We pulled the game bakc nicely and got them all out for 209.

Ritesh kadu was electric behidn stumps and plucked 2 great catches behind.

 

Good lunch served. Job well done in the first session for the poor start and wides.

Well mowed fast outfield and 210 should be an easy target.

 

Ritesh started well with 2 boundaries but Dan theb tricky man decievd him with pace and got inside edge bowled.

Followed by hassan inside edge bowled. Chandru walks in and played a wild shot to counter attack and fell to jay.

krishna was settlign in nicely. Chandrodaya walks in and gets bowled isndie egde to jay. We are in deep trouble.

Kundam walks in and played soem beautiful shots to saleem and jay. krishna was again decieved by dan and he played a flick straight to square leg fielder.

5 wickets down for 50 runs. Sujesh walks in and played an atrocious shot which no one can dream off. first ball across the line and got bowled to saleem.

Ahmad hung aroudn for a while with discomfort. Ahamd bowled by saleem. we are 7 wickets down for some 80 runs. Inwalks satish. he looked very comfortable out there.

he played a patient knock and scored aroudn 16 runs and got otu caught @ gulley. Imran and sathya played for a while to ensure we got the secodn battign point when we reached 100. poor display of batting costed us the second game after a good start to the season.

 

Bees will come back strongly and can expect better performance in the future games.

 

-Sujesh Pulikkal

 

 

Seas beat Stanford II by 145 runs !

Hi all,
Seas beat Stanford II in the home game.

Brief scores :

C div : Stanford II @ SCCC III
Date : 05/12/2008
Played at : Wilson Adult Eductation Center
Umpires : Samip & Anurag (Cruisers)
Toss : Santa Clara III, elected to Bat

SCCC III 237 a.o in 44 overs ( Govind 95, Rohit 27, Mayank 3/65, Hari 3/30, Manish 2/25)

defeated

Stanford II 92 a.o in 30 overs ( Deepak 23, Tushara 39, Mohit 2/23, Rajesh R 2/29, Mangesh 2/8)


Match details :

SCCC Innings : Under wet and overcast conditions seas choose to bat and opened with Govind and Dinesh. Both the openers started positively, showing the intent to take on the bowlers and added 42 runs in 7 overs before Dinesh got out trying to play a big shot. Govind at the other end was his usual self playing to the merit of the ball without ever missing out an opportunity to score runs. He was well supported by Ashish. At the end of 15 overs the score read 59/1.  In the second session Harsh and Govind built a good partnership, scoring consistently with aggresive running between the wickets. At the end of 30 overs the score read 134/3. After the second drinks break Govind and Harsh upped the scoring rate and fell quickly in the process. Finally a magnificent chanceless innings from Govind came to end when he was caught at short extra cover. Govind was unlucky to miss out on a well deserved century by 5 runs, his shots all around the wicket were pleasing to watch. Rajesh R (Gunda) got bowled  for  a golden duck as the Seas were reduced to 158/6 in 35 overs. Rohit and yours truly kept the score board moving and both of them fell in quick succession when a score of 230 was very much possible. Chandra S (Chandu), Mohit and Mangesh put their best efforts to get the 5th batting point. Seas were finally bowled out for 237 in 44 overs.

Standford II Innings :

Chasing 237 , especially on an unmowed field was a tough ask and stanford had disastrous start by losing 2 wickets in the first over. Arif, who backed up too far was the first one to go, and was run out by Gunda. Initially Gunda tried to take on the batsman by running towards the bowlers end from squre leg and later wisely decided to throw the ball at the bowlers end and Govind did the rest. Mohit bowled well in patches to pick up 2 wickets. Dinesh at the other end bowled a tight spell and was unlucky not to get a wicket. Stanford lost wickets at regular intervels with only Tushara scoring some runs by chancing his arm. A flurry of dropped catches delayed the inevitable, but stanford II eventually got all out for 92 in 30 overs. Chandu picket up 1 wicket and bowled tidy 6 overs. Gunda created lot of chances and picked up 2 wickets. Mangesh bowled 3 good overs to pick up 2 wickets as well.

Overall  a very good win for seas. The second consecutive win made possible by very good batting.

Cheers,
Ravi V

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Aces result preview..

Aces lost to CV by 4 wickets. Aces scored 228 run in super fast outfield, but CV played well to chase it off. Gagandeep played hell of an innings to set a win for them comfortably, he hit some 8/10 towering sixes, everything coming from middle of the bat.

 

CV has added some good talent this year and is certainly a lot different than any of the CV teams we played before. Details to follow.

 

cheers,

Sunil.

 

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Bees lost to stanford-A-I by 3 wickets- Match report

A-div : Stanford-A-I vs Santa Clara II
Date : May 5th 2008
Played at : Santa Clara Hoem ground
Umpires : Indus II Thyaga(Certified) - Rakesh(UnCertified)
Toss : won by Stanford=A-1 and elected to Field

Santa Clara -II : 174 a.o. in 46 overs (krishna 44, Sujesh 19, Bilal 3/33, Saeed 3 wickets)

defeated

Stanford-A-1 : 175 for 7 wickets in 48.4 overs(Abbas 59 not out, Ganesh. S 53, Jwalant 2/19, Sathya. M 2/37)

Match Report:
Santa Clara- II got a good start after losing hassan early. Chandru and dawood took the score to 80/1 in 14 overs and we suddenly got to 96 for 4 wickets in 18 overs. Krishna and sujesh had a good partership which took the score to 150 plus. krishna played a beautiful innings of 44 eventhough he was having fever. Sujesh got out @ the score of 165 in 43 overs and the we got all out for 174. Bilal bowled a very controlled spell. Saeed gave too many extras in the first spell but he bowled the second spell with fire and cleaned up santa clara-II lower order. Anwar and Sikander gave nothign away giving less than 2 runs per over.

Stanford-A-I in trouble losing 4 early wickets for less than 33 runs in 15 overs. Nauman and Ganesh played together for a while unable to score due to tight bowling. Ganesh took few chances and played some good shots to keep the score board mooving. Nauman got out to a beauty by srinivas kundam and a good catch from dawood behind the wicket put them in more trouble. In walks Abbas who played a knock out of his skin. He took all the time in the world to settle down and made use of the 50 overs to wait and play. Ganesh and Abbas took the score from 50 to 150 runs. Ganesh got out scoring 53(caught behind and stumped) of sathya's bowling when standford-A required like 26 runs in 5 overs. Abbas ensured the victory is reached without any more risks. It came down to 6 runs of 2 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Game was over in 49th over. Sathya Maturi, jwalant Ahir and srinivas kundam bowled really well.

Overall a good game and Man of the Match ABBAS. truley amazing knock and i haven't seen one from him like this. Chanceless innings and accelerated well in the end.

Satnford-A played better cricket and deserved the win for the allround effort.

Umpires where keeping track of time and made sure the game was played on time.
Good umpiring from Indus-II

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara cricket club

Match Reports and Official Communication Publishing

Captains, Vice-Captains, Execs and Other Match Report Writers,

As part of the communication standardization within the SCCC club, we are trying to move to Blogs as much as possible. However, at the same time, we understand, most of us still feel more comfortable composing emails vs. logging on to a new tool. Therefore, we have setup a configuration that will allow an official blog entry through a simple email.

How does this work?

Whenever you have a match report or an official communication (i.e. match report, grounds day, picnic), just add bogus-please-see-email-for-official-id@santaclaracc.org in addition to members id and that is about it! Please make sure you only do that for the communication that you will be willing to share with outside world through Blog. This email has done so and it will automatically publish on our SCCC blog and then subsequently to the website (I will edit it to take out the email id out of it to avoid spam). No content management, no manual step or process. All it needs is to you take responsibility to add the publishing user id (in addition to the members id) for all official match reports and non-confidential SCCC-related official announcements.

Lastly, we request you to start using members at santaclaracc dot org as the alias for all members vs. yahoo groups. This will help us in branding and move to different services as transition our IT systems.

Thank you,

-SFA

SCCC Twitters

All,

Do you Twitter? If yes, then you may get the idea of this initiative by just reading the title. However, for others, you just need the need to understand the concept of Twitter as almost real time non voice-based answer to the most common question in our games as "what does the scoreboard say?"

 

We will be piloting the Twitter technology to provide real time status for our games. Everyone will be able to subscribe to them and for instant gratification, you could setup device alerts and the messages woild flow to you instantly on your cell phones as text messages. This will eliminate your phone calls to the players and most importantly, to our SCCC 411 service, Sujesh Pullikal!.

 

Twitter receivers can be many but there can be only one SENDER. For Aces, I will be the designated twitter. For Bees, Ahmad Amin will be the designated twitter and for Seas, we are still looking for a volunteer. So, if you have a cell phone with text plan, can type quickly on your phones and don't mind updating your curious club members, and are selected in Seas, please send me an email and I will make you the twitter for the Bees and Seas teams. The URLs of these twitters are also on the main page of our portal for someone to check the score card from the web. Additionally, we have a general purpose twitter for our general club news that you can subscribe to also.

 

In summary, to check the status of a game, don't call anyone. Check the following URLs periodically. Additionally, f you want PUSH-based status, sign-up for a Twitter user id, and follow the SCCC<team> Twitter accounts. This way, as soon as the designated twittering folks send the text message, it will be published to all subscribers.

 

URLs (also on our main page):

ACES (updated by me): http://twitter.com/scccaces

BEES(updated by Ahmad Amin): http://twitter.com/scccbees

SEAS (looking for volunteer): http://twitter.com/scccseas

 

As of now, sccc<team> twitters are subscribed to each other through the devices..So, any update by Ahmed will be instantly seen by me, and vice versa.

 

Happy Twittering!

 

Best Regards,

SFA

SCCC 2.0

Dear SCCC Members,

As we start the 2008 season, the SCCC management team is very pleased to announce the completion of the SCCC 2.0 initiative that we had started as a beta program in July 2007. This effort was a total team effort between the SCCC technology team and SCCC executives. Frankly, when we started this transformation journey, we didn’t know where we would end-up but we were determined to make a change and take our social enterprise into the Web 2.0 era. Along the journey, we discovered what works and what does not. We discovered each other’s specialties. We had meetings. We exchange hundreds of emails and met many times face-to-face. It was all fun (well, at least for me). And now, we are finally ready to let you have it!

As it happens with any new roll-out, we don’t expect things to be free of errors or problems. However, we do expect you to see improvements in our operational expenses, a superior availability system – when used correctly, and most importantly, a better online marketing brand for our club and members.

Technology Operations Expenses Down to $0

In every organization, the technology department is treated like an expense or cost center. We are determined to change for the Santa Clara Cricket Club. So, with our new solution, based on the free version of Google Apps, our technology expenses have become $0. Additionally, this transition has set us on the course to making technology to be revenue generator – in future – through online contextual advertisements. However, we must have audience before that. We don’t know what and how of that yet. But we will figure it out as we go along.

Superior Availability Management Configuration

Earlier this week, we used the NCCA scheduled spreadsheet and uploaded that to the SCCC calendar in the Portal. Therefore, you as a member, you can go in and submit your availabilities for the full season – of course, you can change them later also. Your advance submissions will help our captains and executives to plan more effectively. This new setup will enable better forecast and predictability of the resource shortages as we go into the season. What is the benefit for our club? Better forecast result will result into better selection decisions, and better selection decisions will result into better results for our games!

For your user id questions and brief tutorial on how to submit the availabilities, please click here.

SANTA CLARA CC Branded Email Addresses

We have debated this lot internally but we have come to an agreement that the best way to improve our brand is to have Santa Clara CC branded email addressed for all SCCC-related communication. Yes, some of you may disagree, but the executives’ board has felt the need to improve our brand more strongly and a santaclaracc.org-branded email will be one action to get us there. To implement this, we have enabled santaclaracc.org-branded email addressees for all of you. You will also see an email-widget on the left-upper side of the main portal page. Now, the logical question would be how the Yahoo Group will work? For now, Google Apps does not provide Groups integration so we have decided to keep the Santa Clara Yahoo Group. However, the Yahoo Groups do allow non-Yahoo email addresses to be used for receiving and sending emails. Therefore, we recommend that you do that. The instructions to do that can be found at this link.

Online Content Management - Beta

Through the use of contemporary Web 2.0 technologies, we are in the process of improvements in how we do content management across the SCCC website. In many cases, we are dealing with the tools limitations. Therefore, this is an area where we do need to work as we go along here. For now, you can see photos, links and some videos on the main page as we go into the seasons, though; I would be the first one to accept that the presentation of those content items may not be as elegant as in some other professional websites.

Twitter-Based Games Status – Beta

Do you Twitter? If yes, then you may get the idea of this initiative by just reading the title. However, for others, you just need the need to understand the concept of Twitter as almost real time non voice-based answer to the most common question in our games as “what does the scoreboard say?” We will be piloting the Twitter technology to provide real time status for our games. Everyone will be able to subscribe to them and for instant gratification, you could setup device alerts and the messages will flow to you instantly. This will eliminate your phone calls to the players and most importantly, to our SCCC 411 service, Sujesh Pullikal!

Twitter receivers can be many but there can be only one sender. So, for Aces, I will be the designated twitter. For Bees and Seas, we are looking volunteers. So, if you have a cell phone with text plan, can type quickly on your phones and don’t mind updating your curious club members, please send me an email and I will make you the twitter for the Bees and Seas teams. The URLs of these twitters are also on the main page of our portal for someone to check the score card from the web. Additionally, we have a general purpose twitter for our general club news that you can subscribe to also.

What is Next?

To be honest, we don’t know. Yeah, it may sound lame but we wish but we could predict how you are going to use [or abuse] the system. So, we just have to watch and take actions from them. We believe on the philosophy of following the users – and the rest just follows. We will try our best to serve the needs of the Santa Clara Cricket Club!

Let’s have a great season!

Best Regards,

SCCC IT and Executive Management Teams