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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