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.

 
SHAHAB
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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