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