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
