Seas loose to Ebay I by 6 wickets.

B-div: Ebay I @ SCCC III
Date: 05/10/2009
Played at: Wilson Eduction Center, Santa Clara
Umpires: Srini and Asim (Cougars)
Toss: won by SCCC III and elected to bat

team batting first: 251/9 in 45 overs(Chandra 25, Harsh 23, Malav 69,
Satish 32, Sarabjit 2/50, Prateek 2/31, Sowri 2/42)

lost to

Ebay I: 252/4 in 39.4 overs(Nilesh 58, Amit 27, Raju 58, Kedar 23*,
Akhilesh 24*, Extras 44)

Other than excellent batting performance from Malav, who carriend on
from where he left off last game with good support from Harsh, Satish
and Chandra there is not much to speak of in this game. Missing 3
regular bowlers did not help the Seas cause as the bowling was
inconsistent in the midst of some all out attack by Ebay batsmen. The
fielding lacked spark and several dropped catches made it easy for
Ebay. May be there is a lesson or two to be learnt from this loss and
Seas will look forward to bounce back next game.

- Ravi Vellanki

Bees Match report for the game against Cougars- Sat May 2nd 2009

A-div: Cougars @ Santa Clara II
Date: May 2, 2009, Saturday
Played at: SCCC ground (Wilson Adult School)
Umpires: Sriram and Prashanth (valley-I)
Toss: Santa Clara II won and elected to bat

Santa Clara II 238 for 8 in 50 overs (Umesh 53 not out, Govind 50,
Chandrodaya 32, Vijith.K 22 not out, krishna.P 8/1/35/3, Sunny.S
10/1/35/2)

beat

Cougars I 200 All out in 43.3 Overs(Majid 64, Ayan 25, krishna.P 24,
Govind 10/2/39/4, Sujesh 7.3/2/16/2, Vijith 8/1/20/1)

by 38 runs

A Match started with slight drizzle and wet outfield. Santa Clara II
won the toss and elected to bat to put some pressure on heavy weight
cougars batting chasing the score. Cougars started well with Doane
bowling really well and sunny bowling with fire moving the ball both
ways. Santa Clara II were 81 in 21 overs with 3 wickets down. Govind
scored a steady 50 in 62 balls. Chandrodaya looked good for a fifty
and pushed the score along with krishna. Score reads 103 for 4 in 26
overs. Krishna scored 18 and got out. Arjun joiend Chandrodaya and
they took the score at run a ball to 142 in 32 overs for 5 wickets.
Santa Clara II set nicely to score 250 runs. Arjun got out scoring 18
runs. chandrodaya got out scoring 32 caught and bowled followed by
sujesh and to krishna's bowling put some pressure. umesh was calm and
played a good innings mixing caution and agression along with vijith
and ensured we scored 60 runs in last 10 overs and didn't lose any
more wickets. Ball was heavy and seam had swollen up but still held up
for the whole of 50 overs. Outfield dried up towards 35th over and
conditions were bright.

Cougars started by losing Ankur first ball to a soft dismissal to
Govind who was swinging the kookabura ball like crazy. Ayan was
hitting the ball well but unable to negotiate the swing decided to
take charge. Full blooded shot to mid off and well caught by umesh but
bad luck struck to Santa Clara II and it was a No-ball. Ayan settled
down after that and played a calm innings with some good shots. Sunny
was denied strike for 3 overs and finally came to strike and lost
concentration to hit the first ball to Point where vijith took an
exceptional diving catch where everyone know show valuable sunny's
wicket is. Ayan and Shrini had a 31 runs partnership. Ayan got out
scoring 25 runs. Shrinu tried attacking but one chance too many ended
him giving a catch to slip where Arjun took a very low catch. Majid
didn't score single run in the first 16 balls he faced which showed
his intent to stay and bat long. Score reads 4 for 41 runs. Rayan
Joined Majid and stitched in a good partnership of 34 runs. Rayan
wasn't looking comfortable against govind but he dug out few overs and
gave Majid good company. Umesh took a brilliant catch at mid off to
get rayan out. Cougars were 75 for 5 wickets in 19 overs. Run rate
started getting up to 6 runs per over. With the outfield dried up and
with cougars batting depth you never know till it's over. Majid had a
good partnership of 43 runs with Arka. Arka looked deeply
uncomfortable against Sujesh and vijith but played with grit and
scored 15 runs. Vijith bowled him with a beauty. Majid batting at 40s
and have the match winning ability. But we knew once majid gets out
anything can happen. Saami came to bat and edged to gully off appu
chacha's bowling. Govind finished a lovely spell with 4 wickets to top
off his 50 in the morning. majid got run out to a brilliant throw by
prumjot singh from deep covers who was a substitute for chandrodaya
who had a hamstring pull. 74 runs required in 11 overs with 2 wickets
in hand. krishna came lower down the order to bat due to a small back
ache with the help of bye-runner Shrinu. krishna was middling the ball
like he has been batting for 30 overs at the wicket. Manjit gave
krishna good company and the game was alive at 40 runs required of 42
balls with 2 wickets in hand. Sujesh came back to bowl his 8th over
and game got a twist. First ball krishna didn't stretch enough and got
beaten onto the pads and LBW to a straighter ball. Now interesting
with manjit who already started hitting a big six in the previous
over. Next Doane took a single off an inside edge. third ball of the
43rd over Manjit hit literally into the sky against the wind at benton
end and krish takes a clean catch gettign right under it and complete
the win for santa clara-II. Govind got 4 wickets. Sujesh got 2, vijith
got 1, Appu and satish got 1 wicket each.

Excellent game of cricket with some good trash talking and high
intensity with some good food and tons of spectators.

Majid played a Splendid innings and was a threat all the time he was
at the crease.

Umesh'S clam and composed fifty was the difference towards the end and
Vijith's contribution with the bat and ball.

The Man who stole the day was Govind who scored a crucial 50 and broke
the back bone of Cougars by taking 4 wickets. Man-of-the-Match:
GOVIND. U

Excellent Umpiring by Prashanth and Sriram from valley-I

Seas beat Standford A1 by 66 runs.

B-div: Stanford A1 @ SCCC III
Date: 05/03/2009
Played at: Wilson Adult Eduction Center (SCCC)
Umpires: Raju N & Srinivas A (Valley II)
Toss: won SCCC III and elected to bat

SCCC III: 206/9 in 45 overs(Malav 65, Rajesh R 23, Nisarg 24, Dinesh
20, Sundaram 4/29, Avatar 2/28)

defeated

Stanford A1: 140/10 in 30.1 overs(Gayam 32, Dinesh 3/39, Srinivas K
4/29, Mangesh 2/21)

Match report :

Seas innings : The game started after a 2 min silence from both the
teams for the tragedy that struck Nishant's family. Chandra and Kundam
opened the batting for Seas and by the end of 7th over seas were
reduced to 22/3. Malav and Vicky rebuilt the innings and took the
score to 68 before Vicky got out in the 21st over. Vicky batted with
composure and continued from where he left off in the last game, to
take the Seas out of trouble before he got out trying to up the
scoring rate. While Malav continued his sublime touch with elegant
shots all over the park, Gundan and Nisarg chipped in with cameos to
move the seas along with valuable partnerships. However seas continued
to loose wickets at regular intervals and it was left to Dinesh and
the rest of the tail to bat all 45 overs.The progression of the scores
was, 15 overs- 52/3, 30 overs-127/5.

Stanford A1's innings : Standford A1 were looking for a good start
from Vaibhav and Dhruv however Vaibhav was caught behind chasing a
ball outside the off stump of Kundam. Dhruv continued his wild and
merry ways (batting and talking) but soon Dinesh got in the act by
dismissing the #3 batsman with the ball of the day. The ball swung in
to the left hander from from outside the off stump and straightened
after pitching to uproot the middle stump. Dinesh also picked up
sundaram (lbw) and Dhruv (caught at midoff) after bowling 7 overs on
the trot. In the first session Seas gave away 20 extras (mostly wides)
to allow Stanford A1 reach a scored of 85/4 at the end of 15.Gundon
could not control the swing in the 4 overs he bowled and was replaced
by Hardik. Hardik bowled a superb line at a good pace and with Mangesh
at the other end not only reduced the scoring rate but picked up 3
good wickets to prevent any momemtum in Stanford A1's innings. Kundam
came back for his second spell and picked up a wicket in each of the 3
overs to allow Seas a convincing victory.

Seas will hope to continue the intensity into their future games.