Bees beat Stanford-I by 63 runs - Match Report - May 14th 2012

A Division: Stanford-I @ Santa Clara Bees (II)
Date: 15/12/2012
Played at: Wilson Adult School
Umpires: Shankar.B and Partha.P
Toss: won by SCCC II and elected to bat

SCCC II: 175/10 in 42 overs (Karteek.K 41(84 balls) , Sujesh.P 35 (45 balls) , Dawood 29, Mahesh. K  7-0-42-5, Prithvi 10-1-34-2, Karan.K 6-0-33-2, Jayanth 6-0-18-1, Pranay 8-0-23-0, Extras 44)

defeated

Stanford-I: 112/10 in 44.3 overs(Vinay.S 25, Rishi.B 20, Karan.K 13 Not out,  Prumjot 6-3-5-3, Mihir 10-0-26-2, Kartik. R 7.3-1-21-2, Sujesh 8-1-25-2, Chandu.S 5-1-18-1, krish 5-2-7-0, Sushant.M 3-0-5-0, Extras 11)

Match Report:

SCCC II started well with 13 runs in 2 overs but prumjot was given LBW to a hawk eye decision. There after it was bad state of affairs. Mahesh got chandru LBW following ball. krish got a beauty which swung in long way trying to leave and got bowled. Dawood and Karteek stitched in a decent partnership till score read 57. Chandu. S walked in Next and didn't last long and got caught and bowled Jayanth who bowled a tidy spell. Score was at 62 for 5 in 18 overs and SCCC Bees looked in trouble. Sujesh and Karteek played with caution and build a solid partnership of 72 runs in next 20 overs. Little karteek showed immense maturity in the way he build his innings with stanford bowling good areas. Their 44 extras costed them the game. Sujesh got bowled for 35 (45 balls) to prithvi who bowled a good 10 over spell and the collapse started again. SCCC II Lost Mihir, Karteek who looked settled scoring 8 runs, Sushant in quick sucession and innings ended with 175 runs in 42 overs. Stanford did not drop any catches since there were 3 LBWs and 4  bowleds. Rishi caught 2 behind the wicket and jayanth caught one off his own bowling. Pranay, Jayanth, prithvi and Pranay bowled really well but with no luck. Mahesh is MVP for taking 5 wickets and bowled a great spell.

Stanford Innings started with lot of confidence thinking with a super fast outfield the score should be easy to chase. Rohan chandran blessed them and left before stanford started batting and confirmed that it's easy chase and Rishi alone can handle it :). SCCC Bees started with rohan's word of discouragement and ended up winning by 63 runs. We wish rohan come by for every SCCC Bees game. Vinay Suri and jayanth put 12 runs for the first wicket in 5 overs. Jayanth got bowled to a beauty from chandu which swung back in. Prithvi looked good for the amount he spent at the crease but got out to a very good catch at slips by Prumjot. Rishi started slowly as usual and a tough wicket for the opponent especially in a low scoring game. Rishi got plumb in front scoring 20 of 55 balls for a ball which skid through from Mihir after attempting twice to get out who bowled a beautiful spell of 10 overs in a trot just giving away 26 runs. Runs had dried up and stanford from 43 for 2 in 11 overs slipped to 74 for 3 in 26 overs. Vinay fell after a patient and well grinded 25 runs (60 balls) .  Mahesh, subbu, sumanth . karthik, karan had no chance of chasing it down due to very disciplined bowling by Bees where there are only 11 extras including 5 byes in the 45 overs they bowled. Highlight was prumjot and krish bowling with field in and just giving away 4 runs in 5 overs of batting powerplay between 36 and 40 overs. prumjot yet again turned out to be unplayable and took 3 wickets for 5 runs in 6 overs. Krish bowled tight and just gave away 7 runs in 5 overs. Stanford needed 63 runs in last 5 overs and run rate had gone upto 12 plus a over chasing 175 in 50.

Overall good game of cricket and i guess Rohan jinxed his own team since he was dropped from stanford-I :)- That's what the Stanford team Said !!! - Just Kidding

MoM - Sujesh.P.
MVP - Mahesh. K.

Thanks,
Sujesh Pulikkal
SCCC