Bees lost to stanford-A-I by 3 wickets- Match report

A-div : Stanford-A-I vs Santa Clara II
Date : May 5th 2008
Played at : Santa Clara Hoem ground
Umpires : Indus II Thyaga(Certified) - Rakesh(UnCertified)
Toss : won by Stanford=A-1 and elected to Field

Santa Clara -II : 174 a.o. in 46 overs (krishna 44, Sujesh 19, Bilal 3/33, Saeed 3 wickets)

defeated

Stanford-A-1 : 175 for 7 wickets in 48.4 overs(Abbas 59 not out, Ganesh. S 53, Jwalant 2/19, Sathya. M 2/37)

Match Report:
Santa Clara- II got a good start after losing hassan early. Chandru and dawood took the score to 80/1 in 14 overs and we suddenly got to 96 for 4 wickets in 18 overs. Krishna and sujesh had a good partership which took the score to 150 plus. krishna played a beautiful innings of 44 eventhough he was having fever. Sujesh got out @ the score of 165 in 43 overs and the we got all out for 174. Bilal bowled a very controlled spell. Saeed gave too many extras in the first spell but he bowled the second spell with fire and cleaned up santa clara-II lower order. Anwar and Sikander gave nothign away giving less than 2 runs per over.

Stanford-A-I in trouble losing 4 early wickets for less than 33 runs in 15 overs. Nauman and Ganesh played together for a while unable to score due to tight bowling. Ganesh took few chances and played some good shots to keep the score board mooving. Nauman got out to a beauty by srinivas kundam and a good catch from dawood behind the wicket put them in more trouble. In walks Abbas who played a knock out of his skin. He took all the time in the world to settle down and made use of the 50 overs to wait and play. Ganesh and Abbas took the score from 50 to 150 runs. Ganesh got out scoring 53(caught behind and stumped) of sathya's bowling when standford-A required like 26 runs in 5 overs. Abbas ensured the victory is reached without any more risks. It came down to 6 runs of 2 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Game was over in 49th over. Sathya Maturi, jwalant Ahir and srinivas kundam bowled really well.

Overall a good game and Man of the Match ABBAS. truley amazing knock and i haven't seen one from him like this. Chanceless innings and accelerated well in the end.

Satnford-A played better cricket and deserved the win for the allround effort.

Umpires where keeping track of time and made sure the game was played on time.
Good umpiring from Indus-II

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara cricket club