Seas beat Indus II by 4 wickets.

Hi all,

As per the news you have already received, seas beat Indus II by 4 wickets.

Brief scores :

C-div : SCCC III @ Indus II
Date : 5/18/08
Played at : Rancho Milpitas middle school
Umpires : Shaqib S (Level 3) and Mohammed D (Level 4)
Toss : Won by Indus, elected to bat

Indus II : 129 a.o in 36.1 overs (Rakesh I 30, Masi M 35, Pravin B 24, Rajesh R 3/27, Satish 4/22)

lost to

SCCC III : 132/6 in 24 overs ( Ashish 24, Chandra S 40* (29 balls), Ravi V 23*, Masi 3/38)

Match report :

Seas started the day with minor disruption as Govind was delayed and Satish had to drive back to SCCC home ground to hand over the rest room key which inadvertently ended up in his kit bag. Nisarg accepted to be 12th man for this game and SCCC had no issues fielding 11 right from the start of game after Indus choose to bat. The umpires were delayed as well and the match started at around 10:25 AM. Dinesh and Mohit opened the bowling for the seas. Mohit got the first breakthrough with a caught and bowled dismissal of one of the Indus openers. Seas bowled a few wides and Indus hit a few streaky boundaries to take the score to 53/1 at 15 overs. After the drinks break Masi and Rakesh from Indus continued to bat with caution punishing bad balls and defending the good ones. By the 23rd over Indus were 91/1. At this stage Satish was introduced in to the attack and the situation dramatically turned around in the favour of Seas. Satish had the Rakesh caught behind, and followed it with a fast inswinger to uproot Masi's middle stump. In the subsequent overs, two more wickets fell to scorching yorkers, one resulted in a LBW and the other knocked the middle stump over. At the other end Gundan bowled a tight line and picked up three wickets, including the important one of Praveen K, caught behind. Dinesh picked up the last wicket with the first ball of his second spell and the Indus innings folded at 129 as they lost 9 wickets for the addition of 38 runs.

After a good lunch from swagat Seas began the chase by loosing Dinesh in the second over, LBW to Masi. Govind continued his good form by hitting 3 consecutive boundaries before knicking one to the first slip to leave the seas to 29/2 in 5 overs. Ashish started well, severly punishing bad balls as the seas were cruising nicely at 53/2 by the end of 8 eight overs and against the run of play Ashish got run out pushing for a non existent single. Three more wickets followed as Vicky was caught at 1st slip, Rohit played on while trying to leave the ball and Harsh given out LBW. The flurry of wickets reduced the seas to  66/6 by the 15th over.  After the drinks break seas resumed batting with Chandra and yours truly. Chandra changed the tempo of the game by scoring quick boundaries (intially of bad balls and subsequently even good balls weren't spared) as seas chased the score with out further loss of wickets.

Finally a satisfying win, but the issue of loosing to many wickets in the first 15 overs needs to be resolved. Many thanks to Nisarg for helping out as 12th man for this game.

Cheers,
Ravi V