Bees lost to Cougars by 119 runs on june 1st

Match report posted by cougars team on NCCA message board

 

Posted - 06/01/2008

A-div: Santa Clara II @ Cougars Date: 06/01/2008 Played at: Cougars/Cruisers Umpires: Rohan C and (Can't remember his name.. apologies!) (Stanford III) Toss: won by Cougars and elected to bat Cougars: 278/9 in 50 overs(Majid 98*, Sunny S 63, Mihir(Mon2)53, Akash 21, Shirish 4-42) Defeated Santa Clara II: 160/10 in 39 overs(Sujesh P. 51*, Govind 25, Dawood 21, Asim 2-10, Akash 2-27) Match Report: Cougars started off with an early runout of Saami to only bring Sunny and Majid together for a whirlwind partnership and were always cruising at around 6 runs and over. Sunny contributed 63 blazing runs while Majid played yet another invaluable and very solid knock to help put Cougars for a launching platform for the last 20 overs. While the familiar middle order debacle continues but finally Akash and Mon2 played couple of ideal knocks in the middle to set an example of what needs to be done after getting good starts. Mon2 in particular was quite brilliant scoring his maiden 50 of the season while Akash stepped out of his love for the teens.. well u know what i mean! One thing of note was the lack of running between wickets from Cougars. Cougars easily gave up 20 - 30 odd runs in singles and doubles that should have been converted and the person who suffered unfairly was Majid being stuck on 98* even though he throughly deserved a hundred for his brilliant back to back effort. Shirish for SCII picked up 4 crucial wickets to help reduce the damage when Cougars were threatening to post past that illusive 300 run mark. Santa Clara run chase went haywire from start as Hasan looked to carry on from his 100 last game but was caught off Manjit immediately after drilling him for a couple of 4's. Akash struck from the other end and SCII were in trouble early only to be briefly rescued by Dawood and Govind putting up a good partnership. Dawood played well for his 21 and Govind got 25 before the procession of batsmen marching in and out started. Sujesh put up a lone fight at the end with a really well played 51* but unfortunately did not have the kind of support needed to chase down a big total of 278 and Santa Clara was eventually skittled for 160 runs in 39 overs. For Cougars Akash and Asim picked up two wickets each and rest of the bowlers picked up 1 wicket each. Cougars bowlers however conceded plenty of extras and 26 extras was the other big contributor for the SC2 totals. Another aspect cougars certainly needs to improve upon along with extras is the catching. With close to 6 catches being dropped this could have easily for the other way.

 

-Sujesh Pulikkal