Seas beat spartan by 7 wickets.

C-div: SCCC III @ Spartan
Date: 06/29/2008
Played at: Spartan Cricket Ground
Umpires: Ghayoor Ghumman (Level III), Wasim Aslam (Level IV) Tracy CC
Toss: won by Spartan and elected to bat

Spartan : 107 a.o in 34.2 overs( Ravi S 22, Dinesh 2/28, Satish 3/17, Rajesh R 4/18, Extras 44)

lost to

SCCC III : 108/3 in 30.1 overs ( Harsh S 45*, Malav 23*, Rajesh R 22)

After Spartan won the toss, seas opened the bowling with Dinesh and Karthik. Dinesh started well by cleaning up Nandu and followed up with the wicket of Jigar, nicely caught by Harsh S at first slip. Satish replaced Karthik and bowled a forgetful 15 ball over. With the help of extras spartan were 58/3 after 15 overs. After the drinks break Gundan and Mangesh bowled tight overs in tandem and Gundan picked up 4 wickets in the process. Mangesh was unlucky not to get any wickets, but he effected a good run out of his bowling to get rid of Ravi S. Satish come back for the second spell and bowled with lot of zip to clean up the tail and pick up 3 wickets. Seas bowled more wides which helped the spartan score of 107. Harsh finished with 4 sharp catches at 1st slip.

After a nice lunch seas started the chase badly loosing both openers Chandra and Vicky by the 4th over. Harsh and Gundan played with lot of application and commitment in the midst of some tinght bowlig, to take the seas to 30/2 by the 15th over. After the drinks break Rajesh was run out pushing for a 3rd run of an overthrow. Malav joined Harsh and  both batted sensibly, scoring of bad balls while defending the good ones and took the seas home with out further loss of wickets. Harsh finished off with couple of nicely times 6s.

Seas hope to continue the momentum forward, however bowlers need to put more work to contain wides.

Cheers,
Ravi Vellanki