Seas beat Standford A1 by 66 runs.

B-div: Stanford A1 @ SCCC III
Date: 05/03/2009
Played at: Wilson Adult Eduction Center (SCCC)
Umpires: Raju N & Srinivas A (Valley II)
Toss: won SCCC III and elected to bat

SCCC III: 206/9 in 45 overs(Malav 65, Rajesh R 23, Nisarg 24, Dinesh
20, Sundaram 4/29, Avatar 2/28)

defeated

Stanford A1: 140/10 in 30.1 overs(Gayam 32, Dinesh 3/39, Srinivas K
4/29, Mangesh 2/21)

Match report :

Seas innings : The game started after a 2 min silence from both the
teams for the tragedy that struck Nishant's family. Chandra and Kundam
opened the batting for Seas and by the end of 7th over seas were
reduced to 22/3. Malav and Vicky rebuilt the innings and took the
score to 68 before Vicky got out in the 21st over. Vicky batted with
composure and continued from where he left off in the last game, to
take the Seas out of trouble before he got out trying to up the
scoring rate. While Malav continued his sublime touch with elegant
shots all over the park, Gundan and Nisarg chipped in with cameos to
move the seas along with valuable partnerships. However seas continued
to loose wickets at regular intervals and it was left to Dinesh and
the rest of the tail to bat all 45 overs.The progression of the scores
was, 15 overs- 52/3, 30 overs-127/5.

Stanford A1's innings : Standford A1 were looking for a good start
from Vaibhav and Dhruv however Vaibhav was caught behind chasing a
ball outside the off stump of Kundam. Dhruv continued his wild and
merry ways (batting and talking) but soon Dinesh got in the act by
dismissing the #3 batsman with the ball of the day. The ball swung in
to the left hander from from outside the off stump and straightened
after pitching to uproot the middle stump. Dinesh also picked up
sundaram (lbw) and Dhruv (caught at midoff) after bowling 7 overs on
the trot. In the first session Seas gave away 20 extras (mostly wides)
to allow Stanford A1 reach a scored of 85/4 at the end of 15.Gundon
could not control the swing in the 4 overs he bowled and was replaced
by Hardik. Hardik bowled a superb line at a good pace and with Mangesh
at the other end not only reduced the scoring rate but picked up 3
good wickets to prevent any momemtum in Stanford A1's innings. Kundam
came back for his second spell and picked up a wicket in each of the 3
overs to allow Seas a convincing victory.

Seas will hope to continue the intensity into their future games.