Oh-nine - A guest post from Sridhar

my fine friends:

It's that time again - resolutions, wishes, dreams, wants, desires, to do lists, not to do lists - time to renew them all and perhaps for a few lucky ones, life goes on as usual.

As we enter the final year of oh-oh decade, the millennium bug seems so far away and yet, it seems like the last 9 years have made the world stand rather still in terms of any major improvements or lack there-of. In some ways, we probably slid back in time with a rash of violence and vengeance filled acts. Wars, oil prices, more terror, more people employed in the trade that we call "security" than every before.

Let us hope that we see some unexpected positive changes happen in oh-nine to help make this decade a memorable one.

It was a year, where my 4 year old daughter was confused how a Turkey can be a bird, yet a country. Can't blame her, I am still confused about the right adapter plug to take with me when I travel, after traveling for a good 15 years around the world. Strange, yet so alluring, so exciting to get on a plane and not knowing how the far away destination would sound, smell and look. As some would say the world is flat, yet the far end of the table has a different coat of varnish.

A year of Phelps, a year of tragedy in Mumbai, a year where most of the streets seem to develop potholes, none worse than the street named Wall, a year of defeats for the Aussies, a wonderful year for SCCC and oh yes, a year of Oh-bama welcoming Oh-nine from the White House.

A year gone, one that I would remember for the heavenly smiley (see attached) and the first time my daughter was able to draw a smiley, a year that had her spell her name for the first time.

and then I remember and remind you of my favorite quote:

"Nothing meaningful has ever been accomplished without irrational
exuberance".

Don't resist that sudden inner urge every once in a while, learn a new sport, take your family to a far away place, try and recapture at least one moment that made you feel like a million bucks.

Put things in perspective and let us not take things for granted. When you see, think of the blind, when you walk, think of the lame, when you have a choice to make, think of the many who do not get one basic meal - let us not waste and spend away our privileges and don't forget to celebrate every day (or maybe once a week) with at least one kind selfless gesture. The world can certainly do with a bunch of these.

Celebrate every moment with your family as if it were the last, for they are the ones who were there last year and will be there for you the next and the next and the next...

Celebrations do not have to wait a year.

Here's to 2009, and to good things for you and yours. Happy oh-nine!

Cheers,

Sridhar


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Bees V/s Sunnyvale-I - Match Report

A-div: Sunnyvale -I @ Santa Clara-II
Date: 09/21/2008
Played at: Wilson Adult School, Santa Clara
Umpires: Ganesh Seetharaman (L-III) & Naren Puppala(L-III)(Stanford-A-I)
Toss: won by Santa Clara-II and elected to Bat First
(Matched was played for 40 overs- Mutual agreement between captains
and with the consent of umpire)

Santa Clara-II 154 for 9 in 40 overs(Sujesh.P 66 Not Out, Ahmad 27,
Rajiv 8/0/29/4, Dhruv 7/3/26/1)

Beat

Sunnyvale -I 86 all out in 32.1 overs(Ankur 24, Shiva.V 5.1/0/10/4,
Sujesh 7/2/18/2, Hamel 8/0/23/2)

by 68 runs.

Santa Clara Won the toss and started batting with Gaja and Krishna.
Krishna was removed by Rajiv in his very first over. SCCC-II lost
Shiva.V early as well. Dhruv got Gaja and SCCC-II in serious trouble
with score reading 14 for 3 in 8 overs. Dawood and Amit slowly took
the score to 30 in 12 overs. Amit got out off sudhakar. DAwood gets
out very next over after settling in for 12 against Chandra. Score
reads 30 for 5 in 13 overs. Sujesh and Ahmad batted wiht purpose and
stitched a very good 59 runs partnership for the 6th wicket. SCCC-II
89 for 5 in 28 overs. Another 12 overs to go and 5 wickets in hand
SCCC-II decided to attack a very disciplined sunnyvale-I attack. Ahmad
got out to shesha. Mahendran followed him by a superb caught and
bowled by Arun. S. Hamel Nayak looked to accelerate and got bowled to
a beauty from Rajiv. The score suddenly reads 109 for 8 in 34 overs.
In walks vijith the crisis man ever for santa clara. Sujesh and Vijith
had a 43 runs partnership in which 25 runs were scored in last 2
overs. Vijith got out in the 4th ball of last over. Jwalant remained
not out and sujesh ended the innings with a 66 Not out.

Lunch Was served with variety of choices since Chandrodaya had got
some food from home too.
Sunnyvale started their Innings thinking the target was easy but 154
runs in 40 overs isn't that easy. Eventhough the outfield was
lightning fast bowlers can still do well on that wicket. Ankur and
Shesha started the proceedings slowly. Ankur looked in good touch and
played soem good shots. Shesha was his usual self building the
innings. Sunnyvale-I were 42 for no loss in 14 overs. But if u don't
get big runs while chasing @ santa clara the middel overs are going to
be difficult with slower bowlers operating with a steady line and
length.
Ankur got out for 24 gettign LBW to sujesh. Shesha got out scoring 18
to vijith miscuing his shot to square leg where max took a very well
judged catch. Ayan came and started few bang bang shots. Sunnyvale
score read 67 for 3 in 22 overs. Run rate pressure was climbing and
SHiva.V removed ayan of the very first ball he bowled where ayan
couldn't clear mid wicket boundary. This was the turnign point and
from then on sunnyvale-I were playing lot of shots in the air. Arvind
batted around for a while not timing enough to push the score against
Shiva, Vijith and Sujesh. Sujesh got aravind bowled and then it was
just a formality to finish the game. Hamel was brought back into the
attack and he got Arun.S bowled. Govardhan walked in a hit a huge shot
to mid wicket where ahmad took a spectacular catch sliding at the
boundary. Suresh was bowled behidn by shiva. Shiva was decieving the
batsman with flight and turn and his mix up of good faster ones
skidding. Dhruv was run out in a mix up with Sudhakar. Rajeev and
chandra looked like they wanted to bat few overs. They both played
staright to stretch the game little bit but it was too much from them
to finish this game. they needed 69 runs in 8 overs with 1 wickeyt in
hand. Sunnyvale who had a strong team couldn't stop santa clara-II
from finishing the final game of the season with a good Win. Shiva
finished with 4 wickets for 10 runs given in his 5.2 overs. Vijith
Bowled with immaculate control and hamel have been unplayable all day.
Jwalant and sujesh supported other bowlers well with crucial spells.

Umpiring: Excellent and consistent Umpiring by Ganesh Seetharaman and
Naren Puppala.

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara Cricket Club

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SOX keep it close at Spartans

SOX lost a close game yet again playing against Spartans. Earlier in the season SOX lost to Spartans at home by a handful of runs, a performance repeated yet again by the team that, in the spirit of looking at the silver lining, seemed to have found its bowling strength against quality batting.

 

SOX started by winning a crucial toss. The pitch was wet and the grass on the football field end was squishy in places with a big puddle on one side. It took a couple of big buckets to help clear that to a certain degree. Rest was left for the hot sun which was promising a warm day even during the early hours of the morning.

 

Spartans started with Jigar and another batsman (Name?). Rajan and Karthik started for SOX and while Karthik wavered a little he pinned down the batsmen just enough for Rajan to take advantage on the other end. Rajan kept his line and length for the most part making batting, which was already a tough task due to the pitch being wet, no picnic. Jigar batted well for Spartans and continued to take advantage of select few balls that were offered on the leg. Hasan kept wickets for SOX and did a phenomenal job behind the stumps. SOX fielding was just below par with a couple of catches going down. Bowling was substantially better than previous games where minimal amount of extras were given. Spartans kept loosing their wickets and were not able to score at an accelerated rate at any point in the game except for a couple of overs in the end. Spartans ended up with 167 on the board at the end of the 25th over. Rajan, Shahab, Sam, and Karthik were among wickets.

 

SOX started with Hasan and Shahab. Hasan was his usual self but the pitch continued to bother the batsmen. The ball was sticking to the pitch for just a touch longer than it should have and while Hasan managed to be more careful in his approach, SOX were finding it difficult to score. Hasan played some beautiful strokes though that included a six and three boundaries. Shahab and Hasan also ran some quick singles and twos while they were on. Eventually, he mistimed a shot and was caught by the short mid off fielder after scoring 29 runs. Rajan joined Shahab and showed a good deal of intent to fight with his intelligent batting. Just before the drink's break, Shahab was stumped after scoring 23 runs and with the total at 83 runs, and SOX needing 85 runs more, the slide began. Karthik was not able to get going and was out on the first ball he faced. Rajan and Sam got together but before a partnership could develop, Rajan got out mistiming a shot. Jagat joined Sam where Sam took centerstage and carted Mahendra all around the ground in one over. He scored 22 runs in an over with 2 massive sixes and 2 fours alongwith a couple of runs between the wickets. But just as SOX started to breath easy, Jagat got out trying to flick the ball on the legside, loosing his stumps in the process. Sandeep joined Sam in the middle and for sometime was not able to adjust to the pitch. Runs dried up once again and that compelled Sam to take charge. He tried to run one too many of the risky singles and unfortunately was caught short of his crease. Satish joined Sandeep in the middle and immediately set about the task of setting things right. Sandeep, in the meanwhile, was called back, and Gajja joined Satish in the middle. Both the batsmen were in the process of threatning to take over the game however, Gajja was not able to contain his instint to drive on the up and was caught in the covers. Satish was then joined by Saurabh. SOX needed 24 in 3 overs followed by 16 in 2 overs. At that critical juncture, Satish was run out and it was all over for SOX. SOX eventually loosing to Spartans after a tough fight. SOX have two crucial games coming up in August and the last game of the season is in Sept. In order to ensure a place in the playoffs, SOX have to win 2 out of the three remaining games.

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Fwd: Bees beat satnford-A @ gilroy - Match Report

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From: Sujesh Pulikkal <sujesh@santaclaracc.org>
Date: Aug 11, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Bees beat satnford-A @ gilroy - Match Report
To: members@santaclaracc.org

PS: AGAIN another outstanding knock by Amit. V well supported by
fareed, chandru, shiva.

I guess shiva got 11 wickets in 3 games playing for bees!! he is
goign to be another Imran in the making!! Great to have 2 leggies in
the team. Amit valia didn't bowl and we didn't use krishna at all.

Great to have 6 spinners in 1 team.

Great team effort fellas!!

A-Div: Santa Clara-II at Stanford A-1
Date: 08-09-2008
Venue: Winery, Gilroy, CA
Umpires: Sher Ali (Carribean)
Toss: Santa Clara-II - Elected to bat first

Santa Clara -II 203 for 7 in 50 overs (Amit. V 75, chandru 26, Fareed.
A 23, Shiva. V 18 not out, Ganesh 5/0/26/2, Abbas. R 8/0/41/2, chandra
8/3/21/1)

Beat

Stanford A-1 184 all out in 48 overs (Anwar. A 53, Ganesh. S 32, Saeed
22, Bilal 22 Not out, Shiva. V 7/1/23/3, Imran. M 10/2/30/2, Fareed
10/2/35/3, Sujesh 10/4/14/0)

by 19 runs

Santa Clara-II lost 2 early wickets to great bowling by Ganesh
removing Hassan. A and Krishna. Sujesh and Fareed had a 45 runs
partnership to take the score to 55 in 20 overs for 2 wickets. Fareed
and Amit valia had a small partnership. The big partnership of 76 runs
came between chandru and amit when they played aggressively. chandru
got out for a well made 26 runs. Shiva and Amit had another 35 runs
partnership. Amit valia played an amazing knock to take the score to
203 with the support of chandru, fareed, saad and shiva. Chandra and
Bilal kept things tight for stanford A. ganesh took early wickets and
abbas bowled well in the death. Bilal was unlucky not to get a wicket
but bowled really well. Abbas Jaffery is a good find and that kid
bowled with lot of pace.

Stanford-A were cruising @ 70 for 1 wicket @ 7th over chasign 204 .
Saeed scored 22 runs in 3 overs and got out. The score was 30 runs in
4 overs. Like usual spinners came on to bowl in the 9th over and the
game changed. Saeed and anwar were hitting sixes and made it look like
the groudn was small specially against the wind. They hit soem good
shots and weren't bad balls. Anwar was hitting shots @ will against
medium pacers and was unable to control it once the spinners were on.
Fareed cleaned up mushi, anwar and nishant. Ganesh was batting with a
hamstring injury and was unable to open up and santa clara-II
controlled the game from then on. They never looked to chase since
sikander, Nauman and Abbas were unable to score freely and pressure
got to them. Imran was unplayable on that wicket and middle order
struggled to have any momentum. Abbas looked comfortable but was out
played by a beauty from shiva and got stumped. Bilal and ganesh gave
some threat after Bilal playign soem good shots towards the end.
Sujesh supported from other end with a maiden on 45th over and run
rate climbed to more than 6 runs per over. Finally saad came back and
bowled few brilliant overs to finish the game @ 184. Shiva bowled
beautifully to take 3 wickets.

After such a great start santa clara-II snatched the game away from
stanford-A. Good game and beating a team with solid batting line-up
speaks volume of the performance as a team.Great game to be part of
and good win for Santa Clara-II

Good umpiring by sher Ali from carribean.

-Sujesh Pulikkal
santa clara cricket club

Bees lose to davis by 27 runs on saturday @ home - Match Report

From: Sujesh Pulikkal <sujesh@santaclaracc.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: Bees lose to davis by 27 runs on saturday @ home - Match Report
To: members@santaclaracc.org

A-div: DAVIS @ Santa Clara-II
Date: 08/02/2008
Played at: Wilson Edu. Center, Santa Clara
Umpires: Brian Whitford and Vijay Goel (San Mateo -(certified)
Toss: won by Davis and elected to bat

DAVIS 167 all out in 46 overs[Jay. K 43, Anit 25, balbir 24,
Imran(10/2/32/3), Jwalant(9/0/42/3), Sathya(7/0/31/2),
sujesh(10/1/22/1)]

Beat

Santa Clara - II : 140 all out in 44.3 overs(Amit. V 40 nout out,
Sujesh 39, jwalant 19, sushant (8.3/0/24/3), Jay(8/0/20/2),
shevar(9/2/21/2)

by 27 runs

Excellent game and well deserved win for davis for the fight they
showed. Arun started with few good hits but jwalant cleaned up the top
order including shevar. Jay played sensibly and was keeping the score
board moving. Davis lost 5 wickets for 83 runs in 24 overs. Balbir
came in and chanced his arm against imran and hit few good shots and
the crucial partnership of 40 runs came between balbir and Anit who
held one end. Shehzad chipped in with few runs and they were all out
for 167 in 46 overs. Jwalant, Imran and sathya bowled well and picked
up wickets.

Santa Clara-II started the chase badly by poor shot selection and lost
4 wickets for 10 runs. This included the run out of Harsh who was
batting well by a direct hit from the super man RAY when batsman took
a start from non-striker end for a run. Dawood and sujesh had a 40
runs partnership and was looking on course to chase the score. dawood
got out to shevar who gave the break through with his off spinners
after doing his wicket keeping duty. In walks Amit the batsman in form
who have been scoring consistently for santa clara-II for the past 4
games. Amit and sujesh had a partnership of 30 runs and Aman got
sujesh out LBW. Jwalant and amit had a sweet little agressive 30 runs
partnership. This was looking good to seal the game with 12 overs and
60 runs on a fast outfield with 3 wickets in hand. jwalant got out LBW
and Sushant ran through the last 2 batsman to end up with 3 important
wickets to seal the game for Davis. Santa Clara -II got all out for
140 with 5.3 overs to spare and 27 runs required. Amit remained not
out @ 40 without any support.

All credit to davis boyz for fighting hard till the end and winning the game.

Good umpiring by brian and Vijay from san mateo.

-Sujesh Pulikkal