Bees Win 2 run thriller against Union City Warriors at home - June 10th 2012- Sunday - Match Report

Special Thanks to All those who were there to cheer on a hot day and a thriller of a game.

Special Appearance by "Sreeram" Old Timer at SCCC.

Shailu, Puneet, Chetan (candy's freind), Yousuf, Govind, Raghuram, His Son Sachin, Umesh's dad, Thatha (harsha) were there to bless the game.

Rohit Made some Home Made "Kheer" and was out of the world.

Also Special Thanks to Ismail who came in as 12th man and was there till End of day.

A Division: Union City Warriors @ Santa Clara II (Bees)
Date: 06/10/2012
Played at: Wilson Adult School
Umpires: Shankar and Jay (Stanford)
Toss: won by SCCC Bees and elected to Bat

 SCCC Bees 165 All out in 45 overs (Krishna. V 56, Sujesh 22, Rohit. Patwari 20, Jayavel 9-2-16-3, Ranveer 7-0-29-1, Happy 10-0-31-1, Naren.P 5-0-20-2, Raju. Kasi 5-1-13-1, 2 Run outs Extras 34)

Beat

Union City Warriors 163 All out in 37.4 overs (Ranveer 50, Rocky. S 25, Jayavel 16, Mihir  10-1-43-4, Sujesh 10-2-18-2, Prumjot 7.4-0-29-1, Umesh 2-0-14-1, Sushanth 1-0-2-1, 1 Run out, 21 Extras)

by 2 runs

Game of the year so far probably where UC warriors lost a thriller to SCCC Bees where they didn't give up and gave a fight to the last breath and held their nerves to take crucial catches. Game was exciting till the end until Srini's valiant effort of batting with one hand after a Finger Injury during the first innings taking a blinder at slips off Dawood. Bees elected to bat and Started with the loss of Prumjot on a soft dismissal against Jayavel 's bowling. Dawood Followed krishna after starting well scoring 12 runs. Krishna was nicely settling in and looked very confident playing Jayavel and ranveer. Umesh tried to sweep jayavel and got LBW. SCCC Bees now 47 for 3 in 12 overs. Sujesh and krishna stitched in a nice 56 runs partnership. Just when things were going really well and SCCC bees in good position there was a mix-up between krishna and sujesh and Sujesh got run out scoring 22. score read 103/4. Chandru followed the very next ball without facing a delivery with another mix-up with krishna. SCCC Bees really never recovered from there other than a brilliant innings from krishna who ended up with 56 and got out due the heat which was in the high 90s. Ravi.s Got out LBW to Happy who was bowling really well. Rohit patwari played a blinder and scored 20 runs off 25 balls and got out pulling a ball to the lone fielder at deep midwicket. Mihir. K got LBW to Naren who bowled in good areas with his left arm spin. Ganesh and Sushanth had a very valuable partnership of 12 runs to add for the last wicket since anything above 150 there is always a chance at SCCC.

After Lunch U.C Warriors started their proceedings with all season fire-works from rocky who always look like middling the ball from ball one. Rocky scored 12 in the first over bowled by Ganesh. ALl shots were played off good balls, Widish long off, covers, Long on. Naren was settling in at the other end with some crisp boundaries against krishna who opened the bowling with his off spinners. Naren hit a good length off the back foot where Prumjot took a good catch at Mid-on. Sujesh bowled a maiden to Rocky to start with and got him the next over mistiming a shot to covers where umesh held a good catch. The damage was done and U.C warriors were 40 in 7 overs. Mihir bowled a beauty and got Kiran edge the second ball where dawood took a very good catch standing up to the stumps. Ranveer walked in and chipped the first ball to short midwicket where the fielder misjudged the ball completely and dropped it. From then on Ranveer played some brilliant shots against the medium pacers to score his 50 even though he played out all good deliveries with respect. Jayavel started well and was middling the ball and playing with lot of confidence. He hit some good shots off prumjot to start with. Just when there was a 55 runs partnership going jayavel got out to Umesh edging the ball low where dawood kept his pads together and got stuck in between. Mihir kept asking questions and look like enjoying bowling to heavy weight U.C warriors batsman who can hit big shots against any attack. SCCC bees kept doing basics right by keeping the ball in good areas. Srikanth and Raju were playing really well. Sushanth was introduced just for 1 over in the 31st over and got Raju pull a ball straight to short fine leg. 143 for 6 in 30 overs. Srini walks in with a fractured Finger and showed lot of courage to do that. Srikanth was Middling the ball well and was finding Occassional gaps and waiting for his Strength ball to hit. Just when things were going alright a voice came from the pavilion "Srikanth Bhai maro aur khadam karlo"  - It was Ranveer :) and SCCC bees owe him that wicket since srikanth went for a big shot and got LBW missing the ball completely from Mihir where it skid through. The disaster struck and Naveen batting with Srini look like game is on with Srini batting with one hand to drive everything. Naveen was under pressure to finish the game was hesitating to play shots with the field in completely. He got run out in a mix-up. 160 for 8 with 6 runs needed and 14 overs in hand. Sujesh Bowled a 1 run over and got Happy out on the 5th ball trapped in front. Last Ball Shesha walked in and the kid was nervous to the core to bat. Last ball Shesha defended and got away from a caught and bowled where the ball didn't carry. 3 runs needed and 1 wicket in hand. U.C warriors slowly started showing some nervousness on their faces since they had even stopped updating the score board thinking the game was over long ago. Srini on Strike Dot Ball, Uppish drive to extra cover almost a chance but went for 2 runs. Dot ball again. This time Srini want to finish the game quickly but one hope was that he was batting with one hand and if he use the other hand ball will pop-up. Prumjot bowled a quicker one and srini flicked the wrist since field was in and blessing in disguise it popped up straight to Square leg fielder Rohit Patwari who did no mistake. SCCC Bees win a thriller by 2 runs where U.C Warriors had 12 overs left. Great game of cricket

Excellent Umpiring by Jr. JVI (Stanford) and Shankar (BCCI)

MOM: Mihir Kanojia (10-1-43-4) - Match Winning Spell
MVP: krishna - 56 runs ((99 Balls) and crucial run out.

Match Report - Bees v/s Aces at home - June 2nd 2012

Division: A: SCCC Aces @ SCCC Bees
Date: 06/02/2012
Played at: Wilson Adult School
Umpires: Shankar and Gobinder - Stanford-A
Toss: SCCC Aces and elected to bat

SCCC Aces 181 for 9 in 50 overs (Shantanu 40 (77 Balls), Ritesh. K 35 (66 balls), Krish. G 34 (53 balls), Snehal 17, Sundarapandiyan 15 not out, Prumjot 10-3-33-3, Chandu.s 6-1-19-2, Kartik. R 7-1-26-1, Nachiket 3-0-15-1, Mihir 10-0-29-0, Chandrodaya 5-0-16-0, Sujesh 9-0-41-1)

Beat

SCCC Bees 115 All out in 36.4 overs (Ketan.P 51 (63 Balls) , Krish 4.4.-0-16-2, Sameer. E 7-0-25-2, Shantanu 5-0-15-1, Manoj.K 5-0-11-1, Umar. A 4-1-9-1, Rohith.R 3-1-15-2, Sundara.P 5-1-17-0, Shiva 4-0-18-1)

by 66 runs

SCCC Aces started batting with shiva and Karteek. Shiva got out early to a sharp catch at Short extra cover. Karteek edged one to keeper after batting well for 6 overs. kartik raina was in good rythm and moving the ball. Chandu at the other end as usual created opportunities. Rohith was caught at Gully. Aces were in trouble with 3 down for 29 runs in 8 overs. Shantanu was let go off a missed stumping chance of the bowling off chandu. Shantanu made good use of that chance and played a very steady and responsible captain's knock. SCCC Bees bowling again was disciplined and were tough to get away with. Kadu was settling in but got a reprieve at 10 runs being dropped at mid-on. Shantanu and kadu got out to good bowling by prumjot who was again bowling like a charm.  Krish Goel played a very mature innings to pace up and gave SCCC aces a respected total. Sundara pandian batted well with krish to ensure they crossed 180 runs.

SCCC bees started well and Disaster struck when prumjot batting well till then coming from a 125 Not out game played a over-confident shot of an uppish ball and got out to Krish at point. Nachiket, Ravi.S, Chandru, Candy, Mihir, SUjesh all followed without troubling scores picking wrong shots at the wrong moment and opened the gate for SCCC Aces. While all these were happening Ketan was playing another league game there scoring at will without any trouble. Rohit patwari had a small partnership with ketan and that's all Bees can feel good about after having a amazing first session doing everything right  against a quality batting line up. Rohit. R and Sameer got 2 wickets each. Shantanu, Umar and manoj supported them well. Krish. G again turned the game in Aces favor with some very tight bowling forcing batsman to play shots against the wind and got 2 wickets.

Game video: http://youtu.be/B35o_8Mk0l0

MOM: krish. G (34 runs and 2 wickets, 1 catch)
MVP: Shantanu (40 runs and 1 wicket)

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara Cricket Club

Match Report - SCCC Bees v/s Tracy United at Lodi, CA - Bees Won by 6 wickets - May 20th 2012

A Division: Santa Clara Bees @ Tracy United
Date: 05/20/2012
Played at: Lodi, CA
Umpires: PArtha and Adhiraj (Cougars)
Toss: won by Tracy United and elected to bat

Tracy United 97 All out in 37.3 overs
(Hemi: 19 (24 balls), Amar: 18 (20 balls)
Satish: 6-0-23-1, Chandrodaya: 6-0-42-2, Sujesh: 8-3-6-4, Mihir: 10-0-18-1, Prumjot: 5-2-3-1, Krish 2.3-0-4-1), Extras 19

Lost to

Santa Clara- II 98 for 4 in 21 overs
(Dawood: 20 (26 Balls), Rohith. Ramkumar 27 Not out (31 balls), Krish.G: 5 Not out (balls)
Luvjot: 3-0-18-2, Hemi: 5-0-19-1, Kuldeep: 4-2-7-1), Extras 29

by 6 wickets

Tracy united won the toss and coming after a win against UC warriors looked a confident unit. Tracy won the toss and elected to bat on a good wicket with a slow outfield but good enough to score 160 to 200 runs. Raman and Bobby started for Tracy United. Scored 16 in 3 overs thanks to good help of wides. Raman was dropped first ball of Candy (chandrodaya's) bowling but got bowled trying to step out to satish who was bowling good pace. Bobby gave a catch to Long on trying to clear. Amar and Hemi played some very good cricket and Bees had to change strategy due to score being 42 runs in 8 overs for 2 wickets. Amar hit some clean shots. Hemi got out to beauty bowled by Mihir which seamed away. Laddi tried his best to get partnerships going but everyone were in a hurry and due to discipled bowling for 21 overs with only 3 extras from 17th over (70 runs) to 38 over and gave away only 28 runs. Sujesh took 4 wickets for 6 runs and well supported by prumjot with another dream spell of 5 overs for 3 runs and Mihir who has been very consistent and giving all important break throughs in every game bowled 10 overs for just 18 runs. SCCC bees did well to recover and cleaned up tracy united for a very low total.
Also SCCC Bees bowled 22 overs in 1 hr and according to partha it's a record

Lunch was taken after 12 overs of batting.

Santa Clara Bees Started Batting with Prumjot and Dawood again going great guns chasing a very modest total. Dawood Pulled and hooked at will against tracy united opening bowler abbas. dawood got out in 7th over scoring 20 (26 balls), Abbas took a low diving catch at mid off. Prumjot after getting a good start again played an expansive stroke against his odds and got out to a good catch by Wicket keeper Jodha. Ravi shankar and Chandru looked all set to chase it down since run rate wasn't an issue and all it required was to bat through. Ravi shankar glided one to Gully where they again took a good catch. Tracy united fielding and catching has been top notch and if these kids put runs on board it might be tough to chase since they are sharp in the field. Chandru and Rohit started building another partneship. Score was flowing since Tracy united bowled 24 wides within the 17 overs. Kuldeep got chandru out stumped. krish Joined Rohith Ramkumar who started slowly but was in sublime touch and hit some glorious shots down the ground. Rohith Ramkumar remained not out on 27 and SCCC Bees won by 6 wickets in the 21st over. krish remained not out with rohith.

Over All good game of cricket.

Umpiring by Ahiraj and Partha was very consistent. I Am very impressed with Adhiraj who was very focussed with his job. Great to see some good umpires in our league.

MOM: Sujesh Pulikkal (8 Overs-3 Maidens -6 Runs -4 wickets)
MVP: Rohith Ramkumar (27 Not Out (31 balls) - 3*4, 1*6)

-Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara Cricket Club

Match Report - Sox lost to Kings by 63 runs

T 30 League

Kings @ SOX

Kings 210 for 6 in 30 overs
(Tushar 29, Kitty 36, Dalvir 30 Not out, Savi 31, Ravi 27, Manjit 22, Sujesh 6-0-33-3, Jagat 5-0-43-1, Hasan. I 6-1-30-1, 1 run out, 18 extras)

Beat

Sox 137 All out in 26.4 overs
(Tameem 12, Jagat 16, Hasan 42, Ismail 13 Not out, Tushar 6-0-25-5, 3 run outs, Amit, Raj 1 wicket each, 44 extras)

by

63 runs

Kings started well with Tushar and Kitty playing blinders and scoring at 150 strike rate. Kitty playing some spectacular shots at a fast SCCC outfield where fielders didn't even stand a chance. Dalvir was the hero who grinded his 30 not out at one end. Zubair bowled well along with hasan and jagat.
SCCC Sox were never in hunt till jagat unleashed 4 boundaries in a row. He just played 5 balls for his 16. Run rate kept climbing and tushar bowled a dream spell taking good 5 wickets. Also 3 run outs didn't help the cause as well. Tameem started well till he got run out to a bad mix-up with hasan and Ranjit looked in good touch till he go out. Hasan played a very good innings to give a fight to kings and had 45 runs last wicket partnership with ismail who scored 13 not out.

Kings deserve this for the way they batted and bowled and outplayed SOX.

Bees beat Stanford-I by 63 runs - Match Report - May 14th 2012

A Division: Stanford-I @ Santa Clara Bees (II)
Date: 15/12/2012
Played at: Wilson Adult School
Umpires: Shankar.B and Partha.P
Toss: won by SCCC II and elected to bat

SCCC II: 175/10 in 42 overs (Karteek.K 41(84 balls) , Sujesh.P 35 (45 balls) , Dawood 29, Mahesh. K  7-0-42-5, Prithvi 10-1-34-2, Karan.K 6-0-33-2, Jayanth 6-0-18-1, Pranay 8-0-23-0, Extras 44)

defeated

Stanford-I: 112/10 in 44.3 overs(Vinay.S 25, Rishi.B 20, Karan.K 13 Not out,  Prumjot 6-3-5-3, Mihir 10-0-26-2, Kartik. R 7.3-1-21-2, Sujesh 8-1-25-2, Chandu.S 5-1-18-1, krish 5-2-7-0, Sushant.M 3-0-5-0, Extras 11)

Match Report:

SCCC II started well with 13 runs in 2 overs but prumjot was given LBW to a hawk eye decision. There after it was bad state of affairs. Mahesh got chandru LBW following ball. krish got a beauty which swung in long way trying to leave and got bowled. Dawood and Karteek stitched in a decent partnership till score read 57. Chandu. S walked in Next and didn't last long and got caught and bowled Jayanth who bowled a tidy spell. Score was at 62 for 5 in 18 overs and SCCC Bees looked in trouble. Sujesh and Karteek played with caution and build a solid partnership of 72 runs in next 20 overs. Little karteek showed immense maturity in the way he build his innings with stanford bowling good areas. Their 44 extras costed them the game. Sujesh got bowled for 35 (45 balls) to prithvi who bowled a good 10 over spell and the collapse started again. SCCC II Lost Mihir, Karteek who looked settled scoring 8 runs, Sushant in quick sucession and innings ended with 175 runs in 42 overs. Stanford did not drop any catches since there were 3 LBWs and 4  bowleds. Rishi caught 2 behind the wicket and jayanth caught one off his own bowling. Pranay, Jayanth, prithvi and Pranay bowled really well but with no luck. Mahesh is MVP for taking 5 wickets and bowled a great spell.

Stanford Innings started with lot of confidence thinking with a super fast outfield the score should be easy to chase. Rohan chandran blessed them and left before stanford started batting and confirmed that it's easy chase and Rishi alone can handle it :). SCCC Bees started with rohan's word of discouragement and ended up winning by 63 runs. We wish rohan come by for every SCCC Bees game. Vinay Suri and jayanth put 12 runs for the first wicket in 5 overs. Jayanth got bowled to a beauty from chandu which swung back in. Prithvi looked good for the amount he spent at the crease but got out to a very good catch at slips by Prumjot. Rishi started slowly as usual and a tough wicket for the opponent especially in a low scoring game. Rishi got plumb in front scoring 20 of 55 balls for a ball which skid through from Mihir after attempting twice to get out who bowled a beautiful spell of 10 overs in a trot just giving away 26 runs. Runs had dried up and stanford from 43 for 2 in 11 overs slipped to 74 for 3 in 26 overs. Vinay fell after a patient and well grinded 25 runs (60 balls) .  Mahesh, subbu, sumanth . karthik, karan had no chance of chasing it down due to very disciplined bowling by Bees where there are only 11 extras including 5 byes in the 45 overs they bowled. Highlight was prumjot and krish bowling with field in and just giving away 4 runs in 5 overs of batting powerplay between 36 and 40 overs. prumjot yet again turned out to be unplayable and took 3 wickets for 5 runs in 6 overs. Krish bowled tight and just gave away 7 runs in 5 overs. Stanford needed 63 runs in last 5 overs and run rate had gone upto 12 plus a over chasing 175 in 50.

Overall good game of cricket and i guess Rohan jinxed his own team since he was dropped from stanford-I :)- That's what the Stanford team Said !!! - Just Kidding

MoM - Sujesh.P.
MVP - Mahesh. K.

Thanks,
Sujesh Pulikkal
SCCC

Match Report - Bees lost to UC Wariiors at Sea Breeze park - May 6th Sunday

A Division: SCCC Bees @ UC-Warriors
Date: 05/06/2012
Played at: Seabreeze park
Umpires: Brian Whitford and Zuhaib Ali
Toss: won by UC -Warriors and elected to bat

UC-Warriors: 208/10 in 46 overs(Rocky Singh - 80 [47 Balls 4x4 6x6], Ranveer 26 , Naren:24, Eshwar 6-1-19-5 , Mihir 10-0-51-3, Prumjoth 9-1-28-2 , Sujesh 9-4-19-0)

Beat

SCCC Bees : 116 /10 in 35 Overs (Prumjoth - 64, Chandru V - 27, Kiran Keerthi 9.4-4-16-6, Wkt each for Jayavel , Srikanth K and Sridhar )

Match Report: UC Warriors got off to a flying start thanks to Rocky who was hitting the balls into nearby houses . UC warriors reached 100 by the 14th over without losing a wicket . Rocky got out at the score of 110 for a well made 80 of 47 balls with 6 Sixes and 4 Fours. Naren the other opener got out shortly for a well made 24 . Kiran and Ranveer began to consolidate and the score read 160 at the end of 30 th over. When UC was about to accelerate to a big score there was a flurry of wickets . Eshwar who started his spell after 34 overs picked up a five wicket haul to have UC warriors all out for 208 in 46 overs . Eshwar's spell read 6-1-19-5 .


UC warriors started their bowling on a good note with Jayavel Picking up Dawood in the first over . After that Prumjot and Chandru settled down to put together a 75 Runs partnership . When things were going smoothly for Bees a direct hit runout cost Chandru his wicket and after that it was downhill for the Bees as Kiran spun a web around the Opposite batsmen . Kiran Picked up 6 wkts with his offspin . Prumjot batted very sensibly but ran out of partners . In the end Bees were all out for 116 giving UC warriors a vicory by 92 runs.

Umpiring from Brian and Zuhaib was top class..

MOM - Kiran Keerthi
MVP - Rocky Singh

Match Report - Bees lost to Sea by 63 Runs - April 15th 2012

Hi All,

A-Division: SCCC-III(Seas) @ SCCC-II (Bees)
Date: 4/15/2012
Played at: W.A. Wilson Ground, Santa Clara
Umpires: Prateek and Brian (Sunnyvale CC)
Toss: Won by SCCC-II and elected to bowl first

Seas 226 for 9 on 50 Overs
(Nachiket 30(21), Ritesh Kadu 73(106), Karteek 43(81),
Prumjot 10/1/42/4, Sujesh.P 10/1/38/3, krishna.V 5/0/18/1, 1 Run Out (Sujesh)

Beat

Bees 163 All Out in 40.5 overs
Dawood 58 (58), Krish 43 (86), Sujesh 13(17), Mihir 12(30),
Ketan.P 6/0/25/3, Amalraj 5/0/18/2, Chandrodaya 10/0/36/2, Govind 5/1/15/1, Nachiket 5/1/22/1

First time in SCCC History Seas played against Bees in any Division.
Bees Won the toss and elected to bowl first. Nachiket Played some aggressive shots against a new ball attack from Bees which looked rusty.
Ritesh kadu was dropped early on and he built a nice platform around it. He was dropped multiple times again which pretty much helped Seas to get to 226.
Karteek Played gem on an innings with lot of confidence and put away bad balls to score 43 of 81 Balls. Guru Man bowled a beauty in the beginning to get an edge of Ritesh and continued to bowl a beautiful spell. Mihir bowled well in patches during his 6overs. kartik Didn't have a great time with the ball and assume it's just one odd day off for him for the bowling caliber he has. Spinners spoiled the party and controleld seas to 226 even though they looked good for 270 plus runs. Seas were 200 for 4 in 43 overs and then 226 for 9 in 50 overs. Krishna and Vijith bowled good spells. Prumjot got 4 wickets and sujesh got 3 to ensure Bees is only chasing a moderate total at SCCC ground.

After a good Lunch game resumed. Dawood again in cracking form was dropped once mistiming a ball and after that it was dawood who decided to get out at 58 of 58 balls being tired on a hot day scooping the ball to Point by Karteek. Prumjot was in an unusual rush to score and paid the price against steady slow bowling by govind. First wicket fell at 20 runs. From then on it was superb cricket with a chaceless partnership of 92 runs between Dawood and krish Goel in 20 overs at a healthy 5 runs per over. seas team looked like losing the Ploy. But here comes Chandrodaya who generated a chance to get dawood out and Sujesh Walkedin to Join krish at the score of 111 for 2. next 25 runs came at ease and krish started batting with lot more authority and sujesh was supporting him well. Bees at 30th over 136 runs and just 2 down looked good to chase 226. Ketan Phaye comes for second spell and answered captain's worries by Picking up krish and Ravi shankar in 2 balls leaving Bees in a shattered mode. 136 for 4 and then krishna Joined Sujesh. Sujesh got out to Amalraj and the normal saga continues. 138 for 5 and then 138 for 6 since krishna got out edging a ball from ketan. kartik raina looked good but popped a catch back on a low  full toss from Amalraj. 146 for 7. Mihir kanojia batted out another 30 odd balls and scored 12 was the only last batsman standing. Vijith unable to bat due to a back spasm when 65 runs required in last 10 overs didn't help either. Eventually Bees folded up losing 9 wickets for 163 runs and lost the game to Seas for 63 runs. Thanks to Tameem for helping out as 12th Man and showing great spirit.

Overall a good game of cricket

Thanks,
Suju