Sunday, May 16, 2010

20-20 change: Australia England Final 2010 world cup 20-20

If you want to compare Sunday's final of England and Australia with anything, it has to be our childhood story of David and Goliath. We all thought Australia would crush england like other teams and add one more trophy to their crowded mantle EASILY. England however, after a long long long long and very long time played like fighters. Their bowlers bowled a very good line. Their batsmen played like Dravid and their fielders dived like Jonty.
Colly's choice of bowling after the toss proved very successful. The credit must go to fiery spell from Sidebottom. Watson who played ok (4th highest scorer from oz) throughout the tournament fell to a short rising ball. The catch was even better, watchful swanny luckily getting the ball from Kieswetter's palms after the bounce. Australia with their gritty performance so far in the tournament however could have turned the momentum on their side if Clarke had made some better moves. A captain should not use the crucial encounter such as final of the world cup as a platform to up his poor batting performance(averaging 15 in all the 6 innings he played and lost his wicket). He should have left it to his inform batsmen. But, he took the risk of promoting himself higher and by not playing aggressive cricket paid the price. The result 27 off 27 balls which any team on earth would be happy with considering it is a 20-20 game and that too against Australia. Haddin who came in at no 4, did not bother the scorers much. His habit of playing every ball on the up cost Ozs yet another wicket. A short ball down the leg and haddin failed to connect it well. It was David Hussey's turn to bat next. He always looks to me like a small kid carrying a bat twice the weight of his size. If you look at his shots, you will notice he plays them late and with a very strong back hand. Today, he played a like a dud scoring 59 from 54 balls, hardly 6 runs per over. Australia had their chance after colly decided to try Swann and Yardy. Unfortunately, Clarke like a meek mouse came down the track for spinners 4 times to score a single? now that is pathetic. If you are taking 90% of the risk to come down the track, trying to hit the ball out of the park only takes few more percent of risk. The fourth time , he came down to score a single (hahaha) colly snatched the ball with a frog dive on his left. By the time Cameron white came to the crease in 10th over Oz were limping to 47 for 4 in 10 overs.
Cameron the only player who posed any danger, was the sole batsman who was trying to eye a very high total. D Hussey on the other hand was playing a safe innings to ensure his selection in the future squad played a complete self centered innings. This must have frustrated C White who then hit 4 fours and 1 six in his short but explosive 19 ball 31 run inning. After white departed, Mike Hussey only had 4 overs to play. Poor guy still managed to score 17 runs in the only 10 balls he got to play. Clarke's batting tactic has to be questioned here. Two of Oz's highest scorers and match winners of the tournament (Mike Hussey and Cameron White) were sent in at no 6 and 7 ahead of the two lowest (top order) scorers, Clarke (avg pathetic 15) and Haddin (avg just 14). This just proves that Clarke is still a pup when it comes to captaincy.
There's not much to write about England's batting. It was simply mature and well thought of. Kieswetter england's new batting sensation played like a champion. This kid is only 22 years of age and reminds me of Greame Smith in his early years. England now surely has a very strong army of batsmen in Kieswetter, Pietersen, and Eoin Morgan. Credit must also go to Andy Flower who was England's coach. The only hiccup I got during english innings was when KP threw his wicket to smith and Kieswetter made a mockery of his innings when he left a full ball from Johnson only to watch it fly without moving his bat. But these things happened much later when England was inches away from victory. Colly also deserves a pat for his field setting, bowling order , exceptional catch and a patent six off Watson.
Many congratulations to English team for their sturdy performance. They were hungrier than Ozs and proved that hard work can get you on TOP OF THE WORLD.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Reasons for Mumbai's 20-20 loss

You have to think and act very fast in a 20-20 game. Everybody thought Mumbai had an upper hand in the finals. However, we all know how 20-20 games swing on either side in a matter of seconds. Between Mumbai and Chennai I thought Mumbai should have won easily. Considering Mumbai's consistent performance throughout the tournament I thought Chennai would struggle. But after watching the finals I was left speechless. How low the fielding standards of international cricket (especially IPL) have fallen !! I can not expect even midwest cricket players to make such mistakes let alone international cricketers.
On seeing the highlights following things hurt mumbai very badly:

1) Raina's first drop catch-
What was Fernando thinking when he let Nayar approach the ball instead of pouncing on to the catch. Clearly it was his catch since he was approaching the ball in forward direction. Reminds me of a game when Fernando tried to act smart by not bowling after running and then staring at the batsman. This guy clearly is not made for big stage games.

2) Second drop !!
If first catch was blunder then there are no words to describe ZAheer's drop. Even kids who go to coaching classes should not make that mistake. Can you believe Jonty is training these guys for fielding. I can conclude only two things. First, Jonty is not doing a good job or his efforts are hampered by these big, bulky and lazy players who dont want to run and take catches (in practice). Look at ZAheer's shape and look at Johnty's shape. Here is a guy who is 10 years older to Zaheer but is much fitter and better fielder than him.

3) Shikhar Dhawan ????
IS this guy over rated ! Yes atleast based on his final performance. If you can not perform when needed the most, you simply are not good enough for the stage. What was he thinking when he let Ashwin ball maiden at the start. Are these guys really that weak to clear a 20 yard circle. My God !! let the softball kid take his place. They will definitely clear the inner cricle if not the boundary. Clearly a big bad performance by Dhawan.

4) Pollard's batting order ??
Ok you are chasing 169. well if your batsman (less capable offcourse) plays first over maiden, it is time to send hitter up the order. Whats the logic of sending pollard at no 8 when after 2 wickets the required run rate climbed to almost 12 runs an over.Huhhh. Who decided that batting order? Duminy cant clear the ground, Tiwari is too bulky (less agile), Rayudu is not that powerful either. In this case the only person who can respond to your SOS is Pollard.

Well now that the season is done, lets conclude by saying that it was just another game. But really, mumbai fell short by small margin , perhaps because of bad bad fielding. drop Catches cost Matches.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Game 1 - 20-20 League in Ohio Invitation Cup

Cleveland won the toss and decided to field. Akron were 13/3 at one stage. A good batting display from Amit (as always) and Hari Parthasarathi pulled us through. Siddharth's timely knock gave some boost. Akron managed 96 runs in 18.4 (approx)-all out.Our surprise bowler this time was Amit who opened with Vijay at the start. His first over was maiden. Excellent spell by Amit, Aditya and Hari restricted cleveland to 26 runs in 10 overs. Fast bowlers tightened their grip further to leave Cleveland on 58 at the end of 17 overs. Thus needing 39 runs in 3 overs, Akron felt they were safe. However some crisp strokeplay from Manu (Cleveland) and some rubbish bowling by other bowlers from Akron helped Cleveland score 26 runs in 18th and 19th over. Needing 13 runs in 6 balls, Manu hit 4,6 and 2 (new batsman scored 1 of the first ball) to give Cleveland a surprise win.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

MCT 2009 last 6 games

Game 4

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
WSU vs Akron Played at ECC on 6/28/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by WSU and decided to Bat
Result: Akron Beat WSU by 6 wickets
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Hari Parthasarathi
Umpire : xxxxx

WSU Batting
Sachin Dambal c Gurupreet Singh b Vijay Chavan 5
Hemant Amarchinta c Amit Mali b Manpreet Chibbar 2
Abhijit Hosadurga b Gurupreet Singh 8
Ashwanth Ganesan c Sanjay Pani b Hari Parthasarathi 8
Saurabh Bhandiwad Run Out VRS Raju Rudraraju 23
Prashanth Muppala b Gurupreet Singh 0
Milinda Ranatunga c Vijay Chavan b Gurupreet Singh 11
Bhushan Kable c Amit Mali b Hari Parthasarathi 8
Arunesh Roy c Vijay Chavan b Hari Parthasarathi 0
Utsav Desai c Sham Ravindranath b VRS Raju Rudraraju 8
Vikas Reddy Not Out 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 30
Total for 10 Wickets in 27.1 overs 103


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 7 0 29 1
Manpreet Chibbar 5 0 19 1
Hari Parthasarathi 6 0 10 3
Gurupreet Singh 6 0 32 3
VRS Raju Rudraraju 2.1 0 9 1
Sham Ravindranath 1 0 3 0


Akron Batting
Sham Ravindranath c Utsav Desai b Milinda Ranatunga 4
Abhay Vasudev lbw b Milinda Ranatunga 10
Hari Parthasarathi Run Out Utsav Desai 35
Amit Mali lbw b Bhushan Kable 22
Sriharsha Putrevu Not Out 15
Vijay Chavan Not Out 3
Siddharth Chhawchharia Did Not Bat 0
Manpreet Chibbar Did Not Bat 0
Sanjay Pani Did Not Bat 0
VRS Raju Rudraraju Did Not Bat 0
Gurupreet Singh Did Not Bat 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 15
Total for 4 Wickets in 18.1 overs 104


WSU Bowling
Milinda Ranatunga 4 0 27 2
Vikas Reddy 5 1 18 0
Arunesh Roy 5 0 21 0
Utsav Desai 1 0 11 0
Bhushan Kable 3 1 23 1
Abhijit Hosadurga 0.1 0 4 0


Game 5

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Akron vs UCC Played at Cleveland on 7/11/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by UCC and decided to Field
Result: Akron Beat UCC by 70 runs
30 overs match
Man of the Match : Abhay Vasudev
Umpire :

Akron Batting
Sham Ravindranath c Mayur Fotedar b Subodh Kumar 4
Abhay Vasudev c Sridhar Beeravol b Mayur Fotedar 41
Hari Parthasarathi c Ravi Kiran b Praveen Bulusu 17
Amit Mali c Sridhar Beeravol b Anuraag Pandey 30
Sriharsha Putrevu c Ravi Kiran b Anuraag Pandey 7
Nandakishore Krishna Not Out 22
Vijay Chavan c Ravi Kiran b Mayur Fotedar 29
Aditya Anne Run Out 0
Gurupreet Singh Not Out 0
Manpreet Chibbar Did Not Bat 0
Rajnikant Reddy Did Not Bat 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 24
Total for 7 Wickets in 30 overs 174


UCC Bowling
Subodh Kumar 5 0 32 1
Sridhar Beeravol 3 0 9 0
Praveen Bulusu 6 0 27 1
Sunny Haider 4 0 18 0
Ravi Kiran 2 0 13 0
Ram Ganesan 1 0 10 0
Mayur Fotedar 5 0 41 2
Anuraag Pandey 4 0 24 2


UCC Batting
Praveen Bulusu b Hari Parthasarathi 5
Suchit Hegde c b Gurupreet Singh 28
Ravi Kiran lbw b Hari Parthasarathi 2
Anuraag Pandey c b Hari Parthasarathi 0
Subodh Kumar b Hari Parthasarathi 5
Sunny Haider c b Aditya Anne 9
Chandrasekhar Balakrishnan c b Gurupreet Singh 0
Deepak Kumar b Vijay Chavan 10
Mayur Fotedar c b Rajnikant Reddy 5
Ram Ganesan Not Out 16
Sridhar Beeravol Not Out 6
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 28
Total for 9 Wickets in 30 overs 114


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 6 1 21 1
Hari Parthasarathi 6 2 14 4
Manpreet Chibbar 4 0 13 0
Gurupreet Singh 5 0 19 2
Aditya Anne 4 0 24 1
Rajnikant Reddy 4 0 15 1
Abhay Vasudev 1 0 8 0


Game 6

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Akron vs GCC Played at Cleveland on 7/26/2009
Match Status : Forfeited
Result: Akron Beat GCC by forfeit


Game 7

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Akron vs UC Played at CCC on 8/2/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by UC and decided to Field
Result: Akron Beat UC by 34 runs
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Sham Ravindranath
Umpire :

Akron Batting
Sham Ravindranath b Abhinav Pande 41
Abhay Vasudev c Niranjan Deshpande b Abir Sengupta 8
Hari Parthasarathi c Niranjan Deshpande b Natwar Agrawal 4
Amit Mali c Rajiv Krishnan b Abhinav Pande 9
Nandakishore Krishna c Abir Sengupta b Arpan Joshi 3
Aditya Anne c Rohan Wanchoo b Rajiv Krishnan 15
Manas Hardas c Niranjan Deshpande b Abhinav Pande 0
Vijay Chavan b Natwar Agrawal 27
Gurupreet Singh c Sujit Mahajan b Rohan Wanchoo 1
Manpreet Chibbar c Rajiv Krishnan b Abhinav Pande 0
Sanjay Pani Not Out 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 0
Total for 10 Wickets in 33 overs 130


UC Bowling
Abir Sengupta 5 0 19 1
Rohan Wanchoo 7 1 20 1
Rajiv Krishnan 7 0 24 1
Natwar Agrawal 3 0 7 2
Arpan Joshi 4 1 17 1
Abhinav Pande 7 0 28 4


UC Batting
Abir Sengupta c Amit Mali b Manpreet Chibbar 4
Niranjan Deshpande c Sanjay Pani b Manpreet Chibbar 2
Natwar Agrawal b Manpreet Chibbar 1
Aravind Kishore c Sanjay Pani b Hari Parthasarathi 21
Nabil Hamadani c Vijay Chavan b Sham Ravindranath 19
Abhinav Pande c Sham Ravindranath b Sham Ravindranath 8
Anirudh Palsule lbw b Sham Ravindranath 4
Rohan Wanchoo c Sanjay Pani b Nandakishore Krishna 1
Arpan Joshi c Gurupreet Singh b Nandakishore Krishna 6
Rajiv Krishnan Not Out 8
Sujit Mahajan lbw b Sham Ravindranath 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 0
Total for 10 Wickets in 31 overs 96


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 5 0 12 0
Manpreet Chibbar 5 0 17 3
Hari Parthasarathi 7 0 21 1
Gurupreet Singh 5 0 13 0
Sham Ravindranath 6 0 12 4
Nandakishore Krishna 3 0 15 2


Game 8

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
COBCA vs Akron Played at OSU on 8/8/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by COBCA and decided to Bat
Result: COBCA Beat Akron by 83 runs
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Abhish Samant
Umpire :

COBCA Batting
Prashant Ahlawat Run Out Manpreet Chibbar 31
Sachin c Hari Parthasarathi b Manpreet Chibbar 1
Puneet Mann b Manas Hardas 25
Abhish Samant c Hari Parthasarathi b Sanjay Pani 30
Jitesh c Aditya Anne b Manpreet Chibbar 44
Mitul Patel c Amit Mali b Hari Parthasarathi 22
Parminder Singh Gandhi Not Out 23
Vibhash Vaidya c Aditya Anne b Sham Ravindranath 1
Amit Chawla Not Out 1
Karan Varma Did Not Bat 0
Chandan Reddimasu Did Not Bat 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 12
Total for 7 Wickets in 35 overs 190


Akron Bowling
Hari Parthasarathi 6 0 21 1
Manpreet Chibbar 6 0 29 2
Aditya Anne 2 0 23 0
Gurupreet Singh 4 0 26 0
Sham Ravindranath 7 2 32 1
Manas Hardas 5 1 29 1
Sanjay Pani 3 0 18 1
Nandakishore Krishna 2 0 12 0


Akron Batting
Sham Ravindranath c Jitesh b Sachin 0
Abhay Vasudev lbw b Parminder Singh Gandhi 8
Hari Parthasarathi b Karan Varma 19
Amit Mali c Mitul Patel b Vibhash Vaidya 11
Manas Hardas Run Out Sachin 24
Aditya Anne c Karan Varma b Abhish Samant 4
Nandakishore Krishna st Parminder Singh Gandhi b Abhish Samant 20
Gurupreet Singh c Parminder Singh Gandhi b Abhish Samant 4
Lakshmikant Peri st Parminder Singh Gandhi b Abhish Samant 0
Manpreet Chibbar Not Out 0
Sanjay Pani c Sachin b Abhish Samant 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 17
Total for 10 Wickets in 35 overs 107


COBCA Bowling
Sachin 5 1 23 1
Mitul Patel 2 0 10 0
Parminder Singh Gandhi 3 1 6 1
Karan Varma 7 1 18 1
Vibhash Vaidya 4 0 14 1
Chandan Reddimasu 2 0 21 0
Abhish Samant 4.2 0 15 5


Game 9

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Akron vs ColumbusIN Played at CCC on 8/15/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by Akron and decided to Bat
Result: Akron Beat ColumbusIN by 74 runs
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Amit Mali
Umpire :

Akron Batting
Abhay Vasudev c Karthik Thinnanur b Karthik Thinnanur 21
Aditya Anne c Aalok Trivedi b Harish Bonam 0
Hari Parthasarathi c Muhammad Mazhar Khan b Ruwan Perera 15
Sham Ravindranath c Ameya Oke b Ruwan Perera 7
Amit Mali c Alkesh Patel b Harish Bonam 43
Manas Hardas Run Out 15
Vijay Chavan c Aalok Trivedi b Karthik Thinnanur 16
Nandakishore Krishna c Aalok Trivedi b Abhijeet Nande 1
Siddharth Chhawchharia c Karthik Thinnanur b Abhijeet Nande 4
Manpreet Chibbar Not Out 9
Sanjay Pani Not Out 2
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 17
Total for 9 Wickets in 35 overs 150


ColumbusIN Bowling
Harish Bonam 7 0 29 2
Ruwan Perera 5 0 25 2
Vishal Talwar 7 1 26 0
Jacob Jackson 2 0 9 0
Karthik Thinnanur 7 1 31 2
Abhijeet Nande 7 0 30 2


ColumbusIN Batting
Ameya Oke c Vijay Chavan b Manpreet Chibbar 0
Abhijeet Nande c Vijay Chavan b Vijay Chavan 12
Abishek Muralidharan c Amit Mali b Manpreet Chibbar 5
Muhammad Mazhar Khan c Abhay Vasudev b Hari Parthasarathi 7
Vishal Talwar c Sanjay Pani b Manpreet Chibbar 0
Aalok Trivedi lbw b Vijay Chavan 0
Alkesh Patel lbw b Manas Hardas 10
Karthik Thinnanur c Sham Ravindranath b Manas Hardas 13
Jacob Jackson b Manas Hardas 1
Ruwan Perera c Manpreet Chibbar b Sham Ravindranath 11
Harish Bonam Not Out 1
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 16
Total for 10 Wickets in 23 overs 76


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 5 0 15 2
Manpreet Chibbar 5 0 17 3
Hari Parthasarathi 5 0 13 1
Manas Hardas 5 0 18 3
Sham Ravindranath 3 0 12 1

MCT 2009 First 3 games

Game 1
Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Akron vs RPCC Played at Hashlington on 6/7/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by RPCC and decided to Field
Result: Akron Beat RPCC by 152 runs
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Vijay Chavan
Umpire : xxxxx

Akron Batting
Abhay Vasudev c Hardeep Singh b Hardeep Singh 6
Sameer Hussain b Hardeep Singh 4
Hari Parthasarathi lbw b Sukhpreet Singh 54
Amit Mali Run Out Jwalant Patel 15
Sriharsha Putrevu Run Out Sukhpreet Singh 39
Aditya Anne lbw b Amit tondon 24
Nandakishore Krishna c Harjeet Singh b Hardeep Singh 43
Vijay Chavan c Jwalant Patel b Sudhir Singh 4
Manpreet Chibbar b Amit tondon 1
VRS Raju Rudraraju Not Out 15
Lakshmikant Peri Not Out 1
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 87
Total for 9 Wickets in 35 overs 293


RPCC Bowling
Sudhir Singh 7 0 76 1
Hardeep Singh 7 0 43 3
Jwalant Patel 5 0 49 0
Amit tondon 6 0 33 2
Harjeet Singh 4 0 24 0
Sukhpreet Singh 4 0 31 1
Harpreet Singh 1 0 17 0
Pavittar Singh 1 0 14 0


RPCC Batting
Jasbir Singh b Vijay Chavan 2
Harpreet Singh b Vijay Chavan 1
Amit tondon c VRS Raju Rudraraju b Nandakishore Krishna 26
Jwalant Patel c Lakshmikant Peri b Manpreet Chibbar 12
Sudhir Singh lbw b Abhay Vasudev 38
Hardeep Singh b Abhay Vasudev 0
Karambir Singh b Lakshmikant Peri 18
Sukhpreet Singh b Vijay Chavan 0
Harjeet Singh c Aditya Anne b Vijay Chavan 19
Manmohan Singh Not Out 4
Pavittar Singh b Vijay Chavan 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 21
Total for 10 Wickets in 35 overs 141


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 6.3 1 32 5
Hari Parthasarathi 3 0 13 0
Manpreet Chibbar 6 0 16 1
Aditya Anne 4 0 23 0
VRS Raju Rudraraju 3 0 16 0
Abhay Vasudev 2 0 11 2
Nandakishore Krishna 1 0 4 1
Lakshmikant Peri 2 0 21 1


Game 2

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
RENEGADES vs Akron Played at ECC on 6/14/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by RENEGADES and decided to Bat
Result: Akron Beat RENEGADES by 8 wickets
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Sham Ravindranath
Umpire : xxxxx

RENEGADES Batting
Prem Kumar c Abhay Vasudev b Sham Ravindranath 7
Silar Khan c Sriharsha Putrevu b Vijay Chavan 4
Dinesh Kamaraj lbw b Vijay Chavan 0
Syed Raziuddin lbw b Vijay Chavan 4
Sourabh Srivastava b Sham Ravindranath 8
Prasanna Chintala b Sham Ravindranath 0
Mohammed Kaleem c Manpreet Chibbar b Aditya Anne 17
Gopilal Bhagat Run Out Hari Parthasarathi 0
Abdul Jabbar Khan b Aditya Anne 6
Khushal Singh c Manpreet Chibbar b Aditya Anne 2
Aqteruddin Quraishi Not Out 1
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 30
Total for 10 Wickets in 35 overs 79


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 7 0 15 3
Hari Parthasarathi 4 0 17 0
Manpreet Chibbar 5 2 11 0
Sham Ravindranath 6 0 28 3
Aditya Anne 2 0 6 3


Akron Batting
Abhay Vasudev lbw b Mohammed Kaleem 1
Sameer Hussain Not Out 9
Hari Parthasarathi b Prasanna Chintala 37
Sham Ravindranath Not Out 16
Amit Mali Did Not Bat 0
Nandakishore Krishna Did Not Bat 0
Sriharsha Putrevu Did Not Bat 0
Aditya Anne Did Not Bat 0
Vijay Chavan Did Not Bat 0
VRS Raju Rudraraju Did Not Bat 0
Manpreet Chibbar Did Not Bat 0
Wides 17 No Balls 1 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 18
Total for 2 Wickets in 16 overs 81


RENEGADES Bowling
Abdul Jabbar Khan 3 0 24 0
Mohammed Kaleem 4 1 8 1
Dinesh Kamaraj 2 0 6 0
Aqteruddin Quraishi 2 0 15 0
Silar Khan 2 0 18 0
Khushal Singh 2 0 4 0
Prasanna Chintala 2 0 11 1




Game 3

Scorecard

Midwest Group B 2009
Purdue vs Akron Played at CCC on 6/21/2009
Match Status : Completed
Toss won by Akron and decided to Field
Result: Akron Beat Purdue by 0 runs
35 overs match
Man of the Match : Nandakishore Krishna
Umpire :

Purdue Batting
Faraz Arif c Sameer Hussain b Abhay Vasudev 48
Saumyang Patel b VRS Raju Rudraraju 23
Mihir Mullick Not Out 34
Karthik Kambatla Run Out Manpreet Chibbar 8
Salman Pervez Run Out Manpreet Chibbar 0
Abhijeet Deshmukh c Aditya Anne b Nandakishore Krishna 2
Neeraj Iyer c VRS Raju Rudraraju b Nandakishore Krishna 1
Sivabalan Panneer Run Out Hari Parthasarathi 6
Vikram Chitnis Not Out 4
James Monty Did Not Bat 0
Adeel Altaf Did Not Bat 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 30
Total for 7 Wickets in 35 overs 156


Akron Bowling
Vijay Chavan 4 0 12 0
Hari Parthasarathi 3 0 18 0
Manpreet Chibbar 3 0 12 0
Sham Ravindranath 7 0 28 0
VRS Raju Rudraraju 7 1 28 1
Nandakishore Krishna 6 0 29 2
Abhay Vasudev 7 0 30 1


Akron Batting
Abhay Vasudev b Adeel Altaf 3
Sameer Hussain c Faraz Arif b Neeraj Iyer 0
Hari Parthasarathi c Karthik Kambatla b Neeraj Iyer 53
Amit Mali c Faraz Arif b Neeraj Iyer 1
Sham Ravindranath c Mihir Mullick b Neeraj Iyer 1
Sriharsha Putrevu b Karthik Kambatla 14
Vijay Chavan c Salman Pervez b Sivabalan Panneer 22
Nandakishore Krishna Not Out 29
Aditya Anne Run Out 0
VRS Raju Rudraraju Not Out 6
Manpreet Chibbar Did Not Bat 0
Wides 0 No Balls 0 Byes 0 Leg byes 0 Extras 30
Total for 8 Wickets in 35 overs 159


Purdue Bowling
Adeel Altaf 6 0 27 1
Neeraj Iyer 2 1 24 4
Abhijeet Deshmukh 7 0 13 0
James Monty 3 0 16 0
Sivabalan Panneer 7 0 25 1
Saumyang Patel 4 0 26 0
Karthik Kambatla 6 0 28 1

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Akron Fall 2008 Intramurals Squad and schedule




1) 9 overs, bowling distribution 3, 3, 2, 1
2) 9 players. You can play with 8 players only if the last additions (players highlighted with yellow) do not show up. Otherwise the opposite team can play with 9 players.
3) 2 overs power play at the start + 1 over power play in any over after that
4) Only 2 players outside for powerplay (on the grass) rest inside clay court
5) A maximum of 3 players outside after the powerplay.
6) Team will be ranked 1 to 6 based on points, then head to head win, then run rate and if still required total wickets lost throughout.
7) Team ranked 1 and 2 will be semifinalists. Team 2 plays 6 , team 3 plays 4 for quarter finals. For semis team 1 plays winner of 3 and 6. Team 2 plays winner of 4 and 5.
8) Only captains can argue in case of any doubt, rest please approach captains.
9) Best batsman – anyone who scores max runs at the end of tournament. In case of tie one with higher average will be given first preference.
10) Best bowler- anyone who gets most wickets. In case of tie, bowler with better economy will be preferred.
11) Best fielder- anyone with most number of catches & run outs (total).
12) No LBWs and so no leg byes. Only byes and over throws.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008