SPCC v PTCC, League Game 09, Reedy Creek Park

SPCC ease to win over PTCC
Deepak Bhat

August 3, 2008

SPCC 312-5 (Baseer -84*, Yasir 65, Mani 56, Trilok 42, Sumit 41) 
beat  PTCC 143 (Zeeshan 33, Praveen 4/24, Trilok 3/15, Deepak 2/19) by 169 runs.

Player of the match: Trilok Rajesh

Tumhi kashe ahet….. (Marathi for what’s up people). Hello people. I am back. Coming to the Game. It was a hot and humid Sunday. Game started around 11.00 am. SPCC won the toss and elected to bat. Yasir and Anish went in to start the innings for SPCC. Yasir was playing a restrained innings. Anish was out lbw on the 6th over. The starting bowlers for PTCC were bowling a good line and length making it difficult for our batsmen to make runs. Sumit joined Yasir in the middle and they both set out to play long innings. Sumit was exuding confidence today and one could see that in his batting. He played aggressively for his 41 with some beautiful boundaries and sixes. Yasir soon joined the fray and things were going well for SPCC.

Sumit became a victim of an unfortunate dismissal when the short pitched ball kept low and hit his stumps. Mani joined Yasir in the middle and both of them set out to play their shots. Yasir got out while trying to clear the boundary rope. He hit a good and timely 65 runs. In went Baseer and together with Mani set out to achieve the target that was discussed at the start of the match.  Still 14 overs were left and the target of 300 was still far away. But the way Baseer and Mani were batting everybody had a hope that the target would be achieved.

 Mani was clean bowled soon while trying to go for a shot. He made a good contribution of 56. Enter Trilok. It had been a long time since Trilok played an inning which he is capable of with his huge talent. But today was the day. He was playing with great confidence. Some of sixes he hit were huge one. Baseer in the mean time kept on playing the anchor role where he kept rotating the strike and where there was a case that the ball needed to be hit the ball was hit. Baseer hit a good knock of 84. Trilok contributed 42 runs from the willow. SPCC finished their innings with 312 runs in 35 overs. 

Tarun and Deepak started the opening bowling spell for SPCC. Tarun as usual bowled a good and tight first over. Deepak too joined the fray and provided the first break through for SPCC when he had Imran caught behind by Anish. Deepak was also responsible for providing the second break through in his fourth over. Meanwhile Tarun kept on keeping things tight from the other end. Opening batsman Zeeshan was playing with good confidence and was hitting some good shots.

After drinks Praveen was introduced. What a find this guy has been for SPCC. What good bowling. He got Zeeshan out on the first ball when Zeeshan snicked the ball behind and was beautifully caught by Anish. Soon he ensnared three other victims and ended the match with 4 wickets. Trilok was introduced in tandem with Praveen and it was Triloks day today. Two of the wickets which he took were a treat to watch where he had the batsmen completely fooled. He too ended with a haul of 3 wickets. Thus SPCC got PTCC out in 29.1 overs for 143 runs. 

Overall the performance of everybody was really good. There was some great wicket keeping from Anish today. Batsman understood their roles and staying firm in the crease. This was an important thing to do as this was one of the reasons that we lost two games because batsmen were not playing to their potentials. Fielding was good too. Remember guys as of today we are in playoffs and our spot on the MACC playoff list is 10th position. We have three more games coming up with good teams. So let us all put our focus and energy on winning those games so that we can occupy a little more higher position on the MACC playoff list. Would like to thank Abhijit for doing a great job of keeping everybody hydrated on the field. Amit also joined the team today. Welcome back Amit.

Today was Tarun’s last game for SPCC as he is leaving for India permanently. Tarun is a great find for SPCC and is a very good Cricket player. We are going to miss him. SPCC would like to wish Tarun all the best in his future Endeavors.

 Quote of the week "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

 Go SPCC…….