SPCC v TGCC, League Game 11, Tanglewood Park
SPCC seals a tense 3 wicket win over TGCC
Deepak Bhat

August 17, 2008

TGCC 85 (Mayur 22, Baseer 4/16, Deepak 2/11, Praveen 2/18)
lost to SPCC 88/7 in 26.3 overs (Yasir 37, Nataraj 4/20, Kiran 2/12) for 3 wickets

Player of the match: Deepak Bhat

People here in Charlotte woke up to a gloomy and a rainy day. But still the SPCC caravan left towards Tangle wood and reached there by 10.00 am. Toss was administered by Subhashish which he won and SPCC chose to field.

 SPCC bowling was started by Kalyan and Baseer. As usual Kalyan was again unlucky when he had the batsman snicking but the umpire turned down the appeal. Baseer too bowled a decent line for his first over. Praveen came as the replacement for Baseer in the 4th over. Meanwhile TGCC batsmen had put on a few runs on the score board without a loss of wicket. This changed when Deepak was introduced into the attack. In his second over, he had Mayur LBW. From there TGCC batsmen were always in pressure. Deepak again stuck in his fourth over when he clean bowled Rahul  who was looking to get set. Subashish and Baseer were brought as changes.

Subashish was bowling a good decent line. After going for a few runs by the batsmen he got the wicket of that batsman. That was some sweet revenge. Meanwhile Baseer was the pick of the bowlers. He had four wickets which were all well taken and were well thought of by the bowler. Praveen initially after struggling to find some rhythm finally got into his groove and got two wickets. With these two wickets he now has 31 wickets for the season. Congratulations Praveen. TGCC were bundled out for 85 runs in 26 overs.

Sumit and Yasir started the proceedings for SPCC. Both of them were playing well. Yasir was playing aggressively on one end while Sumit was playing solid defense from the other end. SPCC soon reached 40 for no loss. But then Sumit lost his wicket. In went Mani. But Mani too returned back in no time. Rajesh was the next man in. after scoring a few runs Rajesh too was out. Suddenly from 40 for no loss SPCC was 49 for 4. At this stage Baseer and Abhijit were playing in the middle. They started to play sensibly and rotate the strike. But soon Abhijit too was out to a shot he wished he had not played.

In went Trilok and the still there were about 30 runs remaining on board. This was the last recognized pair that SPCC had. Baseer meanwhile was rotating the strike but with about 20 runs remaining on the board Trilok was out when he was caught brilliantly by the TGCC fielder. Well so Deepak was called to do the trick for SPCC. Baseer and Deepak started to rotate the strike but alas Baseer was given out to a really bad decision from the umpire.

Kalyan joined Deepak and there were still about 16 runs to go. Kalyan proved to be a great batting partner who at all the time gave encouragement to Deepak about completing the task. Even the team was giving encouragement at all times to both the batsmen. However there was a nervous moment when Deepak played the ball in the air and was dropped by the fielder. It was the only catch dropped in that whole day. Lucky Deepak. Phew…

But after that both Kalyan and Deepak played sensibly and saw SPCC home.

Quote of the week

 Learn from your mistakes and experiences, good and bad, but don't ever dwell on them. When you do dwell on the past, you waste your future.

Go SPCC……..