| Scorecard - DCC vs. ANZ |
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DCC vs. ANZ
Headline: DCC wins with 6 wickets to spare against ANZ chasing 150
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Match Report Game started around 9.45 am on a beautiful day weather-wise. DCC won the toss and elected to field on a dew-heavy outfield. While it looked as if the match would comence as a typical sleepy morning start, it was everything but sleepy. Parth wanted everyone to wake up by lifting the first ball of the day from Hari onto the railway track and beyond. In 2 overs, Bakul and Parth had taken ANZ to 18. Rahul and Hari were forced to bowl only their best. But by the 5th over and 34 on the board, Hari had his revenge when Parth tried to hoist his 3rd six but this time he did not pick the line clean and was caught nicely by Shankar. The very next ball, Bakul could not keep Hari's bounce-only-an-inch ball from trickling on to the stumps. This jammed ANZ. So, Shaluka and Ketan tried to ensure no more wicket losses and played on merit. Leg spinner Murali soon came into the attack and reaped his rewards, of fine showcase bowling in practice, by mesmerizing Shaluka into a trance trapping him back for LBW. Murali continued his magic when he reacted quickly to take a return catch to dismiss Ketan in the 11th over with ANZ at 59. The run-rate was good but not the wicket-rate. This made Sudeep and Anirud grind the bowling without risks and worked on singles and twos as Ivan and Murali continued to bowl with precision.
Sudeep and Anirud had a 57 run partnership in the next 10 overs with DCC failing to make any more in-road cuts. However, Ravi bowled with heart and was the most miserly bowler with Pratik also keeping up the same pressure at the other end. Then in the 24th over, at 117, Sudeep decided to launch. Unfortunately, he did not clear long off where Shankar swallowed his 2nd catch of the day to give Ravi his only wicket of the day. Pratik, finding good rhythm and line, continued his spell and got the payback when he had Deepesh and Anirudh got out in identical fashion - stumped by a lightening quick Sanjeewa. Once Anirudh fell, only Nage provided some resistance. Jefferey ensured that his partner got enough strike by running hard but good tail end bowling by Rahul enabled ANZ only to reach 150. A circus style second tap catch by Ivan at long-on was one of the highlights of the day.
After an unnecessarily long lunch break, DCC opened with Neeraj and Ivan. Ivan started off by flicking Parth to the boundary. Deepesh opened the bowling at the other end but was taken apart by Ivan who made 14 in the over helped by two massive 6'ers Parth-style. In the meantime, Neeraj broke the shackles and lasted more than 2 balls. He continued to play solid defence and was content letting Ivan do the scoring until Parth got a sharp one straight in and was out LBW although a double noise was audible. At 39/1 in the 7th over, Sanjeewa went in. Rightaway, Nage got a ball to beat Ivan and sent his stumps flying and DCC was 39/2 and ANZ were right back in the game. Raghu ensured that no more wickets fell by playing through the line and respecting ANZ bowling. Sanjeewa in the meantime played poised mixing singles with defense and boundaries. This took DCC out of danger but at the expense of runrate. However, the target score was not too high to worry. In 8 overs, the pair added 30 runs to bring DCC to 70/2 by the mid-innings break helped by some disciplined bowling by Nagaraj, Deepesh, Nage and Ketan.
It looked like the second half would pick up pace with the 2 batsmen well settled and it did - for ANZ. Ketan produced a brilliant over to flatten the sticks by beating Sanjeewa's stoic defence in the 16th over for a maiden wicket. Shankar joined Raghu at 70/3 and both talked that they would work on rotating strike to loosten the pressure build-up. The next few overs were cat and mouse. ANZ continued to press and DCC batsmen worked methodically only to get enough runs to keep the balance even by punishing the stray bad balls. By the 20th over, 60 runs was needed in 60 balls. Raghu continued to anchor while Shankar started to get into the zone helped by some quick running. The 21st over saw, DCC pile on 12 runs to turn it around. But Ketan produced another miserly 1 run over to keep it still run-a- ball game. An ambitious 2nd run call by Shankar saw a tired Raghu unable to reach the crease on time. In a way, this hastened the finish as Ravi came in and started whipping the bowling. He hit 2 sixes and 1 four to reach 23* in just 11 balls. After that, Shankar too upped the tempo and wrapped up the game with a four and six to win by 6 wickets and 4 overs to spare. Umpire Report Umpiring: Due to unavailabilty, NCSU sent only 1 umpire. Naresh did a very good job and was consistent. Maybe, only 1 LBW decision was slightly dubious with a double sound of bat and pad. But, overall, a very clean work by the umpire. |
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