Scorecard - GHCC vs DCC  
 

GHCC vs DCC
GHCC
04/06/2008 (35-over match)

Headline: DCC wins opener by 5 wickets
Result: Won
Toss: GHCC
Won By: DCC
Umpires: Kam Desai and Batting Side
Home Team: GHCC
Away Team: DCC

GHCC innings (35 overs maximum) R B 4 6
Waqas caught Shrinivas Joshi b Pratik Phadke 34 0 0 0
Mohsin caught Niranjan Thakur b Nikhil Raikar 0 1 0 0
Rahul caught Shrinivas Joshi b Nikhil Raikar 2 5 0 0
Paras Naik caught Pratik Phadke b Pratik Phadke 37 0 0 0
Satta stump Shrinivas Joshi b Pratik Phadke 3 5 0 0
Moazzam C caught Shrinivas Joshi b Rohit Sarwade 1 5 0 0
+Vatsal Naik b Pratik Phadke 3 9 0 0
Kam P b Nikhil Raikar 4 0 0 0
Panth Naik b Nikhil Raikar 1 4 0 0
Ankit P b Nikhil Raikar 2 2 0 0
Kamlesh Naik not out 1 4 0 0
Extras (lb 0, w 17, nb 6, b 1) 24      
Total (10 wickets, 31.5 overs) 112      
         
DNB:        

Bowling O M R W
Niranjan Thakur 5 0 10 0
Nikhil Raikar 6.5 0 29 5
*Mahesh Tomar 4 0 19 0
Sai Kiran 2 0 9 0
Rohit Sarwade 7 1 28 1
Pratik Phadke 7 0 15 4

DCC innings (target: 113 runs from 35 overs) R B 4 6
Ashutosh Jha caught +Vatsal Naik b Waqas 5 19 0 0
Saurabh Agarwal caught Satta b Waqas 3 27 0 0
Prasad Ozarkar caught +Vatsal Naik b Mohsin 1 7 0 0
Pratik Phadke not out 47 0 6 0
Shrinivas Joshi caught +Vatsal Naik b Waqas 27 0 1 0
Sai Kiran b Paras Naik 1 8 0 0
Niranjan Thakur not out 6 3 1 0
Extras (lb 0, w 22, nb 3, b 0) 25      
Total (5 wickets, 25.5 overs) 115      
         
DNB: Neeraj Rohilla, *Mahesh Tomar, Nikhil Raikar, Rohit Sarwade        

Bowling O M R W
Waqas 7 1 16 3
Panth Naik 5 1 16 0
Mohsin 2 0 25 1
Moazzam C 5 0 22 0
Paras Naik 1.5 0 14 1
Kamlesh Naik 4 0 13 0
Kam P 1 0 9 0

 
Match Report
Finally Sunday morning, DCC got a chance to get some real action. Niranjan and Nikhil shined the cherry and shined for DCC. The 48-year old veteran got on board first with his trademark ball. GHCC was sent on the back foot with Nikhil striking. Along with Mahesh, the number of balls that beat the outside edge soared to a million but none found the willow's edge. Seeing the slowness of the pitch, Pratik and Rohit exploited it to perfection. The run-rate was slow but GHCC went on to make 80 for 2 in 20+ overs. From then on, DCC bowlers attacked and choked GHCC. Rohit in particular was way too acurate that, as life would have, did not end his tidy spell with any wickets. Pratik rattled through the middle order and started retiring player after player. Then Nikhil came back and finished off the tail-enders with an impressive arm which fetched him the fastest 5-wicket haul since debut - a new DCC record. GHCC had slumped to 112 against a disciplined bowling attack from all DCC bowlers with only 2 batsmen making decent scores.

The only excitement to make a match out of the total, post-lunch, was whether DCC can create something like 18 for 3 in 9 overs. And, yes, Saurabh and Ashutosh decided there is no business in Greenville and headed back. Prasad, showed initial promise, but wanted to balance the game and pulled a rising ball to the keeper. Suddenly Mt. Mckinnly was visible. Pratik and Shrini chose to play for DCC finally and the strokes started flowing. They found the gaps and boundaries both creating and complimenting each other. With runs coming in from the experienced duo, the game started to slip away from GHCC. By the time Shrini departed, only a handful of runs were needed. Kiran threw his wicket but Niranjan finished off with the captain. For playing an impressive and anchor knock of 47 NO to go with his 4 wickets, Pratik earned the MoM award

Thanks to GHCC for a game played in a good spirit and the pizza lunch.

Umpire Report
Excellent umpiring by Kam Desai. A special thanks to him for stepping in to umpire a rescheduled game.