Scorecard - GRCC vs DCC  
 

GRCC vs DCC
Richmond
05/03/2008 (35-over match)

Headline: DCC wins a close one at GRCC
Result: Won
Toss: DCC
Won By: DCC
Umpires: Vishal (PCC) and Murali (PCC)
Home Team: GRCC
Away Team: DCC

DCC innings (35 overs maximum) R B 4 6
Ashutosh Jha caught Laxmikant Shenoy b Vishnu Prabhakar 18 31 2 0
Ravi Bheemarao run out Surender Velusamy 3 11 0 0
Pratik Phadke caught Vivek Kaushik b Vivek Kaushik 100 92 12 3
+Sanjeewa Naranpanawe caught Surender Velusamy b Vicky Ahluwalia 34 51 1 1
Rohit Sarwade b Vishnu Prabhakar 0 5 0 0
*Mahesh Tomar run out Hari Sundaresan 18 14 1 1
Saurabh Agarwal b Vivek Kaushik 0 2 0 0
Shrinivas Joshi not out 1 1 0 0
Extras (lb 1, w 28, nb 0, b 0) 29      
Total (7 wickets, 35 overs) 203      
         
DNB: Sai Kiran, Siddarth Puri, Nataraj Iyer        

Bowling O M R W
Vicky Ahluwalia 7 0 31 1
Hari Sundaresan 5 0 35 0
Vishnu Prabhakar 7 0 30 2
Rajeev Khanna 3 0 16 0
Surender Velusamy 3 0 16 0
Vivek Kaushik 6 0 46 2
Ajay Sharma 2 0 15 0
Kunal Kaul 2 0 15 0

GRCC innings (target: 204 runs from 35 overs) R B 4 6
Abhishek Ghosh run out Saurabh Agarwal 3 0 0 0
Sameer Athale b Rohit Sarwade 14 0 0 0
Ajay Sharma b *Mahesh Tomar 2 0 0 0
Vivek Kaushik run out Sai Kiran 1 0 0 0
Rajeev Khanna caught +Sanjeewa Naranpanawe b *Mahesh Tomar 9 0 0 0
Vicky Ahluwalia caught Rohit Sarwade b Pratik Phadke 42 0 0 0
Laxmikant Shenoy b Nataraj Iyer 12 0 0 0
Surender Velusamy lbw b Nataraj Iyer 16 0 0 0
Hari Sundaresan stump +Sanjeewa Naranpanawe b Siddarth Puri 34 0 0 0
Kunal Kaul not out 13 0 0 0
Vishnu Prabhakar not out 5 0 0 0
Extras (lb 3, w 39, nb 0, b 0) 42      
Total (9 wickets, 35 overs) 193      
         
DNB:        

Bowling O M R W
*Mahesh Tomar 7 0 26 2
Nataraj Iyer 7 0 39 2
Rohit Sarwade 7 0 30 1
Siddarth Puri 6 0 41 1
Ravi Bheemarao 3 0 27 0
Pratik Phadke 5 0 30 1

 
Match Report
DCC knew they had a challenging game against perennial title contenders GRCC. Having lost their previous game with a sub-par performance, DCC were keen to put up a good show in Richmond.

Things started well with the coin falling in DCC's favor who then elected to bat. Vicky A and Hari were getting the ball to swing and made scoring difficult initially. Ravi got run out in a mix up, but Ashu and Pratik stabilized things with a 31 run partnership. Sanjeewa walked in to join the skipper and they put together a 116 runs at a run a ball. This set things up for a big finish and Mahesh obliged with a big 6 and 4 in the last few overs. DCC ended up on 203 with Pratik scoring exactly 100.

GRCC started the chase strong with runs flowing quickly as Nataraj had toruble controlling the swing. Rohit was brought in to bowl and the change paid dividends right away as he bowled Sameer. A great pick up and throw by Saurabh had Abhishek short of his ground and Mahesh joined the party with a great outswinger to pick up Rajeev. Another run out following a mixup and Ajay getting bowled meant that GRCC were 5 down quickly. However Vicky A supported by Laxmi, Surendra and Hari kept fighting. It came down to GRCC needing 52 runs of 48 balls but a couple of fantastic overs by Mahesh where he conceded only 4 runs made the task more difficult. A great outfield catch by Rohit got rid of the dangerous Vicky A and despite a fighting innings from Hari GRCC ended up short by 10 runs.

Thanks to GRCC for a hard fought game played in good spirit. Thanks to them for allowing a substitute when Rohit dislocated his shoulder in the process of taking a catch. Their sporting gesture is much appreciated.

Umpire Report
Excellent umpiring from Vishal and Murali of PCC. They were consistent and handled the game very well. A special thanks to them for keeping track of the overs and runs during the game.