Scorecard - TACC vs TWCC  
 

TACC vs TWCC
Temple CG
06/21/2009 (35-over match)

Headline: TWCC defeated TACC by 5 wkts
Result: Won
Toss: TWCC
Won By: TWCC
Umpires: ICON, UICC and UICC
Home Team: TACC
Away Team: TWCC

TACC innings (35 overs maximum) R B 4 6
Praveen Sankaran b Nisaraj Dharmarajan 46 68 2 1
Nitant Desai stump +*Anthony Sahadeo b Rajesh Paranjape 16 31 0 0
Vikram Virk b Nitin Patel 2 7 0 0
Vishwas Singh Sodhi lbw b Rajesh Paranjape 15 24 0 0
Vikrant Desai caught +*Anthony Sahadeo b Nisaraj Dharmarajan 5 18 0 0
Harsh Patel caught Kenneth Williams b Nisaraj Dharmarajan 17 16 0 0
Jatin Patel caught Nitin Patel b Kenneth Williams 1 4 0 0
Sumanth Reddy b Nisaraj Dharmarajan 7 7 0 0
Ram Prasad caught Nisaraj Dharmarajan b Kenneth Williams 0 2 0 0
Varun Uppadhyya not out 0 0 0 0
Galib Yousef b Kenneth Williams 1 5 0 0
Extras (lb 2, w 4, nb 2, b 2) 10      
Total (10 wickets, 32.1 overs) 120      
         
DNB:        

Bowling O M R W
Nitin Patel 7 1 14 1
Mahesh Phanibhushan 5 0 19 0
Pulkit Gulati 1 0 7 0
Rajesh Paranjape 7 2 12 2
Uday Narayan 3 0 17 0
Nisaraj Dharmarajan 5 0 26 4
Kenneth Williams 4.1 0 21 3

TWCC innings (target: 121 runs from 35 overs) R B 4 6
Arjun Virupakshi b Sumanth Reddy 19 23 2 1
Rajesh Paranjape lbw b Jatin Patel 0 7 0 0
+*Anthony Sahadeo caught Nitant Desai b Varun Uppadhyya 37 32 1 4
Kenneth Williams run out Harsh Patel 5 13 0 0
Pulkit Gulati caught Supem Fernando b Harsh Patel 24 32 2 1
Gavin Persaud not out 23 24 3 0
Ankur Uppadhyya not out 0 0 0 0
Extras (lb 1, w 14, nb 0, b 1) 16      
Total (5 wickets, 22.1 overs) 124      
         
DNB: Nisaraj Dharmarajan, Uday Narayan, Mahesh Phanibhushan, Nitin Patel        

Bowling O M R W
Jatin Patel 6 0 52 1
Ram Prasad 2 0 6 0
Harsh Patel 6 0 13 1
Sumanth Reddy 2 0 14 1
Varun Uppadhyya 3 0 18 1
Vishwas Singh Sodhi 3 0 15 0
Vikram Virk 0.1 0 4 0

 
Match Report
TWCC registered their second win of the season in a comfortable manner to beat TACC by five wickets. TWCC's skipper Anthony won the toss and invited the opposition to bat in bowler-friendly conditions. The outfield was outrageously thick, hitting a boundary on the ground was almost impossible. Nitin and Mahesh opened the bowling for TWCC and bowled as tight as any opening bowling pair in world cricket, at the eight over mark, TACC only managed 16 runs with just the 2 fielders outside the circle. After Pulkit's lone over, Rajesh came on the attack and continued the good work that the opening bowlers did at the start of the innings, then Nitant, who was out of character, with a lot of patience finally succumbed to the pressure chipped to Rajesh and was brilliantly stumped by Anthony. Before he turned around, Anthony had the bails off and started celebrating. Vikram came to the creased and didn't last too long as Nitin clean bowled him and picked his first wicket of the 2009 season.

Praveen was looking to anchor the innings before he was forced to retire hurt. TACC's batsmen started to get comfortable at the crease and at one stage, were 80 for 3. TWCC was not looking to let that disciplined bowling by the openers go to waste. Man on the Match Nisaraj came in to bowl, and along with Kenneth Williams, tore apart TACC's middle order and tail. Nisaraj got the vital wicket of Praveen, who came back out to bat with a runner, and at one stage was on a hat-trick. Kenneth finished the innings off by shattering Galib's stumps to leave TWCC's deep batting lineup a modest target of 120.

TWCC's batsmen came out with the plan of knocking the runs off as soon as possible but had a few tough decisions against them, Rajesh was adjudged LBW to a ball that looked like it was heading over the stumps, and Anthony, who looked in devastating form after hitting 4 clean sixes and a glorious cover drive through the thick outfield, was given out caught behind to a bouncer that apparently looked like it missed everything on it's way down the leg side for a wide.

Kenneth Williams was brilliantly run out by the exciting young cricketer Harsh Patel. TACC thought they had a chance after TWCC slipped to 70 for the loss of 4 wickets, but Pulkit Gulati, and the stylish left hander, Gavin Persaud, played with ease and sensibility to make the score level. After all the hard work, Pulkit chipped one of Harsh's leg spinner to square leg to Supem the substitute fielder who tokk a comfortable catch. The next over, Gavin, who apparently has a liking to TACC's bowling attack, averaging over 50 against them, hammered the medium-pacer Vikram to the square leg boundary to seal the deal for TWCC.

Man of the Match: Nisaraj

Umpire Report
Apart from a few errors, the umpiring was good, nobody's perfect. Thanks to UICC for providing the umpires.