Results of GRCC vs BCC game

Toss: BCC

Result: GRCC won by 7 wkts

BCC detailed score sheet
Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
Vishal	C Vicky	Sircar	1
venkat	C Vicky II	Khanna	33
Bhavesh	C Hari	Vicky	18
Vijay	C Vicky	Khanna	11
Girish	LBW	Khanna	3
Raju	C Vicky	Khanna	8
Kiran	LBW		2
Dan	C Bala	Khanna	16
Rahul	C Sastry	Khanna	0
Anand	C Sastry	Hari	0
Sandeep	NO		0
		Byes	3
		Leg Byes	2
		Wides	13
		No Balls	2
For 10 wickets	in 25.2 overs	Total Runs	112

GRCC detailed score sheet
Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
Sravan	LBW	Raju	7
Ramesh N	C Venkat	Raju	27
Vicky II	C	Dan	25
Hari	no		18
Sastry	no		6
		Byes	4
		Leg Byes	2
		Wides	20
		No Balls	3
For 3 wickets	in 26.1 overs	Total Runs	113

Report:

Khanna's hatrick puts BCC in a spin. GRCC wins by 7 wickets

The game started off a little late than usual. But it was really worth the wait to ensure that the neutral umpires from NCSU made it here. We must appreciate their effort and the competent umpiring display that ensured an incident free game. BCC won the toss and elected to bat on what was a wonderful day to play cricket. GRCC opened their bowling attack with Sircar and Bala. With no hint of any swing, sircar just stuck to a good line and length, not
allowing free rein to the batsmen. Bala on the other hand took some time finding his line and the BCC openers were going at a good clip. The first BCC wicket fell early when Vishal, trying to glance sircar found a diving vicky (I) at short square leg pulling off the first of his three brilliant catches. That turned out to be the only success for the GRCC bowlers (Sircar, Menon and Bala) for a while as Bhavesh and Venkat dropped anchor and played some sensible cricket.

The introduction of Vicky(1 again) into the attack got GRCC the much required wicket of Bhavesh when he failed to clear the boundaray at mid wicket; Hari holding on to a very good catch. BCC still were cruising along at over 5 an over with wickets in hand, and Venkat and Vijay looking to post a winning total. Rajeev Khanna however had other plans. His slow bowling with subtle variations in length completely bemused the BCC batsmen who,
instead of consolidating, went after him. The result: 6 wickets in 5.2 overs with a hatrick for khanna, that included the wickets of Vijay (caught by Vicky I at long on), Venkat, off the very next ball (caught by Vicky II, at midwicket: an excellent balancing act on the ropes) and in the very first ball of his next over, Girish (lbw after playing all over a shorter one). BCC never recovered from this triple blow as all the lower order batsmen, save Dan briefly, followed their top order mates and rounded up for 112 with Ramesh, Hari, Khanna sharing the spoils. At the end of the first session, GRCC were left with 112 to get at a little less than 4 an over, not a very tough ask; not an easy one either given the bowling depth of BCC.

GRCC, realizing that BCC would come all out in defending the modest target, began cautiously with Ramesh and Sravan just looking to see off Vishal and Dan, who were generating decent pace off the wicket. After an
intial flurry of wides, the runs became hard to come by for GRCC. Sravan, who was middling the ball well was unlucky to miss out on a delivery bowled at his pads and was declared lbw. Vicky II joined Ramesh and the two got the score to 56 around the half way mark. BCC were still bowling well and GRCC continued to be content in playing the waiting game. Ramesh and Vicky II kept the runs coming at a decent rate until Ramesh, trying to force the issue, holed out to extra cover; Venkat taking a good running catch.

Vicky II, also in a rare rush of blood holed out to square leg trying to force the pace. However, Hari played some attacking strokes from the other end to hasten the end of the game with Sastry scoring the winning runs off the first ball of the 27th over to give GRCC a well deserved victory by 7 wickets.

A very special thank you to Anirudh,Vishwas, Rupali ... from NCSU for driving all the way from Raleigh to umpire this game. Their conduct was highly professional and it is a credit to their skills that the game went off without a hitch.

Man of the Match: Rajeev Khanna (6 wickets for 26 runs with a hatrick)