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GCC-ODI, Game # 7, 2000
Edmonton and District Cricket League - First Division
Greenfield v Gujarat Cricket Club
Millwoods, Edmonton
Saturday, July 08, 2000 (45-over match)

Result : Greenfield won by 5 wickets.

Toss : Gujarat
Umpire : Gordon La Guerre
Greenfield MoM : Prashan Arumugam
Scorer: Chitra Marikar

Gujarat Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
+A Anand c M De-Zoysa b *A Rauf 31 5 0
Vinod V Patel   b S Barran 1 0 0
*P Patel c J Winning b S Barran 0 0 0
Harish Patel c *+A Rauf b P Arumugam 9 0 0
Divyakant Patel c *+A Rauf b P Arumugam 0 0 0
T Shaha c R Nair b P Arumugam 7 0 0
Vinod G Patel run out   11 0 0
Hitendra Patel   b *A Rauf 2 0 0
Arun Patel   b P Arumugam 0 0 0
Divyang Patel not out   4 0 0
Anil Patel dnb   0 0 0
EXTRAS : b 2, lb 0, w 14, nb 0 16
TOTAL : (all out, in 22.4 overs) 81 RR: 3.52
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Ram Maikala 4 0 12 0 5 0
Sunil Barran 2 0 17 2 3 0
Johann Jeppe 3 0 19 0 5 0
Prashan Arumugam 7 2 16 4 1 0
*Arees Rauf 5 1 6 2 0 0
John Winning 1 0 7 0 0 0
Geoff Fraser 0.4 0 3 0 0 0


Greenfield Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
P Arumugam c Harish Patel b Vinod V Patel 5 0 0
G Fraser c +A Anand b T Shaha 11 1 0
J Winning   b Vinod V Patel 7 0 0
S Barran   b T Shaha 16 1 0
M De-Zoysa   b Divyakant Patel 3 0 0
J Jeppe not out   17 2 1
V Muttoo not out   9 1 0
EXTRAS : b 3, lb 4, w 10, nb 0 17
TOTAL : (for 5 wickets, in 19 overs) 85 RR: 4.47
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Tejas Shaha 9 0 23 2 6 0
Amit Anand 1 0 8 0 0 0
Vinod V Patel 6 0 20 2 4 0
Diviakanth Patel 2 0 17 1 0 0
*Paresh Patel 1 0 10 0 0 0
             
Match Report by Geoff Fraser:

Last Saturday brought a resounding win for Greenfield by five wickets, accomplished in 19 overs, with the game being over before the scheduled tea break. Johann did us all a favour by losing the toss and despite our recent record of success batting second, Gujarat took the option of batting first on a warm, sunny day at Millwoods. That was the cue for a rampant Sunil "psycho-boy" Barran to make a triumphant return to the Greenfield team, opening the bowling and finding himself on a hat-trick in his first over. The hat trick was not to be, but Gujarat never recovered from the loss of these early wickets. Runs were hard to come by with the grass being unusually long and thick, and our esteemed captain kept the batting side on the hop with numerous bowling changes. Only Prashan bowled a long spell, and was rewarded for his immaculate control with four well-deserved wickets. Arees himself was the other most successful bowler, finishing with the impressive figures of 5 overs, 2 for 6. One of his wickets was reminiscent of Shane Warne at his peak, with the batsman confidently leaving a ball pitching far outside off-stump, only to watch in horror, as it turned almost square and cannoned into his stumps. Our Sri Lankan "Warnie" danced jubilantly as the poor batsman trudged off in disbelief. The bowling of Prashan and Arees clearly took the game away from Gujarat, and it was only a matter of how few we would be chasing, the figure eventually settling at 82.

Given our recent success at chasing moderate totals, we had every reason to approach batting with confidence. Arees toyed with the idea of changing the opening partnership, but sensibly opted to let the established pair face the new ball, realizing that we could not afford an early collapse. This was not to be the day for our openers, however, and after a bright start Geoff succumbed to the moving ball, getting a faint nick through to the keeper. This brought John to the wicket in his debut innings for Greenfield, and he looked comfortable before an injudicious stroke sent him back to the pavilion, and left Greenfield at 2 for about 30. On this occasion Arees was prepared to experiment with the batting lineup, and sent out "psycho-boy", who threatened to appear with only one batting pad before a semblance of sanity was imposed. In any case, Sunil airily distained to wear gloves, or to treat any of the bowlers with respect, and proceeded to try to belt most deliveries out of the park. If this had been a baseball game he would have been struck out, but the aggressive approach kept Gujarat on the back foot, and also yielded a respectable 16 runs before the castle was toppled. Maurice was given the opportunity for some batting practice, but generously passed on some of his practice time to Johann by being bowled. Prashan, who had quietly held up an end through all of this, then managed to steer a cut shot straight to gully, and suddenly at 5 for about 60 we were making heavy work of the run-chase. However, any delusions of a fight-back that may have begun forming in Gujarat minds were ruthlessly quashed by several sweet hits from our South African connection, as Johann, encouraged by Merentia's description of him as a 'nut-case', took the long handle to a series of innocuous full-tosses. The final blow was struck by Muttoo who'd been itching for a hit for the last few weeks, and the game was comfortably wrapped up by mid-afternoon.

While as a contest the game was something of an anti-climax, a win is a win, and Greenfield can be satisfied with another relentless bowling and fielding display, which shut the opposition out of the game. The batting was perhaps slightly disappointing, but it must be remembered that the batting order was reshuffled to give some time in the centre to middle and lower order players, and that the win was achieved with all four Zaufer, Ram, Rajeev and Arees in reserve. Well done to everyone, but let's get our heads down for next week and ensure that no element of over confidence creeps into our play!