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GCC-ODI, Game # 1, 2001
Edmonton and District Cricket League - Premier Division
Millwoods v Greenfield Cricket Club
Victoria Park, Edmonton
Saturday, April 28, 2001 (45-over match)

Result : Greenfield won by 2 wickets.

Toss : Greenfield
Umpire : Justin Charles
Greenfield MoM : Sunil Barran
Scorer: Mahasri Weerasooriya

Millwoods Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
E Khan b S Choudhary 11 1 1
V Rhoda b J Rae 19 2 0
Jag. Sidhu c *A Rauf b S Choudhary 9 2 0
R Ahmed c *A Rauf b S Choudhary 1 0 0
S Ahmed c +E Hanoman b J Rae 1 0 0
*J Sidhu c S Choudhary b P Arumugam 60 6 1
V Muttoo c S Barran b A Prasad 18 2 0
G Murtaza c A Prasad b P Arumugam 8 1 0
K Mahmood b P Arumugam 19 2 0
+K Alam c P Arumugam b A Prasad 11 1 0
P Sandhu not out 0 0 0
EXTRAS : b 7, lb 1, w 16, nb 0 24  
TOTAL : (all out, in 40.1 overs) 181  
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Sunil Barran 6 0 35 0 0 0
Salman Choudhary 5 0 19 3 3 0
Jonathan Rae 8 1 30 2 4 0
*Arees Rauf 7 1 33 0 3 0
Arvind Prasad 6 1 25 2 0 0
Prashan Arumugam 8.1 1 31 3 6 0


Greenfield Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
P Arumugam run out 16 2 0
V Subramanian c I Khan b P Sandhu 32 0 0
J Jeppe c +K Alam b V Muttoo 6 1 0
*A Rauf c & b P Sandhu 1 0 0
S Choudhary b P Sandhu 4 1 0
S Barran b K Mahmood 91 9 3
A Prasad c +K Alam b G Murtaza 2 0 0
+E Hanoman c *J Sidhu b S Ahmed 4 0 0
J Rae not out 10 0 0
Z Marikar not out 1 0 0
EXTRAS :b 2, lb 2, w 11, nb 0 19  
TOTAL :(for 8 wickets, in 42.4 overs) 182  
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Salman Choudhary 4 0 16 0 5 0
Amir Sheikh 7 0 24 1 3 0
Adnan Latif 8 0 31 1 6 0
Jawad Choudhary 8 0 35 1 1 0
Shahid Bashir 6 1 18 4 1 0
Prasad Chamarty 5 0 24 0 0 0
Richard Dalquen 2 0 5 1 2 0
             
Match Report by Jonathan Rae:

What a game, what a day! The season started with a game against one of the stronger sides in the ‘A’ division, Millwoods, made even stronger with the start of the season capture of Muttoo from Greenfield a few weeks earlier. The day was sunny and bright, with little wind, but the temperature was low enough for Greenfield to elect to field when captain Arees won the toss. Given the strength of the Millwoods batting line up it was decided that Greenfield would be happier chasing.

Salman and Sunil opened the bowling for Greenfield and set the pace for the early overs. The ball was doing wonders in the air and off the pitch, and these two exploited it perfectly. Sunil was unlucky to end up wicketless and Salman did a great job with 3-19 off his 5 overs before pulling a muscle. Millwoods were soon in trouble, and, backed up by the support bowling of Arees, Jonny, and Arvind, they struggled to the drinks break at 82-6. Greenfield was buoyant and in great spirits for the second half of the session. However, as is the usual case, Greenfield came back out on the pitch slightly flat, and after the drinks break the Millwoods tail end started to connect, and a very intelligent 60* by the Millwoods captain J Sidhu saw Millwoods post a challenging total of 181 all out. Prashan and Arvind cleaned up the innings.

Despite letting Milwoods off the hook, Greenfield was pleased at the size of the target. After Tea, the openers Prashan and Venkat started the run chase. Against Muttoo and Murataza, the going was tough, but having survived the first ten without loss was a bonus. Unfortunately, shortly before the break Greenfield lost a couple of quick wickets, with some indecision on the run out of Prashan, and a mysterious noise close to Johann’s bat. Resuming after the break at 58-2 Millwoods looked complacent, almost arrogant, thinking that they’d wrapped this game up already. How wrong they were! As the wickets of Arees and Salman fell, the steady Venkat at 32, it brought Sunil to the crease. No one expected the kind of transformation that it brought about. With a dazzling array of shots to all sorts of bizarre locations around the ground, Sunil set about winning the game for Greenfield. As Millwoods realized that the game was not over, they started to panic, and Sunil took full advantage. Three sixes and nine fours later, and more panic from Millwoods, and Greenfield were within sight of victory. With 40 runs needed Eric was out and Jonny came in to play the supporting role in the closing stages. Jonny battered intelligently and patiently. He needed a runner due to an injury that happened during the game. Johann came in to fill the position as the runner for Jonny and run he did. Several overs later the scores were tied. Sunil at 91 tried to hit the ball out of the park for the winning runs but unfortunately was clean bowled. Millwoods celebrated, but it was short lived. Victory was achieved courtesy of Zaufer in the very next ball and thus Greenfield won the season opener!!

Sunil’s inning was an example to others. He proved that with determination and commitment, you can achieve whatever your heart desires. He has tremendous power and the ability to run between wickets. His flamboyant style of batting is his trademark and it is too bad he missed his century in this opening game. However he entertained his fans and teammates with some brilliant and thinking cricket and save the day for Greenfield.

On a personal note it was a sweet victory for Greenfield after losing their ace bowler Vijay Muttoo to Millwoods. However we would like to wish the very best to Vijay and thank him for the great contribution he has made to Greenfield in the past.

Man of the Match Sunil Barran was there anyone else Playing? Unbelievable power from a man who doesn’t even wear gloves!! Plenty of inspired blows with awesome power and determination brought victory from the jaws of defeat with plenty of smiles.

Thoughts and comments: Vastly improved fielding, great commitment to the cause, and everyone chipped in at the vital times. Some top catches by Arees, Prashan, Sunil and Eric and just a great team performance. We can still improve our fielding and running between wickets. Keep it up for next week!