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GCC-ODI, Game # 10, 2001
Edmonton and District Cricket League - Premier Division
Greenfield v Millwoods Cricket Club
Victoria Park, Edmonton
Saturday, July 14, 2001 (45-over match)

Result : Millwoods won by 5 wickets.

Toss : Greenfield
Umpire : Malcom Cohen
Greenfield MoM : Steve Turner
Scorer: Chitra Marikar

Greenfield Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
V Subramanian c K Mahmood b S Ahmed 23 1 0
A Prasad run out (Murtaza) 1 0 0
+R Nair lbw b G Murtaza 3 0 0
*A Rauf c +K Alam b G Murtaza 1 0 0
P Arumugam c +K Alam b S Malik 2 0 0
H Cespedes c K Mahmood b S Malik 25 1 1
S Barran c G Murtaza b S Ahmed 1 0 0
R Maikala b P Sandhu 6 1 0
S Turner not out 42 5 0
Z Marikar c S Ahmed b V Muttoo 32 3 0
J Rae not out 4 0 0
EXTRAS : b 0, lb 4, w 20, nb 4 28
TOTAL : (for 9 wickets, in 45 overs) 168 RR: 3.73
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Ghulam Murtaza 9 1 29 2 2 0
Vijay Muttoo 9 0 26 1 1 0
Shahid Malik 8 0 35 2 3 0
Saeed Ahmed 8 1 17 2 3 0
Parminder Sandhu 5 0 26 1 4 0
Khalid Mahmood 6 0 31 0 7 0

 

Millwoods Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
+K Alam b S Barran 0 0 0
S Malik c R Maikala b A Prasad 24 2 0
R Ahmed lbw b J Rae 4 0 0
J Sidhu hit wicket b R Maikala 7 0 0
S Ahmed c S Barran b *A Rauf 70 5 2
*J Sidhu not out 35 1 0
K Mahmood not out 15 2 0
EXTRAS : b 1, lb 3, w 9, nb 3 16
TOTAL : (for 5 wickets, in 39 overs) 171 RR: 4.38
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Sunil Barran 9 0 36 1 5 0
Jonathan Rae 7 0 22 1 1 3
Ram Maikala 5 0 23 1 1 0
Prashan Arumugam 7 0 37 0 1 0
Arvind Prasad 6 0 33 1 0 0
*Arees Rauf 5 0 16 1 1 0
             
Match Report by Jonathan Rae:

The day was clear and sunny and looked full of cricket. Greenfield were looking to avenge their close defeat by Milwoods from the last game. At least the umpire was of a better standard this week than last.

Skipper Arees won the toss, and, as the weather was hot and sunny, elected to bat first. The added advantage in this was that Steve was still moving house, and was not available to field until he turned up. The openers Venkat and Arvind started in confident form, surviving and prospering from the Milwoods opening bowlers. Unfortunately, a mix-up between them resulted in a “yes-no-maybe” call from Venkat, and Arvind was unfortunate to find himself trudging back to the pavilion having been run out. Rajeev came into bat, and again looked solid, until Murtaza tried the slower delivery, and, despite him being a clear 2 yards down the pitch, Rajeev was adjudged leg before. This brought captain Arees to the wicket, hoping that his touch and runs would improve in this innings. A loose shot to the wrong ball, a top edge, and Arees was caught at gully by the wicketkeeper trying to pull Murtaza to the boundary. Despite losing three early wickets Greenfield looked comfortable out there, but worse was to come. Prashan was caught behind for 2, off the seemingly innocuous bowling of Malik, and Howard, looking good coming up the order, turned his knee diving for a second run and retired hurt. Venkat was soon out after holding the top order together for 23 not getting on top of a square cut, and Sunil continued his "6 or out" policy and holed out to mid on. Fortunately at this point, Steve showed up, and, after a frantic time getting his pads on before he was given out, then he came to the crease. Accompanied by Ram, he set about salvaging a decent total from the 60-7 point. They did it successfully until just after the drinks break, when, after blocking the first 5 balls of an over, Ram lost it completely, swung across the line and was clean bowled.

However, all was not lost, as Zaufer and Steve set about posting a decent score. Batting sensibly and capitalizing on anything loose, they started accumulating runs well, and frustrating the Milwoods' fielders by not giving their wickets away. Seventy-odd runs later, and Greenfield were well on their way to getting a good total. Zaufer was out for an excellent 32 just before the end. Steve and Jonny batted the last couple overs with a series of frantic scrambled running to close the innings on 168-9, a great score considering the start that Greenfield had. Steve top scored with 42*. Despite this being a low total, Greenfield always felt that they had a chance to defend this, as Milwoods were always prone to a batting collapse and losing many wickets for very few runs.

Skipper Arees set an extremely attacking field – 3 slips and himself at silly mid off, and within a ball, had the batsman Kasif, complaining to the umpire about the fielders moving. Sunil Barran express was too much to handle for the batsman, as he immediately saw his stumps out of the ground next ball with a beauty. When Jonny trapped Ahmed lbw soon after and Greenfield were on a roll and Millwoods were rocking. Despite having another even closer leg before shout turned down, it was Ram, with a bizarre ball that got the next wicket, a hit wicket as the batsman was hit in the mouth with a full toss and fell onto the stumps. Unfortunately after that, batsmen took control over and Greenfield looked tired in the field. Still the captain tried to rally his troops before and after the drinks break, but in the end it was not enough. Millwoods coasted home in 39 overs.

Man of the Match, undoubtedly Steve Turner for his heroic, if late, 42*, though Zaufer was a close second coming in at #9 with a great 32. Both did brilliantly in giving GCC a total to defend

Thoughts and comments: After a horrendous batting collapse, Steve and Zaufer rescued the game in heroic style. Their stand, sensible and at times explosive, allowed the bowlers to defend a decent target and for Arees to set attacking fields that the situation demanded. Arees stayed positive in his captaincy and changed the bowling intelligently. Again, the top order collapsed, admittedly in the face of some tight bowling.