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GCC-ODI, Game # 14, 2001
Edmonton and District Cricket League
Howe Cup Knock-Out Tournament - Preliminary Rounds
Greenfield v Junior Colts Cricket Club
Millwoods, Edmonton
Sunday, September 16, 2001 (45-over match)

Result : Greenfield won by 8 wickets.

Toss : Junior Colts
Umpire : Hameed Quereshy
Greenfield MoM : Arees Rauf

Junior Colts Innings	How Out	Bowler	Runs	4's	6's
Z Ali		b R Maikala	1	0	0
+F Jamali	c R Maikala	b S Barran	1	0	0
A Ali		b *A Rauf	43	4	0
H Patel	run out (Venkat, *Arees)		44	1	0
*S Choudhary		b *A Rauf	9	1	0
F Ahmed	lbw	b *A Rauf	2	0	0
S Samaratunga	not out		14	1	0
W Mirza	run out (Arvind, *Arees)		0	0	0
EXTRAS : b 7, lb 3, w 19, nb 1			30
TOTAL : (for 7 wickets, in 45 overs)			144	RR: 3.20

Bowler	O	M	R	W	wd	nb
Ram Maikala	6	1	9	1	1	0
Sunil Barran	8	0	27	1	4	0
Jonathan Rae	8	0	31	0	2	1
Prashan Arumugam	6	0	15	0	4	0
Arvind Prasad	9	1	24	0	8	0
*Arees Rauf	8	1	28	3	1	0

Greenfield Innings	How Out	Bowler	Runs	4's	6's
V Subramanian	c *S Choudhary	b A Ali	30	3	0
A Prasad	run out		14	1	0
+R Nair	not out		17	0	0
*A Rauf	not out		65	6	2
EXTRAS : b 8, lb 0, w 11, nb 0			19
TOTAL : (for 2 wickets, in 27 overs)			145	RR: 5.37

Bowler	O	M	R	W	wd	nb
*Salman Choudhary	6	0	34	0	3	0
Ahzum Ali	8	0	32	1	4	0
Waqaz Mirza	3	0	19	0	1	0
Faraz Ahmed	7	0	30	0	1	0
Zulfiqar Ali	3	0	22	0	2	0

Match Report by Jonathan Rae: Greenfield started the day with a minute of silence and prayers, acknowledging the recent tragedy in USA. Our deepest condolences to the family members of innocent lives. Having this in mind, Greenfield were trying to be in good spirits for the start of the Howe Cup, but wary of the threat posed by the dangerous, but unpredictable Junior team. Wary of overconfidence, and warned of the fact that the Juniors had beaten Greenfield many times, the air in the GCC camp was one of business. The toss was, unfortunately lost by GCC, and, bearing in mind the juniors only had 7 players at that time, it was not a hard decision for Juniors Skipper Salman to ask Greenfield to field. It was a sunny, but breezy day, and the wind was blowing down the hill of the Millwoods pitch to aid the pace of Ram. Sunil was asked to open at the other end, and it was hoped that both would exploit the weaknesses of the Junior team to sheer pace. A field with two slips in place greeted the opening batsman, and the Greenfield players were not to be disappointed by the start their opening bowlers. Coming down the church end, with the wind behind him, Ram put his all into his bowling and, after missing the outside edge, then got his reward, shattering Zulfigar's defenses and wicket for a single, and Greenfield were off to a good start. The very next over, Sunil, bowling equally as well bowling into the wind, got his reward, when an ordinary long hop was slashed to gully by Feroz, whereupon Ram, rivaling himself for catch of the season, jumped up, knocked the ball vertically, fell down, and caught the ball whilst still scrambling on the ground. The Juniors were 7 for 2 wickets. However, for the next 20 overs the Juniors fight back continued. Despite repeatedly playing and missing, especially from Harish, but he accumulated enough runs to frustrate the bowlers. On the other end, Ahzum played three identical shots over the top of Arvind's bowling towards the mid off. With the frustration of the swing bowlers, the time for spin had arrived, and the medium pace spinning of Arees first undid Ahzum and then the dangerous Salman, who came out just to hit. Faraz soon followed, Arees having to trap him lbw twice to dismiss him. When Harish was run out soon after, the Junior's innings drew to a close, at 144-7. Our keeper Rajeev was made to work by almost all of the bowlers and was excellent behind the stumps. After wrapping up the innings early, and after tea, the Greenfield openers Venkat and Arvind set about getting the score. At some points during the innings they looked as if they were trying to finish it inside 20 overs! Despite repeated discussions on the sidelines, Venkat and Arvind did their best to get each other run out, but, for the moment, were unsuccessful. The decision from Salman to bowl into the wind, certainly helped the Greenfield's cause, and Venkat in particular looked calm and collected dispatching the opening bowlers to the boundary. Arvind also looked solid and stylish opening the face on numerous occasions to nudge the ball wide of the despairing fielders. At 43-1 Greenfield looked comfortable. Even when Venkat gave his wicket away with a skied catch for his average-saving score of 30, GCC were looking good. The run out that was threatening to happen involved both Rajeev and Arvind running for two after a miss-field. The cardinal rule of Cricket "never run on a miss-field" proving right again, as Arvind was well short of his ground when the stumps were broken. This brought Arees to the crease, with a flourish of attacking shots off the bowling that was becoming more and more demoralized as time wore on. Rajeev played the supporting role well, rotating the strike and frustrating the bowlers more. The game was won, as Greenfield cantered to the total off 27 overs, with Arees top scoring with an impressive 65 not out. Yet again Steve "pad up" Turner being the good luck charm, spent most of the innings with his pads on. Man of the Match : Arees Rauf, The Howe Cup comes and Arees cashes in.