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GCC-ODI, Game # 15, 2001
Edmonton and District Cricket League
Howe Cup Knock-Out Tournament - Quarter Finals
Liberty v Greenfield Cricket Club
Victoria Park, Edmonton
Saturday, September 22, 2001 (45-over match)

Result : Greenfield won by 156 runs.

Toss : Greenfield
Umpires : Robert Bowen & Osborne Providence
Greenfield MoM : Sunil Barran
Scorer: Nuhad Hussain

Greenfield Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
V Subramanian c Ansar b Vishal 66 1 0
A Prasad c sub b Vishal 47 3 0
+R Nair lbw b *M Deonie 6 1 0
*A Rauf b Vishal 14 0 0
S Turner st +D Vishnu b K Persaud 35 3 0
P Arumugam not out 48 2 0
S Barran not out 52 4 1
EXTRAS : b 8, lb 2, w 8, nb 0 18
TOTAL : (for 5 wickets, in 45 overs) 286 RR: 6.35
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Junior Rohoman 9 0 47 0 3 0
*Munesh Deonie 9 0 49 1 3 0
Riaz Khan 5 0 45 0 0 0
Vishal 9 0 52 3 2 0
Colin Naicken 7 0 40 0 0 0
Ken Persaud 6 0 43 1 0 0

 

Liberty Innings

How Out

Bowler

 Runs 4's 6's
R Khan b J Rae 2 0 0
D Vishnu c +R Nair b J Rae 6 0 0
Vishal run out (Jonny, +Rajeev) 0 0 0
C Naicken c J Rae b *A Rauf 22 1 0
J Rohoman c V Subramanian b S Barran 26 2 1
Ansar c V Subramanian b S Barran 3 0 0
K Persaud lbw b A Prasad 12 1 0
Nyron c +R Nair b *A Rauf 1 0 0
*M Deonie not out 33 2 2
EXTRAS : b 4, lb 2, w 16, nb 3 25
TOTAL : (all out, in 33 overs) 130 RR: 3.82
 
Bowler O M R W wd nb
Ram Maikala 7 0 19 0 10 2
Jonathan Rae 9 0 23 2 2 1
Sunil Barran 6 1 24 2 1 0
*Arees Rauf 3 0 12 2 0 0
Haseeb Razak 3 0 20 0 1 0
Trevor Hart 3 0 20 0 2 0
Venkat Subramanian 1 0 6 0 0 0
Arvind Prasad 1 1 0 1 0 0
             
Match Report by Jonathan Rae:

The day started off with a lot of gloom and mist, but turned into a splendid day for cricket. Greenfield met early for breakfast and to discuss the battle plans to get safely through to the Howe Cup semi-finals, while there was still a lot of morning dew on the field. Liberty weren’t quite so prepared, and apparently didn’t realize they were the home team, until Greenfield kindly informed them. They also had the temerity to turn up with less than 11 players. In fact, at the time of the toss, they had less than the required seven, and so gifted the toss to Greenfield. After numerous conversations, GCC decided to bat, with the combination of the morning dew hoped to nullify any swing, and the fact that Liberty did not have the full complement of fielders being the overriding factors. Still Greenfield took the game seriously, and set about trying to make a good score to defend. Little did they know how good a score that was to be! The day started with the news that Hemant wasn’t able to play, but on the plus side this gave Trevor, Greenfield’s newest recruit and Canadian, the chance to make his full debut in the green and gold.

Greenfield got off to a flier, with Venkat and Arvind in sparkling form. Helped by the lack of fielding players, but slowed by the wetness of the ground, they piled on some early runs, with plenty of good shots, and a lot of running. After 10 overs Greenfield were a shocking 70 without loss, and the onslaught didn’t end there. As the bowlers were tired and the runs accumulated, Liberty gained a few fielders but lost a lot of confidence. The first century stand of the season by the Greenfield openers was greeted with loud cheers, and a lot of heads bowed from the Liberty players. Their persistence was rewarded on 105, when a very tired Arvind holed out at mid off just three runs short of his half-century. It was a fine display of wristy shots, and seldom seen power and aggression from the quiet man, and he got a standing ovation when he trudged off the field. The fine opening stand was not capitalized on, as first Rajeev was trapped leg before, then Arees was bowled, and then the impressive Venkat threw his wicket away when surely a century was there for the taking. An equally excellent 66 from the opener, with only one boundary in it showed how slow the outfield was, and how well Venkat and Arvind in particular had run.

This brought the interesting combination of Steve and Prashan to the wicket together, and, after some interesting quick singles, Liberty worked out that Steve’s favorite shot was the cut. Having worked this out though, the Liberty bowlers insisted on bowling to his strengths, and soon had cut himself to an impressive innings score of 35. Prashan was steady and composed at the other end, accumulating his runs steadily, until Steve was out, stumped, and the dynamic Sunil came to the crease. Immediately the tempo was raised, and Prashan found himself struggling to keep up with the aggressive running of Sunil. Having said that he’d also to thank Sunil for getting him close to his half century through his aggressive running. The game closed with some lusty blows from the bat of Barran, who reached his fifty and more quick running, and a tired Sunil and exhausted Prashan closed the Greenfield innings, both not out, at 286-5, by far the highest Greenfield total of the season.

After the tea break, Greenfield were confident but not over confident. Liberty had a bunch of hard-hitting middle order batsman and nothing was to be taken for granted in the Howe Cup. Ram was hostile and unlucky, gave away a lot of extras, and STILL bowled 7 overs for just 19 runs (only seven runs from the bat!)! Riaz left an outswinger alone from Jonny and was bowled embarrassingly round his legs, reminding the bowler of his own dismissal in St Albert earlier on in the season :-) and a spectacular diving catch behind by Rajeev to catch Darren Vishnu fishing outside off stump. When the third wicket fell for a few runs, when Vishal didn’t ground his bat and was run out, then the match was firmly within Greenfield’s grasp. Some intelligent bowling changes brought about more wickets, and with Venkat bagging two catches off the bowling of Sunil, one a very nonchalant catch at second slip, cool as ice, then it was left to Arees to get in on the fun, and take a couple himself. With a reduced batting line up Liberty were struggling at about 80-6, and it was time to have some fun. First Haseeb and then the debutant Trevor got a turn to bowl, and bowl well they did, with no luck. Trevor especially bowled well, and was played with the utmost respect (apart from two balls) by the batsman, because of the flight he put on the ball. After an over from Venkat, Arvind wrapped up the innings bowling a wicket maiden for Greenfield to celebrate winning and getting to the semi-finals of the Howe Cup once again. Congratulations all!

Man of the Match : Sunil Barran, as always an aggressive innings, with several defensive strokes I might add, at the time when a collapse could’ve been on the cards. Also, his role in helping Prashan towards his half century, and for a fiery and hostile 2-24.

Thoughts and comments: You'd better turn up with 11 players when you play in a knock-out tournament. An excellent warm up for the forthcoming crunch semi-final tie against the winners of Milwoods 'A' vs Edmonton.