Greenfield Cricket Club
 

GCC-ODI, Game # 3, 2005
Edmonton and District Cricket League - Premier Division
Edmonton v Greenfield Cricket Club
Millwoods, Edmonton
Saturday, May 28, 2005 (45-over match)

Result : Greenfield won by 70 runs.

Toss : Edmonton
Greenfield MoM : Alex Degeling
Scorer: Chitra Marikar

Greenfield Innings

Batsman How Out Bowler Runs
Sunil Bandaru   b Nafiz Choudhary 51
Sunil Barran   b Zubair Aktar 5
Rajeev Nair*+ run out   9
Syed Basha c Kaizer Abdulali+ b Jawad Choudhary 6
Haseeb Razak c Kaizer Abdulali+ b Nafiz Choudhary 5
Alex Degeling not out   55
Rahul Singh   b Jawad Choudhary 0
Swaranjeet Singh   b Jawad Choudhary 0
Aruna Wickramarathna   b Tony Mishra 46
S Jawaid c Rohit Patwardhan+ b Tony Mishra 0
Mike Houston run out   0
extras   (b5 lb12 w10 nb3) 30
TOTAL   10 wickets for 207
 

Edmonton Bowling

Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts
Rohit Patwardhan 6 0 21 0
Zubair Aktar 8 0 46 1
Nafiz Choudhary 9 1 25 2
Raheel Bhojani 3 0 13 0
Jawad Choudhary 9 1 44 3
Kaizer Abdulali 6 0 20 0
Tony Mishra 2.5 1 10 2
Mohamed Farooqi 3 0 11 0


Edmonton Innings

Batsman How Out Bowler Runs
Rohit Patwardhan c Mike Houston b Rahul Singh 35
Simon Kearney* c Rajeev Nair b Alex Degeling 4
Nafiz Choudhary run out   11
Kazim Agha   b Rahul Singh 1
Kaizer Abdulali+ c Sunil Bandaru b Aruna Wickramarathna 19
Mohamed Farooqi c Rajeev Nair b Rahul Singh 2
Raheel Bhojani c Alex Degeling b Rahul Singh 1
Akhil Sharma st Rajeev Nair b Swaranjeet Singh 3
Zubair Aktar c Rajeev Nair b Aruna Wickramarathna 4
Jawad Choudhary   b Alex Degeling 37
Tony Mishra not out   3
extras   (b1 lb0 w13 nb3) 17
TOTAL   10 wickets for 137
 

Greenfield Bowling

Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts
Alex Degeling 7.2 0 35 2
Sunil Bandaru 3 0 23 0
Rahul Singh 8 1 20 4
Swaranjeet Singh 9 0 28 1
Aruna Wickramarathna 5 0 30 2
         
         
Match Report by Rahul Singh:

A MONSTER win yesterday saw Greenfield score 207 and bowl out the opposition for 137!

Yesterday's win was well-deserved and I am proud of you guys firstly for making it possible for Greenfield to field a 11 yesterday and secondly to show the commitment on the field. I am proud of you and each one of you should be proud of yourself. We were hoping to give Edmonton (ECC) a good fight and make it an interesting game but we came out winning the game. An amazing effort.

Thanks once again to Nilay for his team spirit. Jawaid and Syed gave us very good support out in the field. Swaran bowled really well and we welcome him into the team. Sunil Barran thanks for showing up for the game and contributing. Infact it raised our confidence at the start of the game.

Sunil Bandaru although labeled as a "floater" has proved once again that he can be an able opener. Congratulations on your 50 Sunil. That was a quick fire and exciting innings from you. Especially the shots over cover and that one amazing straight loft off the fast bowler. We did stutter after Sunil's wicket and we were almost down and out at 90 odd runs with 7 wickets down. But then the amazing partnership between Aruna and Alex showed not just our team but also our opponents how a good temperament can bail us out in the tightest of situations. Wow!! That was the best partnership I have seen in my 3 years of cricket at E&DCL. Aruna you made 46. For the team that was a 50*. And Alex this is your second 50 of the season, keep up the form going mate!!! Your crisp fours over square and mid wicket were glorious.

Our bowling was a bit off during the start but we fought back and that effort paid off. Alex struck first to see Simon's back and that made some inroads to expose the middle order. Syed your effort from the deep to run Nafiz out with a direct hit was amazing. After that, Rahul's took four key wickets for 20 runs with a brilliant spell of tidy left arm spin bowling. In fact, Rahul stopped the flurry of runs and kept them in check which manufactured the wickets for us. Alex and Bandaru took two very good high catches. Rajeev showed patience in his captaincy and keeping. That was a brilliant stumping effort Rajeev. And Mike took a stunning catch at slip to get Rohit out. Aruna was also successful in getting Kaizer out. Haseeb as usual was relentless in the field changing over from the infield to the outfield. Chitra and Arees were relentless from the outside with their support.

So we now have our first win under our belt. Keep fighting. Also we displayed good spirit in the field with minimal sledging and maximum cheering. Thanks once again guys. We meet ECC once again in 2 weeks and they will be out full throttle to get back at us. So lets be prepared. Which takes me to my next concern - Practice. I request everyone to please make it to practice on Wednesday we still need to work on our skills. I, for sure know I have to work on my batting and catching :).