Game Report - July 26, 2008
MCC verses CCC
Teams from:
2) Zafar (vice captain)
3) Brett
4) Paresh
5) Roberto
6) Nish
7) Chris
8) Rosh
9) Nishant
10) Paul
11) Khan
Match Details
MCC won the toss and elected to field first on a slightly cooler day than usual. Roberto and Paul shared the new ball and soon were able to find nice line and length. Both the opening bowlers especially Roberto troubled the opening Corvallis Crusaders batsman. Roberto bowled with great pace, line and length and troubled the Corvallis batsmans numerous times without any luck. With some luck on Corvallis side, they were around 47/0 in 8 overs but that was about to change with the introduction of our captain Shuaib and Chris. Shuaib bowled beautifully and hardly gave anything as always and immideatly got 2 wickets in his first over. Chris on the other end was bowling great and along with Shuiab they reduced the scoring rate and by the end of 15overs Corvallis were 63/4. That was about to change when Paresh came into bowling and started leaking runs and conceding number of wides. Nish on the other end was bowling well within himself. Following a suspect injury forcing Phil the Kiwi to retire and allow Jana in to bat; Nish and Corvallis captain had a friendly :) confrontation on the field. Nish ended with the last laugh and got his man with an outswinger with Nishant taking the important catch at point. Corvallis finished the innings with a competitive target of 173runs in 30overs. Shuaib finished with 6-4-14 and Chris with 6-1-18.
MCC began the innings with Zafar and Roshan and soon the fireworks started from Zafar. Right from the beginning, Zafar started to punish anything which was pitched up to him or bowled short. Zafar particularly was severe on Corvallis captain hitting him for multiple fours and sixes in his opening spell. The opening pair put on 61 in 5 overs before Roshan was caught at point. That wicket got Shuiab in the middle and soon he was also able to see the ball really well. Zafar continued the demolition of the Corvallis Crusaders bowlers with Shuiab joining the act as well and playing some amazing cover drives. Zafar and Shuiab accelerated the run rate even more by adding 92 in 7 overs before Shuiab got out. Zafar on the other end was on his zone and finished with hitting 14 fours, 6 sixes and made 101runs in 42 balls. In the end, MCC won by 7 wickets with 14 overs to spare thanks to some good bowling by Shuiab, Chris, Roberto and Nish and by the batting fireworks of Zafar.
After the game players adjourned to Silver Birch club house to toast a wonderful afternoons cricket, though since Zafar was on call and late he had to rush off........