Match Report: Eagles vs HRCC, 05/13/12 @ Far hills

We lost the game to a good batting display from HRCC.

HRCC won the toss and batted first, put up 243/9 in 40 overs. We failed chasing and fell for 105 or so in 29 overs. HRCC batsmen (the opener and their #5) outplayed our bowling. In spite of losing 3 quick wickets in the 1st session for 57  (at the 1st 14 over break) , they played very sensibly …just pushing for singles and doubles finding  gaps and saved their wickets till the 30 over to accelerate the score to 243/9. Of course, we let their batsmen get away with a couple of dropped catches.

Though we had a strong batting line-up, we collapsed for around 105. Dhanu batted well opening the innings (27) in spite of cramping in the middle of his innings.   No doubt we have a good bowling attack, but I think we are still missing a genuine spinner. May be we would have restricted them to lower total, had I tried Lucky as a spinner. But lots of things come to mind after the fact.  We had a decent batting line-up capable of chasing that total, but it didn’t work this time.

We took some stunning catches during our 1st league game against Majestic, but dropped a couple of easy catches during this game. It happens; we win some and lose some, that’s the nature of the game. Nothing to worry about,  If we had to lose a game..this is it and its now behind us.  I am confident we’ll improve, perform much better and get back on winning stride in next games.

Have a great week.  Murali.

Score Card

Match # 5888
Hell Raizers Cricket Club v/s Intone Eagles Cricket Club
Far Hills
05/13/2012(40-over match)
Result	HRCC Won Hell Raizers Cricket Club:239/9 in 40.0 Intone Eagles Cricket Club:103/10 in 32.2
Comments	InTone Eagles shows perfect sportsman spirit. HRCC WON by a huge margin of 136 runs. Bhargav played smart for his patient Century (104) while Hiren supported with an excellent 51.
Toss	Hell Raizers Cricket Club
Umpires	Akram Khan (2693)
Man of the Match	1.Bhargav Patel
	2.Dhanushka Haputhanthri
Hell Raizers Cricket Club Innings (40 overs maximum) R B 4 6 binal parikh Caught Vishal Vikram Lahiru Rathnayake 4 0 0 0 Bhargav Patel Bowled Dhanushka Haputhanthri 104 0 0 0 Juned Tai Caught Murali Vijjapurapu 2 0 0 0 Riken Patel Run Out Murali Vijjapurapu 4 0 0 0 hiren v patel Caught Hemanth Ghattamaneni Murali Vijjapurapu 51 0 0 0 Vixar J Patel LBW Hemanth Ghattamaneni 23 0 0 0 Amit C Patel Bowled Dhanushka Haputhanthri 1 0 0 0 Savan 1 Patel Caught Dhanushka Haputhanthri 3 0 0 0 Dhaval P. Patel Stumped Siddharth Jayakumar Dhanushka Haputhanthri 11 0 0 0 Nirbhay Patel Not Out 0 0 0 0 Smeet Pari Not Out 2 0 0 0
Extras	(b 10, lb 10, w 12, nb 2)
Totals	(9 wickets in 40.0 overs) 239
FOW	1-20 (binal, 5.3 ov),2-27 (Juned, 6.3 ov),3-46 (Riken, 12.3 ov),4-184 (hiren, 32.6 ov),5-218 (Vixar, 0.0 ov),6-218 (Amit, 0.0 ov),7-229 (Savan, 0.0 ov),8-236 (Bhargav, 0.0 ov),9-237 (Dhaval, 0.0 ov)
Bowling O B M R W Murali Vijjapurapu 7 0 0 33 2 Lahiru Rathnayake 5 0 0 32 1 Chinmay Bhat 5 0 0 23 0 Mayank Jain 6 0 0 25 0 Dhanushka Haputhanthri 7 0 0 49 4 Vishal Vikram 3 0 0 25 0 Siddharth Jayakumar 2 0 0 20 0 Hemanth Ghattamaneni 4 0 0 23 1 Sreenath Nandyala 1 0 0 8 0
Intone Eagles Cricket ClubInnings (target : 240 runs from 40.0 overs) R B 4 6 Niladhar Rao Caught Bhargav Patel Vixar J Patel 7 0 0 0 Dhanushka Haputhanthri Caught Savan 1 Patel Savan 1 Patel 27 0 0 0 Siddharth Jayakumar Caught Bhargav Patel Bhargav Patel 3 0 0 0 Lahiru Rathnayake Caught hiren v patel Amit C Patel 0 0 0 0 Uday Kumar Vadlatala LBW Smeet Pari 3 0 0 0 Chinmay Bhat Caught hiren v patel Amit C Patel 1 0 0 0 Hemanth Ghattamaneni Caught Amit C Patel Amit C Patel 1 0 0 0 Murali Vijjapurapu LBW Nirbhay Patel 18 0 0 0 Vishal Vikram Caught hiren v patel Riken Patel 17 0 0 0 Sreenath Nandyala Not Out 1 0 0 0 Mayank Jain Bowled Vixar J Patel 1 0 0 0
Extras	(b 4, lb 6, w 14, nb 0)
Totals	(10 wickets in 32.2 overs) 103
FOW	1-0 (, 0.0 ov),2-0 (, 0.0 ov),3-0 (, 0.0 ov),4-0 (, 0.0 ov),5-0 (, 0.0 ov),6-0 (, 0.0 ov),7-0 (, 0.0 ov),8-0 (, 0.0 ov),9-0 (, 0.0 ov)
Bowling O B M R W Riken Patel 5 0 1 12 1 Vixar J Patel 4 3 2 9 2 Bhargav Patel 4 0 2 7 1 Amit C Patel 8 0 1 21 3 Smeet Pari 3 0 0 12 1 Savan 1 Patel 3 0 0 15 1 Nirbhay Patel 2 0 0 7 1 Juned Tai 3 0 0 7 0