Scorecard

Heartland Cricket League NEBRASKA CRICKET CLUB v Knights CC on Sat 17 Sep 2011 at 8:30 AM
Heartland Cricket League Won by 8 wickets

Match report On Saturday the Knights of Des Moines took on the Nebraskans of Omaha in a tense, last-over nail-biting affair that was the first of two humdingers played in Omaha on Saturday.


It was a very cold (temp stayed in the 50's all day, with a constant breeze dropping it into the 40's) day and NCC won the toss and elected to field first in distinctly un-cricket-like conditions. Both teams, especially KCC, to their credit played the entire game in misty conditions with pitter-pattering rainfall that would be perfect in a Bollywood movie featuring Mandakini. KCC opened with the Khanuja brothers - Lovee and Money - and Damian, the NCC captain sent Anish Mathew after them. 11 balls into his spell Anish had not given a run and got Lovee to inner-edge a ball onto the stumps. In the second over, Money got befuddled by the wide, wide, good ball, wide, wide, good ball routine of Gaurav Patil and sliced a ball straight to Anish (who else) place specifically at fly third man for just that eventuality. Sukhen saw out a wide, slammed a four, saw out another wide and then played all over a low full toss and KCC were 8 for 3 after 4.4 overs.


For the next 10 overs Bryan Manning and Jon Swanepoel set about frustrating the NCC bowlers and fielders with their banter, running between the wickets, and the odd not-so-friendly swipe to the boundary. Jon tried many times to get Bryan run out and finally succeeded only in the 14th over, but not before the duo had put on 76 runs. (Bray 26 in 29 balls, 1 four). The next 6 overs featured just 36 runs and 3 more wickets as NCC woke up and tightened the screws in an all-too-familiar (for supporters of NCC) fashion. KCC ended up with a competitive but not insurmountable, 121 for 7 in 20 overs. Jon scored a brilliant 53 in 64 balls with 2 fours.


The England-like conditions were perfect for the KCC opening bowlers, Amit Poddar and Gau Sura. While Gau used his considerable experience of English conditions to rein in the NCC batsmen (4-0-18-0), Amit was hit for a six each in his first two overs, releasing some of the pressure. But, in spite of those aggressive acts, NCC was never able to launch an offensive at the KCC total that would have taken the game away. Francis Origanti and Amit Phatak ran when they could, and played the (many) good balls when they had to. 41 for 1 in 7 overs became 62 for 2 in 10. With 60 runs needed in 60 balls, Prashant Paymal and JJ Tanwar eased their way home with 4 balls to spare in the 20th over. KCC was always one wicket away from sending the cat among the pigeons as the required run-rate was always about a run a ball, while JJ Tanwar's ability to finish games (an under-rated aspect of his game) was the supporting act to yet another solid inning from Prashant Paymal, the find of the NCC season. A summer camp in Ogallala appears to have been just the training needed by the star NCC rookie who received the Man of the Match award for his 43 in 32 balls.


A sumptuous lunch was followed by a classic T20 tussle between IBL and CRK. Report of that to follow shortly.

Heartland Cricket League NEBRASKA CRICKET CLUB Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 2 wickets
0
122
(0.0 overs)		    
Francis Origanti Caught  Amit b. Sukhen 22 1
Amit Phatak Caught  Jon b. Santosh 27
Prashant Paymal Not Out  43
janmejay tanwar Not Out  21
Mohit Bharadwaj  
anish mathew   2
Swarit Agarwal  
sriram surapaneni   1
C.S. Manish  
Gaurav Patil   1
Phillip Blake  

Knights CC Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Amit3.002600.008.67
Gau4.001800.004.50
Ali2.001000.005.00
sukhen4.0028128.007.00
santosh2.0016116.008.00
Lovee2.201300.005.57
Jon2.001100.005.50

Knights CC Batting
Player name Runs
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TOTAL :
 
for 7 wickets
0
121 (0.0 overs)
Lovee Bowled  Anish 0
Money Caught  (Anish) b. Gaurav 0
Bryan Run out  (Sriram) 26
Sukhen Lbw  Gaurav 4
Jon Not Out  53
Gau Caught  (Francis) b. Amit 0
Amit Caught  (Anish) b. Amit 9
Ramesh Caught  (Gaurav) b. Francis 0
Jeff Not Out  1
   
   

Heartland Cricket League NEBRASKA CRICKET CLUB Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
anish mathew4.0122122.005.50
Gaurav Patil2.001427.007.00
janmejay tanwar4.003200.008.00
Phillip Blake1.001200.0012.00
sriram surapaneni2.001300.006.50
Francis Origanti4.0114114.003.50
Amit Phatak3.001226.004.00