Scorecard

CR Kings v Heartland Cricket League ELITE CC on Sat 24 Sep 2011 at 9:00 AM
Heartland Cricket League Lost by 50 runs

Match report Elite's traveled to Cedar Rapids to play Kings in the semi-final of Heartland Cricket League.

Elite's won the toss and asked CR Kings to bat first. CR Kings opened their account with a first ball boundary and continued to score briskly with their openers punishing the loose balls along the way. The score read about 30 at the end of 4 overs. ECC turned to Sunil Bulusu for a breakthrough and he indeed bowled Parvath to provide them with one. Siva and Mohan fell in the space of next 4 overs. Kannan joined Ganesh when the score was about 48 in 9 overs and the pair put on 60+ partnership in the next 12 overs. Sudhir had Kannan Caught and with Kings nearing the slog overs, Ganesh opened up and hit consecutive sixes of Vijay but lost his wicket when he went for the third six. With very sensible lower order batting from Ashok and Shivaji, Kings were able to put 187 on board. For ECC, Sunil Bulusu bowled an excellent spell of fast bowling to control Kings scoring at crucial points in the match.

ECC opening batsman concentrated on scoring steadily and that allowed Kings to slip in few quiet overs before Ganesh and Pradeep opened up and scored few boundaries in the fourth over bowled by Mani. Shivaji had Pradeep caught n bowled in the next over to provide Kings with an opening. Kumar was introduced in the other end and he bowled Ganesh in his second over. Babu joined Sunil and they looked to consolidate the scoring but Mohan and Siva had other ideas as they combined to run-out Babu to leave ECC in a spot of bother. Prakash joined Sunil and realizing the gravity of the situation the pair saw out very good spell of Mohan till the break. After the break and Mohan continued his tight bowling along with Ganesh. Somebody has to blink first in this kind walk on a rope situation and ECC did blink first as Prakash was bowled by a beautiful ball from Mohan. This was followed by a direct hit effort from Kumar. Adharsh and Sudhir couldn't trouble the score card on this day as they were out caught very early into their innings. With tailender's to his company, Sunil decided to take the control of the innings and scored some beautiful shots to keep the run-rate ticking. With 52 needed from 5 overs and 3 wickets to take, the game was much tighter than what the final score card suggested. CR Kings nipped out the final 3 wickets with Sunil stranded at the runner end for 57 runs.

Ganesh Krishnasamy from CR Kings was adjudged Man of the match for his all round performance and helping his team to win the match.

HCL would like to thank Amer Sial & Amer Ijaz for officiating this game

Heartland Cricket League ELITE CC Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
136
(0.0 overs)		    
Ganesh Kumar Bowled  Kumar 19
Pradeep Devalla Caught  & Bowled Shivaji 12
Sunil Bulusu Not Out  59 1
Babu Singaram Run out  Mohan/siva 1 1
Abhijit Mandal Run out  Kumar 2 1
Prakash Arumugam Bowled  Mohan 15
Adarsh Eppili Caught  Ashok b. Mohan 0 1
Sudhir Kovur Caught  Shivaji b. Mohan 7
SRIKANTH CHOWDARY Stumped  Kannan. b. Ganesh 7
Vijay Medishetty Stumped  Kannan b. Ganesh 0 1
Karthik CSE Caught  (Ila) b. Ganesh 0

CR Kings Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
shivaji5.0027127.005.40
mani3.001700.005.67
kumar4.0016116.004.00
mohan6.002538.334.17
ashok2.002400.0012.00
ganesh5.502739.004.63

CR Kings Batting
Player name Runs
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TOTAL :
 
for 7 wickets
0
186 (0.0 overs)
siva Caught  Sunil b. Pradeep 16
Parvath Bowled  Sunil 19
Mohan Caught  (Abhijit) b. Pradeep 8
Ganesh Caught  Adarsh b. Vijay 48
Kannan Caught  Babu b. Sudhir 16
Alok Caught  Vijay b. Sudhir 4
Rakesh Bowled  Pradeep 7
Ashok Not Out  28
Shivaji Not Out  10
   
   

Heartland Cricket League ELITE CC Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Prakash Arumugam2.001600.008.00
Karthik CSE2.001700.008.50
Sudhir Kovur6.0028214.004.67
Vijay Medishetty4.0033133.008.25
Sunil Bulusu6.0033133.005.50
Adarsh Eppili6.002500.004.17
Pradeep Devalla5.0034311.336.80