Sree Cricket Academy Tournament - Match 2

Match - CSS v RTG
Venue - English Electricals Cricket Ground, Pallavaram Chennai
Date - 8th Nov 2009
Result - RTG Won

Sree Cricket Academy Tournament 2008 - Match 1

Match - CSS v CTS 

Venue - English Electricals Cricket Ground, Pallavaram Chennai

Date - 1st Nov 2009

After a gap of almost a month with no matches as the weather played spoil sport, we had a match.

It was CSS's first match in this ground,  first match of a new tournament 

(First time organisers) on a very wet Saturday morning on the first day of November 08, first time for Sameer (new entrant into this team) to watch local cricket in Chennai . Well, with all these firsts we also had 2 of our great contributors of CSS Cricket team, Vicky and Karthik, playing their last match for CSS as they had decided to move to greener pastures in their life.

CSS team was very eager to play a match after a month long break. Things started

 a little sluggishly in the morning as the ground was wet with overnight due.

The toss was a little crucial with the ground being big and wet. CSS lost the toss but CTS decided to field first. I guess the thought was to contain CSS and use the heavy wet outfield. 

The Final XI - Arvind, Kiran, Karthik, Prabhu, Satish G, Satish M, Veera, Vicky, Vishnu, Vishy & Yuvraj

Supported by - Dinesh, Naveen, Seshan, Sameer, Balaji.

Vicky playing his last match was very keen to open, I was too ;), but decided to let him play with Kiran. It was slow rate of scoring with the heavy wet outfield and the running between was limited a max of 1 run per hit. The ball was changed around the 6th over and it helped to improve the scoring rate. 

Vicky specifically started to play his game with regular hits to fence. He got out trying to hit one out of the park around the 12th over. This brought in the second playing who wa

s playing his last match. "Mr. Best-Batsman-Slash-has-ever-produced" joined Kiran. Kiran who was playing second fiddle until Vicky was at the center started to open up he completed a well made 58. Karthik on the other hand made some quick runs and made the ball change again with just 3 overs to go. This was again useful for him to complete his 50.  Arvind and I wa

ited with both padded up till the end, our wait is not extended by at least another week.

CSS scored 171/1 in 19 overs, yes CTS could only bowl 19 overs in their stipulated time. 

With a good score on board CSS had just one thing to do, do nothing silly on the field and thats all I said in the huddle. Use your head in the field as this is a big ground.

I started the bowling and it was one of the rustiest overs I had bowled with 2 wides. Yuvraj shared the new ball with me. I guess the new ball excited him and he was bowling real fast to the surprise of Kiran who was keeping wickets.

CTS kept loosing wickets at regular intervals and CSS was very relaxed on the field. Vishnu and Prabhu bowled brilliantly in the middle. Vicky bowled a couple of overs in his last match and managed to take the middle stump out once again. This is something he has done a few times in the slog overs for CSS in T20 matches. Satish M, playing his first game a fter a long time bowled well too.  The best thing that happened in his first over was vicky chasing the ball thrice from square-leg to deep midwicket

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t was a rare sight of panther doing the run :)

Few positives on the field - 

- Veera seem a lot swifter on the field guess the workouts are helping

- Run out by Vishy at covers

- Kiran is  back to scoring runs and keeping wickets

- Yuvraj was noticeably quick today

- Balaji seem to shedding some weight (off field)

Final Scores

CSS - 171/1 in 19 overs

Vikram - 30 Out bowled

Kiran - 58 not out

Karthik - 54 not out

CTS - 93 for 9 in 19 overs

Vishy - 12/1 in 4 overs (Again most economical........hehe....)

Yuvraj - 18/1 in 2 overs

Prabhu - 16/2 in 4 overs

Vishnu - 22/2 in 4 overs  

Vikram - 10/2 in 3 overs

Satish M - 9/1 in 2 overs

Kiran was declared the Man of the Match  !!

Congratulations Kiran !!! 

Congratulations CSS !!!