BJCC Match-Report : 11th-June-2011: Weekend No 9

Report for 6/11/11

Pleasant Valley Park  Basking  Ridge ( Rte 287 Exit 26)

Conditions, Cloudy with a little dirzzle, perfect conditions for playing, outfield slow

So this was our first day at the new ground and in putting in one word  would be Batsman Paradise. The ground is maintained by the township so the field is rolled we think

It is a flat pitch with no uneven bounce like Heden Park until batsman footholes create some sort of uneven bounce but still very flat and straight

You have both options to play with  8 with almost the same setup as Heden Park or play full when 15-18 people are there

First time BJCC players played in front of  a little crowd. For those that did not show up  have to wait till the next time on who the crowd was 

Teams for First Game:

Marut(Captain), Naveed, Mangesh,MehulJr,Naveen

 Kalpesh(Captain),Vivek,Siva, Shail,Aaksh Jr with Anirudh Jr common

Teams for second and third game

TeamA   Marurt(Captain), Ranjan, Aamir, Naveed, Naveen, AnirudhJr, AkashJr

Team B  Kalpesh(Captain), Vivek,Siva, Shail,Sachin, Mangesh , MehulJr

Since NBA finals are going on if i were to describe  it in that mold,  basically TeamA was Miami and TeamB was Dallas. Team A had Lebron  and Wade  ( Ranjan, Aamir) and

TeamB  was Dallas with Dirk( Vivek) and plenty of other very good players  and i hope tomorrow night the same scenario plays out in the Finals game 6  that happened today with the games. Team A should have dominated   but somehow TeamB always kept coming back after looking like they were done and in the end win the very close series just like i hope  Dallas will tomorrow

First Game

Kalpesh XI 31/3 in  8  tie MarutXI 31/4 in 8 overs

In this match it was raining so score sheet is not that clear and not all bowling stats kept from this match. Whatever i could gather because for a little while we did not even write everything

Kalpesh won the toss and decided to bat first and sent opened the innings with local boy Vivek. They were steady and Kalpesh fell in the third over to Mangesh  with 9 on board. Then Shail batted with Vivek  and scored at steady rate . Since it was first innings on the ground both batting and bowling was steady and Vivek and Shail guided the team to 32 in 8 overs

Marut XI  opened the innings with Mehul Jr and Marut. Marut was the mainstay and was steady and did bulk of scoring with Mehul and then Mangesh.

Mangesh fell with still around 15-20 to get i think . Naveed fell for  duck to Kalpesh and then Marut and Naveen were left.

 Akhtar who loves playing in front of a crowd then hit 2 fours in one over to revive the innings  but him and Marut who remained not out with 15 could not finish the job totally and in the last over the game was tied.Siva bowled the last over i think.  Again it was raining and score sheet not that clear and complete  so we dont know how many runs were needed and other details but Marut was the Mainstay and Akhtar in the end was pumped up to see the crowd and performed . So  a good steady first game

Second Game

Rain stopped and it was beautiful weather after that

Kalpesh XI 58/4 in 10 overs beat MarutXI 49 all out 9.3 overs by 9 runs

Kalpesh won the toss and batted firtst. Siva and Shail opened the innings and were steady guided the score to 14 in 4 overs. They retired and Sachin Tendulkur  made his debut at BJCC. (So now we have Sachin and Shoaib in BJCC. What a battle . And this Sachin is no nonsense hit out batsman so it would be good to see Akhtar bowling to Sachin and Sachin trying to hit the ball for 6 all the time. Sachin bowls left handed though at BJCC  but of course bats right handed)

 Marut got Sachin  to get first wicket for his team and then Mangesh also fell to Naveen with score at 31 in 7 overs. Vivek and Kalpesh then joined for the last three overs and Vivek simply took off.  He took 16 in the last over of Marut to take the score to 57 hitting two sixes and a four .Marut got him out caught by Mehul Jr( Future looking good for next generation BJCC, all junior players playing with great energy ) All bowlers at this ground for sure will get a thrashing  at some point in the future no doubt  .Flat Pitch specially when wet after a little rain  has not much pace and bounce in it.

Marut  opened with Aamir and Ranjan . Aamir opened with a 6 of Mangesh  to point and this is where it totally fell like Team B was done. James and Wade were dominating Dallas Siva got Aamir in the third over but  score was 30 in 4 overs with another 6. Marut Joined Ranjan and again was very solid with Ranjan. Score reached 42 in six overs with only one wicket down.

 Marut and Ranjan retired and then Naveen and Naveen came in. Naveed fell for a duck and Ranjan keeping with his tradition of getting out as soon he comes back after retiring also got out next ball. And all of a sudden in the next 2.3 overs the whole team was out with Naveen run out and Vivek bowled by Marut.

 Team B was looking for Juniors to finish the chase but they also fell  at the end

Third Game

Marut XI 61/6 in 10 overs tie Kalpesh XI 61/6 in 10 overs

Marut batted first and MarutXI opened with Aamir and Ranjan again and same story again as game two. They raced to 28 in 3 ( 8 10 10 )  and again looked like Dallas is done

 But Siva again got Aamir ( again!) this time caught on the boundary by Naveed which looked like going for a 6 :  in the fourth over. Ranjan was at his best with a hard hitting 30 and took the score to 52 in 7 overs.Akhtar fell cheaply because the crowd was gone by then and Akhtar performs in front of crowds  usually. Marut came in and Anirudh Junior took easily the catch of the day . A splendid catch to dismiss Marut at covers( The Junior squad   looks very good )  Ranjan retired  this time also and i keep using this word again but its right as soon as he came back got out immediately .

 Either no more retirements for Him after this or batsman coming after him should not get out

.Mangesh bowling the last over  got Marut and Ranjan in two  balls and Naveed avoided the hatrick ball and third duck of the day but Mangesh only gave 2 runs in last over to keep the score to 61

Kalpesh  opened with Sachin and Siva and were steady with 16 in 4 overs for the loss of one wicket. Shail fell for one bowled by Ranjan and things did not look that great but

Siva who is in very good form was joined by Vivek  and took the score to 37 in 7 overs. Siva retired and Mangesh looked good also for his little cameo before Naveen bowled him

 Kalpesh was run out and It was 44 in 8 overs and Siva Came back. 18 needed to Win and 17 to tie.Vivek took 9 of Ranjan over which included a six and 8 were needed of the last over with Vivek and Siva. Marut got Vivek first ball , Siva hit a four of next and then Mehul was run out by Dad on third ball. Now 5  needed of 3 balls to win, 4th ball was dot, but Siva took two 2s to tie the game again . Both Marut and Siva were excellent with bat and ball in the over and tie proves that.

So just like that Kalpesh XI won the series 1-0 with two ties

Report By Naveed

Name	Runs		Wickets	Catch		Stumps		DHRO		Ducks	Runs Given/Over
Aamir	26		0	1		0		0		0	17/4
AkashJr	2		0	0		0		0		0	N/A
AnirudhJr	2		0	1		0		0		0	N/A
Kalpesh	13		2	0		0		0		0	17/3
Mangesh	29		3	1		0		1		0	21/3
Marut	34		4	0		0		1		0	46/4
MehulJr	1		0	1		0		0		0	N/A
Naveed	1		0	1		0		0		2	9/4
Naveen	19		3	0		0		0		0	18/4
Ranjan	50		2	1		0		0		0	28/4
Sachin	9		1	2		0		0		0	16/2
Shail	13		0	1		0		0		0	17/2
Siva	31		2	2		0		0		1	20/4
Vivek	64		1	1		0		0		0	15/3.3
PLAYER NAME		RUNS SCORED			WICKETS		CATCHES		STUMPINGS			DIRECT HIT R.O		DUCKS
Aamir		134			7		8		2			2		0
Akash Jr		2			0		0		0			0		0
Aditya		7			0		1		0			0		1
Anirudh Jr		2			0		0		0			0		1
Anil		87			8		9		0			1		1
Bala		6			7		1		0			0		1
Bargau		15			6		4		0			0		0
Dhruv		57			0		3		0			0		1
Farooq		13			1		0		0			0		0
Gopi		0			0		1		0			0		1
JayKumar		16			0		0		0			1		0
Kalpesh		103			14		8		0			0		3
Kannan		69			14		2		2			0		1
Mangesh		180			3		4		0			2		0
Marut		70			10		2		0			3		0
Mehul Jr		6			0		1		0			0		0
Mukund		72			18		8		0			0		3
Nathan		60			11		5		0			0		1
Naveed		70			13		8		0			1		3
Naveen		38			5		0		0			0		0
Parijath		117			11		10		0			0		0
Raj		23			1		0		1			0		0
Ranjan		100			9		4		0			0		1
Sachin		9			1		2		0			0		0
Sanjay		5			2		0		1			0		0
Shail		149			13		4		6			0		4
Shiva		90			5		2		2			0		3
Swagat		52			4		4		0			0		1
Vipin		6			0		0		1			0		0
Venkat II		56			6		3		0			0		0
Viral		19			1		0		0			0		0
Vivek		241			13		7		1			0		1
Vivek V		1			0		1		0			0		0