Match Report - Cricket Lions Karlsruhe Vs Stuttgart Cricket Eagles e.V.
Posted by Stuttgart Cricket Eagles e.V. on Friday, April 29, 2011 Under: BWCV Match Event
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This was the first ever league game for the Stuttgart Cricket Eagles e.V. The weather was really pleasant and ideal for a cricket match in Sportpark, Karlsruhe when the game between Stuttgart cricket eagles(SCE) and Cricket Lions Karlsruhe (CLK) took off on Sunday, 24th of April. The toss was won by CLK captain and he elected to bat first. The new ball was given to Khawar, the strike bowler of SCE, by Adnan Sadeque, the captain of SCE. The new ball was also shared by Sunil who along with Khawar bowled beautifully from both the ends and got SCE to a great start. It was in the 5th over that the first breakthrough was obtained through a run out from the combined work of Prasanna and Khawar. CLK was a little watchful in the first set of overs and it wasnt long before they lost their second wicket too from a brilliant catch in slips by Ravi off the bowling of Khawar. Then entered the leading run scorer of the league in 2010, Janardhanan of CLK who continued his spectacular form. He started off slowly and cautiously and tried to rotate the strike. It was in the 7th over off Manish when he got going with some juicy full tosses outside off stump. He smashed them for a six over the covers and a boundary over square leg. Manish was taken off the attack and the new ball bowlers continued for a few more overs.
This was the first ever league game for the Stuttgart Cricket Eagles e.V. The weather was really pleasant and ideal for a cricket match in Sportpark, Karlsruhe when the game between Stuttgart cricket eagles(SCE) and Cricket Lions Karlsruhe (CLK) took off on Sunday, 24th of April. The toss was won by CLK captain and he elected to bat first. The new ball was given to Khawar, the strike bowler of SCE, by Adnan Sadeque, the captain of SCE. The new ball was also shared by Sunil who along with Khawar bowled beautifully from both the ends and got SCE to a great start. It was in the 5th over that the first breakthrough was obtained through a run out from the combined work of Prasanna and Khawar. CLK was a little watchful in the first set of overs and it wasnt long before they lost their second wicket too from a brilliant catch in slips by Ravi off the bowling of Khawar. Then entered the leading run scorer of the league in 2010, Janardhanan of CLK who continued his spectacular form. He started off slowly and cautiously and tried to rotate the strike. It was in the 7th over off Manish when he got going with some juicy full tosses outside off stump. He smashed them for a six over the covers and a boundary over square leg. Manish was taken off the attack and the new ball bowlers continued for a few more overs.
Catches win matches, they say. It was extremely evident
in this game through the missed catches off Janardhanan. First one was
in the 11th over off Khawar when Janardhanan went for a lofted pull shot
off a short of a length delivery. It took a top edge and went straight
up in the air for the man in mid-on to have a catching practice. But,
unfortunately the fielder at mid-on, Parakrama didnt hold on it as the
ball bounced on his hands and dropped on the ground. The scoreboard kept
ticking and the run-rate was maintained at 6 runs per over and it wasnt
long before the next chance came off the bowling of Adnan. A low full
toss on the pads was lofted by Janardhanan towards deep midwicket
boundary, straight to the hands of the fielder, Nadeem who missed it.
Nadeem was also suffering from an injury and it was all the more
difficult for him. Janardhanan had scored 8 and 19 runs respectively
when the two catches were dropped. Manish was brought back into the
attack from the other end and he bowled brilliantly, making the batsman
play at each and every delivery outside offstump, keeping it tight and
making it difficult to score. It was Sunil who made the break-through
with a quick reflex catch off his own bowling. Janardhanan was however
still at the crease and looking to capitalise on the missed chances.
Wickets kept tumbling at the other end with some short partnerships but
it was Janardhanan who scored all the runs and looked more confident as
he went on. Manish bagged couple of wickets through his consistent
length, which brought back SCE into the game. Janardhanan was in his
seventies when the score was 150 for 6 in 27 overs. The bowling from SCE
was disciplined and even the ground fielding needs a mentioning. Lot of
effort and application were shown by the fielders.
It was Nadeem who finally got Janardhanan through a
flighted delivery and tempting the batsman to top edge it to be caught
by the wicketkeeper, Aamaar. The last few batsmen also tried hitting
around and a few clicked and went to boundaries. The last ball of the
innings was a little dramatic where a runout by the combined efforts of
Adarsh and Sridhar made CLK exactly all out for 225 in 40 overs.
Target 226 in 40 overs for SCE
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The
target was 226 in 40 overs for SCE and it didnot look as a daunting
target by any means considering how the opposition had batted, except
for one man. The openers, Ravi and Prasanna went out to start the chase.
The first over saw a boundary over fine leg and a single. The new ball
was bouncing, moving around the seam and the afternoon breeze was ideal
for the swing bowlers to swing it both ways. It was in the third over
when Prasanna missed a ball on his legs, trying to defend it and was
judged lbw. Khawar joined Ravi in the middle. They kept ticking the
score for a few more overs. Ravi scored a boundary to deep square leg
and was looking to keep the chase alive. It wasnt too long before Ravi
went for a slogging shot over mid-on and got bowled. Adarsh was sent to
join Khawar. The bowlers of CLK need a special mention for not trying
too hard or too pacy and struck to their basics of hitting the right
length and making the ball move with the seam. Khawar got out to a
brilliant out swinging delivery which pitched around the middle stump
and swung to take the bails off his off stump. Meanwhile, Adarsh was
looking to stop this leakage of wickets by being defensive and playing
out the new ball overs. Adarsh either blocked the probing outside
off-stump deliveries or left them alone. He held on to one end of the
wicket but couldnt help the fall of wickets at the other end. Wickets
kept tumbling at rate of every 4 overs, sometimes even lesser. The score
was 57 for 6 in 20 overs when the drinks break was called. Some of the
wickets were also unlucky for the batsmen. For eg, Sunil was given out
lbw when the ball carried a lot of bounce and hit on his thigh over the
leg stump. Harish was given out lbw by the umpire when the ball clearly
pitched outside legstump for the left handed batsman. Minaz Dipon was
judged out unfortunately when the ball had hit his arm guard and was
caught.
Aamaar and Adarsh went on to continue the chase after
the drinks break. Aamaar looked to play shots and connected a few on the
leg side. Adarsh looked to block out one end and wanted desperately a
partnership with a batsman at the other end. Unfortunately for SCE, that
didnot happen as Aamaar soon got out. Nadeem played a few shots and had
harish as his runner because of his strain. Harish and Adarsh went for a
quick second run and unfortunately, harish could not make it and Nadeem
was out. 85 for 8, the scoreboard read then. The Captain of SCE, Adnan
walked out to the middle with Prasanna as his runner, looking to change
the course of events. The team needed a partnership with Adarsh staying
in the middle. It wasnt too long before the captain also got out by
being bowled, looking to loft the good length delivery over the mid-on.
Manish went in as the last man to join Adarsh. He blocked a few balls
and it was a juicy full toss on the pads which did him. He tried to
flick it across on the leg side and unfortunately, missed it and got
lbw. Thus ended the chase of SCE by getting 98 all out with Adarsh, the
last man standing. The valiant effort of Adarsh (14 runs off 59 balls)
couldnt help the team win as there were lack of partnerships at the
crease.
Overall, the batting effort of SCE was ordinary. The
crucial 95 runs and the tight bowling of Janardhan of CLK made him the
Man-of-the-Match.
In : BWCV Match Event
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