Pegasus sail past International a

The 2008 season kick off weekend had all the top teams in Division 1 in action. Pegasus CC played an under strength International CC on overcast Saturday morning. With the weather conditions and a green top wicket, the team winning the toss should have opted to bowl. However, International chose to bat due to a shortage of players at starting time. International began cautiously as the Pegasus big boys Elmore Hutchinson and Hasan Imam tried to get some early breakthroughs. Elmore coming after a 6 month break bowled with ferocity and managed to pick up 2 wickets before leaving the field due to injury. Hasan Imam was penetrative and unlucky as edges flew past fielders. Suresh Nair was his accurate self putting a choke hold on the runs. Sameer Jafri bowled his teasing seamers and picked up 2 very vital wickets. Adil and Nasir staged a comeback for International with a 66 run partnership. However, in came Ali Shafi and removed both of them in successive deliveries. Mushi Khan (3 wickets) and Jawaid Motiwala (1 wicket) wrapped up the tail, restricting International to 188 all out in 43 overs. Pegasus started out in a shaky manner losing Sameer Jafri and their new captain Zeeshan Khamisani in quick succession to new ball bowler Asif. The Pegasus mainstay of Nazim Shirazi and Ali Shafi responded with calm and composure, building a steady 74 run partnership inching Pegasus towards their target of 189. Nazim notched his 1st 50 of the season. There was a slight tremble in the chase as Pegasus lost Nazim, Ali, Sunil and Jawaid to some good bowling by Bobby and Sohail. They took 2 wickets each. However, on the crease was the ever green, always dangerous, “blast from the past”, Haider Raza. He cut, drove, flicked with ease and managed to take his side home in the 43rd over. His 45 vital runs underlined the fact that he is still a force to be reckoned with. High points of the game were the show of responsibility and strength by the Pegasus seniors and the support by the juniors. There were many missed chances during the game by both sides, but being the first game of this long 2008 season, both teams probably identified areas to work on going forward. Umpiring was consistent and the game was played in good spirits. Good luck to both teams for the rest of the season.

Jeevaka weerasinghe 71 Sudhakar 30 for 4 wickets Arshiq Musheen 40 Madhu 57 for 3 wickets Ali Khan 27 Rajan 33 for 2 wickets Praveen 51 Dhanushka 19 for 3 wickets Srikhanth 23 Rodney 39 for 3 wickets Martin 21 Arshiq 44 for 2 wickets

Ventura won the game by 163 Runs

First game of the season for Ventura,Ricky won the tose and elected to Bat 1st.Ventura scored 315/3 and Jignesh Desai scored brilliant 106* and Sheikh Mahmud scored 61 after come back 4 years later.and International scored 152/10 in 28.4 overs.Good job Jignesh Desai.

Hollywood records a big win against Orange County

Hollywood lost the toss but were put into bat by Orange County. It was surprising for Hollywood captain Nikhil Iyer but he happily accepted the offer to bat first. Thilan and Ritesh ( known as Haynes and Greenidge style opening pair ) opened the innings for Hollywood. Both went after the best bowling line up of Division 1 and put on 80 runs in first eight overs when Ritesh got dismissed for lightning 31 off 32 balls. Thilan kept the momentum going alongwith steady Divyesh and put on a good partnership. However, there was a collapse in middle order thanks to a good bowling spell by Chirayu that kept Hollywood batting progress in check. Rishabh played a good 30 run cameo and helped the Hollywood reach a total of 294. Thilan made 96 off 96 balls and played a planned innings. In reply Orange County batsmen wanted to go after the bowling attack right from the word go but Anup's outswingers and Jignesh's inswingers troubled the batsmen. Anup took 3 wickets that broke the back of Orange County's middle order and Rishabh Nanda gave finishing touches by cleaning up the tail and grabbing 4 wickets. Hollywood comprehensively won by 131 runs. Man of the Match for Hollywood Thilan Indrasena. Best performance of Orange County Chirayu. Good luck to Orange County for the rest of the season.

Ritesh's master blaster lead to a successful chase.

International won the toss and elected to bat first. Anand Ramaswamy was the pick of the bowlers by claiming 4 wickets. Jignesh Ahir got 2 wickets and International put on a competitive total of 224 for loss of 8 wickets due to help of couple of half centuries scored by Naveed Khan and Abba Ali. In reply, Hollywood got a good start when Ritesh went on to full throttle and humiliated International bowlers with his merciless batting. Ritesh scored 88 runs off 70 balls and gave a good start. Aditya played a quiet knock of 59 not out and Mandip's brilliant hitting gave finishing touches to the chase. Hollywood comfortable chased the total in 35.5 overs. Man of the Match Ritesh Kadu Player of the game International Naveed and Abba Ali. Good Luck to International for the rest of the season.

Ritesh's appetizer, Aditya's sweet dish and Mandip's spiceful batting had Pegasus bowler for a great Lunch.

After losing 3 tosses in a row, Nikhil finally won the toss and happily accepted to bat first. Hollywood started well with the opener obviously Ritesh and Thilan ( Haynes and Greenidge ) and again they put on a great show and put on 81 runs in 10 overs but Thilan got out for 14. Ritesh continued his attack to the opposition but his innings of 64 off 42 balls came to an end by a brilliant catch. The score was 108 in 13 overs for 2 wickets down. Basit played along with the tempo but couldn't go on and got out stumped scoring 47 off 40 balls. Captain Nikhil in search for a good form came to bat but couldn't do damage and got out for 13 off 18 balls. However, Aditya was enjoying the sweet dish bowling from Pegasus and was eating it slowly. In walks Mandip Dhillon and he made life miserable for Pegasus bowlers by peppering the bowlers all around the park. Aditya was batting like a child was eating Ice Cream at slower pace however he was scoring run a ball but Mandip Dhillon was batting like a hungry lion eating a buffet and unfortunately they were Pegasus bowlers. Aditya scored 100 in the last over in 99 balls and Mandip missed the century and scored 93 runs off 53 balls. They both were unbeaten. Hollywood posted a mammoth total of 364 for 4 in 45 overs. In reply, Pegasus didn't have a good start and were 39 for 4 thanks to excellent bowling by Jignesh picking 3 wickets and Anup picking up trump card Nazimbhai his only victim. It was all upto the captain Zeeshan and Ali Shafi but they couldn't last long and got out to Nikhil Iyer. Finishing touches were provided by Ritesh Kadu and Ankit Parmar claiming 1 wicket each. Pegasus scored 160 runs and lost 10 wickets in doing so. Good Luck to Pegasus for the rest of the season. Man of the Match were Aditya and Mandip for Hollywood. Player of the game from Pegasus was Ali Shafi. Congratulations to Aditya for getting news on the ground he got selected for USA team.

University 118 all out Santa Barbara C.C 123 for 3 Vijay Raju 29 Priyantha 45 not out Nishad 34 Uditha 34 not out Ali Khan 29 for 2 Sam 29 for 2 Rodney 24 for 1 Aman 16 for 5 Danushka 41 for 2

CAL-BEL VS ANAHEIM

CAL-BEL WON THIER THIRD IN A ROW WITH A NAILBITING WIN OVER ANAHEIM

Great all-round performance by Vishal and excellent team effort brings victory for Anaheim.

Vishal Thakur - 70 runs of 64 balls and 8-1-12-2 Rakesh Mehta - 8-0-39-3 Samar Kalita - 37 ; Shyam Rele - 23 ; Yash Jani - 20;

Complete Dominance by Colts

This game was an example of complete dominance by colts with the ball and bat. Colts bowlers bowled Victoria CC with their accurate and tight line and length @ the mere score of 71. Colts was in hurry to finish the match when they went into bat, in-process they lost 4 wkts and scored 73 in 13 overs. Bowling: Srini 3overs,18runs:Vijay 5Overs,12runs,3wkts:Arvin 6overs,11runs,2wkts:Saad 6overs,15runs,2wkts,Avaijit 2.3overs,9runs,3wkts. Batting: Fraz:26, Ajay:10,Arvin:2,Avijit:20 not out,Saad:6,Kalyan:5 not out. Good win for colts, need to improve with their fielding. Good luck to Victoria CC.

International breaks jinx

Fine all round performance led by Asif Abba's 66 and Fahmeed's 4 wkt haul took International to their first win for 2008.

Inland Empire 1 won the tie game due to run rate

It was really really nail biter game between IE1 vs BnB. IE1 won the toss and elected to field. Bnb batsman were in the pressure from beginning. Dharmendra and vimal bowled nicely and took 3 wickets each and restrict bnb in 118 runs in 33.4 overs. While IE1 batting the first wicket fall at 40 and after that a small collapse, but jay verma batted really nice, but tail ender didn't utilize that and IE1 got all out 118 in 28.3 overs. since both team got all out IE1 won the game by run rate. It was really good game and all the best to BNB for rest of the season.

The tail enders brought the game home

The United batting started well with Anush and Ramesh carried the team's best opening partnership and were comfortable cruising with 80 for 3 when the slide happened. United lost 4 wickets in span of 13 runs. Amit and Ashwani tried to carry it bit forward with but with them getting out, it was let to the last pair - Ramanan and Hamza. Both did a great job to reach a total of 177 before a quicker one got Ramanan. The best partnership of united batting was the 10 wicket of 45 runs that gave a fighting score. Cosmos batting started with a dropped catch by Srini and some good hits by Rashmi but Ramanan came thru with 2 quick wickets. Amit, Ramanan and Ashwani with 1 wicket each and Hamza with 2 contributed to get next 5 quick ones to get Cosmos at 65 for 7 at 1st break. Then came a great partnership between John and Hopton for 70 runs. The Ramesh and Amit get the next 2 which got us closer to win. With 28 runs to win and 1 wicket Amar tried his best even with busted back be was able to bring it close but was caught by Rajamani of Ramesh. One of a great game with ups and down for both the teams.

University Wins Again!

University made 198: Venkat 32, Neil 27, Manoj 25. Anil 2 for 22, Pradeep 2 for 40. SDll 179 all out: Ramesh B 39, Hasitha 36. Adam 5 for 50 ***

Pegasus Overcomes a Nail Biter Against Pasadena

If you wanted to see a game that would keep you on the edge of your seat, this was the game. A rejuvenated Pegasus CC was going against a young and dangerous Pasadena CC. Pegasus won the toss and elected to bowl on an overcast morning even though they were without 2 of their front-line bowlers (Elmore & Jawaid). Hoping to extract some juice from the wicket, Pegasus pacers bowled with fire. The young and talented Nitesh grabbed 2 wickets while Hasan took 1, although he probably deserved a couple more. In came the Pasadena captain Farhan and the young Yuvraj. They chip, nudged and punished the loose balls keeping the score board ticking. Yuvi scored a fluent 48 before being caught superbly by the Big Man on Campus, Faizan. Farhan scored a steady 66. Pasadena managed a respectable 235 all out in 44 overs. Haider and Mushi took 2 wickets apiece and Ali took 1. Suresh Nair bowled an excellent, economical spell taking 1 wicket. Pegasus CC was expected to reach the target but this is cricket, and in cricket, anything can happen. Pegasus began fluently until they lost Faizan (16). Nazim and Zeeshan continued until Nazim departed for 37. Then came the minor collapse. Zeeshan got out at 25 followed by Haider in a short span. Sameer scored a useful 17 and Nitesh departed without scoring. However, the match winner, Ali Shafi was on the crease. Along with superb support from Shahid Rahmatullah, Pegasus moved closer and closer to the target. Ali got out after scoring an excellent 65. With 8 wickets down and the tail batting the game could have gone either way. Nevertheless, Shahid took Pegasus home with a steady and very effective 35 not out. Abhimunyu and Nadir took 3 wickets apiece for Pasadena, while Jawad took 1 wicket. Pegasus needed this win going deeper into the season. Pasadena, with their young and dangerous team will definitely improve and do well. Good luck to all for the rest of the season.

SD 1 puts santa barbara away in ishtyle

sd 1 won the toss and put santa barbara into bat on a beautiful day in san diego .. Rubal and shyam started the proceeding for sd and the first over from rubal told the story of the day .. rubal picked up peshaan beautifully in gully and the santa barbara wickets started to tumble on a bit slow wicket.. SB batsman couldn't resist their shots and ended up losing their wickets rapidly. and were bundled up for 82 in 28 overs .. RUBAL PICKED UP 4 WICKETS.. AND ABLY SUPPORTED BY SHYAM, HAFIZ (2), BENSON (2), AND AFROZ 1 RESPECTIVELY.. for santa barbara highest score was from ali (16).. later when san diego went to bat, santa barbara bowlers came out firing and quickly took out 4 of the sd top order and sd was now reeling at 20 for 4 ..but joseph and hafiz played very sensible and took santa barbara hopes away and sd was home quite comfortably in the end for SD JOSEPH (38 N.O) AND HAFIZ (24 N.O) AND FOR SB ALI (3 WKTS) AND DANUSHKA(2) ..good luck to santa barbara for the season

Ventura CC the leagues three peat champions get toppled over

Classic case of - David vs Goliath After last year's epic game when Ventura squeaked by in the final over, it was time to dislodge the champions and hand them their first loss of this young season. This game had all the flavors of a great game, youth vs experience where youth prevails. It all started when for the first time Ventura wins the toss and opts to field showing signs of weakness in their strength. Rather than batting they fielded and the young guns batted brilliantly to put a score of 258. Timba and Srinivas put on a 150 run partnership for the 3rd wicket. Captain Mehul's masterful bowling changes and field placements ensured a monstrous victory. A path has been cleared and paved for the rest of the league to follow on.

Convincing Win for Colts, Good partnership between Pramukh and Prashant and some early fireworks from Srini enbaled Colts to register an easy victory. Earlier Cosmos were bowled at 189 becoz of some disciplined bowling by all the bowlers. Good luck to both the teams.

Vijayta won the toss and elected to field first. Hollywood 1 openers Thilan and Divyesh provided a decent start till Thilan went for a big one and got caught. The first wicket fell at the score of 23 then Divyesh got out on the next ball from Zain. It was a hatrick ball for Zain after claiming wickets of Thilan and Divyesh, Mandip tried to sweep the hatrick ball and got bowled. Zain claimed the hatrick. Hollywood was struggling at the score of 23 for 3 , the things became more worse when Aditya, Nikhil and Ritesh got out cheaply to Hammad and were struggling for 50 for 6 at first drinks break. Ankit and Basit got together and played cautiously with a plan to play out as many overs as possible without losing any further wickets. The plan worked and runs started coming once the bowlers became frustrated. Ankit and Basit put on 90 plus partnership when Ankit got out. At this stage, Hollywood was 150 for 7, the debutant Rishabh Nanda walked in to join Basit who started hitting the ball very well. Rishabh and Basit went onto assault the Vijayta's bowling and put on a great show by putting 66 runs partnership in no time. Hollywood was now in good shape at 213 for 8 in 41 overs. Basit played well and scored 80 in 86 balls. Rishabh didn't stopped his assault on Vijayta bowlers and was smacking at will and helped reach Hollywood to a respectable total of 260. Rishabh stayed unbeaten on 69 in 30 balls. In reply, Vijayta started well and put on 100 runs but lost 4 wickets in doing so in 14 overs thanks to Tarun's quickfire 52 in 32 balls. Mehul Dave and Mrunal Patel were steadying the innings when Mehul gave away his wicket trying to play some extra shots and got out on 61. Vijayta's hope was depleted with Mehuls' wicket and they were 160 for 5 in 26 overs. It was upto Mrunal and rest of the tail to get those another 100 runs. However, defiant hollywood bowlers didn't took any breather and wrapped Vijayta's innings for 228 runs. Pick of bowlers for Hollywood were Anup Desai with 3 wickets, Basit,Aditya,& Nikhil sharing 2 wickets each. Hollywood won by 32 runs and it was a hard fought win. Good Luck to Vijayta for the rest of the season.

Excellent win by University

After a lossing three early wickets, University recovered to make a match winning total of 232. United reply was hampered by University's good bowling and feilding (9 catches and 1 run out), but rallied to make 157 all out. Both teams played this game in good spirit, and umpire Tilak did a excellent job. Good luck to both teams.

1st Inning Salman Ahmad- 61* Junaid Syed- 57 Satya M.- 2 Wickets Krishna- 2 Wickets 2nd Inning Krishna- 33 Ram- 27* Kunal- 3 Wickets Sawaab- 2 Wickets

Mrunal's allround performance helps Vijayta make it four in a row.

Carribbean elected to bat after winning the toss and despite losing a couple early wickets had a long third wicket partnership which helped put 168 at the second drinks break. It looked as if they can put a huge total on the board but debutant Srinivasan gave Vijayta a bread which was helped by Anand Panchal with an outstanding catch at deep square leg. The rest was done by Hammad taking three wicket of consecutive overs and Mrunal took a couple of last two overs restricting Carribbean to a mere 206 on this batting friendly wicket. Vijayta lost Tarun early on an unlucky inner edge but again came the debutant Srinivasan who played some splending shots supported by young Ravi Timbawala who put a partnership of 70 runs for the second wicket. After Srinivasan departure Mrunal paired up with Ravi and took Vijayta to a safe 145 during second drinks break. Vijayta chase the total in the 40th over with Mrunal 54 not out. Game was played with good spirit, Goodluck Carribbean for the rest of the season.

Pioneer on a winning streak

Pioneer continued to show improvement in their play with their third consecutive win. Pioneer won the toss and sent Friends into bat. Rahul playing in his first match of the season bowled with fiery pace. In his second over he had the breakthrough cleaning up Mandeep. But a 2nd wicket stand of 79 runs frustrated Pioneer attack until the introduction of Mahmmod's spin. He quickly got rid of the dangerous Sodhi. Eventually Friends posted a very competitive score of 190. Pioneer showed their experience and depth and hit off the required runs in 38.4 over with solid contribution from all.

Match Tied

Great match played between Pioneer and WestWood. Match score tied but by virtue of losing less wicket,Pioneer was declared the winner

Pioneer Won Easily

Pioneer won easily this weekend at Buena Park beating a formidable opponent Britamer. Sent in to bat Brittamer could only muster 112 runs on a good batting strip. Pioneer lost 3 quick wickets and only 8 runs on the board but a solid partnership of 65 runs between Hemchand and Rafeek restore order. Sowlat came in at the fall of Rafeek's wicket and explode for a quick fire 27 and that was that. Game over!!!

A Steady and Mature Inning

South Bay won the toss and elected to bat. They started well with boundaries and had 19 runs on the board before the fall of the first wicket. The second wicket fell at 21 and then there was a mini rally the fall of the third wicket when the score was 43. After the fall of the sixth wicket at 73 runs the Captain Irfan, put on a good partnership Abishek which yielded 46 runs to help post a decent total. The remaining three wickets could only add eight runs to the final total of 127. For Eagles, Surendra posted figures of 5-0-2-23, Paul 6-1-2-27, Mohinder 4-1-1-9, Krishna 6-1-0-14, Brandon 5-0-1-26 and Ken 5-0-4-22. The bowling and fielding of Eagles was tight. In responding to South Bay, Eagles started slowly and lost two wickets after only posting 13 runs. There was a brief recovery with a partnership of 21 between Brandon and Joe before the loss of the third wicket at 34. Brandon and krishna then consolidated the inning while scoring 49 runs before the loss of the fourth and final wicket at 93. Brandon played a mature inning while scoring an unbeaten 43 and saw Eagles home with support from Ken. Eagles played well as a team and exhibited patience and supported each other well. This was a well played game and Eagles first win this season. Best wishes to South Bay.

BritDom scrape home

The game was reduced to 35 overs due to mechanical problems ie. broken lawnmower. The mat was placed over quite heavy turf and so gave the playing surface somewhat of a inconsistency. BritDom won the toss and quite understandably decided to bowl first. With some good tight bowling and help from wicket, BritDom had the home team on the back foot.No real partnership was allowed to happen and Regal eventually succumbed to 105 all-out. The only batsman who showed any resistance were Aftab and Deval. The BritDom bowlers were Grant 1-23,Jimmy 2-27, Rocky 3-33, Randeep 1-15, Carl 3-2, Shridhar 0-3. BritDoms' response was straight away pushed to max. Losing 2 wickets in the first over had the visiting team reeling. Good bowling and use of the wicket had BritDom struggling at 41 for 5. But a steady 6th wicket partnership of 63 from Jimmy and Randeep settled things and brought the ship home with overs to spare.Regal bowled a good innings, but could of done with a few more runs to defend. Good luck to Regal with their search of a first win. Thanks to the umpires for officiating well.

The wicket was wet and slow. Victoria won the toss and put United to bat. And I don’t think they did a wrong call, we just played really good. With Anush and Ashwani opening, the game started slow and watchful. And before Ashwani could start he was given LBW on the front foot for the ball swing down the leg. Then came Raja. He played very sensibly and at one point was slower than Anush. Then there was mis-understanding on running between the wickets. Anush was runout. The flow of shots came from Raja and before we knew, he was on his 50 with good support from Hemanth. Hemanth was out trying to push for a single just before the drink interval at 92. Srini joined Raja and were going at a rate of 9+ runs a over, when Raja mistimed a shot to extra cover. Ramanan joined Srini and was in the groove from ball one. He hit some daring sixes and we were past 150 in 23rd over. When Srini got out, Shankar came in to support Ramanan and took the score to 195 when he got out to an easy ball trying keeping it down. Ramanan crossed 50 with support from Sundar and was out trying to clear for another 6. Sundar and Satya put on another 46 runs in just 6 overs. We scored 276 for 7 in 45 overs. United bowling was started by Hari and Ramanan. They cleared the top 6 batsmen for a total of 17 runs in first 6 overs with Ramanan taking 5 for 31 overall. We did ok with our fielding and catches. Only we took next 26 overs to wrap the tail orders (Last 4 wickets). The man of the match for United goes to Ramanan and a great contribution from Rajamani with the bat.

Deccan wins with team effort

Deccan elected to bat first taking advantage of Eagle's 9 player squad. The decision was not backed by the top-order batsman and a rescue effort was at show by the Captain and Vice-Captain. Some decent stroke-play from middle order batsman gave Deccan a competitive target on a tricky wicket. Eagles were no where in the hunt and Deccan applied the pressure efficiently as the opening bowlers took 5 wickets for 30-odd runs. The middle order partnership was batting with immense experience and Deccan were seen wanting in the field. The frustration of not running through the Eagles batting line-up was clear. Deccan gave away many free-bees and dropped a couple of catches as well. An unlikely hero emerged to wipe up the tail and that sealed the deal. Deccan registers their first victory of the season.

Second Win

Inland Empire II won the toss on a beautiful day and decided to bat on a good wicket. They lost their first wicket at 22 and the second at 24 and would have been in serious trouble had it not been for a stubborn knock of 22 by Parvez and some lofty hits by Rajesh. After the fall of Parvez for 22 and later Rajesh for a well played 55, there were little partnerships that took the score to 151. Eagles would have done much better if they had held their catches and not bowled 23 wides. Six catches were floored and Eagles need to do better if they are to succeed this season. In response, Eagles lost their first two wickets at 14, their third at 16 before a good partnership between Mohinder and Desmond that took the score to 60 when Desmond was out caught off Raju. Mohinder and Krishna then consolidated the inning before Mohinder was out for a well played 26. Krishna was then joined by Ken and they continued the rebuilding of the inning until Krishna lost his wicket after a stubborn knock of 17. Gary and Ken then saw Eagles home with a disciplined partnership. Gary was undefeated on 16 and Ken on 17. Good second win for Eagles who showed character in a well played match which showed Inland Empire taking the fight to Eagles. Good luck Inland Empire II, thanks for a good game.

Pegasus Back with a Bang

Pegasus returned to its winning ways after a horrible patch during the last 3 weeks. They were playing Century CC. Winning the toss, the Pegasus captain, elected to bat on a sunny but breezy morning. The openers put up a 64 run stand before Faizan got out for a quick 25. Nazim and Ali Shafi continued steadily and put up an 85 run partnership before Nazim departed, not before he notched up yet another half century, scoring 76. Ali scored his 1st 50 of the season. Runs continued to flow until Pegasus lost Zeeshan, Ali and Elmore in quick succession. Haider & Jawaid closed the innings with a flurry of boundaries scoring 28 & 20 respectively. Malinda bowled a tight line for Century during the course of the inning and kept the Pegasus run rate under control. Maduka took 3 wickets while Roy took 2. Chaminda took 1 wicket and impressed the onlookers with his “Malinga styled” action, generating decent pace. Pegasus ended up scoring 258 at the end of 45 overs. Century began their innings amid an onslaught by the Pegasus pacers. Elmore and Nitesh bowled with venom and purpose pegging back Century. Both bowlers ended up with 3 wickets a piece. Haider and Sameer wrapped up the tail with 2 & 1 wicket respectively. For Century, Roy scored 26 runs. Century were bundled out for 63 within 16 overs. Pegasus needed this win after a bad patch. However, this victory should bring enough kick into the Pegasus side to go forward and challenge the big guns in the Premier Division. Good Luck to Century for the rest of the season.

BritDom notch up first win

BritDom chased a total of 249 and comfortably completed the task with wickets to spare. San Diego won the toss and unsurprisingly decided to bat first. With a hard track and hot conditions, they managed toe score 249 for 9. Pick of the batsmen were Raja and Nishanth, who both reached the 40's. Grant and Rocky both bowled very well, with not much success for their toil. BritDom responded well with their innings, always picking up the required over run rate. Dave Collicutt, who ended with 93, shared two great partnerships with Grant and Carl, which comfortably brought BritDom to the set total of 250. Grant and Carl reached 37 and 47 respectively. San Diego played a very good game, but probably didn't help their cause by bowling 42 wides. Good luck for rest of season

Zain gets a hatrick!

Vijayta won the toss and elected to field first. Hollywood 1 openers Thilan and Divyesh provided a decent start till Thilan went for a big one and got caught. The first wicket fell at the score of 23 then Divyesh got out on the next ball from Zain. It was a hatrick ball for Zain after claiming wickets of Thilan and Divyesh, Mandip tried to sweep the hatrick ball and got bowled. Zain claimed the hatrick. Hollywood was struggling at the score of 23 for 3 , the things became more worse when Aditya, Nikhil and Ritesh got out cheaply to Hammad and were struggling for 50 for 6 at first drinks break. Ankit and Basit got together and played cautiously with a plan to play out as many overs as possible without losing any further wickets. The plan worked and runs started coming once the bowlers became frustrated. Ankit and Basit put on 90 plus partnership when Ankit got out. At this stage, Hollywood was 150 for 7, the debutant Rishabh Nanda walked in to join Basit who started hitting the ball very well. Rishabh and Basit went onto assault the Vijayta's bowling and put on a great show by putting 66 runs partnership in no time. Hollywood was now in good shape at 213 for 8 in 41 overs. Basit played well and scored 80 in 86 balls. Rishabh didn't stopped his assault on Vijayta bowlers and was smacking at will and helped reach Hollywood to a respectable total of 260. Rishabh stayed unbeaten on 69 in 30 balls. In reply, Vijayta started well and put on 100 runs but lost 4 wickets in doing so in 14 overs thanks to Tarun's quickfire 52 in 32 balls. Mehul Dave and Mrunal Patel were steadying the innings when Mehul gave away his wicket trying to play some extra shots and got out on 61. Vijayta's hope was depleted with Mehuls' wicket and they were 160 for 5 in 26 overs. It was upto Mrunal and rest of the tail to get those another 100 runs. However, defiant hollywood bowlers didn't took any breather and wrapped Vijayta's innings for 228 runs. Pick of bowlers for Hollywood were Anup Desai with 3 wickets, Basit,Aditya,& Nikhil sharing 2 wickets each. Hollywood won by 32 runs and it was a hard fought win. Good Luck to Vijayta for the rest of the season.

Santa Barbara continue 4th wining strek against San Diego 2

Santa Barbara made huge total of 304 for 5 wickets in 45 overs. Uditha Wijesundara 94, Jeevaka Weerasinghe 63 not out,Rodney Cutting 39and Priyanth Athu Korale 29. Sata Barbara 304 for 5 wickets Uditha Wijesundara 94 Jeevaka Weerasinghe 63 not out Rodney Cutting 39 Priyantha Athukorale 29 P Chellu 40 for 2 wickets Vishal Upadhyay 48 for 1 wicket Badri 29 for 1 wicket San Diego 2 all out 184 in 39.4 overs. Vishal Upadhyay 23 anil 20 Hasitha Gunarathne 21 Ali Khan 50 for 2 wickets Aman Ullah 33 for 2 wickets Rodney Cutting 18 for 2 wickets Mohommad Zanher 32 for 2 wickets

IE1 Kick Of The Season with Great Team Work

It was really good team work. IE1 won the toss and elected to bat first. The pitch was really bad with uneven bounce. IE1 mange to score only 94. In replay debutant Jay verma Bowl superbly 8-2-15-4 with the help of other bowler Vimal 8-4-15-4. It was really good game against SD3, All the best to SD3 for rest of the season

Vijayta continue winning streak

A chilli day in the middle of April was not a suitable condition for cricket but game was played with good spirits between both the teams. Vijayta managed to post a mere total of 212 however was too much for Pasadena to chase it down. Hammad and Zain continued their disciplined bowling getting the top order out but the pick of the day was young Mrunal Patel who took 5 wicket to help Vijayta earn their second victory of the season.

Vijayta registered first win of the season.

Pegasus elected to bat after winning the toss. Some disciplined bowling by Hammad Shahid and Zain Amlani along with some help from their spinners restricted Pegasus to 155. Vijayta chases down the total in 32.4 overs.

Friends succumb to Westwood's heat

On a hot day, where temperatures touched three digits, and most of the scoring was supposed to be done by running between wickets, thanks to lush green outfield, Westwood won the toss and did not hesitate to bat first. After steady start and with some middle order bolstering, Westwood managed a decent total of 176/9 in their allocated 40 overs. Friends started disastrously losing wickets at regular intervals, and had half of their squad back in the hut, by first drinks break. The second break was never needed, as they bundled out for 103 in just over 24 overs. Saurabh Alurkar was the pick of bowlers claiming 4 wickets, while Captain Raj helped himself to three catches after dropping one. Good luck Friends on your remaining season.

Vijayta register third victory of the season

Wong field is known for its great batting wickets however it was different for this game when the wicket has dust coming out of every ball. International was resisted to 196 by Vijayta. Mehul Dave managed to get 6 of the game. A much awaited come back was made by Tirth Sanyal who scored 39 not out to help Vijayta earn their 3rd victory.

IE1 Have something New In This Win

Inland Empire 1 won the toss and elected to field which is something new in home ground.... Like Sharjah for saeed anwar .... The same way Inland empire's home ground for Nevil Brown... Unfortunately he missed Century for 5 runs with 6 to 7 drop catches. Dharmendra bhakta bowl well and took 3 wickets. Betting time all batsman had good start but can not convert to big innings except Jay verma who made 41 runs with some extra ordinary shots. 8th wicket partnership 40 + runs have victory home for inland Empire 1 . It was sweet victory for IE1 and All the best to regal CC for rest of the season

Mirza scripts a thrilling victory

Good bowling by Pacifica to restrict Deccan for 109 runs. None of Deccan's batsman were able to score expect opener Nadun. Pacifica's reply started in a disaster with Harish being run out on 3rd over of the innings. Gagan, captain of Pacifica and Ravi rebuilt the innings but fall of Gagan's wicket triggered another collapse. Mirza played a composed and effective innings mixed with some big shots to take Pacifica home. Over all a good game played in good spirit by both the teams

Match Report

San Diego 2 started their season against United at home on a gloomy day with wind blowing like crazy. San Diego 2 had a game plan in mind if luck favored them. If SD2 wins the toss, go and bowl, and get the opponents out under 150 runs and put pressure on the United bowlers. Luck did not favor SD2 and Sandeep (for a change) lost the toss. United put SD2 to bat on a day where the ball would swing, given the conditions of the ground. Vishal along with Azhar went on to bat and it was so obvious Vishal was struggling to connect the ball to bat, trying to negate the swing. Azhar started very positively and he was in no pressure negating the swing. First 3 overs yielded only 4 runs for SD2. Vishal got a full pitch delivery, which he hit straight drive for a boundary and there was no seeing back for Vishal. Azhar and Vishal batted very sensibly rotating the strike and keeping the scoreboard ticking. After 10 overs, SD2 were 46/0. Azhar and Vishal negated the swing and the awkward bounce to see the new ball through. At the first break (17 overs), SD2 were 77/0. That’s where SD2 batsmen lost it. Azhar was the first one to go – inside edging to the stumps for a well made 27. Vishal was next to go inside edging to the keeper for 38. Qazi got run out trying hard for a second run. Qazi don’t worry – there were 2 runs in that shot but the ground was so slow the ball stopped. Brush it off. You are looking good in the batting department. Sanjit and Kumar had a small little partnership going when they both were adjudged lbw’s (110-5). Ramesh got out bowled trying to cut a ball, which kept reasonably low. Sandeep got out trying to clear the infield at mid off. Catch was well judged and suddenly SD2 were 122-7. Ameya got out bowled trying to play a slog shot, which was very much uncalled for (123-8 in 35.2 overs). Mangesh and Hasitha were at the crease and the only thing SD2 had in mind was to play the 45 overs. They did not disappoint. Both batted beautifully, rotated the strike, and kept the scoreboard ticking. They added 52 in 9.4 overs to boost SD2 total to 175-9 in 45 overs. Mangesh got run out on the last ball of the 45th over trying for the second run. SD2 defending 176 runs on their home ground was not easy. Looking at the conditions, SD2 had a good chance to defend it (if they did not give away extras). Vishal and Sandeep started the innings and bowled a good line and length and it was Sandeep who gave SD2 their first breakthrough. He got the ball to bounce an extra bit, which took the gloves of the batsman, straight to gully where Sanjit happily accepted the catch. Vishal complimented Sandeep by getting the ball to nip back at the batsman to get his stumps rattled (21-2). Both the bowlers gave a perfect start to SD2 innings (32/2 in 10 overs). Mangesh replaced Sandeep and Pradeep replaced Vishal. Mangesh flighted the ball beautifully and beat United batsmen on more than couple of occasions. Pradeep beat the bat consistently to put the pressure. Mangesh got the 3rd wicket when he flighted the ball to beat the bat and got a plumb lbw. Pradeep complimented Mangesh by bowling a furious off cutter to see the bails flying all over (45-4 in 13 overs). Before the break, Sandeep introduced Hasitha. Hasitha bowled the first ball of this season as a short, spinning, wide, which the batsman decided to pull just to see Vishal flying to his left at short mid-wicket to take a stunner. That was the first break. SD2 were very much into the game with having United 56-5 in 16.1 overs. As soon as the innings started, Sandeep removed Hasitha and got back Pradeep to get a breakthrough, which paid off when Pradeep got his 2nd wicket (81/6 in 21). Hasitha then came back into the attack and he bowled beautifully to get 2 of United’s batsmen lbw’s (108-8 in 28 overs). Amit for United took his chances and he scored 40. Credit goes to him for the fighting spirit he showed for his team. Sandeep decided to go for the kill getting Vishal back into the bowling attack replacing Pradeep. Vishal was pretty unlucky to not get a wicket. So the move did not work either. Hasitha got the 9th wicket (his 4th) by bowling the doosraa (the wrong ‘un), which rattled the stumps and United were 122-9 in 32 overs. Sandeep replaced Vishal and the match was over on his second ball when Amit decided to hit him out of the park, just to see Pradeep holding on to a well judged catch at widish long on. SD2 came out victorious in their first game of the season. Special mention to Jitu who came in as 12th man and was there on the field for the whole day. Thanks to Ram and Anil to show up at the ground to cheer up the team. Batting Highlights: Vishal 38 Hasitha 31 n.o. Azhar 27 Mangesh 16 Bowling Highlights: Hasitha 7-0-30-4, Sandeep 5.2-0-16-2, Mangesh 5-0-21-1, Pradeep 6-0-27-2 Vishal 9-0-27-1

Match Report

San Diego 2 started their season at Woodley against University at Woodley on a very hot day with no signs of any wind. The team decided to bat first IF Sandeep wins the toss. Luck did favor SD2 this time and SD2 decided to bat. Vishal along with Azhar went on to bat on a flat track. The new ball was swinging and bouncing. Vishal and Azhar took time to settle down and started ticking the singles along. Azhar was the first one to go when he flicked the ball straight to square leg. Soon Vishal got run out, as he did not pay enough attention on the ball. It was a pure case of careless dismissal. Suddenly score was 25/2. Qazi yorked himself and got bowled. Then Kumar was brilliantly caught at short midwicket (47/4 in 10 overs). The fielder dived full length in front of him to take the catch inches off the ground. Kudos to him! Jitu and Ramesh Badri had a small partnership going and the score reached 61/4 in 14 overs when Jitu was adjudged lbw. Sandeep went in and before he could set himself, he was given lbw for a ball that pitched outside the line of the stumps on the leg. Ameya also could not apply himself and he edged to first slip that took a good catch low on this left. Suddenly SD2 were reeling at 67/7 in 18 overs. Hasitha went in and joined Ramesh at the crease. Slowly and steadily SD2 started progressing. Both the batsmen started rotating the strike. Ramesh controlled his instincts to play the big shots, as the situation did not demand that. He succeeded in doing that. Hasitha was more attacking after 10 overs and SD2 scorecard read 143/7 in 34 overs. Ramesh completed his well-deserved, patient 50 with a single towards covers. Given the conditions, Ramesh played a brilliant knock. Hasitha decided to cut loose and hit a couple of boundaries before he skied one straight up and got out for a well deserving 37 (150/8 in 36 overs). Pradeep went in next as only 9 overs were left. Pradeep started off positively taking singles, and converting singles into two’s. Ramesh ran very hard between the wickets after 40 overs, given the fact he was batting there for more than 30 overs. Last 5 overs yielded around 53 runs for SD2 with Pradeep being the dominant scorer of the two. He hit a marvelous unbeaten 40 off 28 balls to pump up the score to 223/9 in 45 overs. Ramesh remained unbeaten on 76 very useful runs. Again SD2 batsman (Ramesh) and the tail-enders showed a strong character. Scoring 225 runs on Woodley was not easy. Looking at the conditions, SD2 had a good chance to defend it. Vishal and Sandeep started the innings and bowled a good line and length and it was Vishal who gave SD2 their first breakthrough in the first over. He got the ball full and swinging to get the batsman’s middle stump. Sandeep complimented Vishal by giving a low full toss just to see a great catch on his follow-through. He dived full length in front of him and took the catch one-handed leaving University 14/2 (2 overs). Vishal got the 3rd one with a slow full leg cutter. He got the batsman play a little early and had him plumb in front of the wicket. Pradeep replaced Sandeep and he bowled a beautiful line and length cutting the ball both ways. Sandeep came in for a 2 over second spell to try and get a wicket. He did get us a breakthrough. Sandeep got the 4th wicket when Pradeep took a well-judged catch running sideways at mid-off(59/4 in 15 overs). In the next over, Pradeep got one to move away from the left hander to see Vishal take a good catch at second slip (63/5 in 16). After a few overs, Hasitha came into bowl replacing Sandeep. Hasitha started slow in his bowling. Once he got his rhythm, he turned the ball away from the right handers and troubled them a lot. In the meanwhile, University had a nice partnership going to reach 103/5 in 22 overs. Hasitha’s 4th over created a tornado in University’s camp. He took 4 wickets in 1 over and the game was all over (one of their batsmen didn’t bat due to injury). His second ball saw Azhar do a smart stumping. His 4th ball was a dolly flighted full toss, which the batsman got totally confused about, and it hit him plumb in front of the wicket. His 5th ball was a slow turner where the batsman played away from his body to give a simple catch at short cover where Qazi gladly accepted it. His 6th ball was a ripper. He generated good amount of pace and bounce just to see the batsman get totally confused about. All he did was try to save his face. In the process he gloved it at short leg where Ramesh took an easy catch. So in short, HASITHA GOT A HATRICK! 105 all out in 23 overs, game over. University got all out for 105 and SD2 beat them comprehensively by 118 runs. Batting Highlights: Ramesh Badri 76 n.o. (103 balls) Pradeep 40 n.o. (28 balls) Hasitha 37 (44 balls) Jitendra 14 (26 balls) Bowling Highlights: Hasitha 4-0-17-4, Sandeep 7-0-34-2, Vishal 6-0-24-2 Pradeep 4-0-14-1

Santa Barbara Zanher 15 Vitesh 20 for 3 wickets Peshan Wedanaarachchi 34 Shayan 32 for 3 wickets Uditha Wijesundara 26 Saawab 29 for 2 wickets SCCA Youth Dewal 22 Ali 29 for 5 wickets Matthew 51*

Cal-Bel keeps up pressure

Inland Empire 1 won the toss and went in to bat and were all out at 32.4 overs with a tally of 116 runs. CAL-BEL then took to bat. It was a hard fought match. At first it looked like CAL-BEL was unable to keep a man at bat, with 5 wickets wown the score was only 62 runs and about 18 overs. With one player retired hurt they finally won the game with 5 wickets. Good luck CAL-BEL keep up the pressure.

Pulasthi hammers 106

After winning the toss Cal-Bel elected to bat and at the end of 40 overs with 4 outs tallied 270 runs. Pulasthi finished the game with a solid 106 Runs. Regal then entered to bat trying to catch the score but was not successful as they were bowled out for 69 runs in 17.4 overs. Goodluck To Regal for the rest of the season. Impressive Win by Cal-Bel keep up the spirit.

USC Batting - Tarun Sandhu 45 in 37 balls Daksh Raheja 42 in 30 balls Viral Somaiya 36 in 83 balls USC Bowling - Viral Somaiya - 5 for 27 Tarun Sandhu - 3 for 24

Match Report

After registering an impressive victory against the Colts, SD1 was ready for an important clash against Cosmos Cricket Club. 3 changes were made to the team from the 1 that played against the Colts. Joe, Ibrahim and Benny replaced Ganga, Afroze and Hrishi. Ananth was leading the side in the absence of Afroze. Ananth got off to a good start as the skipper by winning the toss and electing to bat on what looked like a fairly flat track. However it seemed like the decision backfired when SD1 were down 5 with just 90 on the board. Gaurav got bowled by a peach of a delivery from Hopton which pitched on middle and leg and swung late to take the off stump along with it. Joe started positively but played one shot too many and got out LBW to a delivery which came in to him. Ananth walked in at a time when the opponents were grinning to be at the top. He put away the first ball he faced from their strike bowler (Hopton) over the fence for a six to command a confident start .Rahil and Ananth consolidated for sometime without impacting the scoring rate. Rahil was looking quite impressive with a couple of his pull shots and some nudges for singles before miscuing a pull shot and giving a simple catch to square leg. Brij came and left as quickly after being trapped LBW by delivery which shaped into him. Shawn followed him and played some really impressive shots before his patience got the better of him and was out LBW while playing across. All this while Ananth stood his ground and played some really impressive shots to keep the scoreboard ticking. Thereafter Ananth and Hafiz joined forces and consolidated the inning with some intelligent batting. They kept the scoreboard ticking without taking any unnecessary chances. Soon Ananth reached his 50, his 2nd in as many games this season. Cosmos skipper introduced their strike bowler Hopton to break this threatening partnership and the move paid off when Ananth played a full toss straight back to the bowler which was well caught on his follow through. At this stage SD1 still had more than 15 over to play because of which the skipper decided to send Rubal up the order in order to play some time and hold back the strokemakers Benny and Ibrahim back for the last 10 overs. The move paid back really well as Rubal and Hafiz consolidated the inning while keeping the scorecard ticking. Hafiz was out to a dubious LBW decision after making a useful contribution and then Rubal fell while trying to accelerate the scoring. The fall of 2 wickets in quick succession got Benny and Ibrahim to the crease. Cosmos sensed an opening and decided to attack and bowl SD1 out. Much to their surprise both Benny and Ibrahim counter attacked effectively attacked which force them reverse their tactics. However this did not deter Ibrahim and Benny and both continued to play their shots and clear the field with relative ease. Ibrahim was out bowled while trying to score fast but not before he had played a very useful cameo. Vatsan the last man in stood in there supporting Benny. Benny played some outrageous shots, the 2 huge sixes off one over from Hopton stood out. It was one of the most brilliant exhibitions of hitting. He reached a well deserved victory and helped SD1 post a huge score of 301. Benny and Ibrahim stole the show at the end but that might not have been possible without the foundation setup by Ananth, Hafiz and Rubal. Cosmos faced an uphill struggle which became all the more difficult because of the brilliant opening spell from Rubal. He was unclucky not to have more than 1 wicket after beating the bat so consistently. Vatsan at the other end struggled to get into his usual rhythm, Abhishek Powar specifically played him well. Hafiz provided the 1st breakthrough when he had Abhishek playing a lofted shot to sqaure leg, he was deceived by the late swing. Rubal then got Hopeton out trying to avoid a very well directed bouncer. With two wickets down Brij came into bowl the last over before the drink’s break and the very first ball he bowled a beauty of a delivery which fell short of good length and the batsman spooned it back to him. In the same over he bagged another wicket and continued to bowl brilliantly. Thereafter the asking run rate kept going up and all the bowlers had to do was bowl on the stumps. Wickets kept falling at regular intervals with Hafiz taking 3 in all, Brij taking 4, Benny rounding his brilliant day in the field with 2 and Gaurav the official game finisher for SD1 took his customary last wicket. Cosmos was out for a meager 160 with Abhishek and Amar making some mentionable contributions. However their fate was sealed long back when Benny and Ibramin joined forces with the bat.