The losing streak continues :(

Another weekend, same story. After M2's loss to Lanka Lions, M3 was hoping to bring some good news for Marina. On paper it looked like a good team and hence the hope.

Things started well for M3...we scored 171/7 in 30 overs. Babai made an excellent unbeaten 55 and was the star batsman. Prem (20+), Mohan(25+) and Bansal(11+) batted well and we were able to reach 171. So far so good.

Then the drama started. Baring the few opening overs, all our bowlers were literally hammered by the Lanka batsmen. They finished the game in the 19th over at the cost of 4 wickets. The batting was good, but they were really helped by wayward bowling and 43 extras. These 43 extras could have been a lot more, if Deep (our new keeper) had a bad day. His keeping was one of the few positives of the match. The field placing is also an area that we need to a hold on.

After more then a month's wait, a loss like this can be really demoralizing. But we have another chance to redeem ourselves on 5th June. We should prepare ourselves as best as we could in the next few days and be ready for the challenge.

Weekend Teamlist

At last M2 and M3 have some league matches. I'm sure after a month of waiting everyone must be raring to go and play some good cricket. So as captains (me and akki) expect some amazing performance from you all. We hope the preparation was descent enough and all those practice will come good in these matches.

So here are the teams for the two matches.

Lanka Lions 2 vs Marina 2
Ground: Turf City B
Date and Time: 28th May 2010, 1 pm

Team
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1. Akshay Sharma
2. Amit Joshi
3. Arun Bhaskar
4. Naveen Veeravalli
5. Ritesh Moudgil
6. Paul Badeskar
7. Faiz Modak
8. Chandrakiran Halaharivi
9. Prem Subramanian
10. Vivek Chopra
11. Amit Redkar


Marina 3 vs Lanka Lions 2
Ground: Turf City B
Date and Time: 30th May 2010, 1pm

Team
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1. Rajkishore Patel
2. Amit Bansal
3. Yogesh Naik
4. Prem Subramanian
5. Vishesh Goel
6. Mohan Roy Gargi
7. Arunva Banerjee (Deep)
8. H. S. Srinivas
9. Haroon Mufti
10. Mani Bhat
11. Natarajan Sundararaman (Ramji)

All of you be on the ground at 12 15pm sharp. It's an afternoon game, so I hope all of you can be there on time.

Both the teams look good and you all should expect to get some good match reports at the end of the game. All your best wishes are requested :)

-Raj & Akki

Marina 1 vs IA - Match Summary

Prabhu won the toss and decided to field. The first wicket came early, but the next pair batted well and put up a big partnership. Few wickets fell towards the end of the innings, but the IA batsmen kept scoring steadily. They were at 195 in 33 overs when the rain came.

It looked like washout, but the rain stopped and the Marina guys put a lot of effort to get the ground back into playable condition. In the end the game re-started at 5 40pm with a target of 112 in 16 overs. Vignesh and Ganesh started well for Marina and the partnership lasted till the 9th overs. The required run rate was slightly over 6 that time. But after that wicket, the IA bowler put the breaks on our scoring with regular wickets. Prabhu got out for in the first ball. Prem and Chandru were runout.

In the end 21 was required in the last two overs. Marina batsmen couldn't get the boundaries and we fell 6-7 runs short.

Return of Ramji

Our dear Ramji has decided to come out of his retirement. He has been registered for M3 and is available to play for M1/M2 if required.

Welcome back Ramji.

Marina 1 vs CSC - Match Summary

M1 vs CSC2 on 25th April 2010 at CSC

(Full Scorecard to follow later)

Marina1 won the toss and bowled first...

Prabhu and Mahesh opened the bowling, keeping the batsmen quiet with tight lines & lengths
2 wickets fell within first 5 overs, courtesy a sharp catch by Mahesh off Prabhu and a run out

Then the slow bowlers - Sri and Arun came on and immediately put the brakes on scoring
They bowled 16 overs in tandem, giving away only 53 runs & picking up 4 wickets between them
Arun especially bowled superbly, picking up 3 wickets
Surya and Maggie then came on and finished whatever little batting was left in CSC2
CSC2 was bundled out for 132 all out in the 36th over...

Bowling Stats:
Prabhu: 5 overs - 1 maiden - 13 runs - 1 wkt
Mahesh: 5 overs - 32 runs
Sri: 8 overs - 2 maidens - 22 runs - 1 wkt
Arun: 8 overs - 31 runs - 3 wkts
Surya: 5 overs - 14 runs - 2 wkts
Maggie: 4.5 overs - 1 maiden - 17 runs - 2 wkts

A big improvement on extras - 11 wides vis-a-vis the 24 we gave in the previous match

The chase was orchestrated superbly in clinical fashion
Ganesh and Vignesh put on their 2nd half-century partnership in 2 matches
Vignesh fell in the 8th over, caught at short cover after pushing a spinner back tamely
Thereafter it was fireworks time as Prabhu tore into the bowling with Ganesh playing 2nd fiddle
The duo put on unbeaten 85 runs in 8 overs that ensured M1 got the full 10 points in the kitty

Prabhu finished on 62 not out off just 28 balls with 5 sixes and 5 fours
Ganesh was at his steady best, scoring 40 not out off 50 balls with 3 fours

Batting stats:
Ganesh: 40 n.o. off 50 balls; 3 fours
Vignesh: 29 off 20 balls; 1 six & 4 fours
Prabhu: 62 n.o. off 28 balls; 5 sixes & 5 fours

Cheers!
Sri.