Cricket League of Iowa

Semi Final Heads up rely on the outcome of CRA Vs IBL game on Sept 12th.

Well done all teams. One more weekend to go before CLIA 2009 league phase is completed.

Match Report: ISU won the toss and batted first. After an early loss Anwar and Ankur had a great partnership of 90 runs . At the break ISU were in a good position at 107/2 . But Knights fought back with ISU collapsing and managed to score 179 all out in 29.4 overs. Adnan took 3 wickets with Amit and Sukhen chipping in with 2 each. Anwar scored 62 and Ankur 50 runs. In reply Knights never got going and with the aid nice swing bowling by karthik,Hemant,Jobin, and Sharan knights got all out for 90 runs in 20.1 overs. Karthik took 4 wickets with Jobin chipping in with 2 wickets.


Attached is ISU batting.


Thanks,

Ankur

CRA won the toss and elected to field on a cool day. CRA struck early with the wicket of Bala. NCC recovered to score 147 all out in 27.3 overs.

In reply, CRA scored 119 all out in 26.5 overs.

On what turned out to be a perfect day for cricket, ECC won the toss and elected to bat first. ECC lost an early wicket, but the middle order did well to pull through and post a daunting total of 240. After CRC spinners put the brakes on ECC scoring, Adarsh and Pradeep stitched together a brilliant 100+ run partnership. Pradeep (80) looked very comfortable against the bowling (66) and Adarsh played the anchor role to perfection. A quick fire 29 from Sunil in the end helped set a 8 r.p.o target for CRC. IN reply, CRC lost Siva early and some tidy bowling by both opening bowlers for ECC ensured that the required run rate kept climbing after each over. Right after the break, Ganesh (CRC) displayed his batting prowess with some brilliant hits all over the field. A quick run out, and a hat trick from Srini (ECC) helped ECC seal the game. Notable performance on the field for ECC was from Srini who took 4 blinding catches and a hat trick in his bowling.

Iowa Bulls won the toss and elected to bat on a perfect day of cricket. They got off to a good start getting to 32 off 4 overs. But they lost three quick wickets to set themselves back. Tariq and Mihir then steadied ship with some sensible batting until Mihir had to retire hurt with a hamstring pull. With Tariq holding anchor at one end and aided by some big hitting by Anand,Saket and Shiva Iowa Bulls posted a par score of 205 off 30 overs. To chase the total down Elite C.C needed a brisk start at the top of the innings. James and Anand got one wicket each to peg them back. With Tariq and Saket bowling well in tandem the pressure of the total started mounting up and it started showing with Elite losing wickets in their quest to step up the run rate. In the end they were all out for 100. Saket was declared the MOM for his quickfire 32 and 4 wickets.


Attached is the scorecard for the game

Aditya

NCC won the toss on a hot humid day and put Iowa Bulls into bat. Iowa Bulls got off to a sedate start losing a couple of early wickets at regular intervals. Utpal and Mihir helped steady things with a brilliant 100 plus run partnership. Utpal departed soon after scoring yet brilliant half century. Anand joined Mihir and hit some lusty blows to help Iowa Bulls posted 203 off 30 overs. NCC in reply got off to a good steady start scoring close to 5 runs an over till the drinks break. A couple of overs of spin helped break two crucial partnerships but Bala and Francis played wisely to get NCC within striking distance. Bala got out trying to use the long handle. JJ and Francis ensured there weren't any further hiccups to finish the nerve racking game in the last over.


Attached is the scorecard for the Iowa Bulls batting.

Aditya

CRAS won the toss and elected to field on an overcat morning. The CRAS bowlers Amer, Venkat and Ashok bowled tight line and length and tied down the CRC batsmen and at 15 overs break they were 42 for the loss of 2 wickets. After drinks break CRC were scoring brisk runs with some big hitting from Siva and Velu but losing wickets at regular intervals. CRC posted a score of 140 runs for 10 wickets. Amer, Ashok, Rakshith and Sendhil took 2 wickets apiece.

CRAS began their chase on a wrong note losing 2 early wickets but Mike and Mamu steadied the course for CRAS and at drinks break they were positioned at 49 for 2. Mike opened out after the drinks break and hammered 73 runs in 46 balls with 10 sixes. After Mike's exit CRAS won the game easily with Amer and Mamu finishing the game. Mamu carried his bat through the innings.

MOM: MIke Strydom.

ECC won the toss and put ISU to bat. ISU displayed a fantastic batting performance with their top order totally dominating the proceedings both before and after the break. Ankur, Prasanna, hemanth & Jobin scored at will against much of ECC's bowling attack on what turned out to be a fast and dry pitch.

In response, ECC got off to a flier with both openers scoring brisk runs. ISU pulled back with Anwar claiming both the openers, but ECC batsmen maintained a steady run rate through the early 20 overs. Sunil and Sudhir upped the tempo in the later overs to bring ECC home. Sunil 78 n.o. Was declared MOM

Sashank.

Match Report: Due to the late end of the first match both teams had to play a 25 over match. CRAS won the toss and elected to bat. Usman took two early wickets for ISU then CRAS had a nice partnership between Mike and Amir Ijaz of around 90 runs. With some late hitting CRAS scored 155/7 of 25 overs. Mike scored 46 runs and Amir 52 runs. For ISU Usman and LN took two wickets with Hemant , Prasanna chipping with 1 each. ISU openers prasanna and Ankur decided to attack in the first 7 overs and managed to score 50 in 7 overs for the loss of 1 wicket. Then it was matter of no undue risks and rotating the strike which Hemant and Ankur did and had a partnership of 90 runs which laid the platform. In the end ISU scored won the match with 8 wickets in 22.3 overs with Hemant scoring 55 not out and ankur 67 runs. Sendhil and Nadeem took 1 wicket each.


Attached is the scorecard for the match.