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NW CUP 2008 Report
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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The NW Cup is an annual competition among the leagues that comprise of
erstwhile NW region (BACA, CCL, NCCA, NWCL), and had a new entrant in
Sacramento Cricket Association (SCA). NW Cup'08 was played over 2 weekends -
March 29-30 and April 3-6. Full Report Can be downloaded from here
NW CUP 2008 Report - By saurabh Verma
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| | Rain prevents a result in match between Pioneers and Boeing Aviators | | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | |
Match#
08-58-II: Seattle Pioneers won by runs | | Warren G. Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA | | Toss won by Seattle Pioneers and elected to bat | | Seattle Pioneers: for in overs | |
Batting highlights:
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Bowling highlights:
| | Boeing: for in overs | |
Batting highlights:
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Bowling highlights:
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Man of the match:
from Seattle Pioneers | | Other notables |
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| | Rain prevents a result in match between Central and Redmond Chargers | | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | |
Match#
08-55-II: Central won by runs | | St. Edwards State Park, Bothell, WA | | Toss won by Central and elected to field | | Redmond Chargers: 217 for 10 in 39.5 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Anurag Katre 23, Anukul Veeraraghavan 38, Roger Harper 40, Rajiv Binwade 60 | |
Bowling highlights:
Lucky Singh 7.5-1-39-4, Sam Karwal 8-0-28-2, Banti Karwal 8-0-42-2 | | Central: 18 for 0 in 4 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Vipan Dutt 11 n.o, Banti karwal 4* | |
Bowling highlights:
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Man of the match:
from Central | | Other notables |
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| | Washout gives Microsoft Blues the Divisional Championship | | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | |
Match#
08-48-I: Microsoft Blues won by runs | | Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA | | Toss won by Microsoft Blues and elected to bat | | Microsoft Blues: 89 for 10 in overs | |
Batting highlights:
Chenchuram Mannam 20* (39) | |
Bowling highlights:
Srikanth Sundaragopalan 3/14 Naveen Kumar 3/17 | | Microsoft Greens: 46 for 1 in 15 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Naveen Kumar 23* | |
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Man of the match:
from Microsoft Greens | | Other notables | |
• Based on their head to Head win against the Greens, Microsoft Blues are the Premier Division Champions. The secure the number 1 seed and the bye in the first round. | |
• The Greens secured the second seed and the bye in the first round. |
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| | Seattle Patriots beat Redmond Colts by 3 wickets in key divisional clash | | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | |
Match#
08-57-II: Seattle Patriots won by 3 wickets | | Ron Regis Park, Renton, WA | | Toss won by Redmond Colts and elected to bat | | Redmond Colts: 182 for 10 in 39 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Mehul Dave 22(35), Mrinal 25(30), Bala 28(30) | |
Bowling highlights:
Shazad Jumani 4/37, Naveed 2/37, Jawad 2/29 | | Seattle Patriots: 174 for 7 in 30 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Jawad 94(56), Hassan 27(35) | |
Bowling highlights:
Bala 2/18 | |
Man of the match:
from Redmond Colts | | Other notables | |
• Redmond Colts lost Harold and Phani early and stabilized through Simon and Bala. | |
• Later solid batting from Mehul and Mrinal saw Redmond looking well set for a target of 200+. But, with both Mehul and Mrinal falling in quick succession Colts were in trouble at 149/9 | |
• The tailenders batted very positively. Mahesh 20(26) and Harish 17(17) to post 183/10 and use up valuable time with rain threatening. | |
• Patriots attempt to get a flying start to beat the threatening weather backfired when they lost both openers Shazad and Rehman cheaply. | |
• Hassan and hard hitting Jawad rebuilt the innings and they cruised past 150 in 23 overs with both scoring freely. | |
• Heavy rain set in and with both set batters gone the accurate bowling by Redmond made life difficult for the Seattle batters in pouring rain. | |
• With 9 runs needed play was halted due to the conditions which worsened fast. With relentless rain no further play was possible - Seattle Patriots won on faster run rate. |
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| | Sandeep mauls King County to take Reds to an easy victory | | Saturday, August 23, 2008 | |
Match#
08-46-I: Microsoft Reds won by 8 wickets | | Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA | | Toss won by King County Evergreens and elected to bat | | King County Evergreens: 113 for 10 in 34.1 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Adnan Sheikh 23(34) | |
Bowling highlights:
Sanjay Rama 6-0-17-5, Vijay Beniwal 6.1-0-20-2, Puneet Soti 6-1-22-2 | | Microsoft Reds: 117 for 2 in 13.4 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Sandeep Parab (MoM) 85 (46) | |
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Man of the match:
Sandeep Parab from Microsoft Reds | | Other notables | |
• Reds helped King County openers to a good start through couple of dropped catches. Arif Butt after hitting a couple of fours, went for one too many and was castled by Vijay. | |
• Ansar and Rama (debutant) put up a patient partnership, before Ansar was cleaned up by Rajiv. Adnan played a measured aggressive innings to score a quick 23, while couple of wickets fell around him. | |
• Excellent bowling by Puneet and Munshi helped setup Sanjay’s first over in which he got Adnan to sky an easy one to Mid-off. After this a procession of King County wickets followed and they were reduced from a healthy 84-4 to 113 a.o. Sanjay was the pick of the bowlers cleaning up one King County batsmen after the other. | |
• After a quick break… with a small crowd of curious onlookers on the sidelines, Sandeep decided to put up a show for them. | |
• Over #1, Adnan to Sandeep read 0, 4, 4, 0, 4, 0. 12 runs to start the game. After a couple of singles, Rutwick stepped out and hit a 4 over cover. He tried the same of Omair and was caught at covers. | |
• On the other end a nonchalant Sandeep proceeded to hammer the King County bowlers. It didn’t matter who was bowling, 14 – 16 runs were flowing every over. The team 50 was reached in 4.2 overs, with Sandeep on 43 of 13 balls. | |
• Two overs in the middle seem to calm things a little. Meanwhile Sandeep helped himself to a 50 of 22 balls. The 50 run partnership came quickly and Avinash fell to Adnan LBW, when the score was 72 of 7 overs | |
• In came Vijay and was trying to get his eye in, hence slowing things down… but Sandeep didn’t want a part of it. There was still 50 runs to get and the only way he knew was dispatching the bowlers to the boundary. There was no letting down as he helped himself merrily to 4’s and 6’s. Sandeep made a well made 85 of 46 balls, hitting 9 fours and 6 sixes. | |
• Adnan finished the innings giving 52 runs from his 6 overs and Omair went for 38 from his 3. Nikhil was the only economical bowler returning 15 from 4 overs | |
• Reds finished their innings under 56 mins in 13.4 overs. Sandeep was judged Man of the Match for his incredible knock |
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| | Eagles beat American Recreation–A easily | | Saturday, August 23, 2008 | |
Match#
08-45-I: Lake Washington Eagles won by 3 wickets | | Ron Regis Park, Renton, WA | | Toss won by American Recreation-A and elected to bat | | American Recreation-A: 90 for 10 in 27.1 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Anand Vaidyanathan 57*(77) | |
Bowling highlights:
Sageer Anjum Nakhawa (jMoM) 3/23, Viraj Desai (jMoM) 3/24, Samir Bhatt 2/22 | | Lake Washington Eagles: 91 for 3 in 22.2 overs | |
Batting highlights:
Ketan Patel 23*(28) | |
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Man of the match:
Viraj Desai (jMoM) and Sageer Anjum Nakhawa (jMoM) from Lake Washington Eagles from American Recreation-A | | Other notables | |
• American Recreation-A chose to bat and the ploy failed immediately as skipper GP was caught in point of the first ball of the game. | |
• Anantha and Raja received beautiful shaping away swingers from Anjum. Both squared up and cleaned up. | |
• Before opening attack slows down, score read 25/6 in 8 overs and pretty much sealed the fate of the game | |
• Anand Vaidyanathan however continued to play solid and also encouraged partnerships from lower end batsmen, putting on 33 and 21 run partnerships for 7th and 9th wicket. | |
• Anand took full advantage of couple of chances, over all played a very sensible and solid knock of 57* in 77 balls. He played some classic cover drives and waited for bowler’s mistakes and cashed almost all of those. | |
• American Recreation – A got all out [a player short] for 90 runs. | |
• Chasing 91 was going to be easy on a day wicket played well and outfield played fine as well. | |
• Eagles scored runs with relative ease for the loss of 3 wickets in 22.2 overs. | |
• Skipper Ketan Patel played well to get his 23 runs in 28 balls. |
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Team schedule:
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