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Team USA wins the series 3-0 against Canada and reserves a spot for Women's World Cup qualifier. NWCL's Rohini Prabhune was named woman of the match in the third match! Congratulations to Team USA and to our own Rohini Prabhune for wonderful achievement!!

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NWCL Members elected to Regional Posts :

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Congratulations to Mark Demos for his appointment as NWR Coach, Vishwa Gaddamanugu for getting appointed into Regional Selection Committee. We wish you all the best in your challenges and in bringing laurels to NWR region.

Latest Game Summaries

Lake Washington Eagles win by 37 runs with Chintan Mehta’s solid knock

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Match# 10-26-I: Lake Washington Eagles won by 37 runs

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Greens and elected to field

Lake Washington Eagles: 202 for 7 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Chintan Mehta [MoM] 45(55), Arpan Joshi 32(47), Viraj Desai 24(33), Digpal Sarvaiya 24(33)

Bowling highlights: Anoopkumar Hariyani 2/30, Ravi Bhayankaram 2/48

Microsoft Greens: 165 for 9 in 38.1 overs

Batting highlights: Arun Jayakeerthy 73(86), Rajiv Nandivada 27(21), Rajesh Munshi 6*(54)

Bowling highlights: Hiral Modi 3/28, Viraj Desai 3/34, Sageer Anjum 2/30

Man of the match: Chintan Mehta from Lake Washington Eagles

Other notables

• Digpal and Arpan gave Eagles a good start of 52 in 10 overs. After Digpal [24] and Arpan [32] departed, Greens captured inform Ashish/Nitin to make it 4/91 in 20 overs

• Chintan and Viraj used their height/footwork to tackle spinners. Chintan in particular hit some aggressive strokes. Both put on 49 run 5th wicket partnership.

• Kean and Hiral put on 28 runs in 5 overs for 8th wicket to take Eagles past 200.

• Chasing 203 Greens lost opener Waj in first over. That brought Arun Jayakirthy to wicket. Greens lost couple more quick wickets to make it 3/20

• Rajiv Nandivada provided some fireworks, hitting often and hitting it far, however mistimed one from Anjum to be caught.

• Rajesh hold one end while Arun picked up the pace. At one point they needed 46 runs in 4 overs. This pair put on 65 runs partnership for 9th wicket to make the scoreboard look respectable.

• Arun was finally caught at short long on for his chanceless 70 odd runs.

• Chintan Mehta was declared MoM for his 45 runs innings that provided much needed stand for the 5th wicket.

Redmond Chargers beat Seattle Explorere by 8 Wickets

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Match# 10-35-III: Redmond Chargers won by 8 wickets

Ron Regis Park, Renton, WA

Toss won by Seattle Explorers and elected to bat

Seattle Explorers: 109 for 10 in 29.3 overs

Batting highlights: Shammi Bhatti 24 [36], Musharaf Ali 16 [12]

Bowling highlights: Mahesh Chava (jMoM) 7.3-0-32-4, Pravin Deshmukh 8-3-15-2, Anurag Katre 6-0-17-2

Redmond Chargers: 111 for 2 in 23.2 overs

Batting highlights: Roger Harper (jMoM) 62no [68], Nilesh Borade 24no [34],

Bowling highlights: Irshad Amjad 5-0-19-2

Man of the match: Roget Harper & Mahesh Chava from Redmond Chargers

Other notables

• Explorers had a slow start, losing their first wicket with only 2 runs on the board. The 2nd wicket partnership took the score to 29 before the next wicket fell.

• From there on Explorers kept losing wickets at a regular rate

• At the 15-over break, Explorers were 42-4

• Pravin bowled a very impressive spell of 8 overs on the trot and troubled all the batsmen. With a little more luck he would have had a couple more wickets.

• After the break, Mahesh came on to bowl and in his 2nd over he picked up his first wicket. Mahesh continued unchanged and had all 4 of his wickets bowled.

• Roger and Mahesh opened the Redmond Chargers innings and put on 42 for the first wicket in only 11 overs

• 2 quick wickets gave some hope to Explorers, but an unbeaten partnership of 60 in 64 balls between Roger and Nilesh brought the game homw without any further trouble.

• For their performances with ball and bat respectively, Mahesh and Roger were named joint Man-of-the-Match

Spartans lost to South Side Fiery storm from Amit in Batting and Chintan in Bowling.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Match# 10-28-II: South Side won by 6 wickets

Tukwilla Cricket Field, Tukwilla, WA

Toss won by South Side and elected to field

Spokane Spartans: 165 for 10 in 39 overs

Batting highlights: Imran Hossain 40(59), Ravi Mangipudi *27 (40)

Bowling highlights: Chintan 6-0-28-4, Alok Sharma 8-1-24-2

South Side: 166 for 4 in 25.3 overs

Batting highlights: Amit Sharma 48(33) Nitin Grewal 27* (65)

Bowling highlights: hrishikesh joshi 7-0-46-2, Ravi Mangipudi 3-0-15-1

Man of the match: Amit Sharma & Chintan from South Side

Other notables

• South Side won the toss and elected to bowl firsts.

• Spartans had a great start with Imran and Durga collected 42 run in 10 overs before Durga became first victim of

• Alok then cleaned up the lower order with help of Kuldeep and some great fielding by South Side.

• South Side had a great start again !..Gurpreet and Nitin were consistently scoring runs before gurpreet got

• Here came Amit with fire coming out of his Bat and he announced his intention with taking charge and hitting

• Sikandar picked up where Amit left off and gave a great winning finish with his 17 runs in 9 balls. Nitin again

Seattle Patriots beat Microsoft in a close finish

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Match# 10-23-II: Seattle Patriots won by 3 runs

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Seattle Patriots and elected to bat

Seattle Patriots: 134 for 10 in 25.4 overs

Batting highlights: Anas Munir 27, Shazad Jumani 17

Bowling highlights: Akshay 4/22, Bharat 2/13

Microsoft Crimsons: 131 for 10 in 39 overs

Batting highlights: Karthik 41, Jagbir 22, Sirini 20

Bowling highlights: Hassan Shah 4/22, Shazad Jumani 3/17, Naseer Jamali 2/38

Man of the match: Hassan Shah & Shazad Jumani from Seattle Patriots

Other notables

• Microsoft bowled with good disciplines to have Patriots struggle all day and get bowled out for 134 in excellent batting conditions

• Akshay 4/22 was the pick of the Microsoft bowlers

• Early wickets by Jumani supported by great catches in the field saw Microsoft also find the going hard, but Karthik with 41 and Jagbir helped Microsoft past 100 with only 4 down. Hassan spell of 4 wickets after the 30 over break triggered a collapse to see Patriots win by 3 runs with 6 balls to go

Seattle Patriots fight back to beat Central by 30 runs

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Match# 10-29-II: Seattle Patriots won by 30 runs

St. Edwards State Park, Bothell, WA

Toss won by Seattle Patriots and elected to bat

Seattle Patriots: 170 for 10 in 39 overs

Batting highlights: Abdullah 22, Anas Munir 22

Bowling highlights: Vipan Dutt 3/39, Banti Karwal 3/27, Bobby Singh 2/27

Central: 140 for 10 in 29.1 overs

Batting highlights: Sam Karwal 24, Bunti Karwal 22

Bowling highlights: Zia Khan 3/26, Anas Munir 3/28, Naveed Deen 2/22

Man of the match: Naveed Dean from Seattle Patriots

Other notables

• Patriots got off to a bad start and never really recovered on a wicket with variable bounce and many staying on the floor

• Anas and Abdullah both helped Patriots get to 100 , but with 8 down and still 20 overs to go it was left to Naveed 14*with support from Jumani 15 and Faizal 18 who batted with great care and common sense to add 70 runs for last 2 wickets to finish on 170.

• Central got off to a reasonable start and looked well placed with 100 with 4 down thanks to the Karwal partnership. Zia Khan, Anas Munir and Naveed kept the pressure by taking wickets and not letting Central settle to win in the end by 30 runs

Hypersonics forfiet to WSU

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Match# 10-33-III: WSU-Pullman won by 10 wickets

Rogers/Orton Playfield, Pullman, WA

Toss won by WSU-Pullman and elected to bat

WSU-Pullman: 0 for 0 in 0 overs

Batting highlights: None

Bowling highlights: None

Boeing - Hypersonics: 0 for 0 in 0 overs

Batting highlights: None

Bowling highlights: None

Man of the match: None from WSU-Pullman

Other notables

Chak De Oregon rolls over an understrength Microsoft Reds

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Match# 10-28-I: Chak De Oregon won by 10 wickets

David Martin Memorial Field, North Plains, OR

Toss won by Chak De Oregon and elected to field

Microsoft Reds: 93 for 7 in 28.1 overs

Batting highlights: Amit 25[39]

Bowling highlights: Varun Juneja 2/27, Naveed Iqbal 2/4, Ujwal Paidpathi 2/21

Chak De Oregon: 94 for 0 in 12.4 overs

Batting highlights: Badri Varadharajan 32*[36], Vijay Sundaresan 27*[24]

Bowling highlights: Thomas Varghese 0/26

Man of the match: Badri Varadharajan from Chak De Oregon

Other notables

• Microsoft Reds fielded only 8 players in this game.

• Chak De Oregon won the toss and elected field first.T MSR openers started well. After some wayward bowling initially by Chak De Oregon bowlers, Varun got the first break through with a beautiful in-swinger.

• After that MSR lost wickets at regular intervals. Amit and Mahesh provided some brief sparks.MSR were all out [7 Wickets] for 93.

• Chak De Oregon started strong with Vijay and Badri.MSR fought hard to keep things tight despite having only 8 men on the field. It proved to be a daunting task.

• Vijay and Badri scored freely and by drinks break [10 Overs], Chak De Oregon was at 78/0.

• Following the drinks break, Tarun and Vijay Mannem replaced Vijay and Badri. Tarun opened up quickly with a couple of well-hit boundaries. Chak De Oregon wrapped things up by the 13th over.

Redmond Colts win comfortably over ARCC with allround effort

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Match# 10-24-I: Redmond Colts won by 5 wickets

Redmond Jr. High School, Redmond, WA

Toss won by American Recreation and elected to bat

American Recreation: 129 for 10 in 32.4 overs

Batting highlights: Raghuram 33(40)

Bowling highlights: Phani Chitneni 3/15; Rajiv Binwade 3/36

Redmond Colts: 130 for 5 in 27.2 overs

Batting highlights: Nilesh Rane(MoM) 58*(60), Venkat Reddy 29(30)

Bowling highlights: Ram Sundaram 2/3, Venkataramani N 2/35

Man of the match: Nilesh Rane from Redmond Colts

Other notables

• ARCC won the toss and elected to bat.

• Colts opening bowlers Phani and SB bowled in tandem for their full quota of 16 overs using the cloudy conditions to good effect and ripped through the top order of ARCC with Phani accounting for Anand, GP and Ram, courtesy of excellent stumping from keeper Venkata Phani and SB accouting for Kris Raman pegging ARCC back to 44/4 at the end of 15 overs.

• Despite losing the plot in middle overs Colts came back strong to get ARCC all out for 129 with couple of ARCC batsman throwing their wicket away on sloppy shot attempts. 30 extras was second highest score in ARCC inning.

• Vice Captain Venkata Phani had a excellent day in the field with 4 catches and a stumping.

• Rajiv took 3 wickets and Raghu took 2 while Nilesh accounted for one

• Colts started well and despite losing Venkata Phani early stiched together a defining partnership with Venkat Reddy and Nilesh Rane stiching together a defining partnership of 80 runs.

• Nilesh ensured Colts sailed through comfortably despite couple of quick wickets towards the end due to good bowling by Ram Sundaram and good catching by Raghuram and Raj.

• Venu Belpu ended the game with consecutive boundaries.

• Nilesh was adjudged MoM for his composed inning of unbeaten 58 to see Colts home

Redmond Colts Beat MSFT Blues

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Match# 10-20-I: Redmond Colts won by 31 runs

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Redmond Colts and elected to bat

Redmond Colts: 208 for 10 in 38.4 overs

Batting highlights: Rajiv 56 (53), Phani Chitneni 33(49), SB 30(30), Nilesh Rane 22(40)

Bowling highlights: Kamesh J 3/31; Arun TJ 2/33

Microsoft Blues: 177 for 10 in 35.2 overs

Batting highlights: Arvindh S 26(22), Arun TJ 24(26), Ram kumar 21(28)

Bowling highlights: Raghu M 3/24, Phani Chitneni 2/24

Man of the match: Simon Paola from Redmond Colts

Other notables

• Colts lost two early wickets and were 19/2 before Nilesh Rane playing cautiously but putting away bad balls to boundary and SB with aggression added 53 runs in little over 8 overs to take colts 72/2.

• Three wickets fell in quick succession due to the pressure built by Arun’s wily off spin which brought Phani and Rajiv to crease with score reading 93/5 in 18.1 Overs.

• Both put together a match turning partnership of 82 runs in 89 balls playing the good balls out and punishing marginal balls to boundaries. Colts looked set to score well above 200 at that point.

• Good bowling by Ram and Kamesh resulted in flurry of wickets including Rajiv who crossed a very well played 50. Courtesy of no.11 Harish’s 13 n.o, Colts reached 208 and were all out in 38.3 overs.

• Colts got Kamesh early but No.3 Arvindh came in and was severe on bad balls dispatching them for boundaries with élan but went for one too many and fell to an acrobatic catch from Harish Krishnan on the square leg boundary.

• Colts pumped up from that effort started putting pressure on Blues with good bowling and fielding. Harish bowled Lovekesh with a beauty and substitute fielder Roger ran out Anirudh followed by Vikas Vennavali taking stunning reflex catch at wide slip of leg spinner Raghu to get rid of Samarth and push Blues on back foot at 80/5.

• Raghu bowled an impeccable spell from one end but Arun and Sairam put together an important partnership of 46 runs from 45 balls threatening to take the game away.

• Raghu’s persistence paid off as he got Arun and Hari in quick succession sliced by Roger’s quick work in the infield that got Sairam run out on a direct hit.

• Blues were 142/8 but with manageable required run rate Ram Kumar and John stitched together a good 33 runs partnership but eventually fell to the pressure of run chase when Ram got run out by Fahad/Rajiv combination. Vikas cleaned up the last batsman and Colts secured a 31 run win.

Kamesh’s fiery opening spell enables MS Blues to beat MS Greens

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Match# 10-25-I: Microsoft Blues won by 8 wickets

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Blues and elected to field

Microsoft Greens: 96 for 10 in 32.5 overs

Batting highlights: Kalyan Siruvuri 21, James Crosthwaite 18, Puneet Soti 15

Bowling highlights: Kameshwar Jayaraman 6-1-22-3, Arun Jayakeerthy 6.3-0-11-3, Samarth Shah 7-0-15-2

Microsoft Blues: 97 for 2 in 24.2 overs

Batting highlights: Aravindh Sundaragopalan 39, Samarth Shah 30*, Vijay Beniwal 14*

Bowling highlights: Rajesh Munshi 8-0-28-1, Rajiv Nandivada 3-0-19-1

Man of the match: Kameshwar Jayaraman from Microsoft Blues

Other notables

• Greens and Blues had a close contest in the beginning of the season with Greens winning by a wicket. The conditions were overcast and it was a good toss to win for Samarth who promptly put the Greens to bat.

• Puneet and James played fluently hitting boundaries all over the ground.

• Kamesh got James out caught in the gully. Thanks to Aniruddha for taking an excellent catch.

• Kamesh was at his best in the season clearing the 3 top order batsmen with Puneet and Anupam getting out in the same over.

• Vijay took the wicket of Sanjay Tiku and Greens now had already lost 4 wickets.

• Kalyan and Ravi began consolidating and played cautiously. Ram and Aravindh began bowling and continued the pressure the opening bowlers had started.

• When both the batsmen started looking settled Arun Jayakeerthy bowled excellently, stopping runs and took Ravi’s wicket.

• Kalyan was trying to hold one end but Samarth and Arun took couple more wickets each and Greens were all out for 96. Kamesh and Arun were the pick of the bowlers for Blues.

• Blues started with Vik and Samarth with Vik getting out initially and Aravindh had to go in.

• Both Samarth and Aravindh made sure they were playing their natural game and played freely with runs flowing more than asking rate. Both the batsmen made some good shots which cleared the boundaries. They had a good partnership of 60 runs which pretty much sealed the victory for Blues. Vijay and Samarth played well to finish the game in 24th over. Overall a convincing win for the Blues.

Microsoft Reds win a close game against LWCC Eagles

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Match# 10-23-I: Microsoft Reds won by 1 wickets

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Lake Washington Eagles and elected to bat

Lake Washington Eagles: 179 for 8 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Ashish Chokshi 45 (95), Nitin Panchal 56 (72), Viraj Desai 34 (26)

Bowling highlights: Srikanth Sundaragopalan 8-1-22-3, Saurabh Verma 8-0-21-2, Maheshwar Jayaraman 8-0-36-2

Microsoft Reds: 180 for 9 in 39.2 overs

Batting highlights: Sriram Gopal 26(34), Srikanth Sundaragopalan 50 (70), Saurabh Verma* 63 (59)

Bowling highlights: Sanjay Rama 8-0-37-3, Ketan Patel 4.2-1-17-3

Man of the match: Srikanth Sundaragopalan & Saurabh Verma from Microsoft Reds

Other notables

• LWCC had a shaky start when they lost two quick wickets with only 15 runs on the board.

• LWCC, however, recovered with an outstanding 114 runs 3rd wicket partnership between Ashish Choksi and Nitin Panchal. At the 30 overs mark, they had managed to take to score to 129 with Ashish batting on 45 and Nitin on 56.

• Saurabh bowled a superb 31st over where he got rid of both Ashish & Nitin in the same over and reduced LWCC to 129/4.

• MS-Reds bowlers bowled well in the last ten overs to restrict LWCC to 179/8, in spite of some good aggressive batting from Viraj who scored a quickfire 34 of 26 balls.

• Chasing 180, MS-Reds started off well with a decent opening stand of 35 runs. Especially, Sriram played well for his 26 runs of 34 deliveries which included some nice looking boundaries.

• With some good bowling from Sanjay and Sameer, MS-Reds lost some quick wickets and were reduced to 66/4 of 17 overs.

• Srikanth and Saurabh stabilized the innings with a very good partnership of 87 runs which unfortunately ended when Srikanth was run-out due to a mis-communication. Srikanth ended his innings with a well-made 50 of 70 deliveries. At that time, MS-Reds needed 27 runs of nearly 7 overs with 5 wickets in hand.

• Following the fall of Srikanth's wicket, MS-Reds again lost some quick wickets, courtesy of some poor shot selection and some good bowling from LWCC (especially Sanjay and Ketan)

• In the end, MS-Reds won the hard-fought match with 4 balls to spare. Saurabh batted well and remained not out on 63.

Boeing Hypersonics win over WSU-P

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Match# 10-29-III: Boeing - Hypersonics won by 81 runs

St. Edwards State Park, Bothell, WA

Toss won by WSU-Pullman and elected to field

Boeing - Hypersonics: 194 for 10 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Nelson Jeyarajah 46 (61) Prakash Patel 26 (32) Amar Makadia 21 (46)

Bowling highlights: Srinivas Achanta 3/25, Narendra Parmar 2/16

WSU-Pullman: 113 for 10 in 30.1 overs

Batting highlights: Srinivas Achanta 43

Bowling highlights: Ali Khan 6/21, Amar Makadia 2/6 , Harpreet Bal 2/14

Man of the match: Nelson Jeyarajah and Ali Khan from Boeing - Hypersonics

Other notables

• After a couple of quick wickets Amar stabilized the innings, later Nelli’s inningsand good contributions lower down the order including some Afridiesque hitting by Prakash Patel pushed Boeing to a 194 total.

• Good Bowling start by Harpreet, was given a jolt with the pace of Ali Khan who went through the WSU batting lineup. Amar also chipped in with his lollies.Srinivas Achanta in the WSU team battled the whole way and took WSU to a respectable score.

Sanjeev 'Catch everything' Khanna helps ARCC beat MS Reds

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Match# 10-22-I: American Recreation won by 4 wickets

Ron Regis Park, Renton, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Reds and elected to bat

Microsoft Reds: 108 for 10 in 37.3 overs

Batting highlights: Avinash Upadhyay 24(44)

Bowling highlights: Parthasarathy Govindarajen 3/8, Venkatramani Narayanan 3/23, Sanjeev Khanna 2/18, Kris Raman 2/26

American Recreation: 112 for 6 in 24.5 overs

Batting highlights: Anand Vaidyanathan 29(56), Imran Rafiq 26(20)*

Bowling highlights: Saurabh Verma 3/23, Aseem Datar 2/31

Man of the match: Sanjeev Khanna from American Recreation

Other notables

• MS Reds won the toss and elected to bat and were in trouble right away with Pradeep getting out caught and bowled to Sanjeev in the 5th over. Sanjeev took the first of his 4 tumbling catches to a ball that gently lobbed up off the top edge. In the very next over, Venkat struck two vital blows getting Srikanth Sundaragopalan lbw and dismissing Saurabh Verma bowled off the very next ball. MS Reds were in deep trouble at 10/3 by the end of 6 overs.

• Aseem Datar and Avinash Upadhyay staged a recovery by taking the score along to 51 before Avinash fell to well judged catch from Vibhu falling forward to a dying ball at mid off. Sanjeev then moved into the slip position and the ball started flying to his left and right and he kept catching them with elan. The next 2 wickets fell in a smilar fashion off the bowling of Kris and GP, with Sanjeev taking both the difficult catches with considerable ease. Reds slipped further to 65/6.

• Aware of the perils of letting the bottom order run away to a big score, ARCC bowlers bowled a consistent line and length and denied any width for the batsmen to free their arms. GP bowled 7 overs in a row at this stage and returned amazing figures of 7-2-8-3. With the fielders taking every chance coming their way, the MS Reds lower order were finding it difficult to get any momentum going. Srini focussed on taking the team to the end and put on 19 runs with Chenchu for the 7th wicket and 15 runs for the last wicket with Akshaya. Sanjeev took another sharp two-handed catch to send Thomas back and Anand V took the last 2 catches to complete a wonderful bowling and fielding performance by ARCC.

• ARCC opened their chase with Sunil chancing his arm and Anand content on playing the sheet anchor role. They took the score to 24 by the sixth over before Sunil was out bowled to Srikant off a very good slower ball. GP and Anand then added 43 runs in the next 10 overs playing good percentage cricket with minimum fuss. Saurabh Verma accounted for GP caught at short midwicket off a mishit and that triggered a wobble in the ARCC middle order.

• Anand was out in the next over after a well made 29, unfortunately crashing a drive right into Aseem's hands. Kris fell in the next over out lbw to Saurabh, but with only 28 runs required at that stage, ARCC held the upper hand. Ram Raghuraman and Vibhu played in a positive fashion in the company of Imran to score 20 runs in the next 5 overs, but both lost their wickets too.

• With 18 runs still required, Imran and Laks played and ran sensibly to finish things off with no further loss of wickets. Imran played a nerveless innings of 26 with 2 sixers and 2 fours, making sure he defended well the balls he was not hitting and hitting hard the ones he was and finished the innings with a six over midwicket.

• Sanjeev Khanna was adjudged the Man of the Match for his 4 fine catches and 2 wickets.

WSU-Pullman beats short-handed Star Club with a crushing 8-wicket win

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Match# 10-26-III: WSU-Pullman won by 8 wickets

Rogers/Orton Playfield, Pullman, WA

Toss won by WSU-Pullman and elected to field

Star: 65 for 10 in 20.2 overs

Batting highlights: Gurman Dhami 12[31] and Manjit Rai 21[27]

Bowling highlights: Kumud Raj 3/19, Deepak Venkateswaran 2/33, Srinivas Achanta 2/2

WSU-Pullman: 67 for 2 in 8.3 overs

Batting highlights: Ranganath Mamidi 29[8], Sujeet Verma 18[16], and Narendra Parmar 12[24]

Bowling highlights: Amarjit Singh 1/20 and Manjit Rai 1/24

Man of the match: Kumud Raj from WSU-Pullman

Other notables

• In his first NWCL game as the Captain of WSU-Pullman, Dilip Raghunathan won the toss and asked the opponents to bat first on a hot day. Star played the entire game with just 9 players in the team.

• Gurman Dhami and Manjit Rai started off confidently for their team and scored 38 runs of 57 balls. Then Kumud Raj struck twice in his 5th over. The score went from 38 for no loss to 43 for 5 due to some excellent bowling by Kumud Raj and Deepak Venkateswaran. WSU-Pullman bowlers were well supported by excellent fielding. Narendra Parmar took two outstanding catches at long-off.

• The only other notable partnership was between Dilpreet Singh and Wasif Nazir (15 runs of 33 balls). Srinivas Achanta (2 for 2) and Devendra Shah (1 for 10) bowled well for WSU-Pullman to clean up the Star tail-enders.

• WSUCC-Pullman opening batsmen scored briskly to take the score to 28 (35 balls) when Narendra Parmar lost his wicket. Sujeet Verma fell at the total of 38 for a well-made 18 runs of 16 balls, and then Ranganath Mamidi walked in with a heavy bat. Ranganath's batting was so furious that the remaining 29 runs were scored in just 9 balls. Ranganath hit 4 boundaries and 2 gigantic sixers for his unbeaten 29 runs of just 8 balls (strike rate of 360%).

• Kumud Raj was adjudged the 'Man of the Match' for his brilliant bowling spell (8-2-19-3), which took the game away from the Star team at the very beginning of the match.

Lake Washington Eagles win comfortable ove rChak de

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Match# 10-21-I: Lake Washington Eagles won by 79 runs

Redmond Jr. High School, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Lake Washington Eagles and elected to bat

Lake Washington Eagles: 229 for 10 in 39.2 overs

Batting highlights: N/a

Bowling highlights: N/A

Chak De Oregon: 148 for 10 in 34 overs

Batting highlights:

Bowling highlights:

Man of the match: from Lake Washington Eagles

Other notables

Central sweep the season series from Seattle Pioneers with help form Tirath Bassi

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Match# 10-21-II: Central won by 4 wickets

St. Edwards State Park, Bothell, WA

Toss won by Seattle Pioneers and elected to bat

Seattle Pioneers: 177 for 10 in 38 overs

Batting highlights: Dilman Singh 50(57), Bunti Sarai 26(43), Ankur Babuta 25(32)

Bowling highlights: Bobby Singh 4/29, Maxwel Lal 2/22, Banti Karwal 1/29

Central: 180 for 7 in 28.5 overs

Batting highlights: Tirath Bassi 53(56)*, Gurpreet Singh 53(43) 5x6, Kamal Singh 25(20)

Bowling highlights: Vineeth Omkaram 3/24, Bunti Sarai 2/47

Man of the match: Tirath Bassi* and Gurpreet Singh from Central

Other notables

• Seattle started the game and they were down 4 in 5.5 over with 23 runs

• 5th wicket partnership form Dilman Singh and Mike Sachar of 41(67)

• 6th wicket partnership form Dilman Singh and Bunti Sarai of 50(50)

• Dilman hit some great shot to help Seattle get to a defendable total of 177

• Central started good with 1st wicket partnership of 30 run form Bobby Singh (playing his first game after 3yr in the NWCL) and Kamal Singh

• Central were down 4 in 12.1 at 59, than Gurpreet Sing and Tirath Bassi gave Central a much need Partnership of 78 (63)

• Tirath Bassi won the game for Central with help of Banti Karwal and Sam Karwal in the 29th over. Tirath Bassi and Gurpreet Singh were Man Of The Match

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