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NWCL Women's Select Team is travelling to California to play in their first inter-league tournament against Bay Area Team. Priya Ghate has been chosen as Captain of the team and Sangita Jayaraman will be the Vice-Captain. Sridhar Sundararaman will be travelling with the team as Coach/Manager. Congratulations to the team and we wish them all the best.
Debbie Furtado Hyma Raman Jenny Lawrance Lalitha Raman Manohita Gurram Pallavi Choudhury Pallavi Rao Priya Ghate	Rekha Seshadrinathan Rohini Prabhune Sangita Jayaraman Su Tan Vani Nori Vidya Kukke Yogita Manghnani

Congratulations to Vivek Jayaram on getting selected into the SWR U-15 Team

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Congratulations to Vivek Jayaram on getting selected into the SWR U-15 Team that will be playing in the National Tournament.

Congratulations to Naseer Jamali for getting selected to USA U19 All American 1st team

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Congratulations to Naseer Jamali and Nowrtwest Region U19 team for winning National Championship and also for Naseer and others from NorthWest for getting selected to USA U19 All American 1st team that will be playing in the U19 World Cup Qualifier in July.

Latest Game Summaries

MS-Greens fight back for a convincing victory against ARCC

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Match# 09-18-I: Microsoft Greens won by 58 runs

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by American Recreation and elected to field

Microsoft Greens: 152 for 9 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Sandeep Parab 21(17), Arun TJ 25(38), Harish Mohanan 19*(29)

Bowling highlights: Parthasarathy Govindarajen 3/15, Ilyas Mohammad 2/22, Venkataramani Narayanan 2/36

American Recreation: 94 for 10 in 26.2 overs

Batting highlights: Imran Rafiq 45(48)

Bowling highlights: Maheshwar Jayaraman 4/31, Saurabh Verma 4/25

Man of the match: Maheshwar Jayaraman from Microsoft Greens

Other notables

• Greens had a brisk start with Parab playing strokes all around the park but two quick wickets within span of 6 runs restricted Greens to 33/2.

• Arun and Saurabh had a 33 runs partnership with Saurabh scoring a couple of boundaries, but it ended with Saurabh getting out to a ball that came slow off the pitch.

• With the fall of Arun’s and then Chenchu’s wicket after break, Greens were 95/7 and ARCC were poised well to get Greens all out.

• However that was not the case to be as Harish and Abhijeet took charge of the situation to rescued Greens along with useful contributions from Mahesh and Prithvish. Together they added 57 runs on the board to set the target as 153.

• Mahesh and Arun started the bowling attack for Greens with Arun striking the first blow dismissing Sanjeev, caught behind by Parab.

• After that it was Mahesh all the way who bowled an amazing spell to run through the ARCC top order as they looked quite meek at 5/31.

• However Imran Rafiq of ARCC led the battle for ARCC and was scoring consistently.

• For Greens, Saurabh continued onslaught and scalped 4 wickets to end their batting with consistent bowling from Harish and Prithvish at the other end.

• Overall it was a total team effort by the Greens. Fielding Highlights : Chenchuram Mannam 3 catches.

Srikanth Sundaragopalan and Samarth Shah shine in MS-Blues victory against Lake Washington Eagles

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Match# 09-17-I: Microsoft Blues won by 109 runs

Redmond Elementary School, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Blues and elected to bat

Microsoft Blues: 231 for 8 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Srikanth Sundaragopalan [jMOM] 52(84), Kalyan Siruvuri 43(53) Thomas Varghese 23 (9)

Bowling highlights: Mark Demos (8-0-39-3) Nandesh Guru (8-0-41-3)

Lake Washington Eagles: 122 for 10 in 34.2 overs

Batting highlights: Shital Mehta 26(26), Nitin Panchal 25 (43)

Bowling highlights: Samarth Shah[jMOM] (8-3-26-5) Thomas Varghese (6-2-17-2)

Man of the match: Srikanth Sundaragopalan & Samarth Shah from Microsoft Blues

Other notables

• On an amazing day for cricket, MS-Blues won the toss and elected to bat. Srikanth and Ashwin opened for the Blues as Anjum and Viraj took the new cherry for Eagles.

• MS-Blues had brisk start due to the wayward bowling of Eagles and Srikanth batting with all the ease. Majority of the runs were extras. Eagles pulled back the scoring with some tight bowling and sent back Ashwin (12[42]) in the 12th over with the score reading 48.

• Avinash and Srikanth stitched together a nice little partnership of 32 runs in 6 over’s. 80/2 in 17.2 overs.

• Kalyan and Srikanth batted sensibly to take Blues to a position to go for an all-out attack 124/2 in 29 over’s.

• Srikanth made a classy half century and was out to a superb catch in the outfield by Rajesh. The lower middle order joined hands to score more than 100 runs in the last 10 over’s. The highlight was Thomas’s innings of 23 from just 9 deliveries. It was clean hitting at its best. Blues reached a very competitive total of 231/8.

• Eagles had a tough task and it would have required some really good batting to chase down this total. Digpal and Mark opened the innings to face Puneet and Thomas. Puneet bowled some excellent out swingers squaring the batsman regularly. Thomas on the other end kept nipping the ball back into the batsman.

• Blues struck in the 3rd (Digpal), 8th (Mark) and 10th (Hiral) over to have Eagles reeling at 29/3.

• Nitin looked on playing a long innings but perished to Anoop in the 16th over. Anoop bowled 8 overs on the trot with amazing accuracy.

• There were some cameos from Viraj (18[28]) and Shital (26[26]) but no one was able to play the lanky Samarth who finished with a five-wicket haul.

• In the end, it was a comfortable win for Blues who outplayed the Eagles in every department.

Reds win a last ball THRILLER against SouthSide

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Match# 09-19-I: Microsoft Reds won by 1 runs

Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Reds and elected to bat

Microsoft Reds: 174 for 10 in 38.5 overs

Batting highlights: Vijay Beniwal 42(44), Aseem Datar 34(72), Srikant Vemparala 27(40)

Bowling highlights: Amit Sharma 4/17, Kamal Singh 3/31

South Side: 173 for 10 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Kashif Nazir 40(45), Amit Sharma 34(33),Kamal Singh 26(34)

Bowling highlights: Rajiv Nandivada 3/43, Rajesh Munshi 2/24

Man of the match: Rajesh Munshi from Microsoft Reds

Other notables

• Reds openers played patiently to some good bowling from Southside and scored 57 in 12 overs before two quick wickets.

• Aseem(34) and Vijay(42) steadied the ship with a 37 run partnership before Aseem was caught and the reds had a mini-collapse looking 4 wickets in quick succession. Srikant Vemparala did well to score a fine 27 taking Reds to a respectable 174.

• Southside lost a quick wicket before Kashif and Gurpreet took the score past 45. Both were soon out to a fine runout by Rajiv and another caught behind off Rajivs bowling.

• Rajesh Munshi and Aseem kept things tight before Kamal and Bunty launched a barrage of sixes and kept scoring at 7 an over.

• Things game down to a wire when Southside needed 6 off the last over with two wickets to spare.

• Aseem took on the job of bowling the last over and Arvind swooped in off the second ball to affect a brilliant run out from the deep. A series of dot balls followed with brilliant glove work by Reds keeper Pradeep Pagadala along with surging Reds players led by Aseem made Southside manage only one off the last ball - The Reds winning by a thinnest margin possible.

• Rajesh Munshi was awarded Man of the match for his fine bowling performance.

Powerful Chak De Oregon performance hands Div II leaders Redmond Colts their first reverse of the season

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Match# 09-29-II: Chak De Oregon won by 7 wickets

David Martin Memorial Field, North Plains, OR

Toss won by Chak De Oregon and elected to field

Redmond Colts: 206 for 10 in 37 overs

Batting highlights: Phani Chitneni 73 (75b, 11x4), Venkata Phani 25 (40b, 2x4)

Bowling highlights: Mandar Pandit 3/6, Narinder Kumar 3/37, Bhadri Varadarajan 2/25

Chak De Oregon: 207 for 3 in 30 overs

Batting highlights: Tarun Juneja 87 (82b, 10x4,1x6), Varun Juneja 43 (63b,3x4), Vijay Sunderesan 34* (23b, 4x4)

Bowling highlights: Kshitij Moghe 1/15

Man of the match: Tarun Juneja from Chak De Oregon

Other notables

• On a clear, sunny summer day in northwestern Oregon, not far from the world-renowned Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course, Redmond Colts were put into bat by Chak De captain Varun Juneja. Opener Venkat Reddy was soon caught by Bhadri Varadarajan at extra cover when he failed to keep a hard drive down. Phani Chitneni and and Venkata Phani then started to consolidate with hard drives on either side of the wicket. Both were let off before they had reached double figures, and made most of their fortune as well as the largess provided by Chak de bowlers who were bowling an inordinate amount of wide balls, by putting on a 96 runs partnership in 87 balls for the 2nd wicket.

• Venkata fell lbw to a straight one from leg-spinner Narinder Kumar but Phani kept capitalizing on loose deliveries to personally cross 50 and add 51 runs in 49 balls with Kshitij Moghe. At 153/2 in the 25th over, a total in excess of 250 looked a certainty for the Colts, but after Kshitij played on a wide delivery from Tarun Juneja, the Colts’ innings went into the doldrums. Phani was brilliantly caught by Varun at long on, and though ex-Oregon resident Fahad Habib collected 19 runs in well placed shots, the rest of the Colts batting could not negotiate the triumvirate of Chak De spinners, Bhadri, Narinder and Mandar, folding up in the 37th over for 206. The last 8 Colt wickets had fallen for 53 runs, and the total appeared about 25-30 runs short of par.

• Very early in the Chak De innings, an in-form Bhadri Varadarajan was brilliantly caught by Fahad Habib at second slip, diving full length to his right and taking the ball inches off the ground. Tarun Juneja then took charge of the innings, farming most of the strike, cutting and driving his way to a 38 ball fifty, while Varun at the other end mustered only 4 runs in that span. Tarun evoked the memories of Aussie Charlie Bannerman in the First Test Match of all, when he had scored 67% runs of his side’s total at the half-way mark of the Chak de innings.

• The Juneja brothers went on to add 138 runs together in 123 balls. Though he had some flashy cuts over the inner fielding cordon, Tarun’s innings was essentially chanceless, and include a powerfully driven six over the long-off fence. Varun was dropped at short mid-off before he had reached 20, but that was a difficult chance. Tarun’s looming century evaporated to a dodgy call for a sharp single from his brother combined with a swift pick-up and throw from Venkat Reddy. Whatever aspirations the Colts had of precipitation a middle and lower order Chak De collapse, similar to the one in their previous meeting three weeks ago, was doused by lefthander Vijay Sunderesan’s lightening start to his innings, scoring 15 runs in his first 8 balls. Varun eventually fell for a well made 43 but the deficit was not large enough to cause any more worries for the remaining Chak De batsmen. Eventually, the target was reached with 10 overs to spare.

SCC Pioneers win by 4 wickets

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Match# 09-26-II: Seattle Pioneers won by 4 wickets

Ron Regis Park, Renton, WA

Toss won by Seattle Pioneers and elected to field

Redmond Chargers: 165 for 8 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Gautam Murti 65

Bowling highlights: Varun Dhir 2/32

Seattle Pioneers: 166 for 6 in 25.4 overs

Batting highlights: Vinay Dutt 71*, Danny Ihsan 30

Bowling highlights: Ashraf Khan 3/24

Man of the match: Vinay Dutt from Seattle Pioneers

Other notables

• Chargers batted first and opened steadily and carefully, but kept loosing wickets, till Gautam, with help from Roger and Jeetendra put some partnerships together and got to a to a respectable score of 165 in 40 overs.

• Pioneers opened with gusto, but just could not read Ashrafs slow swingers and succumbed to 5 wickets for 42 runs in 7.3 overs.

• It looked dismal for the Pioneers, till Vinays firecracker innings of 71 not out from 62 balls and with support from Danny 30 of 38 ball, put the Pioneers in the driver seat and won the game in the 25th over.

Spokane Spartans beat short-handed Rainier by 6 wickets

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Match# 09-27-II: Spokane won by 6 wickets

Underhill Playfield, Spokane, WA

Toss won by Spokane and elected to field

Rainier: 121 for 10 in 31.3 overs

Batting highlights: Shehryar Butt 49* (95), Mustafa Bilal 22 (40)

Bowling highlights: Hrishikesh Joshi 3/24, Ravi Mangipudi 2/25

Spokane: 122 for 4 in 22 overs

Batting highlights: Imran Hossain 51* (49), Sanjay Naik 34(44)

Bowling highlights: Mustafa Bilal 3/34

Man of the match: Imran Hossain from Spokane

Other notables

• Rainier played with 9 players (plus an additional fielder from Spolane Spartans) due to a car breakdown. Spokane struck early in Rishi's first over removing Sarosh Nasim. Rishi has taken a wicket in his first over in 4 out of 5 games this season.

• The typically dangerous Shehryar Butt and able partner Talib Sharif set about their task of consolidating their inning. After a 33 run partnership, debutant Jack bowled Talib with a ball that looked like a baseball knuckle ball.

• Shehryar and Mustafa Bilal built a 53 run partnership in the face of tight bowling by keeper-turned-bowler Ravi Mangipudi and Jayaram.

• At 95/2 in 26 overs, when Spokane CC was bracing for an onslaught by the two well set dangerous batsmen, Mustafa holed out in the deep to an excellent catch by Sandeep Saha giving Ravi his first NWCL wicket.

• After a brief resistance by Ali Naqvi, wickets fell regularly and the innings folded at 121.

• Shehryar Butt caried his bat through the inning for the second time this season and batted for 30+ overs for the third time this season.

• Spokane started cautiously and Mustafa Bilal took Raghu with a beautiful outswinger with the total at 6.

• Imran and Sanjay set about building a partnership in the face of excellent bowling by Mustafa Bilal and Talib Sharif. 15 year old youngster Mujtaba Bilal chipped in with an excellent spell of 3 overs showing composure and temparament against established senior batsmen

• Imran and Sanjay scored off loose balls at will and built an 80 run partnership in 79 balls to put the game away before Sanjay was bowled by another excellent outswinger by Mustafa Bilal

• Spokane lost a couple of more wickets before reaching the target easily with Imran staying on to finish the game.

Tajinder Singh's maiden century and Muhammad Ejaz's all round performance helps Star secure first win of the season against Crimsons

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Match# 09-25-II: Star won by 125 runs

Tukwilla Cricket Field, Tukwilla, WA

Toss won by Microsoft Crimsons and elected to field

Star: 350 for 7 in 40 overs

Batting highlights: Tajinder Singh 128* (82b, 9x4, 8x6), Muhammad Ejaz 71 (45b, 5x4, 4x6), Dilpreet Singh 35* (22b, 1x4, 3x6)

Bowling highlights: Srinivas Chakravarthula 2/47, Vishwa Gaddamanugu 2/43

Microsoft Crimsons: 225 for 10 in 39.4 overs

Batting highlights: Srinivas Chakravarthula 66 (58b, 4x4,2x6), Palkesh Soni 29 (24b,3x4), Mohan Mani 27 (51b, 2x4)

Bowling highlights: Muhammad Ejaz 3/27, Humair Bhagat 2/43

Man of the match: Tajinder Singh from Star

Other notables

• Star who were put into bat started off very well to reach 32 in 5 overs before Nipun Shah got rid of Guraman Dhami caught by Mahesh Thiagarajan. Srinivas Chakravarthula got rid of Satyanarayana Dendulari caught behind by Palkesh Soni with the score at 40 and with the score at 43 similar mode of dismissal saw the back of Perminder Khaira while Bharath Ramabadran got rid of Sukhjit Khaira caught by Srinivas Chakravarthula and the score read 45/4 after 8.2 overs.

• Rajbir Dhillon and Humair Bhagath added 36 runs to take the score to 80 before Shadab Beg cleaned up Rajbir in his very first over.

• Humair Bhagath and Tajinder Singh then added 40 runs for the sixth wicket before Vishwa Gaddmanugu who brought himself on trapped Humair Bhagath in front.

• Tajinder Singh and Muhammad Ejaz then started taking the attack to the Crimson bowlers and punished anything that was full.

• Tajinder Singh made use of the dropped catch very early in the innings and carted the ball at will to register his maiden NWCL century in his debut season for Star CC. He finished with 128* in 82 balls with 9 boundaries and crossed the ropes 8 times.

• Muhammad Ejaz played a brilliant knock of 71 in 45 balls including 5 boundaries and 4 6's. Tajinder Singh and Muhammad Ejaz added 136 runs in 81 balls before Muhammad Ejaz holed out to Srinivas off Vishwa's bowling.

• Dilpreet played a cameo and added 92 runs from 54 balls with Tajinder Singh to register Star's highest NWCL score of 350 runs in 40 overs.

• With a very stiff target Crimsons lost wickets at regular intervals and were never in the hunt. For Crimsons opener Mohan Mani scored 27 runsin 51 balls, Srinivas Chakravarthula scored 66 in 58 balls including 4 boundaries and 2 6's and Palkesh Soni scored a quick 29 to back his brilliant work behind the stumps.

• Muhammad Ejaz and Humair Bhagath were pick of the Star bowlers who kept the pressure and made sure that Crimsons were never in the hunt.

• For his outstanding batting performance Tajinder Singh was named the Man of the Match.

Central strong bowling lineup bails them out while defending only 125 runs

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Match# 09-28-II: Central won by 77 runs

Hazelwood Elementary School, Lynnwood, WA

Toss won by Central and elected to bat

Central: 125 for 10 in 26.5 overs

Batting highlights: Tarun Kumar 40(47), Sam Karwal 27(26)

Bowling highlights: Deepak V 4/23, Babu C 3/37

WSU-Pullman: 48 for 10 in 22.5 overs

Batting highlights: N/A

Bowling highlights: Banti Karwal 4/6, Sam Karwal 3/15, Lucky Singh 2/9

Man of the match: Sam Karwal from Central

Other notables

• Central won toss and elected to bat, but couldn’t get their batting going but kept losing wicket at regular intervals.

• Only Tarun Kumar batted well and scored 40 runs in 47 balls.

• After Sam Karwal hit couple of sixes towards the end of Central innings. Central were all out for 125 in the 27th over.

• Central's opening bowling attack started off well but were not able to get any breakthrough but managed to keep the score in check.

• Karwal brothers came to Central’s rescue with Banti taking 4 wicket while giving away only 6 runs in his 6 overs. Sam took 3 wickets all in one over.

• Lucky Singh wrapped up WSU’s last 2 wicket in the 23rd over.

• This was the lowest score recorded against Central team in their NWCL.

• Sam Karwal was named the Man of the Match for his all round performance.

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