--------------------------------- Div I picks --------------------------------- Milwaukee United-Flames>>Milwaukee United United CC-Muslim>>UCC Purdue-Pak>>Pak Milwaukee CC-Phoenix CC>>Milwaukee CC Capitol-Rogers Park>>Capitol Royals-Chargers>>Chargers
--------------------------------- Div II picks --------------------------------- QC Kings-Jolly Rovers >> QC Kings Warriors-Raiders >> Raiders Madison CC-Arsenal >> Madison SIUE-Advancers >> Advancers Tigers-Lucky XI >> Lucky XI Illinois CC-Eagles >> Eagles Chicago CC-Acers >> Chicago CC Springfield-Collinsville >> Collinsville Jaguars-Chicago Giants >> Jaguars NoStars CC CCI >> CCI Evanston IIT >> IIT
Some especially appealing Div2 matchups this weekend. QC/Jolly Rovers, Madison/Arsenal, Jaguars/Giants, SIUE/Advancers - all very good games between likely playoff teams (many of whom cant afford too many more losses). Thats an unusually high number of potential playoff teams playing each other in a single week! Interesting to see how Illinois comes back too, after last week - they cant afford more than maybe 1 more loss all season.
Although Sadiq's suggestion seems exciting (boy, I'd love to play all 3 divs!), Vasu's point is well taken. If you have div 1 players of varying caliber play for different div2 teams, it would affect what div2 team gets promoted.
I know my team (NoStars) had a very bad season so far ... But my gut feeling says that we will win against CCI ... I wish my gut feeling turns out to be true ...
All the best to all the teams playing this weekend ...
Prediction for week#10 in Div 1. 1.Flames-MUCC.(MUCC) 2.Muslim-UCC.(Muslim) 3.Pak-Purdue.(Pak) in a close one. 4.MCC-Phoenix.(MCC) 5.Capitol-Rogerspark.(rogerspark) 6.Royals-Chargers.(Royals)
Warriors Raiders -- Raiders Madison Cricket Club Arsenal --MADISON SIUE Cricket Club Advancers --- SIUE Tigers Lucky XI --TIGERS Q.C. Kings Jolly Rovers --JOLLY ROVERS Springfield Collinsville Club --COLLINSVILLE Jaguars Chicago Giants --GIANTS NoStars Cricket Club CCI --CCI Evanston IIT --IIT Illinois Cricket Club Eagles --ICC Chicago Cricket Club Chicago Acers --CCC
Muslim Gym beat United. Muslim put up 293 in 45 overs, and won by about 30 runs. Rizwan, angered by the blog mentioning only his brothers as LA Open contenders, smashed the Mehul-less United for 111 in about 50 balls, apparently :-)
Flames beat Milwaukee United. Milwaukee United (missing Bhavneet and Sharath apparently) put up 185 or so in 45 overs at Lincoln Park. Flames made it with about 5 wickets in hand with 3-4 overs to spare, with Kiran leading the way with 85*, carrying the Flames all the way home.
Div2: Madison beat Arsenal. Madison batted first, and recovered from 125/8 or so to put up 220 in 40 overs. They then withstood a late charge by Arsenal (led by Narasimha) to win by about 25 runs. Horribly hot day, and the wildest, craziest road trip in history in the morning (whoever came up with the idea that 7-7-07 was a lucky day had no idea what they were talking about :-), but a good game in the end.
QC Kings beat Jolly Rovers -------------------------- It was very hot and humid day for cricket. QC Kings batted first and put on a good total of 296/9 in 40 overs. Thanks specially to Hari (82 8x6 4x4) and Balaji (3x4 1x6). There were several other decent contributions from other players as well. Ravi took 4 wickets for Rovers.
Chasing that target was not going to be easy, but Jolly Rovers made us work hard for our victory. They reached 257/7 in their 40 overs to give us a victory by 39 runs. Ram, Ravi and Aniruddha were the main contributors.
We have a 3 weeks break before we play SIUE on their home ground on August 5th.
The latest update 4 pak-purdue Purdue won by 30 runs batting first they scored 325 i guess the pace of raheel only helped the batsmen lol, however the much awaited arrival of maqsood raza didnt help the struggling batting line up of pak. The should have spent the money on buying some practicing balls rather then buying maqsood ticket, Let see how long raheel will stay away from blogging after this loss. Raheel got hammered for 28 runs in night game against challenger, Last year he was hit for 4 sixes in one over, in La Cup Only if he bowled faster then his RUNUP!! GODD LUCK in LA "australian bowler" Well pak is not as hot as there temper !!!!!
Does anyone know if Maninder Bola pulled out of L.A. Open? I don't see his name listed under 'Expertise' on L.A. Open web site. Current Roster Afroze Siddiqui Nilesh Patel Amit Kumar Raheel Akhtar Asif Mehmood Satha Sivapragasam Dakshesh Patel Shahid Munir Imran Tailor Sohail Alvi Nasir Mahmood
Adnan, Maninder has been informed to make preparations for LA. We haven't been informed otherise if at all there is change or something. As far as we know he is going...
Jaguars opened disastrously with a 3rd ball run out. Giants deadly bowling duo of Moshi and Rizwan kept the run rate in check for about 16 overs. At 16 overs they were 50 and at end of 20 Jags were 90ish. After 20 overs came some great hard hitting by Satyam. He was connecting anything and everything. With Satyam at crease they reached 200. Then came a mini collapse when Satyam got out and Jags ended up with 258 for 9 in 40 overs. Great score on any ground.
Giants started chasing this mammoth total in a very clinical fashion. Kept the average around 7 runs in first 20 overs. Thanks to some great display of stroke play by Yaseen. Who played like a stud and scored 88. Vajid, Omer and Asim played a great supporting role by putting up 30 plus each. Game got interesting when Yaseen got out with 75 runs still let at 6 runs per over needed.
Giants lower middle order of Amer, Rizwan, Atif and Moshi chased it down with 9 balls left.
I have some very sad news. Ajit's father passed away in India yesterday. The Wildcats cricket club joins the MCC community in offering our heartfelt condolences. Our thoughts and prayers are with Ajit and his family in these extremely difficult times.
Looking at LA open squad and all the comments, the only two people who dont belong in the squad are: 1. Amit Kumar 2. Dax
I doubt that Dax will be allowed to bowl in LA as they have zero tolerance for chucking so he should be expecting same treatment which his friend Bhavesh got last year. The cricket which is played here and the cricket in LA are two different worlds.
One person i would include is Kamran from Muslim instead of Dax and Amit Kumar should be replaced by ???
After Raheel's last two performances (night game in challengers and Purdue) ....???
Romeen, Please pass on PCC family heart-felt condolences to Ajit and his family during this very difficult period. May God bestow him and his family with inner strenght and peace to cope with this great loss.
Eagle vs ICC let me try I hope rup can help out here.... Well Eagles won the toss and put us in... We were without Collins and Dan our openers, so Aaron and Youdeo Opened Lost Youdeo in the 3rd over caught at slip. Aaron beat the bowling for a nice 24 we put on 40 odd runs then he fell. Ron came in and we put on 120 in about 13 overs Ron made 44( a great knock).. I(Jack) felt my way around got my first scoring shot with a hit to longoff for 4 got a similar ball but the bowler held it back I check the drive and hit a dolly to Subbu at cover, to my surprise he was looking away so when he turn around all he could have done was drop it.. and that was it did not give another until I was out for 73. Rup came in and made a nice attacking 40. At the 15 over break we were 98 for 2... After 20 overs we were 150-160 for 2. We got to 279 all out in 39.5 overs going for 300. We ran poorly at the end but it was a great score. Eagles began poorly lost one of their openers the 1 first ball of the 2nd over to a great catch in cover... lost another on in the 3rd over rup 2nd and at one stage they were 33 for 3 after 8 and 44 for 4 after 10 with they big bat falling. Their opener Mankesh made a chancy 70 or 80 but once he was gone bolwed by Boodhoo it was curtains.. They continue trying to mound a come back but after the 6th wicket fell they did not have much resistances...Final score 184 chancing 279
Of course the game had drama with the HEAD of the umpiring for our league geting RUN out but said he was not out based on soem BS rule he made up on the field. Of course his square leg said not out but he was out NEXT ball LBW and he was not happy... The umpiring I think was done by Harish Kanchi from Flames and HE IS AWESOME got to give him that I think he made great decisions thats all we can ask for as a team.
well I dont know the guys name but I heard he is senior umpire and assist with the runnings of the umpires... Anyway here is the deal.. He is the non striker the batsman hit a ball to fine leg... he ran to keepers end and grounded. the ball was still in short fine leg area, The fielder threw the ball in the keep caught the ball and hit the stumps because he walked out his his crease.. He said he is not out because the ball is dead... now how can the ball be dead and it never came in... his square leg said he asked for time then said he cannot lie never never did because he did not have the time to do so. then the square leg said he does not know the rule, but thats basic nothign complicated here he is out... but thankfully he was out next ball...
Warriors vs Raiders = Raiders Won Madison Cricket Club vs Arsenal = Madison Won SIUE Cricket Club vs Advancers = Advancers Won Tigers vs Lucky XI = Lucky XI Won Q.C. Kings vs Jolly Rovers = Q.C. Kings Won Springfield vs Collinsville Club = NEED UPDATE Jaguars vs Chicago Giants = Giants Won NoStars Cricket Club vs CCI = NEED UPDATE Evanston vs IIT = Evanston Won Illinois Cricket Club vs Eagles = Illinois Won Chicago Cricket Club vs Chicago Acers = NEED UPDATE
Summary,
1. Evanston upsets IIT 2. QCK is on fire. Teams better start taking QCK seriously. 3. ICC gets back on track. No room for error from this point onwards for them. 4. Watch out for Advancers they are a very good team with some great spin bowling.
incognito, Head of umpiring is Sridher of Eagles. Will have to wait to hear the other side of the story as well.
Please keep in mind, ICC blames Sridher for their loss in the playoffs last year agaist AAA. They think racism as the reason for their loss, not their crappy batting. This is jack shit coming from cry babies of Div 2.
On behalf of United Cricket Club, I would like to extend our deppest condolences to Ajju Bhai. May god give you and the family the strength to cope with difficult times.
Simonshit, Look I am not going to cry over a game I hate poor umpiring and I hate people who cheat to win. If I cannot beat you I will NOT cheat you to do so.... All I will do is go try and get better and come back and kick your ass.. The man will come on here and say what he wants but thats the story and why would I fuss over him and he wasnt going to win the game for them taking singles? So simonshit go take a hike and yes HE CHEATED US LAST year in playoffs and that was not the first time.. Let me break this down for you if he is claiming ball is dead he did not want to apply the same rule when collins was battin a year ago and he his a ball in the air got caught and he turns and walk because he was out caught the then extended his arm for Noball but collin was on his way they then run him out he said he could not call no ball because something got stuck in his throat now tell me if he was incompetent then he will ALWAYS be that way... I do not wnat to play another game with his umpiring.. He is a CHEAT and he will ALWAYS BE A CHEAT...then NO div 2 person should umpire a Div 2 game thats how I see it... About race thats in your head I dont deal with race I have white, indians, pink, blue green friends that I RESPECT I think you may lack respect for us hence the reason you preaching this race crap...Man in amaerica you are minority, I am and some of you have no respect for us but thats for the uneducated ones to live with.. PS: having a degreee does not mean you are educated ok.. SIMONSHIT? Also although we think he cheatted in the playoffs that does not mean we should not have won the game but simonshit you can have you say... I am comfortable with who I am are u
Chally, Race is not in my head but in your teams head. Please read blog comments written by your team members. I don't think any team's loss can be attributed to race or religion. Who gives a f??? about degrees, not sure how this is related to the topic of discussion. You wanna write filthy stuff, please continue to do so making a mockery of yourself as a person.
Dr B seems to have brought the racist angle, apparently for no reason. Simon said, ------------------------ Shekhs, no matter how the committee is structured, folks like Dr B and Rup will always have something bad to say about umpires. Rup wants Joe Greene to umpire all of his playoff games. Rup is pissed off bcuz he is not going to LA Open. ------------------------- Look simon, I told you last year and will say it again this year.. they don't come any dumber than you. I said i don't care if get selected to LA or not..Why should I be pissed. All I was fussing about is why Jack was not given a chance knowing he is a very good alrounder and I think better than some selected??. As for umpiring, Joe Green can't umpire for us but the have everyone else umpiring our games. How do you think we feel implying that Joe will cheat for us but the other umpires will not cheat us. All we have ever asked for is give us the best guy who will not ruin his reputation by making bad calls for any side. We have quite a few of those guys and yet the league refuses to give us one knowing there is room for???? I will leave the cheat thing alone but have we got screwed being trying to be good sportsmen at the cricket field. So for you and all ICC haters we know what happened and so were a lot of others at the ground for last years Semi's. Were you there??.
From the incident yesterday I will see that Shridhar does not umpire another game for ICC. if he does and the leagus forces it they can have the game. Either he does not know the rules or he is a cheat??.
NO div 2 person should umpire a Div 2 game thats how I see it... **********************
This I agree and should be applied through out league especially if umpire is player on a another team belonging to same divison no matter what there might be just few biased decisions based on his personal experience with the team this should avoided especially during the season and playoffs is out of question
simon said... I don't think any team's loss can be attributed to race or religion ---------------------- man you preaching to the chior...
I said the man is a cheat you gone off on race and crap I dont do race and I am sure my teammates have the same view... Anyway we can agree to disagree that the man is a CHEAT...
Good luck on your season and you have a great day because i am...
Dr B did not bring on anything about anyone. I simply stated the facts of what happend to me as an individual last year with a certain group of individuals...and I will not fall for the "please explain",like Chally did. No need to...those who contributed to making my 2006 season a bad one are now happy I am no longer around....you can see the results Then I turned to my family friends and they wer always there for us. That is life and it does not stop there.
I have no hate or disrespect for no human. I love all mankind and will continue to do so,but will stay away from those who prefer to not respect others.
You can accept my word or you can ignore it....BUT LETS ALL BE PROUD OF EACH OTHER. Ther are more complicated issues to deal with in life.
I know i missed a lot last couple days on blog. The league has mandate each team must umpire two games free. They budgeted us for 14 games @ $60.00 + extas for Playoffs. Why 2 Games free??. That 100 games @ 60.00 = $6000.00. I wonder what the have in store for this 6K. Can one of you talk these nut cases into passing out the financials for last year and this year so far before we get sued again. I will like to see them fine my team for not doing one of these games. If they do, you all can try frogetting another 40K. Com on guys, stand up for something, Stop letting these Jerks waste your good earned $$$. I know my captain will back you all up on any investigation of spending of our funds. And stop beating up on the guys who bring up these points cause the want you all to do something.
dr B, I did not fall for the "please explain" but I am sorry to hear you had a bad 2006 season... but you are spot on with : "....BUT LETS ALL BE PROUD OF EACH OTHER. Ther are more complicated issues to deal with in life."
On a lighter note, here is an update of the Phoenix vs MCC game. MCC won the toss and chose to bat first. They started cautiously and played without giving any opportunities. Romesh in particular was extremely judicious with his shot selection early, which served him very well. Once the batsmen got settled in, they opened up, and Romesh in particular hit a lovely flick of his legs for six over square leg. I wont' go into details, but MCC put up 239 in 45 overs. There were 7 dropped catches by us which I estimate cost us about 40-50 runs.
With a challenging score, Phoenix started the run chase in style with Shiva being particularly severe on the bowlers. We were 53 in 4 overs for no loss. So, MCC brought on their Ace, Asif! In his first over he took Shiva's wicket. We lost our second wicked the next over. With plenty of runs on the board in a short amount of time, run-rate wasn't the problem. However, Asif ran through our batting line-up, and some of the other bowlers chipped in with useful wickets. Athreya was stranded on one end, and Phoenix was all out for 121. Congratulations to MCC for the win, and having made the playoffs (if the 8 game barrier still stands).
On a personal note, I will admit to getting "schooled" by Asif. I faced 9 balls, not including 2 wides, game a slip catch which was grassed, nearly got bowled, and basically had no clue how to play him. I think I played 3 balls from the middle of my bat only. He ended my misery at the crease by bowling me around my legs!
He is by far, the best spinner in our league bar none, a useful batsman, and therefore one of the better allrounders! I look forward to playing you again sometime Asif, because you have definitely had the better of me in all our encounters so far! :-)
sorry to hear about your 2006 experience Dr B, but you certainly sounded more generic earlier. Hope Jack are clear now on who brought up the topic.
Being dumb, Rup may still find it difficult to comprehend. Rup you can say and write a 1 pager on anything, but you cannot hide your intentions. But I agree with you on one thing. Jack should be on the plane to LA.
Dr. Booo...you make me laugh loud with words like love, hate and mankind ... as if you are some countries president. Accept that you are a human being. Damn it.
Check out this link ... http://www.palmcricket.com/initial.html
I have playing in a tennis ball league here near Seattle .. The league has provided all the teams with a Palm-top with the palm-cricket software installed .. for a 300 USD deposit ... WE are supposed to return this once the season ends ..
You can do complete scoring using this p-cricket ... It is very easy to use ... A one hour session is enough to educate all with this software ... You can download the scores in an excel-sheet format and then send it across ...
I hope our league looks into this and trys to implement this in future ..
Dr B..Sorry to hear about you 2006 misery (with bat) but you seems to be doing good this year. Are you using long and wide bat (if there is one and allowed).
-------- neanderthal_walking said... adi, i think its safe to say phoenix is done. -------
Aint nobody done - the experience of the last 2 years should have told us that :-) Both of the last 2 years, teams have come from 2-6 (Wildcats) and 1-6 (United) to make the playoffs!
Look at it this way. Flames were 1-4-1 before this weekend, and nobody but nobody would have even given them a second thought about possible playoffs... some may have thought of possible relegation battles, even! But they ended up beating Milwaukee United (a game I would have predicted them to lose, if I was predicting anything before the weekend :-)
Now the Flames are at 10 points, and currently 4 points out of playoff position! With only 1 extra win! (8th playoff spot is currently held by Rogers Park with 14). The remaining schedule for them is... Rogers Park, Capitol, AAA, Chargers, Royals, St Louis and Bears. Doesnt *seem* like an impossibly hard schedule, does it? (Only one of those teams has more than 3 wins so far).
Its going to be an interesting season, as usual. With the number of washouts this year (seems like more than usual to me), its possible that 8 may not be neccesary to make the playoffs.. who knows, it could be 7 or 7.5? Lots of teams are still alive if they start playing better, even those near the bottom of the table. (And once the relegation battle really heats up, there are often a few more upsets too, which can play a big role near the end of a season).
----------- Aditya said... Guys, On a lighter note, here is an update of the Phoenix vs MCC game. --------
Thanks for that, Adi. Another good score from Romesh, he really is having a very good season given the low-scoring games he's playing in (75 by himself in a game where a pretty good team makes 121 allout is a very good effort, really). Did he just play well, or did were some of your 7 chances given to him?
BTW, in the card that MCC has put up, I see that Wade didnt play? And also the wickets for them add up to only 6... were there actually 4 runouts? Or is it just an error?
And Iam glad (even if you guys probably arent) that you got to see Asif at his best... told ya he was the best spinner in the league, didnt I? ;-) Especially if you havent seen him *that* much before, and on that pitch... the amount of break you see for the first few overs can come as a nasty shock until you get used to it.
------------ Good_Will_Prevail said... I know i missed a lot last couple days on blog. The league has mandate each team must umpire two games free. ..... I will like to see them fine my team for not doing one of these games. If they do, you all can try frogetting another 40K. ----------
There is already a thread setup for discussion of the new rules for our league... it would be nice if we could take this part of the discussion there :-) There are already a few posts there discussing this very topic.
FWIW, I agree with the league making every team umpiriring 2 games mandatory, I think its a badly needed reform...but I do agree that the games umpired should be paid. And if you dont do it there needs to be a penalty.. I think a more effective penalty would have been the ones used by leagues out East, that is, you take away 6 points from the team that doesnt fulfill its obligations! With that sort of penalty, everyone will fulfill their responsiblities, as they should...
But, again, lets discuss these very important issues in the other "rules and regulations" thread that Hari opened last week.
c8w Said, --------------------------- ------------------------ There is already a thread setup for discussion of the new rules for our league... it would be nice if we could take this part of the discussion there :-) There are already a few posts there discussing this very topic. ============================== That thread is already forgotten by everyone except you??. Or maybe i should put it in the Ideas page so mgt can wipe their ass with it?. What do you think.
Game Summary - Rogers Park vs. Capitol Result: Rogers Park won by 3 wickets ---------------- RPCC won the toss and elected to bowl first looking to use the windy conditions. We were rewarded of the first ball of the game with the wicket of Satha by Amir. Some wayward bowling helped Capitol put up a total of 195 in their 40 overs.
RPCC got off to a good start but then started loosing wickets at regular intervals. The chase was held together by Shiraz and the Nasir (played a captain's knock). they got 60 and 43 respectively. We were cruising but then Nasir was runout and the chase seemed to get tougher. With 7 wickets down and about 40 runs to get in 8 overs, Faraz and I got to the target with 3 overs to spare. It was a close and exciting game.
We were anticipating seeing Satha play a few strokes, hoping not too many but I guess we will have to wait till next year to see him bat. Goodluck to Capitol for the remainder of the season.
I'll do a summary at the risk of being bashed (yet again). Bottom line was that Purdue ran us ragged in 100 degrees heat. They scored 100 in the first 16 overs with only 3 fours! We missed catches, gave over throws, keeper missed catches, stumpings, simple returns from the outfield and Purdue batsmen ran like hares. Ruchir scored 52, Pradeep 63 (after being dropped first ball), Ashwin 44 (after being reprieved atleast twice via missed stumpings). Kaushik came up with a few big hits in the end and Purdue reached the mountainous 315 in 45 overs. Bakhshi and Rauf started off like a train: 30 in 2 overs, 100 in 12, game on. The runs kept coming as Purdue missed one or 2 catches too and there was good batting from Hassan bhai (another 50+ score) and Irfan. At the break it all hung in balance 150 needed in 22 overs. Irfan and Hassan both got out in a few overs after the break, Shahid and Mazhar took over running very hard for 2s and 3s. Shahid was in great form and hit boundaries almost at will. With about 75 left in 11 overs Shahid hit Ravi over midwicket the ball was heading for a flat 6, Ashwin stuck a hand out above his head and to the right and caught that out of thin air, that was an unbelievable catch and given the man (Shahid) and the moment it pretty much sealed the match. There was a late surge with Rashid bhai and Mazhar getting us close 32 needed in 4 ovs, but that’s as close as it got and Purdue won by 28 runs. Ruchir bowled well with 4-40 in 7 I think. I would still give man of the match to Ashwin .. if you’re reading this dude, take a bow, what a freakin catch! We have 6 matches left to get back on track or kiss the playoffs goodbye! Time will tell .. Signing off.
Romesh played an excellent innings. He had 1 chance, which came when he was in his 40s. Until then, it was flawless. Apart from that 1 blemish, he batted intelligently and looked good until he got out.
Shiva had a great allround game. Took 4 wickets, bowled an extremly impressive spell, and gave us the ideal start to the chase.
Good summary Raheel, chasing 300+ is always difficult but being defending champions you guys came close. Many teams would give up. I should have umpired this game, would have been great to watch.
I am an optimist, so I will not say that we are done!
However, at this point, it is going to take a "united" effort to come up with a "wild" "cat"-like sprint to the finish (yes, i made a lame effort to name the 2 teams known for this trait). :-)
However, at this point, it is going to take a "united" effort to come up with a "wild" "cat"-like sprint to the finish (yes, i made a lame effort to name the 2 teams known for this trait). :-)
Yes Aditya, 'lame' is the right word. But hey, at least you didn't write another one of your sick double-meaning analogies. Keep it up.
.........break you see for the first few overs can come as a nasty shock until you get used to it. ================================ Yes! C8W we get the point.
Rup said.. " I will leave the cheat thing alone but have we got screwed being trying to be good sportsmen at the cricket field. "
CHEATING and RUP go hand in hand...several instances stated by various teams...obvious stumpings, nicks to the keeper. Did you walk off as a good sportsman Rup? don't give me this shit about being a good sportsman.
Jack, don't come down in support of Rup. Get to know Rup's cheating history first. Several Div 2 teams know about him.
------------ Adnan said... People would start questioning your integrity, if so happens an incident while umpiring there game. I would be careful. Adnan Baig United Cricket Club --------
Was this intended for me, BTW? In re the Asif-related post? I wasnt sure...
If it was, anyway, thanks for the warning, I probably need to be more careful in praising players sometimes :-) But anyway Asif himself, while very much a gentleman, has told me on a couple of occasions that he thinks I dont give him LBWs at all (and he isnt wrong in actual fact, Ive given him very few in several games umpired there). But thats partly *because* of what I said earlier... he turns the ball *so* much early on, for any umpire it will always be difficult to be totally sure he is actually going to hit the stumps.. he often turns it right across the stumps, it often pitches on leg and spins enough to miss off! And if youre not *sure* its going to hit the stumps, of course, you cant give it LBW. Its difficult for the bowler, but I suppose thats why they call it a batsman's game :-) On the odd occasion you can be sure and so can give it.. but a lot of the time he turns it a lot, beats the batsman, but may be turning it too much to actually get him out! In that sense the other MCC spinner, Shakir Naeem, has a much better chance of getting LBWs in Milwaukee - he turns it much less, tries to hone into the stumps, and the ball often keeps low there (of course, he too feels I dont give him enough LBWs... all bowlers are like that, always unhappy with us poor innocent umpires ;-)
Had a setback last Thur at practice.. broke my right thumb at 2 places. For the second time this season at practice, the batsman hit the balll right back off my bowling. I had to stick my hand out to avoid the ball from crashing into my face.
I have a cast for 4 weeks and have about 2 weeks of physical therapy after the cast comes off.
This is Sridher Jagath. There has been a lot said by spokespersons of the ICC, but here is my side of it. The situation as I saw it is mentioned briefly in the next para. I do not want to delve into the words/language used by the handful of ICC players during the match or the ones they have chosen to use in the blog or the tactic adopted by the midwicket fielder just when the bowler was about to deliver the next ball. This is my first and last post on this topic. I merely want to explain the rationale behind my decision.
I had completed the run safely even before the ball landed in the gloves of the wicket keeper. While running, my cap had flown. Couple of seconds after the ball was collected by the keeper (when I had no intention of going for another run), he whipped the bails when I went for my cap and appealed for my wicket. I felt that enough time had passed to establish the fact that the ball was indeed dead.
Given below are ICC (International Cricket Conference) rules when the ball is considered dead. Please note that I was applying Law 23.1.(a).i and/or 23.1.(b) (Both the clauses have been reproduced below)
If in the opinion of the umpire, the ball was still in play and he had and declared me out, I swear I would have walked away and not complain a bit. For me the umpire’s decision is final no matter what.
While conceding that ICC had beaten us squarely and won the match hands down, I found no reason to walk away from the crease just because "I.C.C" says that it was only fair that I walked off or accuse us of cheating. In my opinion the ball had rested long enough in the wicket keepers hands for it to be a dead ball. Once again if the umpire had thought otherwise and declared me out, I would have simply walked off and not talk about it.
LAW 23 DEAD BALL 1. Ball is dead (a) The ball becomes dead when (i) it is finally settled in the hands of the wicket-keeper or the bowler. (ii) to (ix) have no relevance to this discussion and hence removed to make this blog shorter (x) the umpire calls Over or Time.
(b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the umpire at the bowler's end that the fielding side and both batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.
I am sure all the teams would have had their share of bad calls but not all teams go about blame their losses solely and sorely on the umpiring.
Jaggi, Sorry about your thumb...hope you recover fast !
I'm an injury prone individual myself...
I was wondering if people have injury stories to share...to empathize with Jaggi.. :-)
A lot of times you get hurt because you (I'm not talking about you Jaggi) really dont know how to play or execute the right way. I pull my hamstring (I know Tushar's gonna jump onto this one) a lot while running between the wickets.
Thanks for that Law 23. If you remember back in our Naper days, I had finished a run and was at the non-strikers end. Thinking the play was dead, which it was, I asked our guys to get me a new bat and as I proceeded to walk away from the pitch to go meet the guy bringing me the new bat, the bowler throws the ball at the stumps and the Umpire gives me out...The Umpire actually told me I had not asked for a Timeout !
I guess that falls under this law 23's 1 (b) rule :)...The Ump did not interpret the play to be dead.
Since that day, I been asking Umps for TIMEOUTS and everytime I do that I feel like am back in high school asking the teacher permission to go take a leak!!
I definitely am prone to injury. I broke my back (ruptured disc)in 2003 and sat out the entire season. I was able to self recover from it and ever since do back strengthening exercises twice a day, everyday.
Shekhs, I would advise you to stretch out your hamstrings before and after the game. A tight hangstring leads to more pressure on the lower back.
We should have some sort of seminar on prevention of injuries.
Mr Srider: Good summary of the rules etc but which part of you were going to pick up your cap that was STILL ON YOUR HEAD. Say I am a liar here or say all 11 ICC players are liar and your cap never left your head Mr Sridar. Hoping to make those who were not think you are telling the truth??????? about you cap falling off?????
Tango said... Yes Aditya, 'lame' is the right word. But hey, at least you didn't write another one of your sick double-meaning analogies. Keep it up.
Tango said... This blog is getting boring. Can we get some girls in here???
Yes, I miss Sharath too.
Now now Tango, be honest. I am an innocent by-stander while you twist my words to have double meanings. Then you blame me for the double meanings and you enjoy it a lot more that you let on as shown by your second comment! Go on, take credit for your ability to twist others words; it's what makes your posts entertaining.
Simon, Looks like you are from Arsenal. The only time i can recall being a question of stump out is again Arsenal couple years ago. I am supposed to walk if the leg umpire says not out and I see the ball on the floor. Keeper claims he stumped me and dropped the ball to celebrate. In the Semis Last year i was given stumped out and the ball was rolling down the wicket towards the bowler. Umpire put me out. Walked without a question. As for caugt behind you are wrong. Then again the only time a team accused me a caught behind was Eagles last year and I still swear i did not nick that ball. Call me what ever you want but at the end of the day I go home knowing I did not cheat to win. Then again you are Simon, always wants to make ICC look bad.
b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the umpire at the bowler's end that the fielding side and both batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play. ----------------------------- Cleary, the fielding side and umpires did not feel the ball was dead. I was in the covers. when the throw came in he was not in his crease as he had stepped out to get his hat. If Sridhar had said that instead of saying he got permission I would have let it go. first square leg said try to cover him that's when i got upset because he did not ask for permission but took the law into his own hands. After I approcahed square leg and the ruling umpire the leg umpire then said Shridhar never asked for permission to leave while the ball was still in play. He brings the rule out for him, but he first needs to answer why he tried so many times to Stump/runout ICC batsman prodding around their crease when the ball had come to rest in his glove a couple of seconds and the batter in not running. As for language he should be the last to mention that. I guess If you use slangs in Hindi or any forign language it's good but if you say in in English the league should punish you. May be i should have let ICC players know what he called them in His language..who knows what would have happened.
Shekhs, Running four times a weeks?? HMMMMM!!!!! is the running an excuse to hit the bars cause you don't look the 6 pack running type. tell us the truth buddy.
You need to give time to your hamstrings to heal .. if they have been damaged severly ... In 2005, it took me almost one month to recover ...
Drink plenty of fluids ... let me explicitly mention ... water, gatorade, juice .. NOT BEER :) As Jaggi said, stretch a lot ... Also try to do some small sprints of 25-30 meters once you are warmed-up ...
I know we had something in common. I save my energy for the little sprints between the wickets. 60 feet the most. everyone say drink lot of fluid.. This is why we go to the Bars!!!
Rup said... Simon, Looks like you are from Arsenal. The only time i can recall being a question of stump out is again Arsenal couple years ago. --------------
Rup, there are only 3 guys from Arsenal that post on this blog: Narasimha, Varad and myself. AND we ALL use our own names...no anonymous crap...no BS.
For the records, if you remember right before we played that game last year, I had jokingly told you before the game started that we were hoping your leg-ump would give you out if we got you stumped....we did get you stumped and you were given not out :). I had mentioned that to you before the game cause this had happened before when we played you guys with Naper CC. And that season, there were 2/3 other teams that had voiced this concern. It is what it is brother. Shite happens.
Regardless, Rup, I/WE do not need any anonymous ids to tell things like they are 'cause I tell these things on people's faces. There aint nothing to hide.
Rup in a good mood b/c nite cricket in a few hours.
Where is Mr mw and Dr No? You guys went to get some those Plam bats? One a you not need it but I sure the other does...let me read off your scores buddy.
Swetal thanks for clearing up the anon blogging.but then again we have people blogging under different names???. As for last year I know you mentioned it but i did not get a stump out.. I only made a few against you all. It was the year before where I made a few and set up the win. As for teams that think i need a break to score they can die with that for i wil not let 1 or two teams put me down. As for teams rubbing it in you guys are the only one that still hold that one decision as a recurrence of many!!. Like you said Stuff happens and you have got to let that go to become better.
shekhs, We are trying to confirm with Tariq and the league if the game should be postponed or not?? Heavy storms are rolling in this afternoon again so???
this year div I play offs are looking good. cats, muslim, MCC, purdue on the rise while traditional power houses challengers, PAK, united on the decline.
wait wait arsenal talking about man not walking... or our squareleg not sending rup? Wow.. 2 weeks ago got the same guy that set up the win for you guys caught behind big edge he stood the umpire said he did not see an edge but the sound was enough for everyone... If he was a sportsman he would ahve walked. No way a ball flew pass him at chest high he fend with bat loud nick dont want want umps want to see... may be since you swetal is a sportsman you should begin by teaching your team mates how to be one first? Just a suggestion nothing personal..
Looks like the night tour off to a rainy start. I just checked the weather and looks like we may have game on cause it went from 70% chance of rain to 40% within 1 hour. Let hope we go to no storms by game time.
this year div I play offs are looking good. cats, muslim, MCC, purdue on the rise while traditional power houses challengers, PAK, united on the decline.
Dunno man. Pak Gymkhana lost against pretty good teams (ie. St.Louis, Wildcats, Purdue), United lost two of their games without Mehul. Challengers are 5-2, so I wouldn't put them in the 'decline' category.
But yes, other teams like MCC, St.Louis, Wildcats and Purdue have really stepped up this year.
good points from both party and it will never end there. this is CRICKET and umpires (main one,not the sq leg) always have a difficult time,even in international games. look at the screw-up in w/c final.
i must say that i am impressed with all the umpires so far in the few games i played with ICC,especially vs Eagles.
dr,,noooooooo, Are you saying Dr b was in charge of a circus??. Or was he part of a circus performing Antics. Bloom land... Is this your back yard cause I can arrange for us to come party on itTTTTT!!!!.
I EDGE, I WALK. Allways have, allways will. But am sure there are a lot of guys in the league and some on my team that will NOT walk until and until the Ump gives them out. Their justification is the Umps have given them out wrongly in the past so they might as well cash in.
1. Wildcats (6-0): Only unbeaten team in the league. Romeen's captaincy seems to have rejuvenated the old guys. 2. Milwaukee CC (8-1): What a turnaround this season has been for Asif and company. A year ago this time, they were fighting relegation, now they are amongst the elite teams. 3. Purdue University (5-1): Besides the egg they laid against the Challengers, this team has been nearly perfect. 4. St.Louis (6-2): Struggled on the road, but regained their form at home with impressive wins over Pak Gymkhana, Challengers and United. 5. Challengers (5-2): Lost a couple of tough games on the road, but have quietly put up a pretty impressive 5-2 record so far. 6. Muslim Gymkhana (3-2): Got off to a dismal start against mediocre teams before pulling off three successive victories. 7. United CC (4-3): Started off strong before dropping three in a row, two of those games without Mehul Shani. 8. Pak Gymkhana (3-3): Defending champs have lost three consecutive games, be it against pretty good teams.
Tango, ND, C8w, Rup, Chally, Adi, Romeen, Sheks and all the bloggers.....I just want pick ur minds little bit..
What do you guys think of 'Home court Advantages' rule being implemented in MWCC...its very heart rending to see that..say for instance...MCC or St louis who might be ranked 1 or 2 in the seeding..come playoff time they are made to play on a surface..that is very disadvantageous to them...but advantageous to the lower seeded team...(assuming its a chicago team taking into account current standings)....Do you think we should have Chicago teams travel to the higher seeded team home ground? Obvious if CHicago team is higher seeded no questions there..but in scenariou where Purdue, St. Louis and MCC, MUCC are higher seeds..? please post ur thoughts..
please post ur thoughts..? PCC, QC kings, JOlly Rovers, Collinville, SIUE, CCI, Evanston (I haven't played in Evanston) are all the same boat too...with different surface and conditions..?
Teams like Milwaukee CC and Peoria play most of their regular reason games at home, so they have an unfair advantage in the regular season.
If all teams were playing the same number of home and away games, then maybe the home court advantage argument might have been valid. But under the current circumstances, I'd stick to the same format of having all playoff games in Chicago.
Madhu, I think you threw the sh&* right at the fan my man..got to say you have a good aim.. :-)
My opinion, since I have one..is that..
We should allow home court advantage with respect to the final points table seeding. Having said that, I think the away teams like MCC and STL should play more away games, come to Chicago maybe 3-4 times during their regular schedule so that the seeding at the end is fair.
Now, say Capitol (since I can talk crap about my old team :-) ) plays in SPI all year and get to the top place say 1 or 2 and then we allow them to play the playoffs in SPI, I think the advantage just see sawed to the other side.
If you want to locate the playoff game based on seeding, then the regular games must also be failry scheduled/ located. Capitol should travel at least 5 games ...rules like that..
dr no,,, I asked you a question. where is bloom land?. I don't know where it is and ask you since you mentioned it and you ask me the same question. Take the Dr out of you and put QUACK .. fits perfectly for you seems to lack the ability to comprehend.
i think madhu got a point. but in my opinion, higher seeding should get the home court advantage if all the teams play equal number of home and way games during the regular season. also we gotta look at the "play offs in chicago" that is something to look forward to. sorry madhu. come down here.:)
Madhu you got a point there... The team with the higher seed should get the home court adv... Dont know how management will implement this since they cant implement other things..
As of now, the game is on. I will post one last time before I leave to confirm.
Tango,
C'mon, you know I'm not going to get ticked off over something small. Specially when we've been joking for a bit about this. Hope you come for the night game tonight.
Home Field advantage will always be a question but until all teams and play the same amount of games on similar surfaces we will not be able to justify playoffs away from home. some teams may play their regular season on 14 different surfaces while a team may play 11 games on their home surface. Big advantage for the team with 11 games on the same ground and home advantage come playoffs. To be honest I will hate to see the playooff move from chicago but time can erase that. As i have stated before teams that feel they have a shot at the playoffs should request to play at least 3-4 games at WP or grounds that have concrete and jute. The experience will benefit you for thats where you will be at the playoffs. sorry Madhu, Iam with the rest..leave the playoffs in chicago land.
I think that to keep things fair, away teams should play more games in Chicago, than Chicago teams play away.
Chicago teams, even while in Chicago and playing against other Chicago teams, don't really have a home court advantage. While away teams, have a distinct advantage at home while playing against Chicago teams.
Basically we should have it in such a way that away teams play 7 games at home, and 7 games on the road, while Chicago teams play 3-4 away games, and 10-11 games in neutral territory against other Chicago teams.
Don't have to read it again. I asked direct questions and got indirect answers. ----------------------------- Go read your comment and know what you lack..just being good.. won't prevail all the time. ------------------------------ Don't thinkt the rest of bloomington thinks like you but Good will always prevail. All the time, anywhere, anyplace!!!
shekhs said... Tango and n_w, Looks like Aditya is getting ready for the game tonite since morning...haven't seen him all day... :-) ------------------------
I think the best solution would be to make away teams play at least 4-5 games in Chicago. Then we'll have it in such a way that the higher seed gets home court advantage in the QF's. The Semi's and Finals ought to be played in Chicago regardless of the seedings.
Let change topic last hour of the day. What kind of a piss ass name we are sending our MWCC team under to the LA open. EXPERTISE...I will like the guy who found this name Shot on sight. What too ashamed to use MWCC..after all we are funding this and should'nt our name represent all of us.
Good will P: I have full respect for the "doctor". Not too many em Quack you know so it is nice to know one that does. And it seem like e cannot stop e QUACKING......
BTW: thers are meds that can stop such a syndrome from progressing further, Dr Quack.
Good luck with you evening game and say special hello to Madhu.
C'on Shekhs, We know Marghoob bhai can be funny in his own ways but to be Tango. Tango is Tango and a race by himself. I want to say he has his own country also but i will let him answer that.
------- Tango said... N_W, Did Bhavneet play against the Flames this week? --------
I believe both Bhavneet and Sharath didnt play against the Flames last weekend. (Last time I was umpiring MUCC a couple weeks ago, Bhavneet said he had family coming to town etc - thats also probably why he declined the invite to go to the LA Open this year).
And how about Imran's brother Kamran, BTW? Consistently near the top in both bowling and batting.. ================================= Your wish is granted. Imran and Kamran have both graciously accepted to represent Chicago United at the 2007 L.A. Open tournament.
---------- Tango said... ND, And c8w was saying that their batting is so much worse than last year. HA! I didn't see them putting up 300 in every other game last year.
neanderthal_walking said... tango, i agree. 300 plus against PAK GYM on a bigger ground isnt easy. well, you know c8w. i wonder what c8w has to say about that. :) ----------
What do I have to say? How about Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa? :-) (Dont I get any credit for predicting that MUCC would be weaker this year, tho? :-)
Anyway. In my defense, IMHO Purdue *was* weaker when the season began - they had lost Vijay Garud, Simran Sodhi, Apu and RahulB, 4 of their top 6 bats from last year, and talk was that they were about to lose Ruchir too. Now suddenly Ruchir has not yet left (and is actually batting much better than last year), Apu has come back, and they have added Ashwin to their middle-order (he used to be their best bat 2-3 years ago, but played only like 3 games last year - this year he's already made like 170 runs in 3 games). And Pradeep, with no captaincy pressures, is batting much better than last year so far too! Thus theyre performing much better as a team with the bat - theyve put up 300 twice this year, which was highly unexpected I think.
But, of course, its still early in the season yet - the schedule, as Tango said, has been favourable so far, they havent yet played Wildcats etc. And Ruchir will still leave sometime soon, and IMHO Purdue will miss him a lot, he has really turned into a genuine quality allrounder this year.
Oh, and while usually "300 on a big ground is not easy"... actually, for Purdue against Pak Gym, a big ground on a murderously hot day was probably ideal conditions :-) PakGym's fielding can sometimes falter a bit (they are clearly a team whose batting and bowling are far greater strengths than their fielding). Add a big ground and what I can only imagine must have been an awful awful day on that ground (with little breeze, no tree-shade etc... 2 or 3 of my roughest umpiring days physically have come in Purdue and Springfield, for example)... Purdue probably ran them ragged, as Raheel said. Ruchir opened and got 52 off 55 balls with only 3 fours - that means mostly running, with older fielders having to run to try and stop singles and twos, and that has always been Pak's weakest point.
In that sense Pak and Purdue are sort of opposites - Pak would find it easiest to make 300 on a cool day on a small ground, I think Purdue would actually find it easier to make 300 on a hot day on a big ground :-) All that said, of course, it was still an outstanding win - probably one of Purdue's best-ever wins since they came into our league 4 years ago, I'd guess?
Lets talk home court advantage and benefits of playing on familiar surface. I ran a analysis of two Random Chicago Div 2 teams and 2 Out of Town Div 2 teams.
Facts:
1. Most of Chicago teams play 35% to 50% of there games at the most on any one ground. Our two random sample of Chicago teams will play 35% of there game on a same ground. So if you want to call this venue as there home ground then go ahead.
2. QC Kings will play 78% of there game on there home ground.
3. Peoria CC will play 65% of there game on there home ground.
4. Chicago based teams are like red headed step child. They really do not have a home ground. There whole season is built around travelling. So if playoffs are in Chicago then it actually helps negate the massive home court advantage other teams have.
Advancers Schedule # Games Washington Park 5 Heritage Park 2 Springfield 1 Hanover Park 3 SIUE Edwardsville 1 Collinsvills Park 1 Champaign, IL 1
Giants Schedule # Games Washington Park 5 Hanover Park 4 Heritage Park 1 Moline 1 SIUE Edwardsville 1 Madison, WI 1 Champaign, IL 1
QC Kings Schedule # Games
Moline 11 Hanover Park 1 Springfield, IL 1 SIUE Edwardsville 1
Peoria CC Schedule # Games Mossville, IL 9 Collinsville, IL 1 Springfield, IL 1 Champaign, IL 1 SIUE Edwardsville 1 Washington Park 1
Just food for thought. Nothing personal against QC Kings and PCC. Both are great teams on there own grounds ;-)
Simply cuz I mentioned stumpings, doesn't mean that I am from Arsenal.
Swetal offered his clarifiations on identity and I have reasons to believe he is honest.
Several teams in Div 2 have bad feelings about you as a player. You have lost respect man...because you are a chronic cheat. With your own leg-umpire, you are never out stumping or run-out...add Joe Greene, you are never out until you score a 50 or a 100.
What's wrong with AAA+? Oh..they screwed your ass last year and you guys hate them for it? c'mon dicker head. learn...Chally, you can do it too.
AAA may not be doing great in Div 1 this year, but atleast they did not declare victory from Red Fort even before the first ball was bowled in the playoffs last year.
SimonDispatch I see you lack comprehension... the AAA+ reference was pertaining to the unpiring for ICC eagles game. He is from Flames adn I said I will give him a ranking of AAA+, are you on DRUGS? I have no beef with AAA the team cool guys if you ask me...
And Ruchir will still leave sometime soon, and IMHO Purdue will miss him a lot, he has really turned into a genuine quality allrounder this year.
Although Purdue are more like the Wildcats (in a sense they don't heavily rely on one person), I really don't think they have a shot at a championship without Ruchir.
Your wish is granted. Imran and Kamran have both graciously accepted to represent Chicago United at the 2007 L.A. Open tournament. ------------------- Why not invite the third brother, Rizwan - based on his thunderous hitting this past weekend. Just a suggestion.
Probably Jaggi or Aditya can give a ball by ball report but, all I saw was ball flying all over the place. I believe there were couple of nobes in the over.
Varad, I don't want to name the unfortunate bowler. You know him pretty well from your Rockers days.
Simon Said, Swetal offered his clarifiations on identity and I have reasons to believe he is honest.
Several teams in Div 2 have bad feelings about you as a player. You have lost respect man... ------------------------ So you took Swetal words for granted and call me a cheat. Both you and Swetal keep saying several teams..yet I see not other ones but your dumb ass and Swetal digging up this ants nest. I don't need your respect as you seem to be a person who can't think for himself. Are you a racist cause you just can't leave Joe Green out of any topic when it come to me or ICC. FYI and Swetal my record over 15 years in MWCC was not built on the few games Joe has umpired when ICC is playing. Joe is still one of the better umpires we have but it because of priks like yourself he may quit umpiring in MWCC. As for Arsenal the can go to their grave calling me a cheat, realy don't care, but man, the need to look in the Mirror first before calling teams cheat.
Well... I appreciate you protecting this dudes privacy and all, maybe he doesn't want to be named.
But anyways, its worth a chuckle & then forgetting about. The Rockers dudes are real good people and great sports too, don't think they would mind, but who knows.
But Jack (Chally?) thanks for the breakdown, it would be fun to hear more about anyways. Not very often one hears about 40 runs in an over ...
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Div I picks
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Milwaukee United-Flames>>Milwaukee United
United CC-Muslim>>UCC
Purdue-Pak>>Pak
Milwaukee CC-Phoenix CC>>Milwaukee CC
Capitol-Rogers Park>>Capitol
Royals-Chargers>>Chargers
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Div II picks
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QC Kings-Jolly Rovers >> QC Kings
Warriors-Raiders >> Raiders
Madison CC-Arsenal >> Madison
SIUE-Advancers >> Advancers
Tigers-Lucky XI >> Lucky XI
Illinois CC-Eagles >> Eagles
Chicago CC-Acers >> Chicago CC
Springfield-Collinsville >> Collinsville
Jaguars-Chicago Giants >> Jaguars
NoStars CC CCI >> CCI
Evanston IIT >> IIT
Some especially appealing Div2 matchups this weekend. QC/Jolly Rovers, Madison/Arsenal, Jaguars/Giants, SIUE/Advancers - all very good games between likely playoff teams (many of whom cant afford too many more losses). Thats an unusually high number of potential playoff teams playing each other in a single week! Interesting to see how Illinois comes back too, after last week - they cant afford more than maybe 1 more loss all season.
c8w
Although Sadiq's suggestion seems exciting (boy, I'd love to play all 3 divs!), Vasu's point is well taken. If you have div 1 players of varying caliber play for different div2 teams, it would affect what div2 team gets promoted.
Sorry, the above comment was for some other thread!
Its getting really complicated for a low IQ person like myself :)
I know my team (NoStars) had a very bad season so far ... But my gut feeling says that we will win against CCI ... I wish my gut feeling turns out to be true ...
All the best to all the teams playing this weekend ...
Prediction for week#10 in Div 1.
1.Flames-MUCC.(MUCC)
2.Muslim-UCC.(Muslim)
3.Pak-Purdue.(Pak) in a close one.
4.MCC-Phoenix.(MCC)
5.Capitol-Rogerspark.(rogerspark)
6.Royals-Chargers.(Royals)
Warriors Raiders -- Raiders
Madison Cricket Club Arsenal --MADISON
SIUE Cricket Club Advancers --- SIUE
Tigers Lucky XI --TIGERS
Q.C. Kings Jolly Rovers --JOLLY ROVERS
Springfield Collinsville Club --COLLINSVILLE
Jaguars Chicago Giants --GIANTS
NoStars Cricket Club CCI --CCI
Evanston IIT --IIT
Illinois Cricket Club Eagles --ICC
Chicago Cricket Club Chicago Acers --CCC
Results known so far this weekend:
Div1:
Muslim Gym beat United. Muslim put up 293 in 45 overs, and won by about 30 runs. Rizwan, angered by the blog mentioning only his brothers as LA Open contenders, smashed the Mehul-less United for 111 in about 50 balls, apparently :-)
Flames beat Milwaukee United. Milwaukee United (missing Bhavneet and Sharath apparently) put up 185 or so in 45 overs at Lincoln Park. Flames made it with about 5 wickets in hand with 3-4 overs to spare, with Kiran leading the way with 85*, carrying the Flames all the way home.
Div2:
Madison beat Arsenal. Madison batted first, and recovered from 125/8 or so to put up 220 in 40 overs. They then withstood a late charge by Arsenal (led by Narasimha) to win by about 25 runs. Horribly hot day, and the wildest, craziest road trip in history in the morning (whoever came up with the idea that 7-7-07 was a lucky day had no idea what they were talking about :-), but a good game in the end.
c8w
QC Kings beat Jolly Rovers
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It was very hot and humid day for cricket. QC Kings batted first and put on a good total of 296/9 in 40 overs. Thanks specially to Hari (82 8x6 4x4) and Balaji (3x4 1x6). There were several other decent contributions from other players as well. Ravi took 4 wickets for Rovers.
Chasing that target was not going to be easy, but Jolly Rovers made us work hard for our victory. They reached 257/7 in their 40 overs to give us a victory by 39 runs. Ram, Ravi and Aniruddha were the main contributors.
We have a 3 weeks break before we play SIUE on their home ground on August 5th.
Signing off until later...
Thanks With Regards
Team Member
QC Kings
Rogers park Vs Capitol @mossville ground..Update
Capitol were 65 for 3 in 12 overs and Satha got out very quickly for no runs caught at deepish square leg...Srujeeth and Deepak were at the crease...
Cheers
Madhu Reddy
PCC
The latest update 4 pak-purdue Purdue won by 30 runs batting first they scored 325 i guess the pace of raheel only helped the batsmen lol, however the much awaited arrival of maqsood raza didnt help the struggling batting line up of pak. The should have spent the money on buying some practicing balls rather then buying maqsood ticket, Let see how long raheel will stay away from blogging after this loss. Raheel got hammered for 28 runs in night game against challenger, Last year he was hit for 4 sixes in one over, in La Cup Only if he bowled faster then his RUNUP!! GODD LUCK in LA "australian bowler" Well pak is not as hot as there temper !!!!!
Does anyone know if Maninder Bola pulled out of L.A. Open? I don't see his name listed under 'Expertise' on L.A. Open web site.
Current Roster
Afroze Siddiqui
Nilesh Patel
Amit Kumar
Raheel Akhtar
Asif Mehmood
Satha Sivapragasam
Dakshesh Patel
Shahid Munir
Imran Tailor
Sohail Alvi
Nasir Mahmood
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
Adnan,
Maninder has been informed to make preparations for LA. We haven't been informed otherise if at all there is change or something. As far as we know he is going...
Madhu Reddy
PCC
Chicago Giants vs Jaguars Update:
Jaguars opened disastrously with a 3rd ball run out. Giants deadly bowling duo of Moshi and Rizwan kept the run rate in check for about 16 overs. At 16 overs they were 50 and at end of 20 Jags were 90ish. After 20 overs came some great hard hitting by Satyam. He was connecting anything and everything. With Satyam at crease they reached 200. Then came a mini collapse when Satyam got out and Jags ended up with 258 for 9 in 40 overs. Great score on any ground.
Giants started chasing this mammoth total in a very clinical fashion. Kept the average around 7 runs in first 20 overs. Thanks to some great display of stroke play by Yaseen. Who played like a stud and scored 88. Vajid, Omer and Asim played a great supporting role by putting up 30 plus each. Game got interesting when Yaseen got out with 75 runs still let at 6 runs per over needed.
Giants lower middle order of Amer, Rizwan, Atif and Moshi chased it down with 9 balls left.
Great win against a very good Jaguars team.
Thanks,
Chicago Giants
this Giants is one helluva team...Giants vs Peoria final in Div 2 ???
Raheel's gotta nick, so he still should be on the blogs this week.
I have some very sad news. Ajit's father passed away in India yesterday.
The Wildcats cricket club joins the MCC community in offering our heartfelt condolences. Our thoughts and prayers are with Ajit and his family in these extremely difficult times.
Looking at LA open squad and all the comments, the only two people who dont belong in the squad are:
1. Amit Kumar
2. Dax
I doubt that Dax will be allowed to bowl in LA as they have zero tolerance for chucking so he should be expecting same treatment which his friend Bhavesh got last year. The cricket which is played here and the cricket in LA are two different worlds.
One person i would include is Kamran from Muslim instead of Dax and Amit Kumar should be replaced by ???
After Raheel's last two performances (night game in challengers and Purdue) ....???
On behalf of challengers and their families, I express sincere condolences to Ajit and his family.
May god give them the strength to bear the loss.
God bless his soul.
Challengers CC
Romeen,
Please pass on PCC family heart-felt condolences to Ajit and his family during this very difficult period. May God bestow him and his family with inner strenght and peace to cope with this great loss.
Sincerely,
On behalf PCC family,
Madhu Reddy
can some one update Eagles Vs ICC game
SimonDispatch said...this Giants is one helluva team...Giants vs Peoria final in Div 2 ???
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Simon D thanks for kind words have played your team lately?
Eagle vs ICC
let me try I hope rup can help out here....
Well Eagles won the toss and put us in... We were without Collins and Dan our openers, so Aaron and Youdeo Opened Lost Youdeo in the 3rd over caught at slip. Aaron beat the bowling for a nice 24 we put on 40 odd runs then he fell. Ron came in and we put on 120 in about 13 overs Ron made 44( a great knock)..
I(Jack) felt my way around got my first scoring shot with a hit to longoff for 4 got a similar ball but the bowler held it back I check the drive and hit a dolly to Subbu at cover, to my surprise he was looking away so when he turn around all he could have done was drop it.. and that was it did not give another until I was out for 73. Rup came in and made a nice attacking 40.
At the 15 over break we were 98 for 2... After 20 overs we were 150-160 for 2.
We got to 279 all out in 39.5 overs going for 300. We ran poorly at the end but it was a great score.
Eagles began poorly lost one of their openers the 1 first ball of the 2nd over to a great catch in cover... lost another on in the 3rd over rup 2nd and at one stage they were 33 for 3 after 8 and 44 for 4 after 10 with they big bat falling. Their opener Mankesh made a chancy 70 or 80 but once he was gone bolwed by Boodhoo it was curtains.. They continue trying to mound a come back but after the 6th wicket fell they did not have much resistances...Final score 184 chancing 279
Of course the game had drama with the HEAD of the umpiring for our league geting RUN out but said he was not out based on soem BS rule he made up on the field. Of course his square leg said not out but he was out NEXT ball LBW and he was not happy... The umpiring I think was done by Harish Kanchi from Flames and HE IS AWESOME got to give him that I think he made great decisions thats all we can ask for as a team.
Chally,
Can you give some more details on what happened on this run out situation and who is the Head of umpiring?
ICC and its entire family express our deepest sympathy to Ajit and his family on their recent loss.
May the lord give you all strength in mourning this loss.
Rup
ICC captain
well I dont know the guys name but I heard he is senior umpire and assist with the runnings of the umpires...
Anyway here is the deal.. He is the non striker the batsman hit a ball to fine leg... he ran to keepers end and grounded. the ball was still in short fine leg area, The fielder threw the ball in the keep caught the ball and hit the stumps because he walked out his his crease.. He said he is not out because the ball is dead... now how can the ball be dead and it never came in... his square leg said he asked for time then said he cannot lie never never did because he did not have the time to do so. then the square leg said he does not know the rule, but thats basic nothign complicated here he is out... but thankfully he was out next ball...
DIV 2 games played this week ...
Warriors vs Raiders = Raiders Won
Madison Cricket Club vs Arsenal = Madison Won
SIUE Cricket Club vs Advancers = Advancers Won
Tigers vs Lucky XI = Lucky XI Won
Q.C. Kings vs Jolly Rovers = Q.C. Kings Won
Springfield vs Collinsville Club = NEED UPDATE
Jaguars vs Chicago Giants = Giants Won
NoStars Cricket Club vs CCI = NEED UPDATE
Evanston vs IIT = Evanston Won
Illinois Cricket Club vs Eagles = Illinois Won
Chicago Cricket Club vs Chicago Acers = NEED UPDATE
Summary,
1. Evanston upsets IIT
2. QCK is on fire. Teams better start taking QCK seriously.
3. ICC gets back on track. No room for error from this point onwards for them.
4. Watch out for Advancers they are a very good team with some great spin bowling.
Sorry Tonald, cannot reveal the info. Just like Tango, I may have a bounty on my head :)
Thanks Chally.
incognito,
Head of umpiring is Sridher of Eagles. Will have to wait to hear the other side of the story as well.
Please keep in mind, ICC blames Sridher for their loss in the playoffs last year agaist AAA. They think racism as the reason for their loss, not their crappy batting. This is jack shit coming from cry babies of Div 2.
Ram, u there for providing an update?
On behalf of United Cricket Club, I would like to extend our deppest condolences to Ajju Bhai. May god give you and the family the strength to cope with difficult times.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
Advancers expresses deepest sympathy on demise of Ajit's father in India.
May God give Ajit's family all courage to over come this momment.
Advancer
Simonshit,
Look I am not going to cry over a game I hate poor umpiring and I hate people who cheat to win. If I cannot beat you I will NOT cheat you to do so.... All I will do is go try and get better and come back and kick your ass..
The man will come on here and say what he wants but thats the story and why would I fuss over him and he wasnt going to win the game for them taking singles?
So simonshit go take a hike and yes HE CHEATED US LAST year in playoffs and that was not the first time..
Let me break this down for you if he is claiming ball is dead he did not want to apply the same rule when collins was battin a year ago and he his a ball in the air got caught and he turns and walk because he was out caught the then extended his arm for Noball but collin was on his way they then run him out he said he could not call no ball because something got stuck in his throat now tell me if he was incompetent then he will ALWAYS be that way... I do not wnat to play another game with his umpiring.. He is a CHEAT and he will ALWAYS BE A CHEAT...then NO div 2 person should umpire a Div 2 game thats how I see it...
About race thats in your head I dont deal with race I have white, indians, pink, blue green friends that I RESPECT I think you may lack respect for us hence the reason you preaching this race crap...Man in amaerica you are minority, I am and some of you have no respect for us but thats for the uneducated ones to live with.. PS: having a degreee does not mean you are educated ok.. SIMONSHIT?
Also although we think he cheatted in the playoffs that does not mean we should not have won the game but simonshit you can have you say... I am comfortable with who I am are u
Not everyone in your team is a gentleman like you chally. Let's wait for an update from Eagles or the umpire.
Chally,
Race is not in my head but in your teams head. Please read blog comments written by your team members. I don't think any team's loss can be attributed to race or religion. Who gives a f??? about degrees, not sure how this is related to the topic of discussion. You wanna write filthy stuff, please continue to do so making a mockery of yourself as a person.
Another high scoring weekend in Division I.
Is something wrong with the balls? Or have the batsman become really good?
Dr B seems to have brought the racist angle, apparently for no reason.
Simon said,
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Shekhs, no matter how the committee is structured, folks like Dr B and Rup will always have something bad to say about umpires. Rup wants Joe Greene to umpire all of his playoff games. Rup is pissed off bcuz he is not going to LA Open.
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Look simon, I told you last year and will say it again this year.. they don't come any dumber than you.
I said i don't care if get selected to LA or not..Why should I be pissed.
All I was fussing about is why Jack was not given a chance knowing he is a very good alrounder and I think better than some selected??.
As for umpiring,
Joe Green can't umpire for us but the have everyone else umpiring our games. How do you think we feel implying that Joe will cheat for us but the other umpires will not cheat us.
All we have ever asked for is give us the best guy who will not ruin his reputation by making bad calls for any side. We have quite a few of those guys and yet the league refuses to give us one knowing there is room for????
I will leave the cheat thing alone but have we got screwed being trying to be good sportsmen at the cricket field.
So for you and all ICC haters we know what happened and so were a lot of others at the ground for last years Semi's. Were you there??.
From the incident yesterday I will see that Shridhar does not umpire another game for ICC. if he does and the leagus forces it they can have the game. Either he does not know the rules or he is a cheat??.
NO div 2 person should umpire a Div 2 game thats how I see it...
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This I agree and should be applied through out league especially if umpire is player on a another team belonging to same divison no matter what there might be just few biased decisions based on his personal experience with the team this should avoided especially during the season and playoffs is out of question
Cricket,
Well said but tell that to the league.. they can't seem to understand that piece.
I agree with Rup. Dr. B should not have started the topic of racism. It's just not healthy discussion for anyone.
simon said...
I don't think any team's loss can be attributed to race or religion
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man you preaching to the chior...
I said the man is a cheat you gone off on race and crap I dont do race and I am sure my teammates have the same view...
Anyway we can agree to disagree that the man is a CHEAT...
Good luck on your season and you have a great day because i am...
Dr B did not bring on anything about anyone. I simply stated the facts of what happend to me as an individual last year with a certain group of individuals...and I will not fall for the "please explain",like Chally did. No need to...those who contributed to making my 2006 season a bad one are now happy I am no longer around....you can see the results Then I turned to my family friends and they wer always there for us. That is life and it does not stop there.
I have no hate or disrespect for no human. I love all mankind and will continue to do so,but will stay away from those who prefer to not respect others.
You can accept my word or you can ignore it....BUT LETS ALL BE PROUD OF EACH OTHER. Ther are more complicated issues to deal with in life.
I know i missed a lot last couple days on blog.
The league has mandate each team must umpire two games free. They budgeted us for 14 games @ $60.00 + extas for Playoffs. Why 2 Games free??. That 100 games @ 60.00 = $6000.00.
I wonder what the have in store for this 6K. Can one of you talk these nut cases into passing out the financials for last year and this year so far before we get sued again.
I will like to see them fine my team for not doing one of these games. If they do, you all can try frogetting another 40K.
Com on guys, stand up for something, Stop letting these Jerks waste your good earned $$$. I know my captain will back you all up on any investigation of spending of our funds.
And stop beating up on the guys who bring up these points cause the want you all to do something.
dr B,
I did not fall for the "please explain" but I am sorry to hear you had a bad 2006 season... but you are spot on with :
"....BUT LETS ALL BE PROUD OF EACH OTHER. Ther are more complicated issues to deal with in life."
Guys,
On a lighter note, here is an update of the Phoenix vs MCC game. MCC won the toss and chose to bat first. They started cautiously and played without giving any opportunities. Romesh in particular was extremely judicious with his shot selection early, which served him very well. Once the batsmen got settled in, they opened up, and Romesh in particular hit a lovely flick of his legs for six over square leg. I wont' go into details, but MCC put up 239 in 45 overs. There were 7 dropped catches by us which I estimate cost us about 40-50 runs.
With a challenging score, Phoenix started the run chase in style with Shiva being particularly severe on the bowlers. We were 53 in 4 overs for no loss. So, MCC brought on their Ace, Asif! In his first over he took Shiva's wicket. We lost our second wicked the next over. With plenty of runs on the board in a short amount of time, run-rate wasn't the problem. However, Asif ran through our batting line-up, and some of the other bowlers chipped in with useful wickets. Athreya was stranded on one end, and Phoenix was all out for 121. Congratulations to MCC for the win, and having made the playoffs (if the 8 game barrier still stands).
3 loses and two rain outs. PAK GYM is not sitting well for paly offs.
On a personal note, I will admit to getting "schooled" by Asif. I faced 9 balls, not including 2 wides, game a slip catch which was grassed, nearly got bowled, and basically had no clue how to play him. I think I played 3 balls from the middle of my bat only. He ended my misery at the crease by bowling me around my legs!
He is by far, the best spinner in our league bar none, a useful batsman, and therefore one of the better allrounders! I look forward to playing you again sometime Asif, because you have definitely had the better of me in all our encounters so far! :-)
Romeen,
Which night game am I predicting for this week?
adi,
i think its safe to say phoenix is done.
sorry to hear about your 2006 experience Dr B, but you certainly sounded more generic earlier. Hope Jack are clear now on who brought up the topic.
Being dumb, Rup may still find it difficult to comprehend. Rup you can say and write a 1 pager on anything, but you cannot hide your intentions. But I agree with you on one thing. Jack should be on the plane to LA.
Dr. Booo...you make me laugh loud with words like love, hate and mankind ... as if you are some countries president. Accept that you are a human being. Damn it.
*Hope jack is clear...
Shekhs/Romeen,
How did the blog party go this past week?
Guys ..
Check out this link ... http://www.palmcricket.com/initial.html
I have playing in a tennis ball league here near Seattle .. The league has provided all the teams with a Palm-top with the palm-cricket software installed .. for a 300 USD deposit ... WE are supposed to return this once the season ends ..
You can do complete scoring using this p-cricket ... It is very easy to use ... A one hour session is enough to educate all with this software ... You can download the scores in an excel-sheet format and then send it across ...
I hope our league looks into this and trys to implement this in future ..
Cheers,
Alpesh
Dr B..Sorry to hear about you 2006 misery (with bat) but you seems to be doing good this year. Are you using long and wide bat (if there is one and allowed).
Gosh...now you would see Rup update his manifesto to include use of Palm in our league.
Alpesh u are making us look like we are in stone age.
simon,
We didnt have a party last friday...got fisled out as there were not enough people..
Will let you know next time..
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neanderthal_walking said...
adi,
i think its safe to say phoenix is done.
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Aint nobody done - the experience of the last 2 years should have told us that :-) Both of the last 2 years, teams have come from 2-6 (Wildcats) and 1-6 (United) to make the playoffs!
Look at it this way. Flames were 1-4-1 before this weekend, and nobody but nobody would have even given them a second thought about possible playoffs... some may have thought of possible relegation battles, even! But they ended up beating Milwaukee United (a game I would have predicted them to lose, if I was predicting anything before the weekend :-)
Now the Flames are at 10 points, and currently 4 points out of playoff position! With only 1 extra win! (8th playoff spot is currently held by Rogers Park with 14). The remaining schedule for them is... Rogers Park, Capitol, AAA, Chargers, Royals, St Louis and Bears. Doesnt *seem* like an impossibly hard schedule, does it? (Only one of those teams has more than 3 wins so far).
Its going to be an interesting season, as usual. With the number of washouts this year (seems like more than usual to me), its possible that 8 may not be neccesary to make the playoffs.. who knows, it could be 7 or 7.5? Lots of teams are still alive if they start playing better, even those near the bottom of the table. (And once the relegation battle really heats up, there are often a few more upsets too, which can play a big role near the end of a season).
c8w
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Aditya said...
Guys,
On a lighter note, here is an update of the Phoenix vs MCC game.
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Thanks for that, Adi. Another good score from Romesh, he really is having a very good season given the low-scoring games he's playing in (75 by himself in a game where a pretty good team makes 121 allout is a very good effort, really). Did he just play well, or did were some of your 7 chances given to him?
BTW, in the card that MCC has put up, I see that Wade didnt play? And also the wickets for them add up to only 6... were there actually 4 runouts? Or is it just an error?
And Iam glad (even if you guys probably arent) that you got to see Asif at his best... told ya he was the best spinner in the league, didnt I? ;-) Especially if you havent seen him *that* much before, and on that pitch... the amount of break you see for the first few overs can come as a nasty shock until you get used to it.
c8w
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Good_Will_Prevail said...
I know i missed a lot last couple days on blog.
The league has mandate each team must umpire two games free.
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I will like to see them fine my team for not doing one of these games. If they do, you all can try frogetting another 40K.
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There is already a thread setup for discussion of the new rules for our league... it would be nice if we could take this part of the discussion there :-) There are already a few posts there discussing this very topic.
FWIW, I agree with the league making every team umpiriring 2 games mandatory, I think its a badly needed reform...but I do agree that the games umpired should be paid. And if you dont do it there needs to be a penalty.. I think a more effective penalty would have been the ones used by leagues out East, that is, you take away 6 points from the team that doesnt fulfill its obligations! With that sort of penalty, everyone will fulfill their responsiblities, as they should...
But, again, lets discuss these very important issues in the other "rules and regulations" thread that Hari opened last week.
c8w
c8w Said,
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There is already a thread setup for discussion of the new rules for our league... it would be nice if we could take this part of the discussion there :-) There are already a few posts there discussing this very topic.
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That thread is already forgotten by everyone except you??.
Or maybe i should put it in the Ideas page so mgt can wipe their ass with it?. What do you think.
can anyone write a summary for PAK/PURDUE game?
where is everyone today?
case of Mondays .. I think :)
Shekhs send me an email when you set up the next blog party.
Game Summary - Rogers Park vs. Capitol
Result: Rogers Park won by 3 wickets
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RPCC won the toss and elected to bowl first looking to use the windy conditions. We were rewarded of the first ball of the game with the wicket of Satha by Amir. Some wayward bowling helped Capitol put up a total of 195 in their 40 overs.
RPCC got off to a good start but then started loosing wickets at regular intervals. The chase was held together by Shiraz and the Nasir (played a captain's knock). they got 60 and 43 respectively. We were cruising but then Nasir was runout and the chase seemed to get tougher. With 7 wickets down and about 40 runs to get in 8 overs, Faraz and I got to the target with 3 overs to spare. It was a close and exciting game.
We were anticipating seeing Satha play a few strokes, hoping not too many but I guess we will have to wait till next year to see him bat. Goodluck to Capitol for the remainder of the season.
Regards,
Asmar
I'll do a summary at the risk of being bashed (yet again). Bottom line was that Purdue ran us ragged in 100 degrees heat. They scored 100 in the first 16 overs with only 3 fours! We missed catches, gave over throws, keeper missed catches, stumpings, simple returns from the outfield and Purdue batsmen ran like hares. Ruchir scored 52, Pradeep 63 (after being dropped first ball), Ashwin 44 (after being reprieved atleast twice via missed stumpings). Kaushik came up with a few big hits in the end and Purdue reached the mountainous 315 in 45 overs.
Bakhshi and Rauf started off like a train: 30 in 2 overs, 100 in 12, game on. The runs kept coming as Purdue missed one or 2 catches too and there was good batting from Hassan bhai (another 50+ score) and Irfan. At the break it all hung in balance 150 needed in 22 overs. Irfan and Hassan both got out in a few overs after the break, Shahid and Mazhar took over running very hard for 2s and 3s. Shahid was in great form and hit boundaries almost at will. With about 75 left in 11 overs Shahid hit Ravi over midwicket the ball was heading for a flat 6, Ashwin stuck a hand out above his head and to the right and caught that out of thin air, that was an unbelievable catch and given the man (Shahid) and the moment it pretty much sealed the match. There was a late surge with Rashid bhai and Mazhar getting us close 32 needed in 4 ovs, but that’s as close as it got and Purdue won by 28 runs. Ruchir bowled well with 4-40 in 7 I think. I would still give man of the match to Ashwin .. if you’re reading this dude, take a bow, what a freakin catch!
We have 6 matches left to get back on track or kiss the playoffs goodbye! Time will tell ..
Signing off.
c8w,
Romesh played an excellent innings. He had 1 chance, which came when he was in his 40s. Until then, it was flawless. Apart from that 1 blemish, he batted intelligently and looked good until he got out.
Shiva had a great allround game. Took 4 wickets, bowled an extremly impressive spell, and gave us the ideal start to the chase.
Good summary Raheel, chasing 300+ is always difficult but being defending champions you guys came close. Many teams would give up. I should have umpired this game, would have been great to watch.
NW,
I am an optimist, so I will not say that we are done!
However, at this point, it is going to take a "united" effort to come up with a "wild" "cat"-like sprint to the finish (yes, i made a lame effort to name the 2 teams known for this trait). :-)
This blog is getting boring. Can we get some girls in here???
A/S/L ???
However, at this point, it is going to take a "united" effort to come up with a "wild" "cat"-like sprint to the finish (yes, i made a lame effort to name the 2 teams known for this trait). :-)
Yes Aditya, 'lame' is the right word. But hey, at least you didn't write another one of your sick double-meaning analogies. Keep it up.
This blog is getting boring. Can we get some girls in here???
Yes, I miss Sharath too.
.........break you see for the first few overs can come as a nasty shock until you get used to it.
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Yes! C8W we get the point.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
People would start questioning your integrity, if so happens an incident while umpiring there game.
I would be careful.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
Rup said..
" I will leave the cheat thing alone but have we got screwed being trying to be good sportsmen at the cricket field. "
CHEATING and RUP go hand in hand...several instances stated by various teams...obvious stumpings, nicks to the keeper. Did you walk off as a good sportsman Rup? don't give me this shit about being a good sportsman.
Jack, don't come down in support of Rup. Get to know Rup's cheating history first. Several Div 2 teams know about him.
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Adnan said...
People would start questioning your integrity, if so happens an incident while umpiring there game.
I would be careful.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
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Was this intended for me, BTW? In re the Asif-related post? I wasnt sure...
If it was, anyway, thanks for the warning, I probably need to be more careful in praising players sometimes :-) But anyway Asif himself, while very much a gentleman, has told me on a couple of occasions that he thinks I dont give him LBWs at all (and he isnt wrong in actual fact, Ive given him very few in several games umpired there). But thats partly *because* of what I said earlier... he turns the ball *so* much early on, for any umpire it will always be difficult to be totally sure he is actually going to hit the stumps.. he often turns it right across the stumps, it often pitches on leg and spins enough to miss off! And if youre not *sure* its going to hit the stumps, of course, you cant give it LBW. Its difficult for the bowler, but I suppose thats why they call it a batsman's game :-) On the odd occasion you can be sure and so can give it.. but a lot of the time he turns it a lot, beats the batsman, but may be turning it too much to actually get him out! In that sense the other MCC spinner, Shakir Naeem, has a much better chance of getting LBWs in Milwaukee - he turns it much less, tries to hone into the stumps, and the ball often keeps low there (of course, he too feels I dont give him enough LBWs... all bowlers are like that, always unhappy with us poor innocent umpires ;-)
c8w
Had a setback last Thur at practice.. broke my right thumb at 2 places. For the second time this season at practice, the batsman hit the balll right back off my bowling. I had to stick my hand out to avoid the ball from crashing into my face.
I have a cast for 4 weeks and have about 2 weeks of physical therapy after the cast comes off.
Sorry to hear about your injury Jaggi. Get well soon.
Hi Guys
This is Sridher Jagath. There has been a lot said by spokespersons of the ICC, but here is my side of it. The situation as I saw it is mentioned briefly in the next para. I do not want to delve into the words/language used by the handful of ICC players during the match or the ones they have chosen to use in the blog or the tactic adopted by the midwicket fielder just when the bowler was about to deliver the next ball. This is my first and last post on this topic. I merely want to explain the rationale behind my decision.
I had completed the run safely even before the ball landed in the gloves of the wicket keeper. While running, my cap had flown. Couple of seconds after the ball was collected by the keeper (when I had no intention of going for another run), he whipped the bails when I went for my cap and appealed for my wicket. I felt that enough time had passed to establish the fact that the ball was indeed dead.
Given below are ICC (International Cricket Conference) rules when the ball is considered dead. Please note that I was applying Law 23.1.(a).i and/or 23.1.(b) (Both the clauses have been reproduced below)
If in the opinion of the umpire, the ball was still in play and he had and declared me out, I swear I would have walked away and not complain a bit. For me the umpire’s decision is final no matter what.
While conceding that ICC had beaten us squarely and won the match hands down, I found no reason to walk away from the crease just because "I.C.C" says that it was only fair that I walked off or accuse us of cheating. In my opinion the ball had rested long enough in the wicket keepers hands for it to be a dead ball. Once again if the umpire had thought otherwise and declared me out, I would have simply walked off and not talk about it.
LAW 23 DEAD BALL
1. Ball is dead
(a) The ball becomes dead when
(i) it is finally settled in the hands of the wicket-keeper or the
bowler.
(ii) to (ix) have no relevance to this discussion and hence removed to make this blog shorter
(x) the umpire calls Over or Time.
(b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the
umpire at the bowler's end that the fielding side and both
batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.
I am sure all the teams would have had their share of bad calls but not all teams go about blame their losses solely and sorely on the umpiring.
Thanks
Sridher Jagath
Jaggi,
Sorry about your thumb...hope you recover fast !
I'm an injury prone individual myself...
I was wondering if people have injury stories to share...to empathize with Jaggi.. :-)
A lot of times you get hurt because you (I'm not talking about you Jaggi) really dont know how to play or execute the right way. I pull my hamstring (I know Tushar's gonna jump onto this one) a lot while running between the wickets.
Jaggi, wishing you a speedy recovery.
Sridher,
Thanks for that Law 23. If you remember back in our Naper days, I had finished a run and was at the non-strikers end. Thinking the play was dead, which it was, I asked our guys to get me a new bat and as I proceeded to walk away from the pitch to go meet the guy bringing me the new bat, the bowler throws the ball at the stumps and the Umpire gives me out...The Umpire actually told me I had not asked for a Timeout !
I guess that falls under this law 23's 1 (b) rule :)...The Ump did not interpret the play to be dead.
Since that day, I been asking Umps for TIMEOUTS and everytime I do that I feel like am back in high school asking the teacher permission to go take a leak!!
So did the umpire give Sridhar out, only to be overruled by Sridhar later? In that case, I think Sridhar is wrong.
Chally, can you please clarify?
I definitely am prone to injury. I broke my back (ruptured disc)in 2003 and sat out the entire season.
I was able to self recover from it and ever since do back strengthening exercises twice a day, everyday.
Shekhs, I would advise you to stretch out your hamstrings before and after the game. A tight hangstring leads to more pressure on the lower back.
We should have some sort of seminar on prevention of injuries.
Mr Srider:
Good summary of the rules etc but which part of you were going to pick up your cap that was STILL ON YOUR HEAD. Say I am a liar here or say all 11 ICC players are liar and your cap never left your head Mr Sridar. Hoping to make those who were not think you are telling the truth??????? about you cap falling off?????
Jaggi,
I do stretch before every game. Specifically my hamstring. I also run about 4 times a week.
My hamstring still hurts...maybe its the beer..
Tango said...
Yes Aditya, 'lame' is the right word. But hey, at least you didn't write another one of your sick double-meaning analogies. Keep it up.
Tango said...
This blog is getting boring. Can we get some girls in here???
Yes, I miss Sharath too.
Now now Tango, be honest. I am an innocent by-stander while you twist my words to have double meanings. Then you blame me for the double meanings and you enjoy it a lot more that you let on as shown by your second comment! Go on, take credit for your ability to twist others words; it's what makes your posts entertaining.
Simon,
Looks like you are from Arsenal. The only time i can recall being a question of stump out is again Arsenal couple years ago.
I am supposed to walk if the leg umpire says not out and I see the ball on the floor. Keeper claims he stumped me and dropped the ball to celebrate.
In the Semis Last year i was given stumped out and the ball was rolling down the wicket towards the bowler. Umpire put me out. Walked without a question.
As for caugt behind you are wrong. Then again the only time a team accused me a caught behind was Eagles last year and I still swear i did not nick that ball.
Call me what ever you want but at the end of the day I go home knowing I did not cheat to win. Then again you are Simon, always wants to make ICC look bad.
So do people wana take a shot at predicting performances of people going to LA
Who will score most runs?
Who will take most wickets?
Who will be most economical bowler?
How will be the keeping behind stumps?
Aditya,
Chill ya, I'm just playing with you :)
b) The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the
umpire at the bowler's end that the fielding side and both
batsmen at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.
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Cleary, the fielding side and umpires did not feel the ball was dead.
I was in the covers. when the throw came in he was not in his crease as he had stepped out to get his hat. If Sridhar had said that instead of saying he got permission I would have let it go.
first square leg said try to cover him that's when i got upset because he did not ask for permission but took the law into his own hands.
After I approcahed square leg and the ruling umpire the leg umpire then said Shridhar never asked for permission to leave while the ball was still in play.
He brings the rule out for him, but he first needs to answer why he tried so many times to Stump/runout ICC batsman prodding around their crease when the ball had come to rest in his glove a couple of seconds and the batter in not running.
As for language he should be the last to mention that.
I guess If you use slangs in Hindi or any forign language it's good but if you say in in English the league should punish you.
May be i should have let ICC players know what he called them in His language..who knows what would have happened.
Shekhs,
Running four times a weeks??
HMMMMM!!!!!
is the running an excuse to hit the bars cause you don't look the 6 pack running type.
tell us the truth buddy.
Shekhs Sir,
You need to give time to your hamstrings to heal .. if they have been damaged severly ... In 2005, it took me almost one month to recover ...
Drink plenty of fluids ... let me explicitly mention ... water, gatorade, juice .. NOT BEER :) As Jaggi said, stretch a lot ... Also try to do some small sprints of 25-30 meters once you are warmed-up ...
Good luck with recovery :)
Cheers,
Alpesh
I knew I would get a lot of fans...on my running comment.. :-)
Nah, Rup I made that up...are you kidding me..
I can't even run 100 meters, let alone run 4 times..
I meant running to the bar 4 times a week...I'm glad you got it right..
Appu,
you're right about rest....any muscle needs rest after it gets stressed out..
Thanks man..
I know we had something in common.
I save my energy for the little sprints between the wickets. 60 feet the most.
everyone say drink lot of fluid..
This is why we go to the Bars!!!
Rup/ Adi,
We still have a game tonite?
Did someone check the ground after last nite's storm?
Well rup cleared up the story about the run out no need to say more...
Rup said...
Simon,
Looks like you are from Arsenal. The only time i can recall being a question of stump out is again Arsenal couple years ago.
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Rup, there are only 3 guys from Arsenal that post on this blog: Narasimha, Varad and myself. AND we ALL use our own names...no anonymous crap...no BS.
For the records, if you remember right before we played that game last year, I had jokingly told you before the game started that we were hoping your leg-ump would give you out if we got you stumped....we did get you stumped and you were given not out :). I had mentioned that to you before the game cause this had happened before when we played you guys with Naper CC. And that season, there were 2/3 other teams that had voiced this concern. It is what it is brother. Shite happens.
Regardless, Rup, I/WE do not need any anonymous ids to tell things like they are 'cause I tell these things on people's faces. There aint nothing to hide.
I man canfused.
Rup in a good mood b/c nite cricket in a few hours.
Where is Mr mw and Dr No? You guys went to get some those Plam bats? One a you not need it but I sure the other does...let me read off your scores buddy.
Swetal thanks for clearing up the anon blogging.but then again we have people blogging under different names???.
As for last year I know you mentioned it but i did not get a stump out.. I only made a few against you all.
It was the year before where I made a few and set up the win.
As for teams that think i need a break to score they can die with that for i wil not let 1 or two teams put me down.
As for teams rubbing it in you guys are the only one that still hold that one decision as a recurrence of many!!.
Like you said Stuff happens and you have got to let that go to become better.
shekhs,
We are trying to confirm with Tariq and the league if the game should be postponed or not??
Heavy storms are rolling in this afternoon again so???
this year div I play offs are looking good. cats, muslim, MCC, purdue on the rise while traditional power houses challengers, PAK, united on the decline.
Thanks Rup...
Let us know by COB today...so we can get out...
wait wait arsenal talking about man not walking... or our squareleg not sending rup? Wow..
2 weeks ago got the same guy that set up the win for you guys caught behind big edge he stood the umpire said he did not see an edge but the sound was enough for everyone... If he was a sportsman he would ahve walked. No way a ball flew pass him at chest high he fend with bat loud nick dont want want umps want to see... may be since you swetal is a sportsman you should begin by teaching your team mates how to be one first? Just a suggestion nothing personal..
Dr Booo...looks like you are missing me a lot.
BTW can you guess who i am. You seem to pretend that you know me.
For clarification i moved out of Moline couple of years back, i don't know you personally but heard about your antics .. now moved to Bloom land.
Don't waste your time in guessing who it is but understand urself better.
Looks like the night tour off to a rainy start.
I just checked the weather and looks like we may have game on cause it went from 70% chance of rain to 40% within 1 hour.
Let hope we go to no storms by game time.
this year div I play offs are looking good. cats, muslim, MCC, purdue on the rise while traditional power houses challengers, PAK, united on the decline.
Dunno man. Pak Gymkhana lost against pretty good teams (ie. St.Louis, Wildcats, Purdue), United lost two of their games without Mehul. Challengers are 5-2, so I wouldn't put them in the 'decline' category.
But yes, other teams like MCC, St.Louis, Wildcats and Purdue have really stepped up this year.
chally also join de party here.
good points from both party and it will never end there. this is CRICKET and umpires (main one,not the sq leg) always have a difficult time,even in international games. look at the screw-up in w/c final.
i must say that i am impressed with all the umpires so far in the few games i played with ICC,especially vs Eagles.
Hey ND, what are your Top 8 power rankings in Division 1? (from what we have seen so far this season)
dr,,noooooooo,
Are you saying Dr b was in charge of a circus??.
Or was he part of a circus performing Antics.
Bloom land... Is this your back yard cause I can arrange for us to come party on itTTTTT!!!!.
n_w and Tango..
Wildcats have always been a powerhouse. They have the highest number of championships...
the guy from flames in the last game ICC vs Eagles I give him AAA+
hands down
Purdue definitely look good this year..
I think they are my dark horses this year.
They only lost 1 game so far - to challengers. They were missing about 3-4 key players for that game.
Tango said...
Hey ND, what are your Top 8 power rankings in Division 1? (from what we have seen so far this season)
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tango. thought you would never ask. :)
my order
PAK
CHALLENGERS
MUSLIM / CATS
PURDUE / MCC
UNITED / STL
your thoughts
shekhs said...
Purdue definitely look good this year..
I think they are my dark horses this year.
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they are doing good but so far had relatively easy schedule for them. nevertheless, they have some great players.
The circus still in town,some left and some will leave.
"Dr No...body" is full a crap. e think e can fool de audience.
Chally:
why yo putting de umpire into Tripple A team (AAA),and a plus to go with him?
chally,
I EDGE, I WALK. Allways have, allways will. But am sure there are a lot of guys in the league and some on my team that will NOT walk until and until the Ump gives them out. Their justification is the Umps have given them out wrongly in the past so they might as well cash in.
Diff. of opinions, that is it.
Good_Will_Prevail but not Dr. Boooo..
For some...all they do in cricket ground is circus.
If for you Bloom land is your backyard ..invite Dr. Booo..and he has can entertain u till Good_Will_Prevail.
Tango's Power Rankings (Week 10)
1. Wildcats (6-0): Only unbeaten team in the league. Romeen's captaincy seems to have rejuvenated the old guys.
2. Milwaukee CC (8-1): What a turnaround this season has been for Asif and company. A year ago this time, they were fighting relegation, now they are amongst the elite teams.
3. Purdue University (5-1): Besides the egg they laid against the Challengers, this team has been nearly perfect.
4. St.Louis (6-2): Struggled on the road, but regained their form at home with impressive wins over Pak Gymkhana, Challengers and United.
5. Challengers (5-2): Lost a couple of tough games on the road, but have quietly put up a pretty impressive 5-2 record so far.
6. Muslim Gymkhana (3-2): Got off to a dismal start against mediocre teams before pulling off three successive victories.
7. United CC (4-3): Started off strong before dropping three in a row, two of those games without Mehul Shani.
8. Pak Gymkhana (3-3): Defending champs have lost three consecutive games, be it against pretty good teams.
The circus still in town as long as Dr. Booo is in town.
Well swetal you are one of a kind then... Congrats!
Dr B :):)
Nah I am not trying to put him on triple A team
purdue batting has certainly been phenomenal but i dont know just like MCC and STL i feel they are missing something.
ND,
And c8w was saying that their batting is so much worse than last year. HA! I didn't see them putting up 300 in every other game last year.
In any case, all these road teams have a tough time playing in Chicago during playoff time. Will be interesting to see what happens this year.
I think Purdue is a little better off since their ground is similar to Washington Park, while St.Louis and MCC play on entirely different surfaces.
tango, i agree. 300 plus against PAK GYM on a bigger ground isnt easy. well, you know c8w.
i wonder what c8w has to say about that. :)
Actually c8w must be very happy with the outcome. Purdue has always been his favourite team in Division I.
Tango, ND, C8w, Rup, Chally, Adi, Romeen, Sheks and all the bloggers.....I just want pick ur minds little bit..
What do you guys think of 'Home court Advantages' rule being implemented in MWCC...its very heart rending to see that..say for instance...MCC or St louis who might be ranked 1 or 2 in the seeding..come playoff time they are made to play on a surface..that is very disadvantageous to them...but advantageous to the lower seeded team...(assuming its a chicago team taking into account current standings)....Do you think we should have Chicago teams travel to the higher seeded team home ground? Obvious if CHicago team is higher seeded no questions there..but in scenariou where Purdue, St. Louis and MCC, MUCC are higher seeds..? please post ur thoughts..
please post ur thoughts..? PCC, QC kings, JOlly Rovers, Collinville, SIUE, CCI, Evanston (I haven't played in Evanston) are all the same boat too...with different surface and conditions..?
Cheers
Madhu REddy
PCC
tango,
i think his favorite side is phoenix and then MUCC and purdue
i think his favorite side is phoenix and them MUCC and purdue
Could be true. Those most certainly are his favourite teams, along with the other Division II teams that made it to Division I.
Madhu,
Teams like Milwaukee CC and Peoria play most of their regular reason games at home, so they have an unfair advantage in the regular season.
If all teams were playing the same number of home and away games, then maybe the home court advantage argument might have been valid. But under the current circumstances, I'd stick to the same format of having all playoff games in Chicago.
Madhu,
I think you threw the sh&* right at the fan my man..got to say you have a good aim.. :-)
My opinion, since I have one..is that..
We should allow home court advantage with respect to the final points table seeding.
Having said that, I think the away teams like MCC and STL should play more away games, come to Chicago maybe 3-4 times during their regular schedule so that the seeding at the end is fair.
Now, say Capitol (since I can talk crap about my old team :-) )
plays in SPI all year and get to the top place say 1 or 2 and then we allow them to play the playoffs in SPI, I think the advantage just see sawed to the other side.
If you want to locate the playoff game based on seeding, then the regular games must also be failry scheduled/ located. Capitol should travel at least 5 games ...rules like that..
What do you think about that Madew?
The playoffs also generate a lot of excitement in Chicago.
Maybe we can just have the semi's and finals in Chicago, and in the QF's, the team with the higher seed gets to host the game.
I think thats fair.
Tango and n_w,
Looks like Aditya is getting ready for the game tonite since morning...haven't seen him all day...
:-)
dr no,,,
I asked you a question. where is bloom land?.
I don't know where it is and ask you since you mentioned it and you ask me the same question.
Take the Dr out of you and put QUACK .. fits perfectly for you seems to lack the ability to comprehend.
i think madhu got a point. but in my opinion, higher seeding should get the home court advantage if all the teams play equal number of home and way games during the regular season.
also we gotta look at the "play offs in chicago" that is something to look forward to.
sorry madhu. come down here.:)
Madhu you got a point there... The team with the higher seed should get the home court adv... Dont know how management will implement this since they cant implement other things..
Guys,
As of now, the game is on. I will post one last time before I leave to confirm.
Tango,
C'mon, you know I'm not going to get ticked off over something small. Specially when we've been joking for a bit about this. Hope you come for the night game tonight.
shekhs said...
Tango and n_w,
Looks like Aditya is getting ready for the game tonite since morning...haven't seen him all day...
:-)
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i think he wants to look pretty for tonight. maybe he show up with mascara and all. :))
Good_will_prevail..you could have asked the question directly where is Bloom land (Bloomington).
Go read your comment and know what you lack..just being good.. won't prevail all the time.
sharath,
you got internet yet? i think he is not going to get internet till MUCC win couple of games.
what do you think tango?
Home Field advantage will always be a question but until all teams and play the same amount of games on similar surfaces we will not be able to justify playoffs away from home.
some teams may play their regular season on 14 different surfaces while a team may play 11 games on their home surface. Big advantage for the team with 11 games on the same ground and home advantage come playoffs.
To be honest I will hate to see the playooff move from chicago but time can erase that.
As i have stated before teams that feel they have a shot at the playoffs should request to play at least 3-4 games at WP or grounds that have concrete and jute.
The experience will benefit you for thats where you will be at the playoffs.
sorry Madhu, Iam with the rest..leave the playoffs in chicago land.
Shekhs, N_W and Madhu,
I think that to keep things fair, away teams should play more games in Chicago, than Chicago teams play away.
Chicago teams, even while in Chicago and playing against other Chicago teams, don't really have a home court advantage. While away teams, have a distinct advantage at home while playing against Chicago teams.
Basically we should have it in such a way that away teams play 7 games at home, and 7 games on the road, while Chicago teams play 3-4 away games, and 10-11 games in neutral territory against other Chicago teams.
Hope this isn't too confusing.
N_W,
Did Bhavneet play against the Flames this week?
Don't have to read it again.
I asked direct questions and got indirect answers.
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Go read your comment and know what you lack..just being good.. won't prevail all the time.
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Don't thinkt the rest of bloomington thinks like you but Good will always prevail. All the time, anywhere, anyplace!!!
totally agreed tango. chicago teams at disadvantage during the regular season while away teams have clear edge.
shekhs said...
Tango and n_w,
Looks like Aditya is getting ready for the game tonite since morning...haven't seen him all day...
:-)
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ROFL... lol..
Another problem I see Madew is umpiring...
For playoffs, we need 2 neutral umpires..
It will be a riot if we let the home team umpires from Capitol, PCC etc umpire playoffs..
Are we gonna make umpires from Chicago travel?
tango,
dont know but i assume he didnt cuz FLAMED won. anyway i think whole milwaukee doesnt have internet anymore. MUCC doesnt update scorecards.
I think the best solution would be to make away teams play at least 4-5 games in Chicago. Then we'll have it in such a way that the higher seed gets home court advantage in the QF's.
The Semi's and Finals ought to be played in Chicago regardless of the seedings.
Another problem I see Madew is umpiring...
For playoffs, we need 2 neutral umpires..
Thats not a valid point Shekhs, thats a petty excuse :)
I'm sure we'll be able to find umpires who will travel during playoff time.
Tango,
Are you volunteering to go to STL to umpire a playoff game? :-)
Marghoob bhai isko pakad ligiyega aap....banda mila hein.. :-)
dont know but i assume he didnt cuz FLAMED won. anyway i think whole milwaukee doesnt have internet anymore. MUCC doesnt update scorecards
Yeah man, they are the last ones to post their scorecard every week.
Are you volunteering to go to STL to umpire a playoff game? :-)
Yes, I'll volunteer dude. But first you'll have to figure out who I am.
Let change topic last hour of the day.
What kind of a piss ass name we are sending our MWCC team under to the LA open.
EXPERTISE...I will like the guy who found this name Shot on sight.
What too ashamed to use MWCC..after all we are funding this and should'nt our name represent all of us.
wait a minute...
Marghoob bhai could be Tango..
Marghoob bhai could be Tango..
Dude, please! I'm Samarth till the end of the LA Open.
What are we playing here - Pokemon?
Or Dashavatar?
Good will P:
I have full respect for the "doctor". Not too many em Quack you know so it is nice to know one that does. And it seem like e cannot stop e QUACKING......
BTW: thers are meds that can stop such a syndrome from progressing further, Dr Quack.
Good luck with you evening game and say special hello to Madhu.
good will prev i know what ur talking about why cant we call it midwest XI or something expertise sucks ass.
C'on Shekhs, We know Marghoob bhai can be funny in his own ways but to be Tango.
Tango is Tango and a race by himself. I want to say he has his own country also but i will let him answer that.
Chally and Rup:
I meant good luck with evening game. I am confused with all these names.
Rup,
no man, I'm just your regular Joe :)
You got a point there Rup..
Tango,
I'll get the smokes and the beer today..sounds good.? :-)
know you are funny but did'nt think you will lie???.
peace my fellow blogger.
why dont we name two LA open teams, "friends of addy" and "TAs good book"
Chally and Rup:
I meant good luck with evening game. I am confused with all these names.
Thanks Dr B.
Welcome to our little world of Blogging. Mess up and you will be ?????.
Rup:
U kick me ass on de field and now yo want do it on the site as well.
No room for error?
Yo better take care at dem boys who have holes in de hands and ball pass through like it heading for Flea Market..me broda.
Anyways good luck with game man.
Tango,
I'll get the smokes and the beer today..sounds good.? :-)
hmmm, tempting..what kind of smokes?
Rup your scorecard vs eagles says
Rupnarine Seenarain caught Sridher Jagath b Mankesh Ahluwalia 41 3 6
3 4s n 6 6s = 12 + 36 = 48
My bad,
Typo error..should be 3 4's & 2 6's.
Am not that good
skip you padding your stats? ha ha ha
rup the game looks safe.. look at this
http://media.myfoxchicago.com/weather/north_suburbs_loop.html
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Tango said...
N_W,
Did Bhavneet play against the Flames this week?
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I believe both Bhavneet and Sharath didnt play against the Flames last weekend. (Last time I was umpiring MUCC a couple weeks ago, Bhavneet said he had family coming to town etc - thats also probably why he declined the invite to go to the LA Open this year).
c8w
And how about Imran's brother Kamran, BTW? Consistently near the top in both bowling and batting..
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Your wish is granted. Imran and Kamran have both graciously accepted to represent Chicago United at the 2007 L.A. Open tournament.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
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Tango said...
ND,
And c8w was saying that their batting is so much worse than last year. HA! I didn't see them putting up 300 in every other game last year.
neanderthal_walking said...
tango, i agree. 300 plus against PAK GYM on a bigger ground isnt easy. well, you know c8w.
i wonder what c8w has to say about that. :)
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What do I have to say? How about Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa? :-) (Dont I get any credit for predicting that MUCC would be weaker this year, tho? :-)
Anyway. In my defense, IMHO Purdue *was* weaker when the season began - they had lost Vijay Garud, Simran Sodhi, Apu and RahulB, 4 of their top 6 bats from last year, and talk was that they were about to lose Ruchir too. Now suddenly Ruchir has not yet left (and is actually batting much better than last year), Apu has come back, and they have added Ashwin to their middle-order (he used to be their best bat 2-3 years ago, but played only like 3 games last year - this year he's already made like 170 runs in 3 games). And Pradeep, with no captaincy pressures, is batting much better than last year so far too! Thus theyre performing much better as a team with the bat - theyve put up 300 twice this year, which was highly unexpected I think.
But, of course, its still early in the season yet - the schedule, as Tango said, has been favourable so far, they havent yet played Wildcats etc. And Ruchir will still leave sometime soon, and IMHO Purdue will miss him a lot, he has really turned into a genuine quality allrounder this year.
Oh, and while usually "300 on a big ground is not easy"... actually, for Purdue against Pak Gym, a big ground on a murderously hot day was probably ideal conditions :-) PakGym's fielding can sometimes falter a bit (they are clearly a team whose batting and bowling are far greater strengths than their fielding). Add a big ground and what I can only imagine must have been an awful awful day on that ground (with little breeze, no tree-shade etc... 2 or 3 of my roughest umpiring days physically have come in Purdue and Springfield, for example)... Purdue probably ran them ragged, as Raheel said. Ruchir opened and got 52 off 55 balls with only 3 fours - that means mostly running, with older fielders having to run to try and stop singles and twos, and that has always been Pak's weakest point.
In that sense Pak and Purdue are sort of opposites - Pak would find it easiest to make 300 on a cool day on a small ground, I think Purdue would actually find it easier to make 300 on a hot day on a big ground :-) All that said, of course, it was still an outstanding win - probably one of Purdue's best-ever wins since they came into our league 4 years ago, I'd guess?
c8w
Lets talk home court advantage and benefits of playing on familiar surface. I ran a analysis of two Random Chicago Div 2 teams and 2 Out of Town Div 2 teams.
Facts:
1. Most of Chicago teams play 35% to 50% of there games at the most on any one ground. Our two random sample of Chicago teams will play 35% of there game on a same ground. So if you want to call this venue as there home ground then go ahead.
2. QC Kings will play 78% of there game on there home ground.
3. Peoria CC will play 65% of there game on there home ground.
4. Chicago based teams are like red headed step child. They really do not have a home ground. There whole season is built around travelling. So if playoffs are in Chicago then it actually helps negate the massive home court advantage other teams have.
Advancers Schedule # Games
Washington Park 5
Heritage Park 2
Springfield 1
Hanover Park 3
SIUE Edwardsville 1
Collinsvills Park 1
Champaign, IL 1
Giants Schedule # Games
Washington Park 5
Hanover Park 4
Heritage Park 1
Moline 1
SIUE Edwardsville 1
Madison, WI 1
Champaign, IL 1
QC Kings Schedule # Games
Moline 11
Hanover Park 1
Springfield, IL 1
SIUE Edwardsville 1
Peoria CC Schedule # Games
Mossville, IL 9
Collinsville, IL 1
Springfield, IL 1
Champaign, IL 1
SIUE Edwardsville 1
Washington Park 1
Just food for thought. Nothing personal against QC Kings and PCC. Both are great teams on there own grounds ;-)
Rup/Chally,
Simply cuz I mentioned stumpings, doesn't mean that I am from Arsenal.
Swetal offered his clarifiations on identity and I have reasons to believe he is honest.
Several teams in Div 2 have bad feelings about you as a player. You have lost respect man...because you are a chronic cheat. With your own leg-umpire, you are never out stumping or run-out...add Joe Greene, you are never out until you score a 50 or a 100.
What's wrong with AAA+? Oh..they screwed your ass last year and you guys hate them for it? c'mon dicker head. learn...Chally, you can do it too.
AAA may not be doing great in Div 1 this year, but atleast they did not declare victory from Red Fort even before the first ball was bowled in the playoffs last year.
Not sure if u will ever come to Div 1.
SimonDispatch I see you lack comprehension... the AAA+ reference was pertaining to the unpiring for ICC eagles game. He is from Flames adn I said I will give him a ranking of AAA+, are you on DRUGS?
I have no beef with AAA the team cool guys if you ask me...
Romeen,
Please pass on my condolences to Ajit and his family. My prayers are with them in this time.
ps. Sorry this is a little late, but I've been a little busy and haven't had tim to read much of the blog lately.
And Ruchir will still leave sometime soon, and IMHO Purdue will miss him a lot, he has really turned into a genuine quality allrounder this year.
Although Purdue are more like the Wildcats (in a sense they don't heavily rely on one person), I really don't think they have a shot at a championship without Ruchir.
Adnan said -
Your wish is granted. Imran and Kamran have both graciously accepted to represent Chicago United at the 2007 L.A. Open tournament.
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Why not invite the third brother, Rizwan - based on his thunderous hitting this past weekend. Just a suggestion.
Regards,
Asmar
No room. I have a squad of 18 travelling.
Adnan Baig
United Cricket Club
Adi/ Madew/ Rup/ Jack,
Congrats on a good win!
Adi, Good knock ..
Sorry guys couldn't make it last nite...
What is the record for the maximum runs scored in one over?
Yesterday's night match, Athreya scored 40 runs in one over !!!!
40 runs?
Damn, what's going on here ...
Can somebody break it down ball by ball?
Also, who's the unfortunate bowler?
Damn...
Detail report Venu...
Could be a club level record in All leagues..
Probably Jaggi or Aditya can give a ball by ball report but, all I saw was ball flying all over the place. I believe there were couple of nobes in the over.
Varad, I don't want to name the unfortunate bowler. You know him pretty well from your Rockers days.
3-4s, 3-6s and the rest
Simon Said,
Swetal offered his clarifiations on identity and I have reasons to believe he is honest.
Several teams in Div 2 have bad feelings about you as a player. You have lost respect man...
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So you took Swetal words for granted and call me a cheat. Both you and Swetal keep saying several teams..yet I see not other ones but your dumb ass and Swetal digging up this ants nest.
I don't need your respect as you seem to be a person who can't think for himself.
Are you a racist cause you just can't leave Joe Green out of any topic when it come to me or ICC.
FYI and Swetal my record over 15 years in MWCC was not built on the few games Joe has umpired when ICC is playing.
Joe is still one of the better umpires we have but it because of priks like yourself he may quit umpiring in MWCC.
As for Arsenal the can go to their grave calling me a cheat, realy don't care, but man, the need to look in the Mirror first before calling teams cheat.
Well... I appreciate you protecting this dudes privacy and all, maybe he doesn't want to be named.
But anyways, its worth a chuckle & then forgetting about. The Rockers dudes are real good people and great sports too, don't think they would mind, but who knows.
But Jack (Chally?) thanks for the breakdown, it would be fun to hear more about anyways. Not very often one hears about 40 runs in an over ...
Thanks Shekhs,
I looked for you man. A cold one would have been good to start the game oe even at break.
Let me down..next time for sure???
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