Saturday, October 06, 2007
Congratulations to Muslim Gymkhana and Advancers!!
We have two new Champions today. Muslim Gymkhana lifted the Division 1 Championship by defeating Purdue University while Advancers completed a superb season with a thrilling 12 run win over a fighting IIT to claim the Division 2 Championship. Both IIT and Purdue can be proud today. They played hard and fair, but it was not their day. Both matches were at Washington Park and what a terrific atmosphere we had!. We should congratulate and thank the folks that made all the arrangements at the ground today. There was a large tent ( very important on a hot and fairly humid day), chairs, food, beverages and an impressive turnout. Hats off to all the volunteers!! We got one more final tomorrow and that should bring down the curtain on this 2007 season. We may have to put the whites and the kit away for a few months, but Shekhs tells me that blogging can keep one warm -- you got to listen to the sage -- Lets keep it blogging, folks.
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Hari-
It was indeed a good day, both Div-1 and Div-2 finals, we could find most of our active bloggers at the games, and i could meet you and Ram from Eagles there.
It was fun for most part as we Bloggers were having a ball watching the game and gulping down a few....
All in all i am in for the off season blogging even if it does not match the frequency of regular season...
Well done Muslim and Advancers for your wins... and see you in the next season..
Advancer thanks everyone for the support.We made it to Division 1.It was so great final.
IIT sorry for u guys.IIT is great team.
I will like to thank Adi for every time predicting Advancers as winner......
Congrats to Muslim Gym and Advancers on their victories in Div I an Div II respectively.
It was a heartbreaking loss for us(Purdue) but it was nice to see many familiar faces that had come to watch the two finals.
Congrats to MG and Advancers...! Can some one from IIT or Advancers update the score card please..? It will be nice to see the tussle in score sheet format...:) Another great year ends..
Any one still on for blogger ball..? Looks are Temps are holding great up great..I hope not every hung my their cricket shoes for the year... yet..;)
Cheers
Madhu N
Yep, the saturday was full of fun and was good to see a lot of familiar faces.
Madew,
I'm with you on the blogger's ball thingy...I'm not really ready to hang up my boots either..
Anybody else up for it?
Madhu,
It was low scoring match.Advancers defended 152 against IIT and won by 12 runs.Main contributer from Advancers for batting were Satish,Sandeep,Syed,Pawan and Sridhar.
IIT started well but soon Vasudev got out.Advancers introduced Syed Kadry in 5 overs itself and it paid off when Syed got Laxmi.Then spin trio of Pawan , Syed and Shakir kept on gettting wickets at regular intervals.Atlast IIT feel short of 12 runs.
Advancers defended 152 runs very well.
Nice Agam..Spin did us (PCC) in..against them..in Semi...:) IIT did make a tactical change..when they played us in Mossville...It did pay them dividends...I think, looking back, we weren't mentally prepared to face so many spinners..and Laxmi started his slow teasers from 8th over itself..we got overwhelmed as time progressed with Suburito, Chakri, Ajay (another teasing bowler) bowling in tandem:) Its needs lots of patience and element of luck...We didn't have both on that eventful day..with injuries hitting us..it was just bad day for as a whole..:) THey bowled pretty well and had smart fielding placements set too...Its hard score..and it appears..you guys were in the same situation but..you guys paid them back in the same dosage..of spin bowling...Very nice match..! :) Congrats to you guys..! IIT is great team..It was a heart rending loss for them once again this time in finals.....Wishing IIT the best..! Now we know what to expect against you guys...:)
Cheers
Madhu R
PCC
Guys, I agree... lets do a "blogger ball" match. I'm up for it.
For the Advancers vs IIT game, not only did Syed bowl well (awesome arm ball), but he probably took the best catch of the season. An absolute stunner of the in-form Ajay Gandhi at forward short leg before that batsman had even finished his shot! IIT still had a chance as one of their batsman was playing very sensibly, but a rush of blood and once he was gone, it was going to be very tough. What a game!!!
What happened to the 30-30 finals ?? Romeen Sir .. kaink to lakho ena vishe .. :)
Aiite Fellas..
Lets get a headcount in here..
How many actually even come here these days...
anyone?
Romeen, Adi, Rup, Madew, Jaggi, Alpesh, Ram, Preetam, Shiraz, Asmar ?
I check in every once in a while.
Alpesh, Hammond beat the Rockers in the 30-30 finals. Rockers batted first and made 156, Hammond chased it with 4 overs (IIRC) remaining and 6 wickets down. Afraoze had a goood all round performance and Shahzad batted well too.
Congratulations Hammond!
Shekhs, if you want, we can make this a weekly/biweekly blog and discuss off -season issues.
I do visit blog often too .. but am sad to see it dying in the off-season ..
So how do you guys plan to keep yourself fit in the winter ?? I try to hit the gym 3-4 times a week for 30-40 minutes ...
Nice, at least we got 2..
cool Rom, lets do that, keep it biweekly..and discuss some stuff..
Friday will be one good day..
Lets keep friday for sure and then leave it open to folks....
Appu, Why dont you put an extra 30 minutes in the gym for me too..
:-)
I check atleast once a day...I was just beginning to wonder...where's is everybody? Any blogger get togethers coming up...? We should come up with a weeked to meet up somwehere..any ideas?
Cheers
M
Cool Madew...howz it going brutha?
:-)
Definitely...am planning on organizing this and thats why I was taking a head count..
Glad to know you all are still checking.
I check this in the morning and afternoon.
Good I idea for one day a week blog session for us.
Yeh i got to start excercise. feeling a little ??? these days.
Shekhs, call me this evening.. Need to know what up for this week end. Did you forward that little party brochure.
Guys come and Joins us as we are having a big party this Saturday.
It's our culture organization 25th aniversary and we have a hall + Live West indian band (chutnee Music). It's $35.00 cover charge. Free food and drinks and party with us West Indian style.
A bunch of us are going to this party on saturday, so feel free to come if you are upto nothing..
Rup,
Yeah, we will be there..
Nice shekhs.
See ya all Saturday evening.
the earlier the better..
Shekhs Sir ...
Mein yeh bol raha tha ki ... this weekend weather is gonna be good .. why not play cricket for some time at Community park nets .. ?? What say .. maza aayega ...
anybody interested ....
I am here and happy to hear that you all are good as well. I will definitley host a Night INdoor Tournament like I did last year in either Elgin, Carol Stream or Evanston. It is a 10/10 Tape Ball Contest that helps us through the winter. I will keep the blog posted for interested parties. Romeen participated last time, as well as Tushar and Bhavesh and all, they might be able to provide some experience from participation last year.
For Questions, Feel free to Contact me @ 847-909-5996
Regards,
Shiraz Najam
I check the blog often...trying to keep fit despite the festive food these days.
How many of you are available to get together next weekend - 27/28 weekend?
I'm going to India on the 31st for a coupla weeks, thought we should hang out before that...
Lemme know whos in..
appu,
I dont mind playing this weekend...
I'll call you...
if anybody else is interested, let us know..
Gr8 Shekhs Sir ... I will wait for ur call ...
Romeen should be interested in playing for sure ... Su bolo cho Sir tame ...
Hi guys,
I haven't been to the blog since the end of the season. Just caught up. So, as far as playing this weekend, I'd be up for it, but on Sunday. Can't do Saturday.
I guess I'll probably check the blog at least once a week from now on, maybe more.
But I'm always up for kicking it back with a few brewskies!
I got too much going on this weekend. Can't play no cricket.
A few brews sound good so let me know when the get together is going to happn.
Nice shekhs.. India will be a lots of fun..
hey guys,
sorry, couldnt get here earlier.
I'm gonna try and make it to the party.
Shekhs, call mw when you can.
sheks.. am up for catching up next week. What say you all?
I m in too ...
Have we decided on the official blog day for the week??.
On Behalf of I.G.C.O I express our sincere thank you to the folks that attended our 25th aniversary.
Hope you all had fun.
Hey rup,
loved the chutney music!
It was off the hook.
Jaggi,
I'm up for next week, lets call a tentative day...any suggestions?
Rup,
It was off the hook maan..so were you...thanks for the invite, we had a blast..
I think we were thinking of having fridays as blogging day..
28th works better for me. I will stop by for a while if the majority is available on 27th.
Friday sounds good for blogging.
I will stop by for a few anyday you guys agree on.
Shekhs/Romeen glad you all had fun. I had too much fun..
Blogging day today ...
So wass up bloggers ??
Has any team started to practice for the next season already ???
Yep ICC started but we are working on the refresment part at this time.
We are hoping to master a new brand of cold ones before season start.
Any new on the MGT front as to when we will get the presentation ceremony??
What up bloggers???
Yeah, Challengers started our practice officially...
Bhuchia, Tushar and I were up till 2:00 am practicing...I think we are gonna win it all next year..serious practice ...
Rup, I think we should practice together...
:-)
yep Shekhs,
I don't mind the practice with you guys. may be I can introduce your brand to my teamates.
We will Talk on this.
Jaggi any news on your dream team meeting??
Okay .. Good going Rup and Shekhs ..
I cannot join you guys in these practice sessions .. :)
Guys,
I will also send out an email to all those that had emailed me, but, would also like to open it to those that didnt get a chance.
Next Sat, I want to find out if you are free and go through my agenda for the next year at Inchin Bamboo(http://www.bamboo-gardens.com/chicago.php).
Lets plan to catch up for lunch (12:30pm to 2:30pm).
Please email me(jaggi@midwestcricket.org) to let me know if you can make it. I need to let the restaurant know the headcount.
DreamCricket will be sponsoring the event.
Rup,
I think its always fun to switch brands..
So, is it just the 3/4 of us...make some noise people..
c'mon....where's the holiday spirit...
Did you know that there is a 20/20 game going on in Barrington? The semis are this Sun and finals on the next. A good 8/9 from Phoenix, 3-4 from Royals and Romeen are in the team playing in the semis on Sun.
I heard about the 20/20...
Well, its like this..
Wherever there is Romeen, there is a cricket match....
And you can never forget the Patel brothers and Venu from Phoenix...they have the knack of finding these games.. :-)
Kudos to you guys for keeping it real!
Good luck for the weekend game(s)!
Shekhs...just woke up after a power nap :)
going back to napping again...
Thanks Ram...appreciate the rub in... :-)
some people have it all...some still need to work....to set the bread on the table..
some need to blog, to get the thing of the chest...
hey, get back in here Ram..thats enough napping already.. :-)
What 20/20..? How come no one posts about these..stuff.on the blogs..:) We are dying to play some cricket..and sneaky Romeen never even mentioned that there is tournament going on..? Nice fellows...
oh! Hello bloggers...
Cheers
Madhu
Madew,
I feel ya...know exactly what you're talking about..
I think we should start our own 20/20 next year, and should not include Romeen. :-)
Sorry guys.
Afternoon has been hectic.
C-man Romeen. gotta share the wealth.
Anyway it almost over so good luck in the Semi's .. Romo.
not include Romeen in our 20/20.
I bet if he brings a few of his nice looking co-workers you all will kick me out in a heart beat..LOL.
There is such a thing called Caffene..keeps some people awake.
Try this new experience and you will be ah blogging all day Ram.
Or you can always try the more heavier stuff??
Shekhs any advise??
caffeine Rup, thats it...That's the drug...
Nah, dont have any other alternative, at least I dont want to disclose any..
I'm glad we could make a half century on the # of comments during off season..not bad fellas..
Nice day I say alos.
Let hope next week we can talk more cricket as i see Jaggi has the ball rolling for 2008 already.
C-man out guys..lets see what Jaggi is all about.
Hmmm whats shaking out here
It's Friday ... and the blogging day ...
Shekhs must have left for India .. Looks like this is the time when everybody visits India .. 2 players from my team too planning to fly to India in November ...
Lets see who is going to come up with the best topic to converse on today.
Shekhs in India??. Lucky him. he will get to watch some exciting cricket in the current series Pak VS India.
Okie .. here is the topic ..
Will Australia be able to maintain their supremacy in test also ?? Now they have a relatively young bowling force ...
Australia will be depending a lot on their batting to carry them until their boling attack is back to full strength.
With this said they are still a forindable team to beat. Still too many good players on this team.
I say we will be better able to judge them by the end of this year or mid next year.
Look at most of the good teams past history. once they start loosing the start messing with the selection and then players are in and out so much, no time for form.
The next two years will prove how good the Australian Farm system is in groom it's players for the untimate level
On Dish now there is a pay channel called Zee Sports that shows almost all of the International/Domestic games live...I think it is ~ $ 20/month....I watched the Pak/SA 5th ODI the other day...had my laptop on all the time and got a fair amount of work done...Pak should have won that game...just insane batting ( i love Afridi...but the shot he played was criminal) and some unbelievable catches turned the game square..
Just read this small article - http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2007/11/man_shot_oppone.php
I hope never such incident happens in our league ...
Howz it going fellas..?
Its pretty gloomy in here, like the weather outside..
Anybody around?
Shekhs Sir ..
How was ur trip to India ??
Hey Appu,
The trip was ok....
Howz everything with you?
Will give you a call soon..
Fellow Bloggers ..
Today is blog day and nobody is there ... Lot of things to discuss ... Gary Kirstan as India's coach .. Shoaib Akhtar's selection in the 2nd test, ICL started .. Zim beating WI ... Eng - Sri Test Series Starting today ..
So where r u guys ??
Yep,
It's a crazy cricketing world right now.
Stayed up watching India batting then watched most of the ICL game and been at work buzzy like hell..
Burning eyes..
That ICL stuff may end up being pretty good. This alone may worth the $20.00 p/m to get ZEESA Sports chanel on dish Network
Where are the rest of the MWCC bloggers
Sorry, I recognize that this is not the right spot for this post, but I've heard that we wont have an MCC Tape Ball tourney this year. Whats up with that?! It was loads of fun last year! We need something constructive to do with ourselves when theres all that snow outside! Bring back tape-ball cricket!!!
Just getting out of Hibernation. Man this blog has been dry. Curious to find out what's up with Midwest Electoral Candidates and the complete list of members that will be running.
Agenda and what they stand for will be helpful too.
Tonald, please visit http://mccchangeagents.blogspot.com for our election agenda.
The election dates have not been finalized by the current administration. We had requested the elections to be held in Jan, but now hope that it will be in Feb.
Thanks Jaggi.
Atif
Folks.. I just realized that I wasn't getting any emails on my midwest email account. I am not sure how long this been going on, but, if you have tried reaching me in the last couple of weeks, please do so again.
I can be reached at jaggicricket@gmail.com.
Great win by India guys .. beating the Aussie lions in their own den ...
Hats off to the young team !!!
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Howz it going fellas...
Hari/ Jaggi/ Adi...
Why dont we open another thread to kick off the season..
preseason gossips and gambits should be plenty enough to discuss..
plus there's some international cricket going on..
Yep .. Hari/Jaggi/Adi ... plz do the needful ... start a new thread ...
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