Thursday, August 21, 2008
Week 16 - Predictions and Results
Lets carry on the discussion, predictions for the coming weekend games ..
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Asmar/ Shiraz,
What was the result from last nite?
RP lost to Shahdab 11 by 12 runs. Batting first SD11 score 137 all out and RP were all out in 19th over for 125.
thanks Atif..appreciate the feedback..
it was a close game...tough luck RPCC...
that group is like the group of death....
tough group..
no problem Shekhs.
RP had a off day and I still hope they qualify. It's always fun to play against Nasu, Shiraz, Asmar and Faraz.
RP can qualify if they beat Pak and Wildcats beat Pak as well..
its a tough situation..
DEEPDOWN Said:
madhu, you did not get div-2 team bcos you supported jaggi and not tariq. how can they refuse you and allow arena????
Well my dear friend, just to clarify, if you look at the players who played games for arena this year, majority of them are new comers, some of us have only a year of association with this league and a only a few more than a year. Also we were not part of the election process as we did not have a team last year. So your assumptions are baseless and miles away from facts.
We were allowed based on the fact that we do have some good talent and moreover it is Midwest Cricket Conference and not Chicago Cricket Conference.
The aim should be to promote cricket and league not to be region specific and narrow in our approach.
You can differ with my opinion, you have a right to but it would be unwise to associate elections with Arena.
Hope you take it in right spirit.
Looks like there might be some rained out games tomorrow ... :)
May be .. Royals could have their 5th rained out game .. will it be rescheduled ??
ajoy, i like you guys.. i have no issues with arena. madhu made the point that his team was not allowed new team in div2 bcos of distance from chicago. i think you will agree with me that arena is further from chicago than peoria. the only reason madhu was not allowed new team is bcos madhu supported jaggi. sheki yours and madhu's point about having some regionals meet up is good.
i believe one player from pak plays for acc. is it true?????
Haven't received any input on suggestions for Div 2 restructuring next season. We appreciate input from anybody, especially those who are part of Div 2, by September 5th 2008. This is your chance to contribute. Afterall, its in your interest.
Please read this link and respond.
http://www.midwestcricket.org/MccBulletin/mccrequest.htm
We are looking for input soon.
Eagles beat Illinois by 4 wickets
Batting first, Illinois were all out for 209, with good scores by Rup, Collins and Ramesh.
Eagles chased the score in the 39th over, helped by Seshu's 88 and Preetam's 37. They were involved in a century+ partnership to revive Eagles from a precarious 54/3.
It was a very good win for the Eagles. ICC is a damn good team and on any given day they will give any team a run for their money. This win for us was more emotional than anything else.
Many seasons ago we posted the lowest score of the league. 16 all out. And the team that did that to us was ICC. And so winning against them was very satisfying.
Seshu played a magnificient inning and the 120 run partnership between me and Seshu got us back into the game after some initial setbacks.
Rup, take care of your leg. Don't aggravate it.
There you go Tonald I am in.....
Congrats Eagles on your win, hard luck ICC.
A fantabulous victory by Titans against CCI beating them by 6 wickets ..
CCI electing to bat first were bowled by 174 in 38.1 overs with Extras - 57 being their chief contributor. Faraz (3/19), Tafazzul (3/32) were the most successful bowlers.
Chasing this score on the Hammond wicket should not have been difficult, but given our proven history .. this was a score to achieve.
Faraz led us in the chase and scored an unbeaten 100* (88). He hit 10 4s and 3 6s and was involved in an 82 run partnership with Mughiz 24(48). Faraz went berserk after scoring his first fifty runs and reached from 50 to 100 in just 24 balls.
A nice match at the batting paradise in Hammond ...
JR win against Hammond. Hammond, put in to bat on a lightning fast outfield, posted 192 all out in 36 overs. Prasanth & Ashish each took 3 wickets for JR.
JR chased it in only 22 overs with 3 fifties from Ravi 51(33b) Dinesh 50(27b) and Kedar 50(39b).
Arena beats AAA.
AAA batting first were all out for 77.
After some initial flutters Arena scored the required runs easily with a loss of 4 wickets.
Kd,
Whats up with JR this year bud?
They are a pretty good team this year and I dont see a lot of the old players who used to play..
did you guys have a revamp?
Its good to be back on the blog... crazy last couple of weeks with school.
Our game against Muslim got postponed. Our condolences go out to Karman Yousuf and his family on the loss of his dad.
We have a game against Milwaukee coming up, then Pak and we will have to figure out when we play Muslim. We have been in a bit of slump, but hope/have to get out of it.
Also wanted to comment on Hanover Park's new surface. Two thumbs up to all those involved. The surface looks good with good bounce. They have also done a good job with the run up. The outfield was heavy when we played, but that can be very easily taken care of.
Congratulations to all those that won over the weekend. Looks like the Cats Vs St Louis game went down to the wire. Naren/Romeen, can one of you give us a summary?
Ajoy I heard about a controversial decision in your game. Let's see if anyone here can shed some light on this.
This is what I heard bowler pitches the ball, batsman get caught and walks, bowlers hand hits the stump and umpired declares a dead ball and call him back. Ajoy is this your interpretation too?
Good wins by Titans and Eagles - Great job guys.
tonald, any updates on your game with Lucky XI?
Thanks Atif bhai !! What happened in your game .. ??
congrats to all the winners!
Appu, congrats..good win bud..
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Shekhs said...
Kd,
Whats up with JR this year bud?
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Shekhs,
you are right ... most of the older players have made way for younger, more enthusiastic ( and perhaps more talented) players ...
Its a young team and things going well for JR ...
@ the revamp, its Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest through natural selection .. ( in terms of performances...)... :-)
Kd
Lucky vs Giants,
After winning the toss Lucky chose to bat and were all out for 129. Now that is a score a team should be able to chase easily - yah right not when you are playing with 7 regular members of Chicago Giants.
Lucky bowled the so called Giants out for 80. This is the season we would like to completely erase from our memory. Though I have been known to have selective -amnesia. :-)
yeah KD, its the Survival of Fittest all over again..
Good luck for the season..
yes Tonald that is my interpretation too and that is what exactly happened.
But the game resumed without any heated discussions or arguments or fight:), which goes to show maturity of both teams and the spirit the game was played in.
AAA is a good team but we had a plan going in to the game, as some of us including me had already played them last season when they played in DIV- I.
Also to mention about the umpires who come to adjudicate the games for Arena games are not known most of the times to us. It is handled by managment and we come to know only at the last moment who is going to be the umpire.
sheks/Asmar,
What happened to the game between Challs Vs RP? Just checking
Madhu R
PCC
Any further updates on 20-20?
Madew,
Challs Vs. RPCC will be rescheduled, as Sufian's(RPCC) father passed away last week..
God bless his family and give them the strength..
Good win Madew...!
WC Vs STL
St Louis won the toss and elected for field first, and WC started their innings with Romeen and Sanjay, and Sanjay was out without troubling the scorers, Krishna came first down played and missed a couple and he tried to close the face of the bat but the ball took his outside edge and gave a simple catch in the slips.
Ajit joined Romeen and when we thought things were going well Romeen got out LBW for 9, and we were in a difficult situation, Vikram joined Ajit and both of them started playing well, Vikram was in good nick clearing the rope with some distance and he got a ball which kicked and took his glove on the way to the keeper.
It was a tough game in terms of how hot and humid it was on Saturday and it was difficult for both the teams to concentrate on the game, and WC paid the price for not concentrating enough when it was a pretty important game.
We lost a couple of wickets and at one stage WC were 87 for 8 with about 15 overs remaining and we were getting ready for another low scoring game, and at that time Ajit was joined by Atul and both of them gradually started playing to safety and then Ajit got going and started to clear the field at will albeit a couple of dropped catches.
Ajit got out trying to accelerate and we ended up scoring 150 in 40 overs.
STL Started their innings and Sohail was aggressive from the start and he was taking his chances and the ball was falling in no mans land most of the times and Nikhil was in the middle of a good spell and he got both Raj and Mujahid to edge balls and Ajit took a blinder at first slip.
Sanjay came on to bowl and he got Sohail out soon and then Irfan got out trying to hit through point, and at this point we thought we had a chance.
Amit and Shoaib started playing with caution, and they were playing well taking few risks and scoring enough runs and runrate was never a problem for them so they were taking their time to get used to the bowling.
At this time the heat took its toll on a few of our players and we had to play the rest of our innigs with 9 people.
When we thought the game was slipping away Krishna took a blinder of a catch to get Amit out on Cover boundary, and that brought us back into the game, and at one stage STL was around 90/7.
We thought this would also be a game like the previous game against Royals where we came back to win from no where but Tehsin and Manojit played well to take them home, and probably I was the culprit to drop Tehsin when they needed around 35-40 runs and then they just smoked us..
It was a hard loss for us and now our play off chances depend a lot on how we perform against Challengers and also on the NRR/rain gods/and what not…
This Play off situation is getting pretty interesting with about 8 teams fighting for 4 spots which are theoretically open, and which might go down to the last week..
Thanks Shekhs bhai ..
Btw ... have the teams for the Mini World-Cup been declared ?? The teams should be given some time to know each other .. otherwise it mite happen that captain will give oppurtunities to only those he knows ...
DeepDownWithin said...
i believe one player from pak plays for acc. is it true?????
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ok i had to dig deep to get this infomation. his name is ashar and he used to play in our league but went to acc since we dont play regionals. his team in acc is out of playoffs and so now came back to pak to help during playoffs. question is, is this allowed????? i hope we can have good and proper discussion about this.
looks like losing teams are not on blog except my man appu - rup, jack, aditya etc. common guys. sheki what is shaking
not much deep..am outta town..
will be back on thursday..
Whats going on with you..
I need an umpire for tomorrow's night game..who's in?
And also for thursday night...Pak Gym and Rogers Park....
Please let me know if someone can umpire any of these games...
shekhs.aravind@gmail.com
Shekhs bhai ..
I can umpire on Thursday ..
I am buried in shit load of work but still alive and kicking. Incase Deep Down was missing me.
Na Deep... loosing will never stop me from some fun...
Been on vac the last two weeks and trying to catch up with work .. still got over 1000 mails to go through.
Hope i will be ok by tomorrow.
atif kya khandala yes i was missing you too :)))
Appu,
Atif's gonna do it on thursday...can you do it tomorrow?
thanks
Shekhs
Deep Down - Sub Gol Mal Hai - Sub Gol Mal.
Sitting at home watching Democratic National Convention bored and planning what the heck to do now that cricket season is ending.
One possibility is to organize some indoor tape ball cricket saturday nights during winter. How many here will be interested???
Deep, Yes you are right. Ashar plays for ACC and now is playing for Pak Gymkhana. He is a good talent that left our league and the reason, I believe(I could be wrong), was our non-participation in the regionals.
Till date, I was not sure if he joining Pak mid-season was a violation or not. However, the management has updated the MCC ground rules and added the following:
"31.2. Teams that recruit established current year registered players from other leagues to play in MCC shall be condemned severely. If found guilty the team captain and the player shall be suspended from the league and fined – the term and the fine to be decided by the management."
Ashar is a good talent and we welcome him back. With the above rule in place, I think he can be back only next year?
It is eerily quiet in here. Where have all the bloggers disappeared?
Tt typically gets quiet the week before the long weekend.
We(Blues) lost to the Royals last night. Batting first, we put up 115 in 20 overs, definitely short by 30/40 runs. The Royals chased it down with 2 overs to spare. As always, its great playing against Royals.
Does anybody have any new info on the world cup?
Jaggi Sir ..
Sorry to see your team losing all the 3 matches .. and Congrats to Royals for finally pulling it off ..
Seeing no updates from the Mgmt about Mini-Worldcup makes me think if it was a 'September fool' (as April fool) trick to spoil lot of player's long weekend plans ...
Shekhs Bhai,
Any further updates on the Night tournament Knockouts? as in when they will start.Thanks.
Sorry about the loss to my B-XI team..wish i was able to play..
The Mini Worl cup is on.. Check the latest news...
I have spoken to TA and all is well and the games begin on sturday morning at 9 am.
Team updates should be on the site soon..
See yal all for some fun in the world cup.
Rohit,
We are planning to start the ALNT playoffs next week, hopefully by 09/02/2008.
However, we still have one outstanding game to be played/ finished. We are in the process of rescheduling that game.
We have to calculate the net run rate for each team after that game, as that particular game has an impact on the final standings.
Worst case scenario, we'll start the playoffs in the second week of September - 09/08/2008.
If it rains tonight, we'll have to play tonight’s game next week.
I'll keep you posted.
thanks alpesh....
Rohit Saab ..
I am confused .. what thanking me ? :)
Finally having teams selected for the weekend games..i don't see any balance in the teams. It seems to me either of Pak's team can easily thrash other teams.
Atleast one end indian team should have been from Div II rather than mixed to check how best of division players fare. Also, i see some players who might be playing U-19 tourney in FL will be playing this weekend in Chicago,unless those players are not going.
Anyway good luck to all teams and hope it will be fun to watch.
sorry i meant thanks shekhs....
adi,
you and I in one team.
So I see... My World XI is up against a bunch of my good buddies..
Any one ..wants to throw up a few colds ons as a good gesture to beat the WD..XI...
Shekhs..Adi...Preetam..Tushar..
.....anyone???
So Rup ... how are you going to know all your team members ? I mean what their strengths are .. so that you better utilise them on the ground ...
Alpesh...
Lets see... I know what i am getting from ICC and Evanston and Fire.. I looked at the stats of the other players and I will talked to them before the game for more feed back.
My Team looks weak on paper but we will be a handful..you'll see.
It's 20/20 and all it takes is one good innings or bowling spell and you got yourself a win!!!!
Yeah Rup..cold ones on me....regardless..
thats right..all it takes is one good inning..bowling/ batting..
you win one game, you most probably will make the playoffs..from there its hardwork for all teams..
yep.. Shekhs..
Heritage will be fun..win or loose
I hope the have clipped the grounds a little low for this..
kudos .to. the kids u14 tourney arrived@130am. 5hr sleep playing 2games bck2back. Mca r 168 in 25 overs. Mwcc yet to bat. Nxt game agaist atlana will try to post final result
Mini World Cup Update -
Pakistan Yellow beat India Orange by 4 wickets. Chased 134 in 18 overs. Stay tuned for more updates...
Mini World Cup Update -
Pakistan Yellow beat World XI by 140 odd runs. Pak Yellow scored 218 in 18 overs, thanks to Irfan 91(39), Kabir 58(28). World XI were bowled out for 87 or so...
Semis tomorrow -
Pakistan Yellow vs India Blue @ Hanover
Pakistan Green vs India Orange @ Heritage
Hey all,
I have a small request. If anyone finds a green Kookaburra Mayhem please contact Rohit (312)-342-0831. Really appreciate your help and support. The bats went missing at Heritage park today.
Thank you all.
*bat
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