5th March - 2016

Team A : Iqbal (c) , Afnan , Fauzan ,Vishal , Afaque , Vicky jr , Imtiaz , Yuvi , Yuvis friend Pawan

Team B :  Sumit (Captain) , Faisal ,Vicky , Adnan , Suraj , Vikash , Abhishek (vikash friend) , Giri (Yuvi friend)

 Venue  : Oxford Ground

Only 1 match of 12 overs was played.

First Match : Vicky and Faisal opened the innings but nobody was able to capitalize and the run rate creeped to 4 RPO. Imtiaz and Afaque opened the bowling spell and didnt gave away any easy runs. Once Vicky was clean bowled by Afaque and Vikash was stumped off Imtiaz's bowling , the run rate never took off . Sumit and Faisal found it more difficult when Yuvi and Pawan bowled firecely . It was until the 10th over which saw a late surge by Adnan in which he hit for more than 15+ runs off Imtiaz. Team B ended at 62 runs off 12 overs.

Chasing the target Vishal and Afnan opened the innings. Vishal was clean bowled by Adnan for 0 and Adnan further applied brakes to the run rate. Vikash bowled his first spell taking 2 wickets of Fauzan and Afnan. Rehan was economical in his first over too . Suraj bowled another tidy over giving away only 1 run and picking up the wicket of Imtiaz (Run out- direct hit) . Iqbal hit a 6 off Rehan's over but was dismissed in the next delivery. Half of the team was back to the pavillion with 30 odd runs on the board . Yuvi and Pawan halted the further fall of wickets and slowly progressed towards achieving the target. However Vikash , Rehan and Suraj didnt gave away any easy runs.

The final 2 overs required 16 runs. Rehan bowled an excellent over giving away only 1 run. The final over was bowled by Adnan wherein he needed to defend 15 runs . Below are the ball by ball statistics of the final over :

1st Ball  --- 6
2nd Ball ---1
3rd Ball --- 1
4th Ball ---  4
5th Ball --- 2
6th Ball --- Dot

 The match ended in a draw.


 

13th February 2016 - Buland's Farewell Match

Team A : Iqbal (c) , Sumit , Mithun , Gaj , Afnan , Fauzan ,Vishal , Farooq , Mehran

Team B :  Buland (Captain) , Faisal ,Vicky , Adnan , Suraj , Afaque, Suraj Friend Bikram , Reyaz , Vicky jr

 Venue  : Aurobindo Ground

Buland won the toss and opted to bat first

Match 1 : Team B scored 108 runs which Team A failed to chase
Match 2 : Team B scored 82 runs and Team A failed to chase it

First Match : Vicky and Faisal opened the innings and both produced an excellent innings . Vicky was in a devastating mode and the total raised to 50/0 in 5 overs. Gaj was struck for four 6's in his over with Vicky hitting 3 and Faisal hitting 1 of them. Rest of the team helped in taking the score to a formidable total of 108.
The final over saw a splending hattrick by Farooq .

Chasing the target Vishal and Afnan opened the innings . Bikram , Afaque produced brilliant spells restricting the run rate . And the legacy was continued by Suraj and Buland where the whole team collapsed chasing the target . Buland finished on 3 wickets and Afaque and Suraj picked 2 each.

Man of the match : Vicky for his excellent batting

Match 2 : Vicky jr , Adnan , Fauzan , Mithun and Bikram left for the day. Match was reduced to 10 overs per side.

Vicky again excelled with his batting and Reyaz chipped in too. Rest of the team helped in moving the score forward. Buland facing his last ball for Rockerzz hit a 4 against Farooq .

The trio of Buland , Suraj and Afaque shared the bowling with Afaque picking 2 wickets of the first over of Gaj and Vishal . Buland bowled brilliantly and Suraj was economical . Finally the team failed to cross the mark once the top order Vishal , Sumit and Iqbal departed . Buland picked the last wicket of the match finishing on 3 wickets.


Man of the match : Buland for his 3 wickets haul and his overall performance.

23rd January , Saturday - 2016

Team A : Sumit (c) , Suraj , Rehan , Faisal , Bharghav , Fauzan , Tausif , Suraj Friend Dipin , Bharghav Friend Govardhan

Team B : Iqbal (c) ,Vicky jr , Gaj , Afnan , Adnan , Sarosh , Shahmir , Bharghav Friend Devendra

 Venue  : Jayanagar , Shalini Grounds

Sumit won the toss and opted to bat first

Match 1 : Team A scored 108 runs which Team B chased in final over
Match 2 : Team A scored 97 runs and Team B failed to chase it

Highlights :

Match 1 : Faisal and Tausif opened the innings . Gaj and Sarosh provided excellent spells . All was going well when Faisal was clean bowled by Sarosh and Gaj picked up 3 quick wickets of Tausif , Rehan and Fauzan . Sumit stepped in and started to rotate the strike and also hit a brilliant 6 of Iqbal . But he misjudged the next delivery and was caught at long on. Dipin soon followed back to pavillion in a silly run out. The score stood at 55/6 at the end of 8 overs. Bharghav and Govardhan built a quick partnership of 30 runs with Bharghav smashing Shahmir for 22 runs . Bharghav was dismissed by Sarosh soon after. Suraj and Govardhan were at the crease . Score was 85/7 at the end of 10 overs and Suraj smashed a straight 6 off Adnan's bowling and along with Govardhan , took the final score to 107 without any further loss of wickets.

Afnan and Shahmir opened the innings for Team B and produced a brilliant opening partnership . They raced away to quick partnership of 35 runs in 4 overs. Shahmir was dismissed soon after .Rehan bowled brilliantly and got the price wicket of Iqbal hitting the timber . The scoreboard kept ticking after Sarosh came in . Suraj got the price wicket of Sarosh brilliantly caught by Sumit .The match was now evenly poised with 30 runs required off 3 overs. Rehan bowled the 10th over . The equation was 24 required off 2 overs with Devendra and Gaj in the crease . But Gaj smashed 20 runs of Bharghav's over and only 4 runs were required off the last over which was chased down comfortably.


Man of the Match : Gaj for his 3 wickets haul and a quickfire innings of 20+ runs.

Vicky Jr left and Veteran Player Imtiaz joined Team B


Match 2 : The same story repeated too in the 2nd innings. Sumit , Faisal , Tausif , Fauzan , Bharghav , Govardhan again fell prey to Sarosh (2 wickets ) , Imtiaz (1) and Gaj's (3 wickets) excellent spell of bowling  . The score stood at 55/6 at the end of 7 overs . Dipin and Suraj were at the crease. They played cautiously rotating the strike till 10 overs and switched gears from there with Dipin (1,6,4,0,4,1) hitting Imtiaz for 15+ runs in 11th over and Suraj (1,6,0,6,2, wd ,0) hitting Adnan for 15+ runs in 12th over . The final score stood at 96 without any further loss of wickets.

Iqbal opened the innings along with Imtiaz. They were cruising well till 4 overs when Suraj took the price wicket of Iqbal caught off Tausif and immediately followed up with the wicket of Imtiaz. Adnan and Afnan stepped in. Sumit got the wicket of Afnan caught by Suraj . Suraj continued his spell picking the wicket of Adnan in his next over caught by Govardhan in his next . Shahmir was splendidly caught by Iqbal in short. Sarosh and Gaj stepped in and accelerated the run rate with Sarosh hitting Rehan for a humongous 6 . Bharghav got the price wicket of Sarosh . Rehan was costly but took wickets at regular intervals dismissing Gaj too in his final over . The equation stood at 8 runs off 1 over with Sumit bowling the last over and Devendra facing at the other end. It was a tense situation with already 3 coming off the first delivery and 5 required off next 3 . Sumit bowled a dot and it was 5 required off 2 balls. Devendra wanted a double in his next delivery but Suraj sprinted towards the ball and dislodged the stumps and finally Sumit won the second match.

Man of the match : Suraj for his 3 wickets haul and a quickfire innings of 20+ runs.


Both the matches were played as per Rockerzzz standards and were nailbiting finishes.

Saturday 16th January , 2016

Team A : Reyaz (c) , Vishal , Rehan , Dipin , Farooq , Sarosh , Adnan , Suraj , Faisal

Team B : Iqbal(c) ,Vicky jr , Gaj , Afnan , Buland , Yuvi , Fauzan, Buland

Venue  : Aurobindo Ashram Ground

It was a 12 overs match . Team A won the toss and decided to bat and scored 72 all out in 12 overs.
Team B fell short by 5 runs.

Adnan and Faisal opened the innings for Team A . Afaque and Gaj opened a fiercing spell where batsman were unable to score any boundary or quick singles. Afaque gave the first breakthrough taking the wicket of Faisal edged behind . Vishal stepped in . Reyaz was caught at short and was dismissed cheaply off gaj's bowling . The score at the end of 5 overs were 19/2. . Bowling attack swapped to Yuvi and Buland and they too bowled with extreme ferocism . Yuvi got 2 back to back wickets of Sarosh (Clean Bowled) and Dipin (Clean Bowled) for 0 .Buland picked up the wicket of Rehan and too didnt give any easy runs. Vishal took the innings forward changing gears and hitting all the bowlers out of the park. The score raised to 58/4 in 10 overs. But Afaque again produced an excellent spell taking 2 back to back wickets of Vishal (clean bowled) and Suraj (caught behind) . Farooq produced some fireworks in the last over and got the total score to 72 all out at the end of 12 overs.

Bowlers  Wickets                                             
Afaque      3
Yuvi          2
Gaj           2
Buland      1

Chasing the target , Fauzan and Vicky started the chase . Sarosh and Farooq opened the attack . Vicky jr. hit a huge 6 off Farooq's bowling. The score went to 13/0 at the end of 2 overs. However Sarosh came back strongly picking the wicket of Fauzan caught by Farooq at Long on.  Rehan replaced farooq and put brakes to the run rate and picked up the wicket of Vicky jr. Afnan and Iqbal steered the chase ahead . However Suraj picked up the wickets of Afnan (caught behind by Reyaz) and Iqbal (Caught by Vishal at long on) . Yuvi and Gaj were at the crease and were steering slowly towards victory with already Yuvi hitting Sarosh out of the park.

The equation stood to 30 required. off 4 over. Suraj gave 5 runs off his next and Rehan took the important wicket of Yuvi (clean bowled) to push Team B at backfoot , but some fiersome hitting by Gaj bought down the equation to 15 off final 2 overs. Suraj bowled the 11th over and produced 2 back to back wickets of Buland (clean bowled) and Afaque (clean bowled) but conceded 8 runs and 7 runs were required off final over.
Gaj was the lone man standing against the hopes of Team A . First 2 balls produced 2 singles but edged the third one to Reyaz who took a breathtaking catch in the second attempt and Team B were all out. It was a very close finish.


It was a bowlers day undoubtedly.

Bowlers Wickets
Suraj        4
Sarosh      1
Rehan       2
Farooq     1

Man of Match : Joint Winners of Suraj and Vishal.

Saturday , 2nd January , 2016

Team A : Naushad (c) , Sumit , Vishal , Rehan , Suraj ,Shahid
Team B : Salman (c) , Tausif , Buland , Afaque , Shahmir , Iqbal

Venue : Oxford Ground

It was a 10 overs match.

1st Match : Team A made 105 runs which Team B chased in 9 overs.

Team A batted first with Vishal and Shahid opening the innings. Shahid got out when the score was 20. In came sumit and he along with Vishal made a partnership of more than 85 . Vishal got out and Sumit retired . Naushad , Rehan and Suraj took the score to 105 at the end of 10 overs

Team B came in with Shahmir and Iqbal opening the innings . However 2 missed catches of Vishal's over of each Shahmir and Iqbal by Suraj put Team A in back seat. Team A cruised to 50+ at the end of 4 overs completed by Vishal and Rehan . Suraj put the batsman of defensive note but 7th over from Sumit went for 18 runs . The equation quickly ran down to 25 off 18 deliveries. And iqbal finished it in style hitting Suraj out of the park . Team B won in 9 overs.

Man of the match : Iqbal

2nd Match : Team A made 112 runs and Team B lost by 30 odd runs.

Naushad opened the innings with Rehan . Naushad hit a 6 off the first ball but was clean bowled by Tausif . Sumit and Rehan offered some resistance. Rehan was caught in the deep and Vishal came in .
Sumit played some excellent shots . Vishal felt cheaply after he was caught by iqbal of his own bowling. Suraj came in , however Sumit got dismissed on the other end. The score was 70/4. Suraj stabilised the innings hitting the ball out of the park . Suraj scored 24 off the 8th over and along with Shahid he took the score past 100 mark .The final score stood at 112 runs at the end of 10 overs.

Sumit and Vishal opened the bowling and Afaque and Junior kid opened the batting for Team B.
Afaque started on a blistering note . The score was 28/0 in 3 overs . Iqbal came in . Suraj dismissed Afaque of his first over. Tausif came in . Suraj bowled 3 continous economical overs restricting both the batsman . He was aptly supported by Rehan . Both bowled well till 9 overs and the final over required 46 runs which was bowled by shahid . Iqbal and Tausif remained unbeated but couldnt reach the target this time.

Team A won the match with a big margin.

Man of the match : Suraj

Saturday , December 26

Team A : Suraj (c) , Sumit , Sarosh , Afnan , Noor , Vikash , Shankar , Rehan , Iqbal , Faisal
Team B : Vicky (c) , Yuvi , Gaj , Reyaz , Rinku , Ameen , Buland , Afaque , Sajid ,

Team A won the toss and opted to bat . Faisal and Suraj opened the innings. Suraj got caught at long on for duck . Iqbal and Faisal too got out in the second over . The score was 3/3 . Afnan and Sumit controlled the innings with Sumit hitting the most of the runs . Sumit blasted all the bowlers out of the park and Afnan too hit back to back sixes to Yuvi. Gaj was costly this time going for 18 runs in his over.Once afnan got out , Sarosh stabilized the innings. The final score stood at 96 at the end of 12 overs.

Chasing the target , Sajid and Ameen opened the innings, They kept rotating the singles . Vicky came in and started hitting the ball out of the park. Due to some misfielding and dropped catches , the match drifted towards Team B . But 10th and 11th over by Rehan and Sarosh saw the fall of Vicky , Reyaz , Rinku and Yuvi . But only 4 runs were required of the last over and Gaj finished it off in style hitting a 6 over mid on and Team B won the match.

Saturday - 19th December

Team A : Suraj (c) , Sumit , Vishal , Iqbal , Bharghav , Farooq , Sarosh , Vicky jr. , , Ameen
Team B : Vicky (c) , Rehan , Tanzeel , Gaj , Afnan , Adnan , Buland , bharghavs friend , Fauzan

1st Match : Team B scored 87 runs which Team A chased in 10.3 overs.

Team B won the toss and opted to bat . Vicky and Afnan opened the innings. Vicky started on a blistering note but was clean bowled by Bharghav . Farooq went for some early runs but it was duly covered by Sarosh and Suraj . Gaj and Tanzeel fell prey to Suraj's bowling and rest were cleaned up by Sarosh . Pick of the bowlers was Bharghav. Team A finished at 87 .

Chasing the target , Vishal and Ameen opened on a blistering note . They made a great opening partnership which decided the match in Team A's favour  with Vishal hitting all over the park and Ameen too chipped in with his quota of boundaries and also hit a huge 6 at mid off. After Ameen was dismissed , Farooq came in and he too started hitting the ball out of the park. 20 odd runs were required when Farooq retired and Iqbal went in and finished the match in 10.3 overs.

Man of the match : Joint winners of Bharghav and Vishal

2nd match:

Farooq and Suraj left for the day due to their personal obligations. Tanzeel switched team

Team B scored 107 odd runs which team A chased it in the last over.

Vicky and Afnan started with a brilliant knock. His team was at wonderful position with 55 in only 4 overs. Sarosh and Bhargav pulled things back and put a break to their innings.

Team A was cruising slowly building their innings towards the target. However Team B was noy lettng things go easily. They kept picking wickets at regular intervals. Partnerahip between Tanzeel and Sarosh gave them hope. Once Tanzeel got out things looked difficult with around 40 runs needed in 4 overs. But vicky junior's brilliant hitting of the ball ended team B hope. He scored bulk of the remaining runs in just few balls to take Team A home.

Man of the match: junior vicky