August 28, 2014

There's no better feeling in the world than the feeling you get after receiving a gift. And what better gift than the gift from Almighty Allah. The day started well with an announcement of a very good news that Afaque have been bestowed with a girl child. The happiness inspired him to perform his best on the field and that one could see while he was bowling.

Team A: Tanzeel (c), Tausif, Kashif, Shaimir, Buland, Afzal, Iqbal & Debayan
Team B: Reyaz, Farooq, Mehran, Vicky, Sumit, Ameen, Imtiaz & Afaque

1st match: Team A was given a target of 64 to chase in 12 overs which they did it quite comfortably in the 9th over all thanks to the crucial contribution by Kashif, Iqbal and Tanzeel. Team A did well to restrict to 63, Shaimir, Debayan, Afzal and Buland doing a pretty decent job there. Although Farooq, Afaque and Mehran did try to build some pressure but the low score 63 proved very difficult to defend in the end

2nd match: This time Team B did well to post a total which is considered at par. Team A required to chase 91 which they failed to do and they could only manage 60 odd runs. Vicky was back among runs for Team B as he was the major contributor with the bat along with Imtiaz (I think). Tausif's performance with the ball was the highlight of the match. As a bowler he never bowled with expectation but that one over from him brought some life into the match. He was also at the juncture of getting a hattrick if only Tanzeel had hold on to a difficult chance running along the boundary.

Ciao next week for Afaque's treat!

August 24, 2014

Almighty has given many reasons of joy. Hobbies are one of those. We are a happy bunch of people in Rockerzzz where hobbies of everyone converge to cricket. Usually we play on Saturdays but due to unavoidable work we had to shift it to the next day. It was a fine sunday morning and not many turned up. But this didn't dampen the spirit of the ones who gathered. They got together and proposed a match against a team already present in the ground....
Us: Tausif, Kashif, Farooq, Affaque, Rakib, Shaimir, Buland, Reyaz, Tanzeel, Imtiaz, Iqbal, Afzal, Vicky, Sumit

1st match: We set a target of 72 in 12 overs and won the match by 10 runs
Highlights of the game: The weather was gloomy. The ground was wet with the overnight rain. We won the toss and elected to bat much to the surprise of the opposite team. Odds were against us, we weren't playing with our headley ball. We had obey our opposition. Neverthlesss the mindset that was formed before the game that we couldn't play with a lighter ball creeped into the game. We started to lose our way, wickets fell at regular intervals and we were just less than 40 after 8 overs. Afzal Sumit Vicky and Tausif all were back into the pavillion. Reyaz and Tanzeel were at crease rotating strikes and scoring at snails pace. A few hit here and there brought them into fighting total zone. That was it. 72 was the target set. Like always Rockerzzz have a never say die spirit. The committment and the team effort shown during the fielding was unparalleled. Farooq and shaimir blew terror into the pitch. Enemies weren't able to score against them. Ably supported by Affaque and Rakib brought them down to a situation were they needed 19 off the last 3 overs. Shaimir bowled a superb over where he gave only 5 runs. Farooq better it in the next over giving only 1 run which was a wide and took 2 wickets. Opposition lost the plot and could only score 2 runs in the last over bowled by Buland. There was a situation when the equation was 11 off 2 balls. The ball went flying to the long on boundary where Tausif put up a timely jump to take a sensational catch to wrap the match.

2nd match: we set the target of 64 in 10 overs and won the match by 11 runs. The script was similar to the first match. However there was no thriller this time. Major contribution by bat was from Tanzeel Kashif and Buland. For opposition wickets fell at regular intervals, they were never in the game.

After our opposition left we split into teams and played another game of 10 overs against each other. Tanzeel's team lost against Reyaz's team. The winning team chased down the target of 92 runs in 8 overs. The team witnessed some hard hitting by Tanzeel, Afzal and Iqbal.

August 16, 2014

The Rockerzzz cricket team resumed cricket after a month and a half long vacation after Ramazan and Eid-ul-Fitr. The resumption, however, didn’t involve any drills with bat or ball neither with any theoretical classes. It just involved customary Salaams and emotional hugs. Here's how the day unfolded:

Team A: Misbah(c), Mehran, Vicky, Shaimir, Imtiaz, Aquib, Imtiaz, Farooq & Sumit
Team B: Tanzeel(c), Afsal, Tausif, Kashif, Suhail, Rakib, Afaque, Reyaz and Buland

1st match: Team B set the target of 102 which Team A chased down in the 11th over all thanks to the wonderful performance by Vicky. Team B score was accumulated mostly by Suhail. Team A was never out of the game. The initial drop catch of Vicky at the boundary by Tanzeel costed them heavily as he scored some brisk runs and was the man of the match without any doubt

2nd match: This time Team A needed 82 runs in 12 overs. A performer of all seasons Vicky started off very well again. He scored 4 sixes off Suhail's over. But his wicket after that gave some hopes to Team B, they needed 2 wickets while Team A required 24 runs while number of overs were never a problem. Cool headed Imtiaz and Afaque made sure they didn't threw their wicket away. Slowly and steadily they neared the target. Afaque fell with 7 runs remaining. A chance was given by Mehran but Tanzeel dropped a difficult catch at silly point. After Mehran scored the remaining runs and Team A won 2 matches on the trot

Below is the captains performance since April'14 till date. Congratulation Misbah for a stupendous record. Rockerzzz wish you well, fare well at your new place and enjoy!!!

Captain	Played	Won	Lost	win %
Tausif	12	4	8	33%
Farooq	16	9	7	56%
Tanzeel	7	3	4	43%
Shaimir	4	2	2	50%
Misbah	3	3	0	100%

Misbah's farewell. Party after the cricket match:

It was the last day's match for Misbah. He invited one and all and they all enjoyed the aalu waala Biryani :P

Shahid Bhai, the reason behind awesome Birayni