March 28, 2015

 

Maaz didn't come so team was balanced. Reyaz and Tanzeel led the team. In the second match Team A was led by Suraj as Reyaz and Tausif had to leave for some personal obligation. Sumit had to shift teams to compensate for this.

1st match:  Team A won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 96 runs, riding their luck with fruitful contribution from Tausif, Vishal and Yuvi. Afaque to hit some quick runs at the death over Team B fell short by 9 runs as Team A bowlers did well to hold on Team B's batsman. Yuvi and Rehan was the pick among the bowlers as Team B had still some chance with 26 runs in the last 2 overs.

2nd match: In the second match Team A scored 82 runs in 10 overs. Yuvi and Vishal was again among some runs. It could have been worse had it not been for Imtiaz at the beginning and Gaj and Tanzeel to put some brakes towards the end of the innings. After the first wicket fell quickly it was left for Vicky and Ameen to put up a big partnership. they brought the game to a close and Imtiaz finished it off in still in 8.2 overs for Team B.

March 21, 2015

Team A: Tanzeel(c), Tausif, Vicky, Iqbal, Imtiaz, Afaque, Maaz & Vishal
Team B: Buland(c), Sumit, Faisal, Mehran, Rehan, Gaj & Ameen

1st match: Team B scored 108 in 12 overs. Match was tied as Team A too scored 108

Highlights of the match
- Sumit and Rehan laid the foundation. Gaj towards the end of the inning showcased some hard hitting blow and took his team to above par score
- Vicky and Tausif started off very well. Vishal too gave them a good support
- But Team B bowlers pulled things back. Team A required 40 in 4 overs. Sumit bowled and got hit for 18 runs
- 3 overs and 22 runs. Gaj bowled a superb over and gave away only 5 runs
- 2 overs 17 runs. Again Mehran was fantastic at the death. Gave away only 4 runs and also the wicket of Tanzeel
- last over Team A needed 13 runs. Rehan was to bowl, Afaque and Imtiaz the last pair were on crease. A few single and double and a wide brought the equation down to 7 runs off 2 balls
- Afaque was on strike, second last ball and he misses a length ball
- Last ball a little over pitch and Afaque didn't miss it this time. He hit it to long off a little left of the fielder and it was a SIX. Team A went bersek after that.
- A deserved tie in the end. Both teams pulled things when needed and tie was the most appropriate result

2nd match: Team A was given to chase only 66 in 12 overs and they did that quite convincingly in 4.2 overs

Highlights off the match
- A total different gameplay altogether by team B. It stared with a wicket of Buland. A superb one handed catch at the deep mid wicket boundary by Tausif started a allround performance of team A. Another wicket-bowling out Mehran ended a fantastic first over at start of the match. Imtiaz ended with 2 wickets in his first over
- Imtiaz, Afaque and Tanzeel bowled superbly to end team B innings for a meagre 65 runs
- Vicky and Iqbal were in a destructive mode. They scored 50 runs in only 3 overs
- Mehran's alter ego came to play as he got hit for 26 runs in the only over he bowled
- Since the game was beyond team B's reach, Buland gave the ball to Faisal to have a fun bowl for the first time in his career. And he got the wicket of Afaque as well

March 14, 2015

Team A: Tanzeel(c), Faisal, Ameen, Iqbal, Vishal, Afaque, Maaz & Buland
Team B: Reyaz(c), Vicky, Tausif, Rehan, Mehran, Gaj & Sumit

1st match: Team B batted first and set the target of 90 runs in 12 overs. Team A failed to achieve that and the lost the match by 16 runs

Highlights from the match
 - Vicky started of very well ably supported by Rehan
 - Team A was cruising along until quick wickets of Vicky, Sumit and Rehan off the bowling of Tanzeel pegged them back
 - Team B was in a very difficult position at one stage until Mehran - the last wicket spared them the embarrassment by scoring some 20 odd runs in the last 2 overs
 - Team A started off very cautiously, Tanzeel and Faisal scored some 23 runs in the first 4 overs until Tanzeel got injured and that put the brakes on their scoring rates
 - Team A required some 50 runs in the last 5 overs. Iqbal was still on the crease but even he couldn't take them across the line
 - Rehan did some great work with the ball toward the fag end of the inning, not letting Iqbal score and hence granting a priceless victory by 16 runs

2nd match: This time Team A was given a target of 94 runs in 10 overs. Team A started off well but again fell short by 31 runs

Highlights from the match
 -  Vicky fell early but that didn't stop Team B to score a big score. Tausif, Reyaz, Sumit and Gaj did a fantastic job with the bat
 - Tanzeel and Maaz were the pick among the bowlers, they tried applying brakes but little did they know that the runs from Rehan's blade will cost them the match
 - Rehan too did well towards the end, scoring some brisk runs and taking his team to a mammoth 93 runs in 10 overs
 - Iqbal provided a superb start to his team. They were 33 for no loss in 3 overs. His wicket brought the dominoes effect as wickets started to fell in heap
 - Team A never could never come back from that shock and hence 93 seemed too far to them and lost the match by 31 runs at the end

March 8, 2015

Well well well!!!! 2 consecutive days of cricket. The second day i.e. today witnessed an awesome and unique match that never happened before in the history of Rockerzzz. We decided to play a 2 innings match with 10 overs in each inning. The lead in the first innings will be carried forward to the second inning and the target will be set accordingly. It seemed interesting at the start and it lived up to the expectation:

Team A: Tanzeel(c), Mehran, Sumit, Arunesh, Buland and Ameen

Team B: Vicky(c), Afaque, Rehan, Gaj, Suraj and Faisal

Team A batted first

Team A 1st inning: 103 runs in 10 overs

 - Sumit and Tanzeel had a very good and healthy opening partnership

 - Both the batsman took on the bowlers, scoring briskly and taking their team to a wonderful position

 - After the end of 7th over, with the score on 69 runs without loss Tanzeel decided to retire and other batsman took their charge

 - Sumit along with Mehran finished off wonderfully with 103 runs on the board

Team B 1st inning: 96 runs in 10 overs. Team A lead by 7 runs after the first innings

 - Vicky as usual was at his best. He along with Faisal was almost taking the match away from Team A

 - Faisal was scratchy, not contributing much to his account but giving good partnership to Vicky perished in the 6th over

 - Until 6th over neither of Team A's bowler was making any impact

 - Tanzeel decided to bowl himself. A dip and low ball ended Faisal's inning with Team A at the healthy score of 60 runs in the 6th over

 - Tanzeel's next ball was a run and Vicky was on strike. A wonderful slow ball on the off stump ended Vicky's innings as well. Team A was back into the match

 - Mehran was thrown the ball for the next over. His superb over brought 3 wickets for the team. From 60 for no loss, Team B was down to 68/5

 - Few hits from Suraj towards the end gave the lead of 7 runs to Team A

Team A 2nd inning: 97 runs in 10 overs. Target was set 105 runs in 10 overs for Team B

 - Sumit again played a role of an anchor, smashing bowlers from Team B out of the park at regular intervals

 - Tanzeel joined him after the fall of first wicket of Ameen and he too continued from where he left of in the 1st inning

 - Huge partnership between him and Sumit set the target of 105 runs in 10 overs. A huge ask for Team B considering a weak batting line up

Team B 2nd inning:  85 runs all out in the 9th over

 - Arunesh and Mehran bowled a superb opening spell. They gave only 3 runs in 2 overs while 23 after the end of 4 overs

 - Wickets were falling but Vicky tried to keep Team B in the hunt. But it was getting difficult for him as well

 - Buland took an outstanding catch running from deep point to the cover region to see the back of Vicky off Tanzeel's bowling and also brilliantly run out Rehan with a throw from cover. He hence redeemed himself from the sitter he dropped early on

 - Once Vicky got out Gaj took charge. But his blinder was not enough and Team B fell short of 19 runs and got again in this inning in the 9th over

March 7, 2015

Rockerzzz: Tanzeel(c), Vicky, Faisal, Mehran, Rehan, Imtiaz, Buland, Suraj, Sumit, Gaj amd Imtiaz

After a long time a Saturday was missing most of it's Rockerzzzz players. Only 11 players turned up which was a blessing in disguise. Hence it was decided that we play with some team already present at the ground. Fortunately we got one

The only match: we won the toss and elected to bat first. We scored 95 in 10 overs and defended it quite comfortably by 21 runs

Highlights
- Vicky scored around 35 runs. Iqbal scored 24 runs. Sumit also scored some quick runs towards the end of innings
- We started off very well with the ball. Imtiaz was at his best as usual. Mehran supported him at the opening spells. Gaj and Suraj also bowled decently at the end
- There was an instance in the match when 3 out of 3 catches was dropped off Suraj's 3 consecutive balls. Vicky, Rehan and Imtiaz was the culprit. But the funny thing was that the 4th ball also went for the catch and finally Faisal took it

It was a short day but happy day for Rockerzzzz