June 13, 2015

Team A( Reyaz ): Sumit , gaj , buland , afaque , Vicky jr , karthik , Vikas

Team B (Vicky) : Suraj , Yuvi , faisal , maaz , pradyut , bipin

1st Match : Vicky lost the toss and was put to field by the opposition.. Maaz was the pick of the bowlers when he picked up 3 wickets in his 3 overs. Yuvi and Suraj bowled with decent lines giving the batsman no scope of scoring.  Reyaz the strong backbone of team A  couldn’t take the responsibility and got out early .. Vikas stepped in and made an impactful partnership with Sumit and scored the bulk of the runs. Their partnership also resulted in 25 runs alone from the over of Vicky which took the run rate above the asking rate. Sumit was dismissed soon after and Vikas’s lifeline also ended when he was caught and bowled by Suraj. However the opposition made 98 runs in their quota of 12 overs.

Bipin and Vicky opened the innings for team B. Both the batsman played as per plan . Bipin struck some beautiful boundaries and Vicky as usual made no stones left unturned in scoring the bulk of the runs. Vicky took on Buland and Afaque hitting them out of the park . Vikas was the only bowler who made it difficult for the batsman to score against him and gave only 14 runs in his quota of 3 overs. Once Bipin got out , it was left to Faisal and Vicky who achieved the target without loosing any further wickets and devastating the bowling line up .Man of the match jointly won by Vicky and Maaz for their individual Performance.

2nd Match : Team A began their approach cautiously with buland opening the batting . Team B too began their attack cautiously . Buland was taken in deep by Yuvi on Suraj’s bowling as he tried to accelerate the run rate. In came Sumit and along with Reyaz they built a partnership of around 100 runs . The last over of each bowler sparing yuvi went for many runs . Maaz and Suraj over went for 18 odd runs and Pradyut gave away 20 odd runs . Yuvi was the only bowler who maintained his economy rate and gave away only 14 runs in his quota of 3 overs. Team A fininshed on 132 runs .

Vicky and Bipin opened the innings. They maintained the run rate of 10 RPO . Bipin retired after 6 overs and along with faisal the hunt for the target was on . Team B reached 50+ runs in 5.3 overs . But it soon saw the dismissal of the Star Player Vicky when he was dismissed of Vikas’s bowling. Maaz went in and hit a quickfire 20 runs and got caught in the off . In came Suraj and he along with Faisal scored 20 odd runs of Sumit’s over. However Suraj perished off Gaj’s bowling and Yuvi too followed back with a duck. However Team A never lost hope and they kept approaching the target maintaining their run rate. The 10th over of the match saw 15+ runs coming off Vikas’s over when Bipin took on him hitting a 6 and a 4 out of the park , Now 30 runs were required off the last 2 overs. Afaque bagha Vettori bowled the 11th over and nailed it for Team A where he gave away only 6 runs. The final over required 24 runs and Team B has lost the plot when Buland got the wicket of Bipin in his first ball . Team A won the contest handsomely with 20 odd runs.Man of the match jointly won by Reyaz and Sumit for their awesome partnership

Buland: It was the last game of the other Rocking  sucessfull season. Boys played really awesome cricket with great intensity and sprit. Feels really good with Rockerzzz. It's worth to wait for Saturdays irrespective of office timings. We have added some good talent this year and expand the Rockerzzz family. Looking forward to next season with all the new talents and old ones coming with new guns. Love you all boys. 😘😘😘😘

June 6, 2015

Team A: Tanzeel (c), Faisal, Buland, Vikash, Afaque, Yuvi, Manohar, Devan & Bharghav

Team B: Vicky sr (c), Vicky jr, Suraj, Iqbal, Maaz, Mehran, Kaushik, Gaj & Govardhan

1st match: Team B won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 77 in 12 overs which Team A chased down quite comfortably

Highlights from the match:

- Afaque, Yuvi bowled with controlled line and length. Even though Vicky was there till 10th over, team B could only manage 59 in 9 overs. Such was the impact of bowling unit of Team A
- it was only in 10th over that Vicky scored 15 runs of Bharghav that Team B some respectable total to defend
- Brisk opening partnership was provided by Tanzeel and Manohar
- Manahor and Faisal steadied the chase and after the fall 3 wickets Vikash and Faisal finished off 78 runs in just 8.1 overs

2nd match: Team B set a better target this time. For Team A, 97 runs in 12 would be any day difficult but they did well to chase it down with 1 ball to spare

Highlights from the match

- Vicky got out cheaply and so did few other batsman at the start. All hopes of his were now with Iqbal and he didn't put them down
- Iqbal along with Maaz ensured that they put up more than a decent total this time
- Team A's bowler did well overall just that 2 overs of Tanzeel and Afaque went for 30 odd runs and that changed the color of the game after Team B was down till 9th over with only 54 runs on the board
- With runs on the board, it was all left to Team B's bowler to bowl well. Maaz provided an excellent start with only 4 runs in his first over
- But that was the only striking point from the first 5 overs to mention from Team B's perspective. In the next 4 overs Tanzeel plundered 46 runs with the help of Manohar and Faisal, taking 18 runs off Mehran's 6 legitimate balls
- The game meandered once again. Suraj took 2 wickets of Faisal and Tanzeel and gave just 2 runs in the 6th over of the inning
- In the coming 2-3 overs wickets kept on falling with only Vikash left. Yuvi and Buland was still to come. They needed 30 runs of the last 3 overs. Buland and Vikash showed determination to chase down a stiff target
- Maaz and Gaj couldn't contain the batsman when the requirement was 22 off 12 balls (each gave 11 runs). In the end the thrilling match came to an end with Vikash and Buland scoring a six each and winning the match with a ball to spare