October 17 , 2015

The most awaited day of the week, can you guess it’s neither Friday night nor Sunday morning. For Rockerzzz it’s Saturday morning when everyone gets back to 90’s and shows cricketing talent ;)

It was a different ground “Arobindo Ground” they say …. Rockerzzz have found their second home ground J

Highlights of the first match

Team A – Riyaz, Vikash, Sumit, Vishal, Gaj, Buland, Afnan’s friend, Bhargav, Sarosh

Team B – Vicky, Yuvi, Ameen, Afnan, Maaz, Rehan, Afaque, Afanan’s Friend

Ø  As usual Reyaz won the toss and opted to bat first.
Ø  It was a normal day for them as they score nearly 80+ in 12 overs innings.
Ø  Vicky bowled well along with Yuvi.
Ø  Competitive target for the Team B.

Ø  Team started chasing but Team B’s bowlers turned things in their favor.
Ø  Sarosh, Bhargav & Vikash bowled really well and kept the opponent in quiet.
Ø  But that was misconception as it was the silence before the storm.
Ø  Vicky got out and Team A thought they have controlled the match but one over from Vikash turned the match.
Ø  Afnan hit back to back two sixes and brought life to the game.

It’s so perfectly said, it seem that they have written it for Afanan’s innings on that day :

Though no-one can go back

and make a brand new start,

anyone can start from now

and make a brand new end.

Team B won the match and the MOM was Afnan for his superb innings.

Highlights of the second match

We keep writing highlights of the match but if you have witness the match you could surely say that Vishal made the Team A’s innings look like highlights.

Ø  Team A scores 130+
Ø  Buland and Vishal opened the innings but Buland could not sustain longer.
Ø  Vishal and Vishal build up a good partnership and started scoring with 10 run rate.
Ø  There was a quick contribution from Sumit as well.
Ø  At the end of 12 overs they scored 130+

Ø  Team B started with a flash, Vicky and Yuvi opened the innings.
Ø  If you have to fight then fight it like Yuvi J
Ø  He scored 20+ from the first over of Bhargav and put the team in a strong position.
Ø  It was unfortunate for Yuvi who got out on the next over while trying to hit a Six of Vikash’s over.
Ø  Again the responsibility went back to Vicky and Afnan.
Ø  They started to build the partnership.
Ø  Suddenly Sarosh was in action taking two major wickets.
Ø  He bowled Afnan and Vicky was caught on the boundary line by Vikash (Tough a tough catch but not the highlight of the match)
Ø  Highlight of the match was Sumit’s over.
Ø  An occasional bowler took the responsibility and challenge, showed the talent by taking 3 wickets.
Ø  Finally Team A won the match comfortably.

MOM – Jointly Vishal (80 runs) + Sumit (3 wickets)

There can’t be anything better than 1-1 on a Saturday for ROCKERZZZ.

Great match and wonderful performances.

October 31, 2015

Team A: Tausif (c), Rehan, Shahmir, Tanzeel, Vicky, Shaimir, Mehran, Gaj, Afaque, Vikash, Iqbal
Team B: Sumit(c), Reyaz, Farooq, Maaz, Ameen, Naushad, Suhail, Keni, Bhargav, Yuvi, Vishal, Afzal +1

1st match: Team B scored 156 runs in 15 overs. Team A could only manage 136 runs

Highlights of the match
- Vishal and Suhail gave a very good start to the Team B's inning
- Yuvi along with Keni and Sumit pitched in towards the end to take the score to a monumental total
- Mehran and Vikash were at the receiving end. Shaimir and Rehan managed to bowl few decent overs in between
- Team A had a very slow start after Vicky fell to a clever bowling by Bhargav
- They were managing 6-7 run rate even though wickets were falling at regular intervals
- Sumit the part timer took 3 wickets providing the brakes his team needed
- Almost 100 runs were required with only 7 overs left. Shaimir and Tanzeel went bersek to the 2 overs bowled by Farooq and Bhargav, extracting around 40+ runs
- Shaimir and Tanzeel fell due to smart bowling by Farooq and Bhargav and Team A was left to achieve 57 in the last 3
- Mehran hit few lusty blows scoring 3 sixes and a four off Maaz's over to reduce the margin of defeat to 20 runs only

2nd match: Team B managed 85 runs in their allotted 10 overs. Team A overhauled it in 8.1 overs

Highlights of the inning
- Team A started off brilliantly with the bowl. Shaimir, Afaque and Rehan doing a splendid job. It was in the middle overs of Mehran and Tanzeel that Team B capitalized
- Maaz cautiously opened the innings, Reyaz and Vishal majorly contributed to the Team B's total
- It was Team A from the word go as Vicky punched the teeth out of Team B's bowling attack. Bhargav and Gaj gave away 32 runs in 2 overs and 43 after the 3rd over. Vicky fell but his job was done
- Tausif and Vikash steadied the ship and they both got run out when the runs needed was less than 10 runs
- A little carelessness here and there and Shaimir and Rehan got out
- With only 3 runs needed from 12 balls, Tanzeel finished it off with a six

October 24, 2015

Teams:
Team A: Vicky Yuvi Afaque Rehan(C) Iqbal
Team B: Sumit(C) buland sarosh, Faisal Sohail Afzal

1st Game.
Team B won the toss and decided to bat. Buland and Afzal  went for opening. First wicket fell on 18 when Yuvi bowled buland. Faisal sumit and Sarosh came in with blazing guns and scored chunk of run. Team B finished with 85 in 10 overs. Highlight of the match was sarosh hitting consecutive sixes to Afaque.

In reply Team A started well, vicky gave them a quickfire started in order to notch up the run rates. Buland and Sumit went for runs. Iqbal scored most of the run and took his team to the last over when 7 runs was required. It was an exceptional last over by Sohail to make a draw(not tie). A patch up to end the dispute. First time in Rockerzzz.

2nd Game:
Afzal went away so it was 5 each for team A and B.

Team B scored 64 in 6 overs.. Exceptional batting from Faisal and sumit.. Yuvi got hit 2 sixes in an over by classy Faisal was the highlight of the game.

In reply Team not started well. Buland's first over removed Iqbal and vicky when the score was 2. later on it was all about Yuvi carnage smashing bowlers. At the end of over 3 team score was 43/2.. 5 sixes in 2 overs. It was Sarosh who did damage control work and took 2 quick wickets. Team B won by 6 runs.
Interesting highlight was  Sarosh cleaning leg stump of Rehan Twice. !!!

October 10 , 2015

Our regular ground was not available . So we played in the ground at the back of Aurobindo Asharam ,  J.P. Nagar . It was a lovely weather and we had our evergreen Sarosh Bhai back in team.


Team Vicky : Vicky ,Iqbal ,  Shahmir , Sarosh , Rehan , Afaque , Bharghav , Afnan's Friend

Team Suraj : Suraj , Sumit , Vishal , Yuvi , Gaj , Mehran , Afnan

1st Match : Suraj won the toss and decided to bat . Vishal and Afnan opened the innings . Vishal got out when the score was 13 . Sumit and Afnan then held the innings and took the score ahead . Afnan was in devastating form and he attacked each and every bowler . Sumit too chipped with his boundaries and played the role of the supporting batsman . The duo made a partnership of more than 50 runs when finally sumit was caught in the deep . However Afnan chipped in till the last ball and along with contributions from yuvi and gaj took the final score to 105/5 at the end of 12 overs.

Vicky and Shahmir opened the innings and began the chase .Vicky kept the asking rate below par and hit Yuvi for 12 runs in his first over but Mehran on the other end bowled a beautiful economical spell of 3 overs . Gaj got the first breakthrough of the match taking 2 wickets of Iqbal and Shahmir in his first over . But Vicky was scoring runs on the other end. His journey came to an end when he was dismissed by Suraj in the 8th over . And after that it was all left to GAJ who cleaned up the remaining team finishing at 5 wickets . One special mention for Afnan's fielding wherein he covered the entire leg side alone and restricted the batsman to singles and was finally involved in the run out of the last wicket. Vicky's team were dismissed for 52 runs in 9 overs.

Man of the Match : Gaj for his superb bowling performance of 5 wickets .

***** VICKY AND AFNAN'S FRIEND LEFT FOR THE DAY AND VISHAL WAS MOVED TO THE OTHER TEAM WHICH WAS NOW CAPTAINED BY REHAN *******


Team Rehan : Vishal , Iqbal ,  Shahmir , Sarosh , Rehan , Afaque , Bharghav 

Team Suraj : Suraj , Sumit ,  Yuvi , Gaj , Mehran , Afnan

2nd Match : Yuvi and Mehran opened the batting . None of the batsman could reach double figures . Bharghav and Afaque the Bagha destroyed the batting line up . Bharghav picked up 3 wickets and Afaque bhai picked up 2 wickets . Yuvi fell cheaply and Afnan followed soon after . Sumit and Mehran tried to hold the innings but they were going slowly at 4 RPO and were dismissed cheaply too . Suraj was the last single man batting and he too fell prey to a stunning catch by Shahmir bhai , bowled by Iqbal bhai. The whole team was dismissed for a meagre total of 35 runs.

But team Suraj didnt say the word "DIE" and fought back like spartans . Yuvi and Gaj opened the bowling and Iqbal and Afaque opened the batting . They were 13/0 at the end of 2 overs . But yuvi bowled an excellent spell hittng the timber for both  IQBAL and Vishal in the same over . Next over Gaj hit the timber for both Rehan and Bharghav . The score was now 23/4 and there were 2 wickets left . Yuvi bowled an economical 5th over and Gaj returned back for the 6th over where the match was in a 50-50 position . Mehran and Afnan both missed simple catches in the boundary leaving GAJ stranded in the bowlers end . Afaque finally hit the winning shot and made the team cross the Victory line.

Man of the Match : Afaque bhai for his allround performance of 2 wickets and helping the team cross the victory line with his batting effort and becoming the only batsman to reach double figures in the match.