Bhavanavho ko samjho ... Grammar meinmat Uljo

Acers

Bowling is their strength. You can put pressure on their batting line up.

Opening pair is the key for them, they start with some power hitting then stick to singles and doubles. Take their chances in running between the wickets.

Batting

Run out : 3+1+1+5 = 10 They run for anything and everything.

Top runs scorer : Parag (57)

Attacking Batsman : Parag, Ajit, Pradeep

Single Double : Ashish, Bhavesh

Bowling

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : 3 out of 4 they have used 6th bowler.

Extras : 5+2+2+7 = 16

Top Wicket taker : Nagesh (9)

Best Eco : Tridivesh

Can target = Mouly and Ram

Brief score : 4 WINS

Acers 61/7 Packers 45/6

Mavericks 34/10 Acers 35/2 in 5.4

Acers 66/4 i11 24/10

Acers 49/8 Chargers 37/10

Beamers

Bowling and Fielding is their strength. Very quick in outfield and players have good arm. They not yet batted second, so will be interesting to see that, if they are put to Bat second.

Batting

Run out : 3+2+1+2 = 7 They are really quick between the wickets

Top runs scorer : Ranjan (42)

Attacking Batsman : Ranjan, Ashwin

Bowling

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : Play with exact 5 bowlers, do not wait for 6th bowler to come.

Extras : 6+0+6+6 = 18

Top Wicket taker : Uma (7)

Best Eco : Equally distributed, Vidhu is in form

Can target : Rayan, Nitin

Brief score : 4 WINS

Beamers 42/5 Thunderbolts 31/7

Beamers 47/6 Rangers 43/9

Beamers 46/5 Chennai 94086 42/6

Beamers 40/5 Challengers 35/6

Catalysters

Team of All Rounders. Everyone chips in and score quick runs, they rely more on power hitting than on singles or doubles. Get ready for some high catches.

Batting

Run out : 1+1+3+4 = 9

Top runs scorer : Girish (42)

Attacking Batsman : Chiranjib, Rohan

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : Only once they have used 6th bowler. Bowling is quite disciplined.

Extras : 6+0+1+1 = 8 Very well controlled extras column.

Top Wicket taker : Rohan (5)

Best Eco : Rohan, Hitha are in form

can target : Arpit, Girish

Brief score : 3 WINS 1 LOSS

Challengers 50/6 Cats 48/7

Scorpions 32/4 Cats 33/3

Cats 45/10 Kasturi Pade 25/8

Cats 56/9 MCC 21/10

Bhola XI

Very passionate guys, play hard cricket and never give up. Singles Doubles in start with some power hitting at the end.

Batting

Run out : 1+2+1+2 = 6

Top runs scorer : Hardik (82) Key wicket.

Attacking Batsman : Sanket, Sachin

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : They occasionally use 6th bowler which can be targeted.

Extras : 5 +3+6+5 = 19

Top Wicket taker : Ambarish (5)

Best Eco : Chirag, Nihir

can target : Sachin, Sanket,

Brief score : 3 WINS 1 LOSS

Bhola 46/5 Yorkers 42/9

Bhola 53/4 Twenty20 42/7

Sloggers 58/8 Bhola 57/6

Bhola 66/3 Panthers 27/8

Rhinos

Name change is working for them.

Singles and Doubles, very quick between the wickets. Batting is their strength.

Never chased a target in this FLT.

Batting :

Run out : 5+2+3+1 = 11

Top runs scorer : Srinivas (33)

Attacking Batsman : Everyone chips in and score some quick runs

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : They have problem for 5th bowler for sure.

Extras : 10+6+7+3 = 26 Extras can cost them a game.

Top Wicket taker : Everyone sticks to line and length

Best Eco : Barry

can target : Suresh, Satish or any 4th or 5th bowler

Brief score : 4 WINS

Rhinos 48/9 Spanglers 40/10

Rhinos 63/8 Royal XI 45/5

Rhinos 44/9 Weekenders 44/8 Bowl out winner

Rhinos 43/8 Champs XI 39/4

Warriors

Only BYE team which is moved to QF.

Defending Champions. Complete package of player. You need to be good in all department to win over them. They are really good batting first. Not yet chased in this FLT. While batting second their batting can be pressurized.

Batting :

Run out : 1+3+2 = 6

Top runs scorer : Vijay, Amol

Attacking Batsman : Amol, Himesh

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match :

Extras : 2+4+12 = 18 Do not go by this numbers.

Top Wicket taker : Anil (7)

Best Eco : Raj, Ravi S

can target : Himesh, Vishnu

Brief score : 3 WINS 1 BYE

Warriors 52/7 Chennai 94086 45/6

Warriors 82/4 Gold Flake kings 33/9

Warriors 47/5 SE11 35/10

Pacers

New to TCA, but has lot of cricket experience under their belts.

Their strength is batting and bowling is weak but do not give extras. You have to score and wait for the bad balls.

Batting

Run out : 6+2+2+2 = 12

Top runs scorer : Sandeep (47)

Attacking Batsman : Rajeev, Prashant

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match : They shuffle their bowlers. Have used more than in 5 bowlers in most of their matches.

Extras : 2+5+2+1 = 10 Thats remarkable.

Top Wicket taker : Bhushan (7)

Best Eco : Sandeep, Shiv

can target : Rest all have been targeted in at-least once in either matches.

Brief score : 3 WINS 1 LOSS

Pacers 47/8 Hawkers 36/6

Pacers 58/5 Twenty20 59/5

Strikers 42/5 Pacers 43/6 in 9.4

Chennai Veerans 52/6 Pacers 53/ 7

Star cc

They have played as team and come back in action with more zeal and passion. They can be unpredictable and may be underdogs to win the tittle.

Batting :

Run out : 3+3+2+1 = 9

Top runs scorer : Prassana (60)

Attacking Batsman : Tamji

Bowling :

More than 5 bowlers used in a match :

Extras : 3+8+3+2 = 16

Top Wicket taker : Sanjeev (10)

Best Eco :

Most expensive bowler : Sanjeev,Ajun

Brief score : 3 wins 1 LOSS

Star cc 58/5 99ers 45/10

Strikers 38/8 Star cc 32/9

Star cc 55/9 Yuva XI 48/10

Champion cc 58/9 Star cc 60/4 in 9

Bhavanavho ko samjho ... Grammar meinmat Uljo

Keep Smiling Always

Dharme

Cricket is Funny Game ...

Cricket Cricket Cricket ... What do you think? What is cricket all about? Is it Batting, Bowling or Fielding? I think it’s about skills plus applying strategy and planning as well. You should know when to use which player and do lot of calculation and organize right from Team selection to Umpiring assignment

”Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”

In FLT 10 over’s match, each and every ball bowled, each and every run scored are important. Forget about ball or run each and every decision counts. Last two weeks we saw lot of matches going to last ball of the match. After two weeks fight we have top 26 battling for FLT cup.

I had always heard Cricket is funny game and game is not over till the last ball is bowled. I witness the same during last week matches. Here is my experience.

I11 vs Titans
Two new teams, for me each and every player on both sides were Know friends, so no way I was going to be on losing side. I hope they learnt lot of things from the match. Extras and crucial moment over throws were turning point of the game. I11 chased massive score of 56 in style with massive six with just 4 balls to spare.
Experience of playing in TCA helped players like Ameya and Manoj to seal a first debut win for i11. While Blaster innings by Geen was worth watching

Chennai Veerans vs Panthers
Chennai veerans were in form team and looking really confident from the first ball itself. At the end of their batting innings few bad decision from umpire turned the tables on favor of Panthers. Chennai Veerans did not give up and fought till end to get decent score of 44. Panthers started strongly with Ajay Pal Singh and Sreenu holding on the fort, Chennai Veerans did not give up and fought like injured Tigers. Quick wickets by Vidi and some good catching brought Veerans back into the game. Game was not yet over, Knock from Hari brought Panters back in the game, last 12 balls 6 runs needed. Never give up attitude and good bowling helped Veerans to hold on to their nerve. It was Vidi and Kirti who made this impossible job possible to restrict Panters to 43 and book their spot in top 6.
At the end never give up spirit and some good captaincy by Ohm sealed a win and controlled the heat of the game between the players and against the umpires ;)
I would request all the people who are doing umpiring to be really alert on the field as any single decision here or there can change the result of the game.

“Team guts always beat individual greatness.”

Bonus point
In the email thread lot of people talked and expressed views about bonus point thing, I would not comment anything as of now on it. Everything has advantages and disadvantages; its how you use them and get used to these rules is the question to be asked to yourself? Will not get into bonus point system now, may be can talk about it in some other blog

Point to note is, if we did not had Bonus point into the picture and points were allocated on WINS and then DRR basis, then there would have been only change in top 26 Wolves replacing Chargers, yes ranking would have been changed bit up or down.
So, whatever may be the point system, we should focus on Wins and know how to use the point system.

“Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between; you are either in our out.”

Hard luck Wolves
Do you know, how close were Wolves and i11 for spot 26. The DRR difference was 0.009. Imagine and seeing the scorecards I just found i11 lost the match in 9.4 over’s against Cheer cc. If they had allowed Cheers cc to score in 9.3 they were out of tournament and if, 9.5 they would have won 4 bonus points and reach at 23rd spot which would have given some hope to them as they would have not played their next match against Acers . Who cares, in cricket anything and everything possible, i11 are really looking positively to play against the Acers and create a history and another upset in the tournament.
Similar things goes for Wolves, if they hold on to their fort for couple more balls against Yuval XI they would have been in the race. Hard luck guys. This calculation was not in anyone’s hand.

“Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.”

Using the Bonus points
Another close DRR result was observed between Acers and Champs XI, if Acers would have scored their last chase against Mavericks in 5.3 over’s instead of 5.4 over’s they would have been gaining 4 bonus points and DRR advantage as well over Champs and make it to 6th spot with BYE game. I don’t think they will mind that provided they are getting extra game in FLT, who wont like that

Champion cc vs Sharks
First name comes to your mind is Jimmy Raja when you see Champion cc team. After our match lot of people just waited to see his batting. They were not disappointed. I was umpiring the match and told to one of my friend in Sharks, “ Believe me get hold on to this Guy catch in deep square leg, half of the game is won, if not then wait for the at least 3 more sixes.” Your wish is my command, Jimmy played on to deep square leg and catch was dropped by Satish right on the edge of the boundary. From there Jimmy went on to score 30 runs including 3 sixes and 4 Doubles out of the park both in off and leg side. Yes catches win matches was quite proved. Champion cc made 65 runs. They started bowling very aggressively picking up few quick wickets, but later on they knew game was over and fielded and bowled loosely and waited for 10 over’s to get over. As per me they had good chance to grab 20 points but lost the opportunity to be in top 6 and get the BYE game. Great bowling by Bhargav and Pallav helped them to restrict Sharks on 44 to get 2 bonus points otherwise they would have slipped down to 13 spot.

I will repeat “ Looser never Win, Winner never loose.”

Friday FLT Fever ...

What a way to start with FLT 2009. Last week people were talking about what is the format, what are the new rules, new teams trying to get used to the off field logistics. Rains and Festivals clashing the dates. What not ? came on the way before starting the FLT.

Who cares, Cricket passion and spirit always had overcome the hurdles and you will see people on the ground or in front of TV whenever there is match schedule for India or IPL in India. I taught we wont see something similar to this on last weekend. But guess what, there was so many people on the ground to see the matches. Thanks to all supporters for coming and cheering up their teams and enjoying FLT.

In just 10 overs, 90 mins, game changes so fast, there is hardly time to think about anything here or there. Before we could rethink what went wrong the game is already over.

For some teams it was just piece of cake, they did not even give opponents to come back. They made it so easy that matches were over well before alloted time.

1. Chumma TP vs Champs FLT XI

2. Spartans vs Weekenders

3. Gold flake king vs Chargers

While for some teams game were so close they hardly knew what the time was, but were counting each and every runs and balls.

The brief scores are evident of such a scenarios, where lot of the games went till last over and result was not sure till the last ball was ball.

1. Mavericks vs Rising XI

2. Rangers vs SE11

3. Titans XI vs Sat cc

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory

For few teams, it was come back game and take some revenge against the teams who had defeated them in previous leagues :)

1. Warriors vs Chennai 94086

2. Acers vs Packers

I doubt if anyone will forget these matches in history of TCA for their achievements.

1. MCC vs Willow XI , Where MCC scoring 103 runs.

Man ! what did you guys had in your snacks. It must be real Diwali Dhamaka.

2. Royal XI vs Yorkers, Vivek taking 5 ball 5 wickets, out of which 3 were clean bowled.

Heads off to you. You guys really deserve Hall of Fame award.

(Still waiting to see the detail scorecard)

More teams, more fun more excitement and more competition. Last week few know well established teams which just fall short of their grounds or may be you can upsets for the week.

1. Challengers vs Catalysters

2. Twenty20 vs Centurions

Never say die

In all up-till now in 23 Matches,

279 wickets taken

2088 runs scored

With 34 4s and 16s :) New rules are working

Over all Run rate of 4.87 per over.

These numbers are from the uploaded scorecards.

While,

Century making team MCC leading teams point table just ahead of this year one of the strongest team Bhola XI.

The stylist batsman Hardik back in form leading Batsman column, good news for Bhola XI and Mohit Lad deadly yorkers leading the Bowling line up, to grab another title for the year for Champs XI .

After Round 1, 26 top teams qualify for the Play off while top 6 of 26 get the BYE.

With the results of last week, there is no way one can tell which all teams can be in top 26 or 6 places. Doors are still open for one and all.

At least race is not going to be one sided, as there could not be 26 teams wining both of their matches. As couple of winners of last weekend will be battling with each other this weekend. Let see who hold on their forts.

Twenty20 cc vs Pacers

Strikers vs Star cc

MCC vs Spartans

Wolves vs Yuva 11

Acers vs Mavericks

Each and every team will like to come back strong and register their spots in the race. Point to note here is, if at all you loose, loose to win Max bonus points which will put you ahead in the race against other opponents with same number of wins.

Loosing team like Titan XI, Catalysters and Rising XI has great chance to be in top 26 if they win coming weekend as they have already gained 4 points in the last match.

In short, its WIN-WIN weekend for all the teams.

Winners will definitely like to WIN and try to be in top 6 spot,

If at all they loose they will try to grab max bonus points.

Losers have no choice but to WIN this game and bonus points and DRR will play important role in getting them to comfortable driving seat.

“The Law of Win/Win says, ”Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way”

My Bets for top 6 spots : (not in order)

Bhola XI

Champs XI

Spartans

Acers

Warriors

Champion cc

Keep Smiling Always

Dharme

Thursday Thunder ... Two days to go for FLT 2009

Just cannot wait till Friday ... FLT on its way, already lot of drama and action off the field have started, lets get your swords sharpen for upcoming battle.

Open 2009 was really competitive and exciting till the end.
Congrats to Chennai 94086 and 99ers for winning Championship title in Open 2009.
Road to finals by Sridharan Rajamani
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=67&func=view&catid=11&id=460#460
Pics from finals by Chirag Patel
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=12&Itemid=149

FLT 2009 just 2 days away here are some of the information which one would like to know ...
We have 52 teams who will be battling with each other.
On behalf of TCA, I WELCOME all new teams to TCA community and Thanks old teams for their support.

For details : Grouping and Schedule
Document -> 2009 -> FLT 2009
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=80&Itemid=133

Quick start guide -> home page
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?view=category&cid=6&option=com_quickfaq&Itemid=163

New rules implemented
Power play, Free Hit and Shorter boundary.
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=2009-tca-bay-area-flt-tournament-details.html&Itemid=165

Ground details
http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=ground-details-for-flt-2009-.html&Itemid=165

Let me take you back to FLT 2008

Number of teams = 40
Winners : Warriors
Runner up : Yorkers

Most runs scored by team : Warriors 241 in 5 matches
Avg runs scored in innings by top 8 teams = 43 to 45 runs

Top Batsmans :
Vijay (Warriors) 66 in 5 Matches
Ajay Pal (Panthers) 40 in 4 Matches
Hardik (Bhola XI) 37 in 3 Matches

Roughly around 30 4s and 4 6s

Top Scorer :
Rohan (Catalysters) 30*

Top Bowlers :
Raj (Warriors) : 10 Overs 28 Runs 10 Wickets 5 Matches
Ravi S (Warriors) : 6 Overs 22 Runs 7 Wickets 3 Matches
Nihir (Bhola XI) : 6 Overs 15 Runs 6 Wickets 3 Matches

Best figures :
Santosh (Panthers) vs Thunderbolts : 2 Overs 4 Runs 4 Wickets

Highest team total
Warriors vs Scorpions : 64/8
Warriors vs Yorkers : 63/5
Bhola XI vs Baslog : 61/3

Lowest team total
Xterminators vs Catalyster : 18/10
Thunderbolt vs Panthers : 22/10
Scorpions vs Warriors : 29/10

FLT 2009 with Free hit, Power Play and Shorter boundary its going to be fun. Not to forget every team is getting at least two games.
Thanks to TCA Management, Logistics and Games committee to make this possible.
FLT has always been fun playing and watching too. So get your friends and family for the matches and finals.
People who are stil interested in getting Sponsorship get in touch with Marketing team.

Who says Cricket is dieing, I will say just come to California and see how people are passionate about Cricket.
It has become part of our daily routine.

Happy Diwali and New Year to you and your family.
Keep Smiling Always

Friday Finals - Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar

No talks Just stats ... Lets Bat and Bowl do the talking this weekend.

El-ane-Jhung

Royal cup finals 99ers vs Thunderbolts @ Ortega Park

Ahmne Samne

Head to Head

Never played with each other

Both teams have not played on this ground as well.

Kurukshetra

Ortega Park (636 Harrow Way, Sunnyvale, CA)

Pitch report :

Centre pitch with Mat, 360*, Runs all around, True bounce, Outfield lush green, Morning due ball may not travel, Bowlers may find difficult for run up.

Umpires

Thanks to MCC (Vivek,Sentil,Harshal) and Bhola XI mgmt

Toss :

Toss win field first. Both team prefers that see the stats below.

100+ runs min to win the game.

I would say toss win Match win :D

Other Matches.

Strikers vs Cheenai SF Elite cup

Shuhana Safar

Journey so far by these teams : wins and loss

Note : Both teams are good in chasing, whenever they chase either they win or close to win.

99ers

Play off

vs Sharks(60/10) chasing 64/5 - Won MoM - Manish for 21(32) & 3 wkts

vs Chargers(69/9) chasing 73/6 - Won MoM - Sarang for 25(32)

Round 2

Royal Rank 2

vs Chargers(47/10) chasing 48/5 - Won MoM - Harshal 13(24) & 3 wkts

vs Chak de(61/10) chasing 62/5 - Won MoM - Sarang 19(28)

vs BYE :)

Round 1

Overall Rank 19

vs Sat cc(84/9) chased 87/4 - Won MoM - Srikant 22(43)

vs Yorkers(35/2) Bat first 34/10 - Lost

vs Acers(116/9) chasing 28/10 - Lost

vs Champion cc(108/8) chasing 99/10 - Lost

vs Sloggers(116/6) chased 117/2 - Won MoM - Sankalp 51(47)

vs BABA(57/10) Bat first 112/10 - Won MoM - Salil 38(21) & 3 wkts

The Finals are about a test of wills.

Thunderbolts

Play off

vs Discers(70/10) chased 71/6 - Won MoM - Kalpesh 13(21) & 4 wkts

vs Sloggers(82/10) chased 83/4 - Won MoM - Sidharth 30(41)

Round 2

Royal Rank 8

vs Discers(85/8) chased 87/9 - Won MoM - Viju 14(9) & 1 wkt

vs Lethal cc(72/8) chased 73/4 - Won MoM - Vishy 29(49)

vs Chumma TP(138/4) Bat first 137/7 - Lost

Round 1

Overall Rank 25

vs Star cc(61/8) Bat first 60/10 - Lost

vs Nexus(80/10) chasing 74/4 - Lost

vs Kasturi Pade(93/6) Bat first 92/10 - Lost

vs Panthers(94/10) chased 96/2 - Won MoM - Kiran 28(24) & 4 wkts

vs Catalysters(136/6) chasing 98/10 - Lost

vs Spanglers(86/6) chasing 80/6 - Lost

The Jawans

Thunderbolts - Batting attack

Play off M R 4s 6s

Sidharth Mishra 2 56 9 -

Dhandapani 2 23 4 -

Round 2

Arun 3 38 5 -

Round 1

Hari Krishna 5 103 6 -

Vishy 6 88 1 -

Kiran 6 80 3 1

Thunderbolts - Bowling attack

Play off M O R W

Kalpesh 1 2.4 6 4

Viju 2 8 42 3

Round 2

Sriram 2 8 31 4

Kiran 2 9 47 4

Round 1

Sagar 6 23 110 10

Our goal is to win a championship. That’s the only goal

99ers - Batting attack

Play off M R 4s 6s

Sarang 1 25 1 -

Manish 2 21 2 -

Round 2

Harshal 2 29 3 -

Round 1

Sankalp 5 87 6 -

Harshal 5 64 4 -

Tejas 4 60 1 -

99ers - Bowling attack

Play off M O R W

Manish 2 8 24 5

Abhijeet 2 7 14 3

Round 2

Tejas 2 4 12 4

Manish 2 7 24 4

Round 1

Rushil 6 22 113 8

Over all in 2009

In Top 25 Bolwing

3rd - Manish 32 wkts 99ers

15th - Rushil 25 wkts 99ers

19th - Sagar 25 wkts Thunderbolts

In Top 25 Batting

5th - Sidharth 285 runs Thunderbolts

13th - Sankalp 233 runs 99ers

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion

Jasoos

Key Players

99ers - Sankalp, Rushil, Tejas, Manish

Thunderbolt - Vishy, Kiran, Sagar, Sidharth

Secret weapons

99ers - Salil if he plays the match

Thunderbolts - Kalpesh or Hari

Lakshaya

Finals details

http://www.tennisballcricket.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=2009-tca-open-finals-event-communication.html&Itemid=165

"Where do you begin? Perfect is a good place to start. We must always focus on improving things that are already perfect."

Wining Mantra : Focus on your strength and get the Basics right ;) someone will be happy after reading this.

My Bets

:( lost lot of money ... filing Bankruptcy.

Its your turn today ... what are you waiting for just put some Bets in comment section and let see who wins on the blog :)

Also, kindly put comments like tips to play these teams, their strength and weakness of team and players how to get them out, which will help these teams to make strategy against each other.

FLT 2009 is on its way ... Just 8 days to go

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