Match Summary:
Date: 24-Dec-2011
Ground: NFC Sports Club
Teams: Polaris vs ZenTech
Toss won by - 'ZenTech' and opted for fielding.
Polaris Innings:
It's a green top wicket having over night dew by the time match was started. Good toss to win by ZenTech and rightly opted for fielding first. 'Polaris' openers(Susheel & Praveen) started the innings keeping the conditions in view. Both have good understanding between them, while Praveen taking the charge..Susheel kept rotating the strike. They scored 28 runs in the first power play. Later, there were few(3) good overs bowled by 'Zentech' with the introduction of Ram into attack. 'Polaris' crossed 50 runs mark in the 8th over of the innings. The aggressive innings of Praveen(28 runs in 20 balls) has come to an end with a good work by 'ZenTech' bowler making him runout. Susheel & Praveen scored 54 runs for the first wicket. Another wicket gone for 'Polaris' in the 10th over when 'Ram' dismissed 'Madhu'. 'Polaris' were 63/2 after 10 overs. There, Ratna joined with Susheel and Susheel took the game under his control. Susheel played some tremendous shots and while Ratna(14 runs) picking up the gaps well. 'Polaris' was in a good position with 110/2 at 15 overs and expecting to score more runs with the wickets in hand. Now, it was the turn of 'Ram' of 'Zentech' who not only stopped runs but, took 2 wickets each in his last 2 overs(16th & 18th). Ram, so far had a wonderful tournament with the ball. Finished his five-wicket hall (5/10 in 4 overs) which includes well settled Susheel's wicket too. Susheel(62 runs in 54 balls) scored another half-century in the tournament. Ram was well supported by Suman(2/29 runs in 4 overs) from the other end, who took 2 wickets and did an excellent runout in his follow thru. At that stage, 'Polaris' was into trouble having score 123/9. But, Arun(10 runs) took most of the strike and added 17 valuable runs for last wicket ensuring no further loss to the team. Finally , 'Polaris' managed to score 140/9 in 20 overs .
ZenTech Innings:
As mentioned earlier, still there was a little bit of green grass remained after an innings. The two quickies of 'Polaris', Degula & Arun made use of the wicket and gave a brilliant start to the team. Both were exceptional and literally unplayable in the initial overs. By the time batsmen realized the situation, damage was done. The process went in this way...Degula took the wicket for the first ball of the innings and 'ZenTech' were 0/1 after first over. 2nd over was bowled by Arun and his in-swinging deliveries dominated the batsmen and he took 3 wickets in that dream over. 'ZenTech' were 6/4 after 2 overs and all those runs coming in extras. In the 3rd over, Degula took 2 more wickets..one being a beautiful catch taken by Madhu in the first slip. 'ZenTech' were 11/6 after the 3rd over. Srinivas and Shiva steadied the innings for some time before Shiva(10 runs) was made out by Arun in his last over of the spell. Ratna and Chandra were into bowling attack(both didn't played after the 4th league match) and onto target right from the beginning. Ratna took a wicket in the 9th over..stumped made by Susheel. Suman chipped in with few runs(10) before being bowled by Chandra. Chandra closed the 'ZenTech' innings by taking the wicket of Srinivas..who stayed at the wicket for long time and played(18 runs) a respectable innings. Once again, Arun led the bowling department from front with his excellent bowling(4/11 in 4 overs) and equally supported by Degula(3/11 in 3 overs), followed by Chandra(2/11 in 2.1 overs) and Ratna (1/19 in 4 overs). 'ZenTech ' were allout for 58 runs in 14.1 overs.
First of all credit goes to the 'Polaris' opening batting pair (Susheel & Praveen) for giving a much deserved start for the team on a lush green wicket. Next, to the opening bowling pair who turned the match in almost no time to their team side by sticking to the basics and fully using the new ball. Ram of 'ZenTech' is also terrific with ball which made 'Polaris' to loose 7 wickets just for 13 runs in a span of 3.3 overs.
'Polaris' won the match by 82 runs.
Arun won the 'Man of the match' for his outstanding bowling performance(4/11 in 4 overs) and handy in batting (10 runs n.o) too.
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