5th July 2009- Dissapointing loss in the Pacific cup Semi-Final

Dropped catches and Batting collapse is always the story when we play YCAC. However this time we were hopping to do better as YCAC has a new pitch a Felix one, in fact they have a completely synthetic colorful outfield now.

YCAC own the toss and elected to bat first.

Ashok and Biju started the bowling well for IECC and given that we had fielders at the right areas the scoring was not easy for YCAC. Ashok bowled out one of the openers Horton on his 4th over and then got rid of Kamran on his 5th over to put IECC on top.

But then Prashant and the other opener Riaz batted well and put up 90 runs partnership to stabilize YCAC. Then Prashant stepped on the gas and went on to score 129 to take the score past 250 thanks to many dropped catches. Riaz had contributed with a patient 40.

Then our batting collapsed like a pack of cards and we got allout in the 24 overs managing only 112. Only 3 of our batsmen managing to get past 10. Raju did hit 3 huge Sixes during his short stay at the crease to entertain the crowd, one of those sixes almost landing in the swimming pool.

I might as well add that YCAC hold on to all the catches that came their way in sharp contrast to IECC.

brief scorecard.
YCAC 255/7 in 40 overs , Prashant Kale 129, Ashok 3/31, Raju 3/39
IECC 112/10 in 24 overs, Raju 24, Dinesh 24,Riaz 3/8