-- BillHewitt - 03 May 2007

Informatics 131 for 5 (17.3 overs) beat SU Exec 130 for 6 (20 overs) by 5 wickets

Team

• Bill Hewitt
• Ravi Vipperla
• Yaswan Aziz
• Sethu Vijayakumar
• Charles Harley
• Pradeep Ravindranath
• Paul Crook
• Ajay Srirambhatla (University staff)
• Amjad Iqbal (University staff)
• Steve (friend of Charles Harley)
• Rabboni Rabi

Match Report

After a bit of a nightmare morning, during which 3 of the expected 11reported injured and one more ill, became a better afternoon, when Amjad and Ajay (from University Staff), Steve (friend of Charles) and Rab stepped in at short notice. Thanks guys!

Bill then won his second toss of the year and again elected to bowl. This was looking a poor choice as the batsmen got on top, until Sethu took 2 wickets in 2 balls towards the end of his 4 over spell. We then went on to produce a bit of a flat fielding performance to let them rack up 130, with the usual array of dropped catches. Bill and Ravi both managed 1 out of 3, although Bill did catch much the hardest of his 3 They obviously thought that was plenty as their University first team batsman didn't come to the wicket.

In reply we got off to a good start with Steve hitting aggressively over the top knocking up a quick 25 and Bill a rather more sedate 23 before managing to be out to an even plumber lbw than last week. Yaswan, in his traditional one game of the season, came and went quickly, but not before a sweetly timed 6 over mid wicket and Paul Crook didn't last log or trouble the scorers. Charles was looking to play a steady innings and stear us towards our target when he became the victim of a rather less plumb lbw (surely high and down leg?) before Sethu and Amjad settled nerves with swift 26 not outs. That left only a handful of runs to get and despite Pradeep falling cheaply, a handy 5 wides left Ajay to strike the winning blow with just over 2 overs left.

Scorecard

   * Bill Hewitt                    lbw           23
   * Steve ??                       Retired       25
   * Yaswan                         caught         6
   * Charles Harley                 lbw            6
   * Paul Crook                     Bowled         0
   * Amjad                          Retired       26
   * Sethu Vijaykumar               Retired       28
   * Pradeep                        Bowled         0
   * Ajay                           not out        3
   * Ravi                           not out        0
   * Rab                            did not bat