STMicro vs EXL : Luminous Cup'06
Tournament - Luminous Cup (Corporate Cricket) 2006
Match : ST vs EXL
Date : 7th Jan., 06
Venue : Central Sectt. Ground, Chankaya Puri
Toss : EXL won the toss and elected to bat
New Year, New Tournament, New Team (Team ST is participating instead of STCT/STCL) and New Opponent, but the match was played with same Passion, same Intensity, same Discipline and same relentless Attitude. With a relatively tougher pool to start off, ST needed to continue its good run from the last tournament.
ST opening bowling pair (Rajesh Jeswani & Nitin Sharma) started miserly. The very first over saw the lightening brilliance of ST's captain wicket keeper who stumped the batsman off Jeswani. This was followed by some mediocre display of fielding when Narwal and Mudit, two of the better fielders of the team, dropped catches which should have been taken. Jeswani was the unlucky bowler on both occasions. Bharat finally took a good catch off Nitin to end the partnership. Sudip fielding at backward point position got injured trying to dive for a difficult catch and had to sit out for the remainder of the match and Super-sub Ankur replaced him.
After 4 overs each, the opening bowlers were replaced by Narwal and Lalit who continued to bowl tightly. Narwal took 4 wickets which included a hat trick (wicket no. 7, 8 and 9) and Lalit took 1 vital wicket. Abhishek Lal was the 5th bowler to be used and he took 2 wickets. At one stage EXL were 93/9 with some 4 odd overs left. But some good hitting from one of their batsmen, saw them post a respectable 129/9 in 25 overs.
Bharat and Lokesh started the chase cautiously. Just when it seemed Lokesh was regaining his touch again, he was bowled off a yorker. In-form Das joined Bharat. These two took the score from 19/1 to 109/1 by the end of 20 overs. Bharat and Das batted with the same confidence that they had shown in the previous matches. Both of them showed caution which was a little unusual from their natural games but given the conditions, it was the need of the hour. The track was not playing true with odd balls keeping low. Both of them paced the run chase in an excellent manner and it seemed that ST will drive home with a 9 wicket victory and shed all the bad memories of the past matches with relatively better teams.
But Lady Luck had other plans. She had written a thriller and that too an extremely dramatic one !
With the loss of Das , who made a classy 37, opened the flood gates in the 21st over. Narwal, not living to his reputation, came back to the pavilion without opening his account and Lalit got out on the very first ball to a dubious LBW decision. The very next ball saw Bharat playing a bad shot and getting bowled for a well made 55. Nitin Sharma get bowled off the last ball of the over and ST required 19 of 18 balls with 4 wickets in hand. Abhishek joined Mudit , but Abhishek got run out while trying to steal a non-existent single and the score stood 11 off the last 2 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Jeswani while trying to clear the infield get caught at mid-on. But Mudit didn't loose his composure and Harsh partnered him well to score the winning runs, without any more hiccups.
Victory at last .... ST won the match with 2 wickets in hand and 2 balls to spare. The beginning is with a bang and we played like a team, a cohesive unit, inspite of the fact that this was the first match for this newly stitched team.
Man of the Match - Bharat for his 55 runs and brilliant work behind the wicket
Brief Score Card:
Bowling: O R W
-------------------
Jeswani - 5 24 1
Nitin - 5 25 1
Narwal - 5 21 4
Lalit - 5 19 1
Abhishek- 5 34 2
EXL : 129/9 in 25 overs
Fielding : Bharat 2 stumping, 2 catches, Narwal 1 catch.
Batting : Runs Balls
-------------------
Bharat - 55 (63)
Lokesh - 10 (17)
Das - 37 (44)
Rajesh - 00 (02)
Lalit - 00 (01)
Nitin - 00 (01)
Mudit - 10* (12)
Abhishek- 05 (04)
Jeswani - 03 (02)
Harsh - 04* (04)
ST : 130/8 in 24.4 overs
RESULT: ST won by 2 wickets.
Match : ST vs EXL
Date : 7th Jan., 06
Venue : Central Sectt. Ground, Chankaya Puri
Toss : EXL won the toss and elected to bat
New Year, New Tournament, New Team (Team ST is participating instead of STCT/STCL) and New Opponent, but the match was played with same Passion, same Intensity, same Discipline and same relentless Attitude. With a relatively tougher pool to start off, ST needed to continue its good run from the last tournament.
ST opening bowling pair (Rajesh Jeswani & Nitin Sharma) started miserly. The very first over saw the lightening brilliance of ST's captain wicket keeper who stumped the batsman off Jeswani. This was followed by some mediocre display of fielding when Narwal and Mudit, two of the better fielders of the team, dropped catches which should have been taken. Jeswani was the unlucky bowler on both occasions. Bharat finally took a good catch off Nitin to end the partnership. Sudip fielding at backward point position got injured trying to dive for a difficult catch and had to sit out for the remainder of the match and Super-sub Ankur replaced him.
After 4 overs each, the opening bowlers were replaced by Narwal and Lalit who continued to bowl tightly. Narwal took 4 wickets which included a hat trick (wicket no. 7, 8 and 9) and Lalit took 1 vital wicket. Abhishek Lal was the 5th bowler to be used and he took 2 wickets. At one stage EXL were 93/9 with some 4 odd overs left. But some good hitting from one of their batsmen, saw them post a respectable 129/9 in 25 overs.
Bharat and Lokesh started the chase cautiously. Just when it seemed Lokesh was regaining his touch again, he was bowled off a yorker. In-form Das joined Bharat. These two took the score from 19/1 to 109/1 by the end of 20 overs. Bharat and Das batted with the same confidence that they had shown in the previous matches. Both of them showed caution which was a little unusual from their natural games but given the conditions, it was the need of the hour. The track was not playing true with odd balls keeping low. Both of them paced the run chase in an excellent manner and it seemed that ST will drive home with a 9 wicket victory and shed all the bad memories of the past matches with relatively better teams.
But Lady Luck had other plans. She had written a thriller and that too an extremely dramatic one !
With the loss of Das , who made a classy 37, opened the flood gates in the 21st over. Narwal, not living to his reputation, came back to the pavilion without opening his account and Lalit got out on the very first ball to a dubious LBW decision. The very next ball saw Bharat playing a bad shot and getting bowled for a well made 55. Nitin Sharma get bowled off the last ball of the over and ST required 19 of 18 balls with 4 wickets in hand. Abhishek joined Mudit , but Abhishek got run out while trying to steal a non-existent single and the score stood 11 off the last 2 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Jeswani while trying to clear the infield get caught at mid-on. But Mudit didn't loose his composure and Harsh partnered him well to score the winning runs, without any more hiccups.
Victory at last .... ST won the match with 2 wickets in hand and 2 balls to spare. The beginning is with a bang and we played like a team, a cohesive unit, inspite of the fact that this was the first match for this newly stitched team.
Man of the Match - Bharat for his 55 runs and brilliant work behind the wicket
Brief Score Card:
Bowling: O R W
-------------------
Jeswani - 5 24 1
Nitin - 5 25 1
Narwal - 5 21 4
Lalit - 5 19 1
Abhishek- 5 34 2
EXL : 129/9 in 25 overs
Fielding : Bharat 2 stumping, 2 catches, Narwal 1 catch.
Batting : Runs Balls
-------------------
Bharat - 55 (63)
Lokesh - 10 (17)
Das - 37 (44)
Rajesh - 00 (02)
Lalit - 00 (01)
Nitin - 00 (01)
Mudit - 10* (12)
Abhishek- 05 (04)
Jeswani - 03 (02)
Harsh - 04* (04)
ST : 130/8 in 24.4 overs
RESULT: ST won by 2 wickets.
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