UKCC vs KCC (game 4 UCCT20)

Result: Washed out (KCC batted). Points shared between the teams
Unfortunately due to rain UKCC did not even bat the first ball of the second innings to chase 132. KCC lost 5 wickets in their innings of 20 overs with Anant Patel being the lead scorer.

The coming Saturday, UKCC plays a double header with CICC and CCI at Cereland Park, Columbus, IN.
We thank our sponsors Masala, Saagar, and Taj India restaurant and alumni for supporting the club and their players.

UKCC Vs Kelvinsoft Cinci (UCCT20 game 3)

UKCC won by 17 runs. When two friendly teams with big hitters meet for an encounter, the obvious winner is a nail biting finish. And yes, it was yet again a clincher. With exams and qualifiers week in the picture, UKCC traveled to VOA park with 11 batsmen devoid of its two all rounders specializing in the bowling part of the game. Cinci won the toss and unexpectedly put UKCC into batting.

The ever fiery Akshay opened the innings with Rohan playing the supporting role. In the third over, an unfortunate inside edge ruled out as a LBW sent Rohan waiting for another game to portray his batting skills. Hari joined in with Akshay and with confidence gained from the previous two games, he timed the ball well and good. After picking a big six over midwicket and a straight drive four over the stumps, he was playing good with singles and twos. Akshay on the other hand showcased some beautiful pulls that were unfortunately stopped in the dense field for only twos and threes. A miscued shot by Hari (19) and a chase of a wide ball by Akshay (27) provided some hope to the Cinci team. Stavan was playing his usual role of picking gaps and taking singles. Russel had to depart early to a reflex action catch at covers. With four wickets down (64/4, 8 overs), captain Prasanna decided to stabilize the innings along with Stavan. Overs 8-13, both of them were scoring 8 runs per over with only 1s and 2s. Prasanna's wide heap over long off turned futile with the catch been taken inches from the boundary (16). Abhijit Joshi took Prasanna's role and Stavan also started accelerating his innings. Overs 14-17, they scored boundaries consecutively (12 runs per over), when finally Stavan got out for 31 runs. Abhijit got out in the 19th over for 24 (2 sixes, and 1 four). The rest of the innings was wrapped up by the rest of the batsmen. Final score was 155/9 in 20 overs.

Thiag and Manju opened the innings for Cinci. Dangerous Thiag played his part in waiting for his zone balls and picked them for sixes and boundaries, while sensible Manju played straight and picked 1s and 2s at regular intervals. With Cinci's runrate going par to UKCCs runrate after 7 overs, UKCC felt the pressure of not having its regular middle order bowlers. Rohan's natural left arm action produced a peach of a swinging yorker that uprooted Manju's middle stump. A consecutive nipping ball took the off stump of Vishnu thereby providing the first glimpses of a recovery. Stavans golden hand yet again produced a Midas touch in making Prabhu give a catch to deep midwicket Russel's throat. A fourth ball six by Thiag was avenged rightfully by piling the stumps in the consecutive delivery. A Jhonty stretch by Harsha at short midwicket produced a run out in the very next over. UKCC believed that the silver lining in the clouds just turned into a sunspot. But, they were proved wrong by the thunderous clouds - Raof and Ashok. Both attacked the ball after watching the bowler carefully. With each hitting two sixes in consecutive overs, the required equation turned into less than run a ball. Over 14 is when UKCC got a break when Ramanas full length ball was guided into the hands of a diving point fielder Sai. With a plausible finish by good bowling in sight, acting captain Akshay was brought into attack.

Equation - 20 required of 5 overs with 4 wickets in hand
Ball 1 - Slow and short, miscued pull by Roaf to deep square leg, caught by Abhijit
Ball 2 - Length ball outside off, guided to third man for two runs.
Ball 3 - Length ball outside off hits standing up keeper Hari on his thumb, glides off his right shoulder towards short square leg. Both Hari, and square leg fielder Abhijit run towards the ball. Abhijit collects the ball and throws to the bowler who was yelling along with the rest of the team for a run out. OUT by a mile!!!!
Ball 4 - Length ball pitching on off, nipping and passing through the gates of the batsmans defense to uproot leg stump.
Ball 5 - Length ball angled from off to middle-middle off, straightening the other way (leg cutter) and knocking the off stump. The sounds of victory echoed through the entire VOA park as Akshays brilliance wrapped up Kalvinsoft Cinci's innings.

With this win, UKCC has qualified as the first team with 6 points to the knockout stage. UKCC plays their arch rivals (on field) KCC this Sunday at 10 am.
We would like to thank our sponsors Masala, Taj India, and our alumni for supporting us.

UKCC Vs UC (UCC T20 game 2)

UKCC won against UC by 56 runs.

UC won the toss and Nabil put UKCC into batting considering their winning streak against CICC last week. Akshay and Hari opened the innings and started the first three overs slow ensuring no early loss in wickets. Akshay opened his blazing hot attack in the fourth over and pummeled 18 runs. During the eighth over Akshay played all around an angled ball and got bowled (42 runs). Stavan replaced Akshay. With much of the poweplay overs were played by Akki, Hari started to settle into rhythm in the 9th and 10th overs (74/1 in 10 overs). With some good singles and two taken in the 11th and 12th over Hari tried to up the run rate and got out for 15 (12 overs - 85). Russel was in his peak form as he scored 4,3,1,6 in his first 4 balls. Unfortunately he got run out on the runner end for a straight drive from Stavan. Good captaincy by Nabil and bowl to field bowling by UC bowlers frustrated Rohan and Stavan into scoring runs in the 14-17 overs. Ketu and Rajesh swung at everything to up the run rate, but were futile due to some good bowling. An easy 170 seemed too far with the score being 129 at the end of 19 overs. Prasanna played some good shots and thanks to drop catches he finished UKCC's innings at 146/6.

UC sent Abir and Niri for a flying start. A beautiful first over for just 2 runs by Rohit Tammanagari (3-0-12-0) ensured that our bowlers were not giving any chances to UC. In the second over, Niri got run out due to a good dive by Prasanna and collection by bowler Ramana (3-0-19-0). Sanchit - the aggressive square of the wicket player and sensible Abir stayed put and ensured that the scoreboard got ticking along with the regular boundaries. Ketu's 10th over spell was the turning point when he took both the settled batsmen in consecutive balls (great catching by Rohit V and Akki). At the half way mark the equation was 85 required of 10 overs with 7 wickets in hand. 11th over bowled by Rohit Vuppuluri was carefully dealt with the batsmen. Again a wicket from Ketu in the 13th over proved vital for UKCC's breather (3-0-20-3). 2 consecutive wickets of Rohit V in the 15th over of Arvind and Nabil ensured that UC had no chance to rejuvenate from the collapse. A wicket for Stavan (2-0-15-1), a run out by Hari/Rohit V and the final blow from Rohit V (3-0-13-4) finished UC's innings well short of the 100 run mark.

With yet another comfortable win, UKCC is leading Group D's points table (NRR of 4.25) and is playing an away game on Sunday against Kalvinsoft Cinci. UKCC needs one more win to qualify to the knockout stage.

We thank our sponsors Masala, and Saagar, and our humble alumni who have supported the club.

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UKCC Vs EKUDCC (UCCT20 game 1)

UKCC Vs EKUDCC 20-20 bulletin:

EKU won the toss and chose to chase. Rajesh and Hari opened the innings. EKU went with the IPL strategy of using a spinner in the very first over. Rajesh capitalized on the opportunity and scored a six. But he got out for 8 runs from 5 balls in the second over. Stavan came in. Stavan and Hari played a very patient game ousting any chances that can be given to EKU's bowling line up in the first 6 overs. After 6 overs with 20 runs on the board, UKCC tried to up the run rate, but were held down by some good bowling till the 8th over. A beautiful pull by Stavan of a short rising ball started UKCC's onslaught. 10 overs - 54 runs, 11 overs 56 runs. The next 3 overs UKCC scored 42 runs. Stavan got out at 52 (41 balls). Russel replaced Stavan and ran good with Hari to keep the run rate going. Hari got out during the 16th over - 45 (41 balls). The next 4 overs was a sheer sight of bludgeoning of the EKU bowlers by Ketu with his mighty sixes. He remained not out at 30 (15 balls). UKCC scored 169 (Great bowling by EKU in giving only 12 extras - 9 wides).
With a lot of runs on the board, EKU had to go full fledged in terms of attack. Sai's first over of 2 runs proved that it is not going to be that easy to score (3-0-8-1). Second over bowled by Ramana made UKCC gain the upper hand. After slicing Ramana (2-0-15-1) over point, Prageeth misjudged a slow inswinging yorker and got bowled. The very next over Sai bowled Shoeb. After discussing with Prasanna, Stavan took the ball from the fast bowlers (who were being just played safe by Sunil and Akshar) and caught Sunil in his very second ball. Sai Aravapalli's aggressive approach was the only limelight to the EKU team. Continued spell by Stavan on one end and Rohit Vuppuluri on the other end increased the pressure on the batsmen and both Sai and Akshar got out by going for big shots. Seven more overs later Stavan (4-1-12-4) and Rohit V (4-0-10-3) finished their spells (Honorary mention - Ramana took 3/3 running catches). Rohit Bhandari was brought into the attack to finish the innings. He took the last wicket in his very first ball thereby making his statistics against EKU look stronger (strike rate - 400; Bowling average - 0) as usual. EKU were all out at 55 runs in 14 overs (12 extras)

It was a great team game and UKCC face UC at home next Sunday.
Thanks to Taj India who sponsored our food for the game. We would also like to thank all our other sponsors (Masala, Sagar) too.
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