The clash of the Keepers
Evergreen Prasanth ( Captain of Green Hawks) elected to bat ... Samad and Mani opened the innings for the green, As usual after a fiery four from samad (11), Jaya bowled him out. Vinu (16) also blasted 2 fours and finally surrendered to Balu for Leg before wicket. Ameer (16) J couldn't manage to get a boundary in this tournament, finally found a way to lose some weight by running between the wicket. Ameer(retired) was followed by master blaster Jijo (25) with his huge Sixer and with excellent form he lifted the score to 132 with support of Faisal(13).
Red Hot John & Nishanth opens for Red Hawks . The first clash started with the stumping of Prasanth dismissing the Red Hawks Captain John (6). One down Jaya(17) was in the no mercy policy, hitting 2 sixers over long on and was finally tricked by bowling of Ameer caught by Pradeep in square leg . Alex(29) & Ziya(20) built a strong foundation to red hawks innings, but storm of run ends after Ziyas lighting square cut safely caught by safeline Samed . This marvellous catch , probably the best catch of 2008 so far , was one of the turning point of the match. The ball was in Red Hawks court and they needed only 18 runs in 20 balls. Green hawks tried Jijo, Emanual, Vinu and Vinod, to stop the runs but they kept maintaining the run rate after losing wickets of Rojo and Rubin. Now Green Hawks captain came in to action when the mighty red needed only 8 runs in 3 over's with 4 wickets in hand. The first magical spell took the stumps of Sujin(10),Balu(0) stumped by Ameer, The next over was given to new comer Vinod who also bowled Sherin(2) over LBW leaving only 4 runs in the over. Final over Red needed 2 runs in 6 balls , Alex facing the ball , fist ball was a dot ball, all team members were advising Alex to play normally and get easy singles. It was the second ball from Prasanth, High flighted ball, Alex stepped out for the winning shot, he swigged the bat with full power , the ball twisted the result beating Alex and making no mistake Ameer took the bails off . This may be the ever green performance of Green Hawk captain Prasanth Complementing a magical win to Green Hawks. Well done...
The GEEN HAWKS wins for 1 run. And the clash of the keepers bring every players a memorable match to everyone.
Thanks to both captains for giving chance to all players for batting and balling, both captains shows extra courage for field setting and giving fair umpire's decision.
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Manof Match: Prasanth
Team B Lifts EHCC Mini Tournament Trophy
Team B won the first EHCC Mini Tournament by beating Team A by 55 runs. Team A was bowled out for 78 runs in just 13 overs. Jayapradeep offered some resitence with a solid 29 as rest of Team A batsmen stumbled. Team A suffered an early blow as they lost Balu's and Nishanth's wicket. Faisal and Jayapradeep looked to build an innings but didn't last long as Faisal was caught by Team B's Captain Rajeev of Joseph's bowling. Two overs later Ameersha was runout after an excelent piece of fielding from long off by Joseph. Sujin and Prasnth was bowled by Alex and Amjad in space of next 3 overs. Jayapradeep was caught by Ziya at long on after he miscued a hit of the bowling of Philip in the 12th over. Manuel was bowled by Joseph in the next over as moncy was runout of the last delivery. Joseph picked 3 wickets for Team B. Alex. Ziya, Philip and Amjad grabbed one a piece.
Earlier Team A won the toss and elected to field first. In absence of Jijo Team a was lead by Moncy. Team B was given a fine start by Captain Rajeev and John as they build first wicket partnership of 50 runs. Moncy provide Team A the break through when he got rid of john for 14 and clean bowled Rajeev for 21. But it was Ziya who hit a patient 47 runs that helped Team B to post a healthy target of 134 runs in 18 overs. Samad had a cameo innings by scoring 15 runs of 6 balls. He was out LBW after he misread the line of Ameer's bowling. Ziya was bowled by Manuel in the last over. His innings was filled with his trademark pull shot and some classy cover drives. Moncy and Balu picked two wickets apiece as Manuel and Ameersha and Prasnth grabbed one each.
Man Of The Match : Ziya Ul Haq 47 runs of 42 balls
Man Of The Series : Jayapradeep 130 runs and 2 wickets in 5 Matches.
Bowler Of The Tournament :
Amjad 6 wickets in 5 matches.