NJSBCL Match 1 : Plainsboro Panthers Vs Toms River XI at Panthers Ground on 4/18

Here I am with the review of our first match against Toms River XI. The match was scheduled to start at 8:30 AM. This is the first official match for us this year. Also this is first match we are playing in full cricket mat.

The climate was awful and windy. We all were dressed up in three layers.

Match was delayed for couple of reasons. The umpires from juggernaut team were late and the opponent team manager, Ketan was not happy with the size of the pitch. He felt 2 feet short.
Me and Ram(our Team Mangaer) were saying this is the correct length. Once the umpire reached the ground by 8:45 AM. the opponents complained about the length of the pitch, the umpires after measuring by foot they felt it is in correct length. But left to opponent for their satisfaction. They were trying to measure the pitch by Tape but unfortunately we didnt bring our tape that day and shops were not open that early.

So finally the opponent came down and agreed to play the match with the same length of the pitch.

Toss: 
Though the toss is not that crucial we felt winning the toss would be great advantage. When it comes to toss I am not so lucky to win the toss barely I had won 25% of tosses last year.
Now back to toss,Umpire Deepti Ranjan from Juggernaut tossed the coin, the opponent captain called it a tail.It was head. Uh!!! I won the toss for the first match. I came down to the team resting area to check what we can choose. We decided to choose batting to take advantage of climate that time and hoped to improve over the day progresses.

Plainsboro Panthers Innings:
Our opening batsmen Praveen and Paresh were ready to make a mark.I asked them to go freely over the bowlers. Ketan started off the proceeding by bowling a wide ball of the innings.
Paresh hit a sixer on the quare leg for six.We were 9/0 in the first over with both Praveen and Paresh started off. Then comes the tragedy Paresh got out for a slower edging to keeper when he scored 7.

Praveen is back to pavilion in the similar fashion with 4 runs.We were worried with Swamy and Andrew getting out for 3 and 2 respectively and our score is 21/4 after 6 overs.And by the break time we were 29/4 after 8 over.

Right after the break, Ram and Arun shifted the gears carried our team. Arun got out for 22 with a six and four.It was a sweet coincidence when we were shouting Chennai Super Kings won the match and made it to Semi Finals, Ram hit a sixer.  Sriram joined Ram and did a little cameo before he got out unfortunately for 9 by caught at the midwicket just before the boundary. Sathish came back to pavilion with 2 runs. I went in got a duck in 3 balls.Ram got out in final over for 21 with 2 sixes. Last one to go is Harieash to face the last ball.

So by end of 16 overs we were 83/9.

Toms River XI Innings:
I have taken the new ball in my hand for the first over. It was a pretty tight over with 1 run. Next over by Sathish provided the momentum with 2 wonderful wickets without giving any runs. Yes it is maiden and 2 wickets. From then on we conquered the game. Toms River started loosing wickets on a regular interval.
They were 5/4 at the end of 4 overs. Then Arun and Piyush started bowling. They also bowled very well.
At the end of 8 overs they were 24/6. Then we were to wrap it up soon but the Vijesh of Toms River was not giving away. He stood till the last over.We leaked some runs in between. Finally they scored 55/10 in 15.2 Overs.

Summary:
Overall its a great performance by Panthers in all the departments especially bowling and fielding. Thanks to Ram(21) & Arun(22) for excellent batting and Sathish for his wonderful spell of 16/4 from his 4 overs and myself(Thamizh) with some tidy bowling 9/2 from 4 overs.

We hoping to continue to do better and correct our small mistakes for the games to come.

Scoresheet:
Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:

S.No	Batsman Name	How Out	Runs	4's	6's
1	Paresh	Caught	7	0	1
2	Praveen	Caught	4	0	0
3	Swamy	Caught	3	0	0
4	Andrew	Bowled	2	0	0
5	Arun	Bowled	22	1	1
6	Ram	Bowled	21	1	1
7	Sriram	Caught	9	0	1
8	Sathish	Caught	2	0	0
9	Piyush	Not Out	2	0	0
10	Thamizh	Stumped	0	0	0
11	Harieash	Not Out	0	0	0

Toms River XI Bowling :

S.No	Bowlers Name	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wickets
1	Ketan	2	0	13	1
2	Teeku	4	1	9	3
3	Alpesh	4	0	21	2
4	Sunil	3	0	18	2
5	Vishal	2	0	10	1
6	Zuben	1	0	12	0

Toms River XI Batting Innings:

S.No	Batsman Name	How Out	Runs	4's	6's
1	Ali	Caught	1	0	0
2	Vishal	Bowled	1	0	0
3	Tejas	Caught	0	0	0
4	Alpesh	Bowled	1	0	0
5	Sunil	Caught	9	1	0
6	Ketan	Caught	4	0	0
7	Zubin	Caught	2	0	0
8	Rocky	Caught	10	1	0
9	Vijesh	Caught	12	1	0
10	Kumar	Run out	2	0	0
11	Teeku	Not Out	7	1	0

Plainsboro Panthers Bowling Innings:

S.No	Bowlers Name	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wickets
1	Thamizh	4	0	9	2
2	Sathish	4	1	16	4
3	Arun	4	0	16	2
4	Piyush	4	0	14	1