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Penn State Fall Cricket Tournament

Penn State

Cricket Tourney

Fall 2010

Welcome to the Penn State Cricket Club.

The Penn State Cricket Club (PSCC) is announcing the Fall Cricket tournament 2010. Please note the details here. We are planning to register teams for this tournament starting today.

Dates: October 1, 2, 3 2010

Venue: Orchard Fields and Flower Gardens (night games)

Number of players per team: 9 members playing plus substitutes

Maximum Number of Teams: 12 (We already have 3 so far)

Registration Fee: $ 100 per team

Deadline for team registration: September 10th, 2010

Deadline for tournament fee: September 17th, 2010

What to do?

Form your team of 9 players. Ask your captain to send an email to:

Akhil Kumar, President (kmr.akhil@gmail.com)

Ashwin Ramesh, Treasurer (ramesh.ashwin@gmail.com)

Aditya Raghunath, Vice-President (adityar87@gmail.com)

Shyam Sundar, Events Chair (sssssshyam@gmail.com)

Venkat Ravi, Secretary (vramanan1986@gmail.com)

Make sure your email contains the list of all the players in your team and a team name.

Add-ons:

Owing to the distance of the ground from campus, PSCC will provide transportation at an hourly basis to all the participants. Details about the transportation will be provided in the future.

History:

The cricket tournaments at PSU have been a regular event organized by the PSCC for the past 6 years and every time we have had a fun time at the fields. Last Spring 2010, all of us had an amazing time organizing and playing. Here is the link to some of the scores from Spring 2010 (http://pennstatecricket.wordpress.com/). Nittany Warriors were crowned the champions and they can now boast of their 3rd title in 4 attempts. There are other interesting teams who came very close to the title – Cup Thookers (the runners-up), Hyderabad Nawabs and Extreme (the semi-finalists).

And whats more? Its not just cricket during the tournament. There will be a lot of music, commentary and thamasha at the ground. We hope everyone of you can participate and make this a grander success than ever before.

Spread the word on… We need a new champion this time.

Cheers,

PSCC

Game today at Orchard Fields

Hi Folks,

Its been a while since we all played in Orchard Fields. Would you guys be interested in playing today evening? If we have enough players, we can split into two teams and play a 20-over game. Please forward this email to the new comers as well.

Date: Today
Time: Assemble in the ground at around 5 pm

We need to lay the boundaries before start…

Players participating:

1. Sridhar

2. Anand

3. Rahul

4. Jashwanth

5. Ganesh

6. Akhil Kumar

7. Ajay

8. Prince

9. Vijay

10. Jagadish Kotra

11. Siddhant

12. Chandrasekhar Mothali

13. Vishu Kandi

Updated: 1:57 pm, August 17, 2010.

Send an email to sridhar.rg@gmail.com or comment in this post if you can participate today. Will keep this list updated every hour. Hope to see many new guys today.

Cheers,

PSCC

Welcome to PSCC

We take this opportunity to welcome all the new incoming graduate and undergraduate students to the Penn State Cricket Club (PSCC). Amidst your tough time with exams, assignments, projects, research et. al. through the semester, we are committed to providing you all with an opportunity to enjoy your time at PSU.

The PSCC is planning Fall leagues and the most toughly contested Fall tournament in the coming weeks. We look forward to your participation. Recently, the PSCC conducted the Summer Cricket League 2010 through May – June 2010. The Super Kings emerged as the champions in this tournament. Please browse through this website for more information and scorecards.

This year, we are looking forward to your participation with the PSCC so that we can it a more memorable year ahead. Please contact Akhil or Ashwin if you are interested in contributing. If you have experience in playing with cricket ball leagues, let us know. We are looking forward to forming a full strength team for the next season in NYC and DC Metro leagues.

Once again, we welcome all the incoming students to the cricket club.

Cheers,

PSCC

Super Kings: Summer Cricket League (SCL) Champions

From Ashwin Ramesh (Treasurer, Penn State Cricket Club):
With the unavailability of many players in most teams and a few pulling out cause of injury/internships/personal needs, the league HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY CALLED OFF.

We decided  to call upon SUPER KINGS as the winners of the tournament based on the ranking/pointing system. There may be arguments based on this, but we have decided upon this as a FINAL call without dwelling on this any further.

We (on behalf of PSCC and all others lending in their support/advice without which this could not have been possibly carried this far) would like to thank everyone for conducting this league. There have been ups and downs throughout the tournament, but we have pulled up a lot of players and interest through this league.

As a short term plan for the coming weeks in summer, we intend to have CRICKET BALL practice sessions/matches every Wednesday at Orchard Fields possibly from next week. With everyone’s email ID in store, we will be sending out mails notifying about time to meet etc. If we have enough players to play a match with two teams, that will be done deciding teams then and there, else just practice.

A request to the captains or stand in captains to forward the same information to their respective team members.

Thank You
Ashwin

Median and Scorecards Updated

Hi Folks,

Solemn requests from “Reshma” has really driven me to update the statistics with utmost urgency. I have also updated the scorecard for Game 13: Super Kings vs. Lions. I have added a new statistical parameter just to bring out the performances of the bowlers in terms of those Extra runs (Wides, No-balls). Please note that a leg-bye or a bye will not count as an extra run against the bowler. The first statistic is the “Balls per Extra” and the next is the “Runs per Extra”.

Subash has the most number of Balls / Extra (24.00) which means he bowls only one extra every 4 overs (he has bowled only 4 overs so far!). So you guys enjoy the weekend and I am looking forward to another close finish tomorrow between the Super Kings and the Warriors.

Laying a new mat on the wicket – Need help!!

Hi folks,

Date: 18th June, 2010 (Friday)

Time: 4 pm

We are planning to lay a new mat on the wicket at orchard field. We would greatly appreciate if many of you guys can come there and help us out. So far, we only have 2 guys (Sridhar and Akhil). It would be great if 8 more of you helped them. Looking forward to your call (Akhil: 952 956 2577).

The plan is to get the mat and reach the ground at around 4 pm.

Thanks,

PSCC

Game 13: Lions vs. Super Kings

Date: 16th June 2010

Time: 5:00 pm

Field Set Up: Lions

Field Clean Up: Super Kings

Team:

Lions: Chaithanya Kamath (captain), Paras Choudhary (floater 1), Siddharth Advani, Vishu Kandi, Harshith Patel, Anjan Chakrabarthy, Akhil Kumar, Unmukth Bhatnagar, Udit Narayanan, Rahul Ganesh, Adarsh Rajasekhar

Super Kings: Venkat Ravi (captain), Rohan Shirwaiker, Phani Kiran, Ghanim Ullah, Chandrasekar Tiwari, Gautham Ganesh (floater 1), Chandrasekhar Mothali (floater 2), Aseem Singh, Sridhar Ranganathan (wicket keeper – floater 3 – no batting/bowling)

There is a thunderstorm predicted after 8 pm today. We MUST START THE GAME at 5 pm. Please be on the field at 4:30 pm or so.

Warriors survive in a thriller!

Game 12: Warriors vs. Lions

The Summer Cricket League (SCL) had its closest game of the season so far. With 16 runs needed off the last over, the drama on the field was sensational. A single was scored off the first ball. Next ball, Udit swung his bat and the ball was traveling to the deep mid-wicket fieldsman. Kalpesh took a hard-fought running catch. But in the end, as things transpired, a no-ball was called by the on-field umpires. The reason for the no-ball was that there were only 3 fielders inside the circle. Lions got a huge reprieve. But it was shortlived as in the next ball, Siddharth Advani who almost played through the twenty overs was out caught by a cool-as-a-cucumber catch by GGP at long on boundary. 13 needed off 4 balls and Udit got one in the gap between deep midwicket and square leg for a two. Next ball, Udit cleared his front leg and pulled it away to the midwicket boundary for a sensational sixer.

5 needed off 2 balls. Chaithanya and Udit had a long discussion in the pitch. Sridhar and Chandu had a long discussion. Things were getting really intense. Chandu bowled a yorker. Udit could get nothing out of it but a single.

4 runs to get. 1 ball remaining. Chaithanya, the new man in, was on strike. The Lions were optimistic about the fresh legs. The Warriors were thinking of how much pressure he was under. Another long discussion. Pressure was building up. Chandu ran in and as cool as he is, he bowled a perfect yorker on off stump. BOWLED HIM!!!

The Warriors all ran in to Chandu and had a huge huddle. It was an unbelievable game. The closest game so far in the Summer Cricket League. I shall upload the scores and statistics for this game on Monday. Apologies for the screw up with the scoring software. We lost the records of about 5 overs today. We must find an alternate source of electricity on the ground. If you guys can give any suggestions or help, please let me know. While, I am enjoying a perfect weekend – a win against the Super Kings yesterday, a win against the Lions today, a great game of 45-over cricket tomorrow and the big one, the AR Rahman concert the same evening – you guys take care. Have fun.

Scorecard:

Lions won the toss and elected to bowl first.

Warriors 148 for 5 in 20 overs – Charith 63* (66), Chandu 39 (31) won against Lions 145 for 8 in 20 overs – Siddharth Advani 75, Srinidhi Kestur 39

I will upload the detailed scorecard on Monday. Whoever has the original scorecard, send it to me through email. I will have to work on the statistics. Have a great weekend.

Game 11: Warriors vs. Super Kings

Teams:

Warriors:

Sridhar Ranganathan (Captain), Paras Choudhary, Sushant Kumar, Ashwin Ramesh, Gautham Ganesh Prasad, Anand Raja, Chandrasekhar Mothali, Kalpesh Munot, Ganesh Iyer, Toby, Ujjawal Gandhi

Super Kings:

Venkat Ravi (captain), Bharath Ramaswamy, Akhil Kumar (floater), Sami Ullah, Ghanim Ullah, Aseem Singh, Phani Kiran, Jashwanth Mentey, Chandrasekhar Tiwari

Umpires: TBA

Scorer: TBA

Field Set up: Super Kings

Field Clean up: Warriors

Time: 5 pm

Lets avoid the delayed start from now on. Please be present in the field at 4:30 pm.