Match Report
Memphis Cricket Club
at Nashville
June 19'2005

NCC traveled to Memphis to play a 30 overs match with Memphis Cricket Club. Memphis won the toss and batted first. They scored 218 runs in 30 overs with Majid scoring a good fifty. Captain Ejaz played a solid innings. Our opening bowlers (Alam & Naseer) bowled pretty good. In first 10 overs, Memphis scored 36, but after that we could not control the run rate. Fielding was also not up to the par.

NCC bowling figures: Naseer - 4 for 18 runs, Alam none for 30 runs, Sunny 1 for 17, Mayank 1 fro 37, Mayur 1 for 23. As usual we gave too many extras.

Alam and Dawood opened the inning for NCC, started pretty cautiously and built solid opening stand. We scored with an average of 7 in the first 10 overs. Piyush batted exceptionally well and kept one end in control, where on the other end; batsmen Mayur, Sunny & others made their solid contributions. We needed 49 in last 5 overs. Bimal did quick fireworks ahead of July 04th and make 18 in 11 balls, including a long six at mid on. He ran out of gas and was run out. After that; Piyush and Naseer made sure to get all the runs required with an over to spare.

NCC Batting figures: Piyush (75 not out), Sunny (23), Bimal (18), Mayur (16), Dawood (16), Alam (9).

Match Report
Jonesboro Cricket Club - Arkansas
at Nashville
June 25'2005

JCC won the toss and elected to bat. Their batsmen started pretty well, a couple of fours in the first over. Ashfaq and Alam bowled quite well. First wicket went to Alam, with a well judged catch at mid off. Ashfaq kept quite a good line and length. Khawar hit our bowlers all over the ground. But finally he fell to Dawood with a good catch by Mayur. Mayur had a great day on the field; he had two good catches and two wickets. Ashfaq 2 for 19 in 5 overs, Alam 1 for 20 in 3 overs, Dawood 3 for 53 in 4 overs, Mayank 1 for 21 in 3 overs, Naveed 1 for 8 in 1 over, Mayur 2 for 29 in 3 overs, Twenty extras. JCC ended up scoring 170 in a 25 overs match.

NCC started pretty slow, in 7 overs we were 22 for 1. Then just like the previous game, Piyush started picking up, with solid support from Lyder, Amer and Ashfaq he built quite a solid inning. We needed 50 in the last five overs. At that point Ashfaq had quick fireworks with two long sixes. Amer was scoring steady on the other end. In the last over we needed 12. Ashfaq hit another four, and a few two’s. On the last ball we were 169 for 5. Needed one to tie and two to win, Mother Nature decided to step in …. it started raining quite hard and the game had to be stopped due to heavy rain. JCC players felt it was quite dangerous to play on the ground as it is getting quite wet and they left.

NCC Batting: Piyush (68), Amer (30), Dawood (18), Ashfaq (17 not out), Lyder (15), Alam (6), Mayur (5)

Here is match result analysis from a cricket expert:

JCC scored 170 all out in their 25 overs (once a team is all out we still consider 25 overs as the total over bowled even though they did not use all 25) and when the match was abandonded due to weather NCC were 169/6 (scores tied) after 24.5 (one ball left). In such a situation JCC's RP (resource percentage) (R1) was 100% (i.e., they used all their resources), NCC's RP remaining (R2) with 1 ball left and six wickets lost was 100-98.5=1.5% (98.5 comes from the D/L table). With R2 less than R1, NCC's winning target was (170x98.5/100=167.45)+1, i.e., exactly 168 at 24.5 overs (rounded).