Welcome to My Match Report – 28.06.2014 Friends!
Today we are going to witness the TNCA Inter Districts for Age group under 25 match played between Namakkal DCA and Pudukkottai DCA on 28.06.2014 in the Periyar University ‘B’ Ground, Salem
The match was delayed due to over night rain and the overs were reduced to 45 overs/side. Pudukkottai DCA won the toss and chose to field first.
Batsman is preparing to take strike
Frankly saying, it did not go well for the Pudukkottai DCA. Namakkal looked solid with their opening pair and even after a loss of 1 wicket they managed to score runs.
We have got 3 videos of Prabakaran, Bowler, Pudukkottai DCA
Video 1 (Bowler: Prabakaran, Pudukkottai DCA)
Video 2 (Bowler: Prabakaran, Pudukkottai DCA)
Video 3 (Bowler: Prabakaran, Pudukkottai DCA)
Eventhough, Namakkal scored consistently Sivakumar bowled well and claimed 5 Wickets. The following are the videos of Bowling of Sivakumar, Pudukkottai DCA
Video 1 (Bowler: Sivakumar, Pudukkottai DCA)
Video 2 (Bowler: Sivakumar, Pudukkottai DCA)
Namakkal scored 225/9 in the allotted 45 overs with A. Gandhi scoring 86 and G. Vinoth Kumar remained unbeaten with 32. S. Sivakumar picked 5 wickets for 32 runs.
Pudukkottai DCA batsman taking guard
Namakkal bowlers maintained a decent line and length to pressure the batsmen to play shots to score runs.The opening bowlers Karthick and Parthiban maintained a decent line in their first spell.
The bowling of Karthick, Namakkal DCA (Video 1)
Video 2 (Bowling of Karthick, Namakkal DCA)
The bowling videos of Parthiban, Namakkal DCA
Video 1
Video 2 (Bowler: Parthiban, Namakkal DCA)
Video 3 (Bowler: Parthiban, Namakkal DCA)
The bowling video of G. Vinoth Kumar who picked 4 wickets
Pudukkottai DCA could not score freely against the decent bowling unit of Karthick, Parthiban, Vinoth Kumar and Karthikeyan. Captain K. Arun alone lead the chase for Pudukkottai and managed to score half century. Pudukkottai scored 121 in 37.1 overs
Last but not least, as usual, I had umpired with my batchmate Mr. N. Gopinath, Coimbatore.
Thats all for the day
Let us meet in the next match report!