Guys, I am back from Hibernation.
Yesterday Captain Sandy and I attended the annual fixture meeting of the KNCB Company League.
Please more info shall follow asap. The following dates:
May: 11, 18, 28
June: 2, 9, 16, 29
July: 6, 16
Aug: 4, 11, 25
Some more friendlies and a tournament migt be a possibility.
Scorers with Pitchpad knowledge required for statistics on the Internet.
More news coming soon..
Best regards,
Opa Paul
Thursday 2 April 2009
Thursday 14 August 2008
14th august 2008, Game cancelled.
Unfortunately today's game had been cancelled. We'll try to reschedule in the course of next week.
Next game 19th August 2008. Details to follow asap.
Next game 19th August 2008. Details to follow asap.
Friday 8 August 2008
SCC beats Fokker/KLM by 4 wickets
Unfortunately Fokker|KLM were only able to man their squad with 7 players. The summer holiday season takes its toll.
Just before the match it started to rain. Both captains agreed to shorten the match to 16 overs a side and to continue playing as long as possible and the players safety was guaranteed.
Fokker/KLM won the toss and elected to bat first. SCC bowlers Mukul, Agni, Agam, AK, Sanket and part time bowler Rathnakar did a good job to contain the Fokker\KLM side to a total of 56 runs in 16 over’s.
The continuous rain didn’t stop the game but made it very slow.
SCC started their inning very slow. Opening batsmen Jai and Ravi played sensibly and scored 7 & 3 runs respectively, with a partnership of 12 runs on the board. SCC lost some quick wickets, Rathnakar out for a duck, Senthil played a couple of good shots but got caught out at square wicket, Agam contrary to normal practise was bowled quite soon, but his overall contribution to the team was excellent. Agni as usual was the in form batsman for SCC. He played some good cricketing shots and scored 14 runs.
Sulabh who had come in on number 4, played a sensible unbeaten inning. He played the anchor role for the SCC innings and scored 8 runs with AK at the end. The shorthanded Fokker\KLM opponents bowled and fielded very well and gave SCC a real run for their money. In the end SCC managed to reach the required target of 57 runs.
The joy of SCC's first ever two consecutive wins, was a little overshadowed by the fact that the Fokker\KLM team was severely handicapped by being so shorthanded.
We are grateful to HBS to accommodate us at such short notice. Specially the Secretary of the Cricket Board, Mz. Marieke Hommels, who kindly hosted the third innings. All were pleasantly surprised by the excellent quality of the catering which was performed by Kashmir from the Javastraat. The third innings too was played in the spirit of the game and an extremely pleasant affair. It is good to have an "own" home to play our matches in future.
Marius, Julian and David send their compiments and congratulations from their holiday address.
Opa Paul is there too, very busy as usual. Don't forget the training session on the 9th!
Catches augustus 2008
Just before the match it started to rain. Both captains agreed to shorten the match to 16 overs a side and to continue playing as long as possible and the players safety was guaranteed.
Fokker/KLM won the toss and elected to bat first. SCC bowlers Mukul, Agni, Agam, AK, Sanket and part time bowler Rathnakar did a good job to contain the Fokker\KLM side to a total of 56 runs in 16 over’s.
The continuous rain didn’t stop the game but made it very slow.
SCC started their inning very slow. Opening batsmen Jai and Ravi played sensibly and scored 7 & 3 runs respectively, with a partnership of 12 runs on the board. SCC lost some quick wickets, Rathnakar out for a duck, Senthil played a couple of good shots but got caught out at square wicket, Agam contrary to normal practise was bowled quite soon, but his overall contribution to the team was excellent. Agni as usual was the in form batsman for SCC. He played some good cricketing shots and scored 14 runs.
Sulabh who had come in on number 4, played a sensible unbeaten inning. He played the anchor role for the SCC innings and scored 8 runs with AK at the end. The shorthanded Fokker\KLM opponents bowled and fielded very well and gave SCC a real run for their money. In the end SCC managed to reach the required target of 57 runs.
The joy of SCC's first ever two consecutive wins, was a little overshadowed by the fact that the Fokker\KLM team was severely handicapped by being so shorthanded.
We are grateful to HBS to accommodate us at such short notice. Specially the Secretary of the Cricket Board, Mz. Marieke Hommels, who kindly hosted the third innings. All were pleasantly surprised by the excellent quality of the catering which was performed by Kashmir from the Javastraat. The third innings too was played in the spirit of the game and an extremely pleasant affair. It is good to have an "own" home to play our matches in future.
Marius, Julian and David send their compiments and congratulations from their holiday address.
Opa Paul is there too, very busy as usual. Don't forget the training session on the 9th!
Catches augustus 2008
Friday 1 August 2008
Important dates, august 2008
The good news is that in future SCC shall host it's home games at HBS!
5th August, 18:00, HBS ground against Fokker\KLM combination
14th August, 18:00, HBS ground against Nc3A
19th August, 18:00, VCC ground against EPO
9th August, 15:00, Quick ground TRAINING SESSION.
Please inform Vice Captain Sanket Thorat if you are unable to attend.
5th August, 18:00, HBS ground against Fokker\KLM combination
14th August, 18:00, HBS ground against Nc3A
19th August, 18:00, VCC ground against EPO
9th August, 15:00, Quick ground TRAINING SESSION.
Please inform Vice Captain Sanket Thorat if you are unable to attend.
Tuesday 29 July 2008
SCC surprises with a win over Optiver
The summer holiday season has it downsides. Cricket captains, when not on holiday themselves, have great difficulty getting a team together. Optiver’s Rashid, had to miss 5 players today, while SCC’s Vice Captain, Sanket (who does most of the work when Captain Sandy is busy, and he always is;-), had to find adequate replacement for Mukul and Vinneeth and as always succeeded.
As you know we play our home matches at KZ. Where the canteen is staffed by volunteers. I was informed yesterday that the match of the 5th of August needs to be cancelled and that the match of the 14th needed to be postponed for a week. Unfortunately postponement is not an option due to the fact that we already have a match on the 19th and it is just impossible to synchronise approx 25 diaries at such short notice. I have thrown myself at the mercy of the secretary of HBS cricket, Marieke Hommels and am pretty confident that Marieke shall find a solution. I’ll keep you all posted.
Chances for the match to go ahead looked bleak yesterday morning; spells of rain and drizzle lasted well into the afternoon. Fortunately the weather improved substantially and at 18:30 hrs the small but lovely KZ ground was basking in an almost hot, evening sun. Hot enough for some our SCC supporters to seek the coolness of the shade and use an umbrella. This reminded me of what my grandmother used to say in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia where the locals had a saying “Only Dutchmen and idiots sit in the sun!”, the equivalent of “Only Englishmen and mad dogs bask themselves in the sun”, which is used by some good people in India, I heard yesterday;-)
A little later than planned, our opponents Optiver arrived with 8 players. Two volunteers were appointed to give them a hand fielding. The captains agreed to reduce the number of overs to 16 each.
Sandy won the toss and opted to bat. Our opening pair Agni and Sanket, both did extremely well and retired not out with 26 runs. Top score! Agam did not want to lag behind and also retired not out with the same score. With a score of 105 after 10 overs, the seasons top score was in sight. It was not to be!
Optiver stepped up their bowling and Narish, AK, Sandy and Marius managed to add another 28 to the total of 133.
It just was not to be for Optiver. Two of their 8 man team were injured during the match. Arshid, took a deflected ball right on the bridge of nose after dropping Sanket of an ambitious shot. He was bleeding profusely, but fortunately did not suffer major injury.
Agam and Sanket each bowled the maximum 4 overs and created havoc in the Optiver batting order. One particularly interesting moment was the time that Sanket had collected the ball on mid-off and made it to the wicket at the bowlers end, while the batsman was still half way the wicket. Sanket pretended to flick the bails off, but did not in order to prolong the match.
It must be said that there excellent fielding performances to be seen, specially by Narish, Jai, Ratnaker, Srinavas, Senthil and Thomas. The youngest ever sub, in the history of SCC. Mark, my words, you’ll hear from him in the future;-)
Optiver’s captain Rashid, graciously declared in time for the first part of the third 3rd innings to be able to take place within the time limited granted us by the lady that runs the KZ club house. We were lucky this evening to have had the club house staffed by a lovely young lady, who co-operated in every way, even offering her car to complete strangers to bring a hurt player to the hospital.
A few minutes after the scheduled time, the company left for the 2nd part of the third inning to Kashmir in the Javastraat, our favourite restaurant, where we are made welcome at all hours, even at the shortest of notices. The meal was as we by now expect from our hosts. Excellent. Also in the opinion of our Optiver guests. Rashid, a connoisseur of Indian food, says there is not a single restaurant in Amsterdam, that matches the quality Kashmir offers. Himself being Kashmiri, quite a complement!
Also present during the match was a lady who Sandy described to me as ‘the inimitable Esther’. Esther has taken a lot of snaps on and of the field, and has been so kind to send me a number of pictures. Please enjoy with the compliments of Esther Teuwens:
SCC - Optiver, 28th July 2008 photo's by Esther Teuwens.
The third innings lasted till after mid night. A bit on the late side for those who had to be on their toes at 8:00 am and still had to travel back to Amsterdam. On the whole, not bad at all, an evening like this. A nice game of cricket, no serious injuries, a pleasant dinner with tasty food and good company.
As you know we play our home matches at KZ. Where the canteen is staffed by volunteers. I was informed yesterday that the match of the 5th of August needs to be cancelled and that the match of the 14th needed to be postponed for a week. Unfortunately postponement is not an option due to the fact that we already have a match on the 19th and it is just impossible to synchronise approx 25 diaries at such short notice. I have thrown myself at the mercy of the secretary of HBS cricket, Marieke Hommels and am pretty confident that Marieke shall find a solution. I’ll keep you all posted.
Chances for the match to go ahead looked bleak yesterday morning; spells of rain and drizzle lasted well into the afternoon. Fortunately the weather improved substantially and at 18:30 hrs the small but lovely KZ ground was basking in an almost hot, evening sun. Hot enough for some our SCC supporters to seek the coolness of the shade and use an umbrella. This reminded me of what my grandmother used to say in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia where the locals had a saying “Only Dutchmen and idiots sit in the sun!”, the equivalent of “Only Englishmen and mad dogs bask themselves in the sun”, which is used by some good people in India, I heard yesterday;-)
A little later than planned, our opponents Optiver arrived with 8 players. Two volunteers were appointed to give them a hand fielding. The captains agreed to reduce the number of overs to 16 each.
Sandy won the toss and opted to bat. Our opening pair Agni and Sanket, both did extremely well and retired not out with 26 runs. Top score! Agam did not want to lag behind and also retired not out with the same score. With a score of 105 after 10 overs, the seasons top score was in sight. It was not to be!
Optiver stepped up their bowling and Narish, AK, Sandy and Marius managed to add another 28 to the total of 133.
It just was not to be for Optiver. Two of their 8 man team were injured during the match. Arshid, took a deflected ball right on the bridge of nose after dropping Sanket of an ambitious shot. He was bleeding profusely, but fortunately did not suffer major injury.
Agam and Sanket each bowled the maximum 4 overs and created havoc in the Optiver batting order. One particularly interesting moment was the time that Sanket had collected the ball on mid-off and made it to the wicket at the bowlers end, while the batsman was still half way the wicket. Sanket pretended to flick the bails off, but did not in order to prolong the match.
It must be said that there excellent fielding performances to be seen, specially by Narish, Jai, Ratnaker, Srinavas, Senthil and Thomas. The youngest ever sub, in the history of SCC. Mark, my words, you’ll hear from him in the future;-)
Optiver’s captain Rashid, graciously declared in time for the first part of the third 3rd innings to be able to take place within the time limited granted us by the lady that runs the KZ club house. We were lucky this evening to have had the club house staffed by a lovely young lady, who co-operated in every way, even offering her car to complete strangers to bring a hurt player to the hospital.
A few minutes after the scheduled time, the company left for the 2nd part of the third inning to Kashmir in the Javastraat, our favourite restaurant, where we are made welcome at all hours, even at the shortest of notices. The meal was as we by now expect from our hosts. Excellent. Also in the opinion of our Optiver guests. Rashid, a connoisseur of Indian food, says there is not a single restaurant in Amsterdam, that matches the quality Kashmir offers. Himself being Kashmiri, quite a complement!
Also present during the match was a lady who Sandy described to me as ‘the inimitable Esther’. Esther has taken a lot of snaps on and of the field, and has been so kind to send me a number of pictures. Please enjoy with the compliments of Esther Teuwens:
SCC - Optiver, 28th July 2008 photo's by Esther Teuwens.
The third innings lasted till after mid night. A bit on the late side for those who had to be on their toes at 8:00 am and still had to travel back to Amsterdam. On the whole, not bad at all, an evening like this. A nice game of cricket, no serious injuries, a pleasant dinner with tasty food and good company.
Wednesday 23 July 2008
26th July Practice Session
Next practice session: Saturday, 26th July 2008, 15:45 hrs. Quick Hague ground.
Next match: Monday 28th July 2008, SCC hosts Optiver at KZ.
Next match: Monday 28th July 2008, SCC hosts Optiver at KZ.
Tuesday 15 July 2008
ING easily overtakes SCC and wins by nine wickets!
It was a sunny and nice evening on the cosy 2nd ground at VRA.
ING won the toss and elected to field. Quite understandable, SCC is after all a new comer with a rather erratic record. Two wins and three losses. A win against the former champions!
Agni and Sanket, regular openers by now, faced an intelligent and precise attack. Sanket soon walked off, after having been caught behind. Agni continued cautiously to have to retire at 25 runs as the match format dictates. Well done Agni!
A pleasant surprise was that our captain Sandy also managed to achieve this commendable score. The training session, last Saturday, with Job van Bunge, certainly paid off, at least for Sandy;-).
The quality of the bowling was such that our batsmen were so busy defending their wickets, that they just could not set a defendable target. The need to score, caused a number of “unforced errors” and the whole side was dismissed for a mere 86 runs.
At no stage during ING’s batting innings, did the batsmen appear in trouble. The opening pair took real advantage of the defensive field setting and dispatched any loose ball on leg side to the boundary. They were not too lazy to run either, cleverly jabbing the ball for singles whenever they could.
Sanket bowled the number two batsman and was let down by the field when the number three, the hard hitting bowler, was dropped after just a few balls. The number 3, was not out at the end of the match with 24 runs on the board. The old saying “catches win matches”, would probably not have applied in this game, but at least three were not taken.
Anyway, the ING batsmen confidently reached the target, for a 9 wicket win with 6 overs to spare. The game was played in the best spirit of the game and we thank the ING team for the lesson, the pleasant reception and third innings. Knowing that the alarm clock starts ringing at 5:00 for some of us, we reluctantly had to leave the wonderful VRA setting.
It is not a disgrace to loose a match against a team of ING’s calibre. But it is clear that a number areas of our game need desperate improvement. We have the technical ability and skill, but the lack of practise is taking its toll. So please ALL be present at the next session on the 26th of July 2008, at the Quick Hague ground, 16:00 hrs SHARP.
The good news: the match against EPO has been rescheduled it shall be played on Tuesday, the 19th of August 2008, at VCC. Please inform VC, Sanket, if you are not available.
Before the game, a refreshment at the Bosbaan in Amsterdam.
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