rcc cricket

Rcc vs New Britain, It was total domination by the Riverside Tigers, on a beautiful spring day with great sunshine and a brisk wind blowing a good 5 knot, the Rcc Green and Yellow Sweater kept the bodies warm and ready to play ball.

Kaptain Tony Kallicharan made all the moves as Rcc brought home the first Ct League Victory for the 2000 season. Rcc Won the toss and send in the opposition to face the fire of the Riverside bowling machines, Ashok, JC, Chokshi, Rajie and Tajie. New Britain made a good start but the first wicket was claimed by Ashok da Avenja, starting the season just where he left off in 1999. After the loss of this first wicket NBCC stabilized the innings for a good period but then it all went down hill, as Chokshi picked up 2 scalps followed by Tajie 1 scalp JC 1 scalp and Rajie 1 scalp, there was a great run out orcastrated by the lion heart Ashok da Avenja throwing one in from the boundy over the wicket as Tony wiped the bails off> New Britain was pretty much cooked as they racked up only 169 runs. This was not a bad score as the pitch played very well and of course when the ball hit the trees it was an automatic 2 runs.

During the Nbcc innings, Rcc cheerleader and constant chatter box behind the stumps and the most dangerous wicket kepper, Panther Parehk was snatching up everything on the stumps. Vijay had a great time as he kept the Nbcc batsman on alert at all times.and his Rcc mates. Panther Parehk was very athletic and aggressive and noting got by, this man was possessed, at one time the crowd thought they were seeing Air Jordon, as Vijay leaped a good 4 feet off the ground and snatch an incoming ball with one hand bringing it back over the stumps, almost running the batsman out of the ground.... great job Panther Parehk. keep it up baby!!

Rcc batting... openers Mohamad JudgeMoka Khan and Vija Phanter Parehk played some glorious shots and got riverside off to a flying start. Moka played easy for the first few overs and then started to entertain the massive crowd with his infamous strokes, belting anything lose to the boundary avoiding the trees. Vijay played a good supporting role as he kep the runs flowing. but soon Vijay had lost the battle and placed one in James big hands. Vijay was back under the trees. at this time the score was 32, Then Shannon arrived, who played with his usual grace and elegance as the score kept on moving, Moka was getting on the bowling but his day came to and end when he played on to the stumps with a leading bottom edge and his fun feast ended on 23 .

Rcc at this point was 55 for 2 and.. The Captain came in and stamps his intentions from ball one letting Nbcc be on the alert, Tony open his innings with an aggressive 2, this lay the foundation for things to come. Shannon played on but was un lucky as he got out after doing all the hard work, but the captain kept the flow going with batsman # 5 Ashok Da Avenja who by the way open his account with an authoritative shot straight to the boundary ropes. this was looking good, Well Ashok kept the run scoring up on one end and the Captain kept it up on the other end with some brilliant power shots and classical drives, but then Tony was far from satisfied with just going at this pace as he moved the game into express mode hitting four massive 6's and three 4's bringing his total contribution to a whopping 74 not out ... great job Kaptain Kalli. in the mean time Ashok was given lbw scoring a valuable 28 and JC played a cameo innings supporting Tony with 7 not out as Riverside totally dominate and won this first game of the 2000 ct league... Doing it in only in 29 overs for the loss of 4 wicket. Great job Riverside Tigers... New Haven you are next