Efficient Northwest A trounce Portland to enter 30-30 Final

September 13, 2010 by OCL Webmaster

-- Shashank Shetti spearheads two 50+ runs partnerships with Gordon Lopes and Naveen Ramaswamy to help Northwest A easily achieve a moderate run target --

Northwest A won by  8 wickets with 28 balls to spare (Man of the Match: Shashank Shetti)

 Portland: 170/7 [30]

 Batting Highlights: Sonu Lakhanpal 33 (39b,3x4),  Narinder Kumar 25* (25b,1x4), Imran Lanker 22 (33b),  Dinesh Arora 18 (20b,2x4)

 Bowling Highlights: Murli Masimukku 2/29 (6o)

 Fielding Highlight: Puneet Sharma 2c

 Northwest A (toss): 171/2 [25.2]

 Batting Highlights: Shashank Shetti 78* (71b,10x4), Naveen Ramaswamy 23* (26b,1x4), Gordon Lopes 22 (29b,1x4), Deepak Kumar 21 (20b,1x4)

 Bowling Highlights: Janardhan Rao 1/14 (2o)

 Northwest A vs Portland

 Match # 29-10

 Played at John Deere Field, Gresham, OR

 On Saturday, September 11^th, 2010

 Match Statistics

 Northwest A advance to 30-30 FINAL

 Wides Differential: Portland -22

 50+ runs Partnerships:

 a) Portland  – 5th  Wkt, 60 runs in 59 balls, Sonu & Imran, 58/4 [12.3] to 118/5 [22.2]

 b) Northwest A – 1st Wkt, 63 runs in 59 balls, Shashank & Gordon,  0/0 [0.0] to 63/1 [9.5]

 c) Northwest A – unbeaten, 3^rd Wicket, 74 runs in 57 balls, Shashank & Naveen 97/2 [15.5] to 171/2 [25.2]

 Batting Collapses: None

 Cardiac Factor: 28  – BORING  [0 to 5 - THRILLING, 6 to 10 - PALPITATING, 11 TO 20 - EXCITING, 21 and above - BORING]

 Crucial Points in the Match:

 (i)  Portland scoring 35 runs in first 5 overs  but then slowing down taking 10 overs to score the next 35 runs; Early morning dew may have been a factor in this contrasting run flow for Portland’s innings.

 (ii)  Portland making 5 bowling changes in the first 10 overs, despite Northwest’s run rate being below a run a ball in that period.

 (iii) Shashank Shetti batting throughout Northwest A’s innings with a chanceless knock containing a mixture of well timed attacking and immaculatively defensive strokes..

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