Sunday, December 17, 2006

BHUTAN SEND BRUNEI PACKING


Bhutan easily closed the game against Brunei winning by 9 wickets in a match completely dominated by the sheer bowling genius of Lakshmi Prasad Kami.

After their eight wicket collapse against Oman, Bhutan were determined to win today against Brunei. They started well.

Akhshar Mody fell to the very first delivery of the game, leg before to a ball which, pitching on middle and climbing, may actually have been going over the stumps.

The Bhutanese pace-men have been bowling consistently well throughout this tournament, showing blistering pace coupled with good line and length. They took another wicket in the fourth over when Mahbub Shavez (4) was caught napping in front of the wicket when the ball hit his pads. The Brunei batsman were finding it hard just to connect bat onto ball.

With the batsmen playing away from the body and turning sideways awkwardly to avoid the ball hitting them, they were demonstrably in fear of the pace-bowlers, unfortunately. This was projected by the runs scored in the early overs. None of them had come from any positive stroke. Most were either byes or extras with the batsmen only managing a few odd singles.

An overly often incident


Kami – The destroyer
It was through this cautious kind of play that Brunei lost their third. Rahat Mahbub (2) left a massive gap between bat and pad as the ball crashed through his unprotected wickets. Brunei, were once again, doing all they could to bat the entire 40 overs and the run rate at the end of the fifteenth over was a low 1.93. In such a situation there's only so long a batsman can hang on playing safe and when Rajeev Jayakumar (4) went on the offensive for a drive, he had his stumps uprooted.
Kami delivered both speed and accuracy

With the pace-men finishing their eight overs on the trot, spinners Jigme Singye (1-2) and Lakshmi Kami (5-0) were brought in to bowl. Singye dismissed Abhishek Gurung (0) in his very first over. Singye's high flight of the ball was enough to tempt the new batsman as he was stranded out of his crease to be stumped. Even flinging his bat to get back safe wasn't enough to save him from getting out. Kami, got in the action with five wickets in his first two overs to knock off the Brunei batsmen as they finished off at 33 after 21.2 overs.

The game turned out to be a no-contest as Bhutan won the game in four overs. They now face their biggest test when they play Qatar, who is without doubt, the strongest side of this group, tomorrow at the Prem Tinsulanonda ground.

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Kami

Five wickets and no runs conceded was reason enough for Lakshmi Prasad Kami to collect his first Man of the Match award of this tournament.

Bhutan v Brunei, Chiang Mai Gymkhana Ground
Brunei won the toss and chose to bat
BHUTAN WON BY 9 WICKETS
Brunei: 33 off 21.2 overs (L. Kami 5-0)
Bhutan: 34 – 1 after 4 overs

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Kami (Bhutan)


ACC Under-15 Challenge Cup 2006
Match Report

Match: Brunei Vs. Bhutan
Played At: Chiengmai Gymkhana Club
Date: 17 December 2006
Captains: Rajeev Jayakumar (Brunei), Jigme Singye (Bhutan)
Toss won by: Brunei
Elected to: Field

Umpires: Mr. Mukund Mehta, Mr. A.K. Rana
Scorers: Puteh Horsalasiah

Result: Bhutan won by 9 wickets

Man of the Match: Lakshmi Prasad Gajmer

INNINGS OF: Brunei (SIDE BATTING FIRST)

No. Batsman How Out Bowler Runs Balls 4s 6s
1
Akshar Mody
lbw THINLEY JAMTSHO 0 1 - -
2
Rahat Mahbub
bowled THINLEY JAMTSHO 2 22 - -
3
Muhamad Shavez Cheema
lbw DILIP SUBBA 4 14 - -
4
Harry Pygos
ct SANJEEVAN RAJ GURUNG LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER 6 51 - -
5
Rajeev Jayakumar
bowled DILIP SUBBA 4 12 - -
6
Abhishek Kirti Gurung
st.wk. KENCHO NORBU JIGME SINGYE 0 5 - -
7
John Kottayil Thomas
not out
0 12 - -
8
Ramesh Namasivayam
bowled LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER 0 5 - -
9
Ronish Darnal BK
lbw LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER 0 4 - -
10
Akmal Aji
bowled LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER 0 1 - -
11
Krutik Mody
bowled LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER 0 1 - -
Extras: NB - 0 / Wides- 11 / Byes - 4 / L.Byes - 2 / Penalties - 17


Provisional Score for Innings ....
33


Penaliteis Awarded in Other Innings ....
-


Final Score for 10 Wkts
33 128 - -

Fall of Wickets 1/0 2/10 3/16 4/31 5/33 6/33 7/33 8/33 9/33 10/33
Batsman No. 1 3 2 5 6 4 8 9 10 11
Overs 0.1 3.5 8.6 15.2 16.6 17.3 19.2 19.6 21.1 21.2

BOWLING ANALYSIS

No. Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides N.B.
1
THINLEY JAMTSHO
8 2 9 2 2 -
2
DILIP SUBBA
8 0 16 2 7 -
3
JIGME SINGYE
3 2 2 1 1 -
4
LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER
2.2 2 0 5 0 -
5






6






7






8






INNINGS STARTED AT: 10.00 AM, CLOSED AT: 11.46 PM


INNINGS OF: Bhutan (SIDE BATTING SECOND)

No. Batsman How Out Bowler Runs Balls 4s 6s
1
THINLEY JAMTSHO
not out
21 13 3 -
2
SANJEEVAN RAJ GURUNG
bowled John Kottayil Thomas 4 5 1 -
3
JIGME SINGYE
not out
5 7 - -
4
KENCHO NORBU
dnb
- - - -
5
LAKSHMI PRASAD GAJMER
dnb
- - - -
6
KINLEY WANGCHUK
dnb
- - - -
7
Dechen wangchuk
dnb
- - - -
8
Nar Bahadur Burathoki Mongar
dnb
- - - -
9
DILIP SUBBA
dnb
- - - -
10
PEMA THINLEY
dnb
- - - -
11
ANAND CHHETRI
dnb
- - - -
Extras: NB - 1 / Wides- 3 / Byes - 0 / L.Byes - 0 / Penalties - 4


Provisional Score for Innings ....
34


Penaliteis Awarded in Other Innings ....
-


Final Score for 1 Wkts
34 25 4 0

Fall of Wickets 1/15 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 9/ 10/
Batsman No. 2








Overs 1.5








Bowling Analysis

No. Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides N.B.
1
Rajeev Jayakumar
2 0 14 0 1 1
2
John Kottayil Thomas
2 0 15 1 2 0
3






4






5






6






7






8






INNINGS STARTED AT: 12.00 PM, CLOSED AT: 12/21 PM


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Akshar Mody said...

hi,
i am the akshar mentioned in the article above. the ball had hit me on the thigh pad in this game (on the front foot), well above the norm for height. But instead of complaining about that, could you just fix my name from "Akhshar Mody" to "Akshar Mody"? Thanks.