Story BCC 2010 : Match 1 : African Catfish VS Indian Lionifish | Who Won ?

[Rohit Doshi]

Welcome to the Inaugural Season Of Beach Cricket Championship organized by the International Cricket Council. The Inaugural Championship will have 6 teams participating. The 6 teams will be facing against each other once & then top two meet in the Finals.

This season of BCC will be held in Down Under that is Australia. 3 Beaches will be holding the matches. Jan Juc Beach in Victoria, Ellis Beach Queensland & Cable Beach.

The tournament is scheduled to begin in next week with players having no international commitment.

Teams

Virender Sehwag (C)
Sachin Tendulkar
Zaheer Khan
Dinesh Kartick (WK)
Abhimanyu Mithun
Chetashwar Pujara
Robin Utthapa​

Angello Matthews (C)
Chamera Silva
Upul Tharanga (WK)
Lashith Malinga
Ajanta Mendis
Suraj Randiv
Chamera Kapugedra​

David Warner
Brett Lee
Cameron White
Ricky Ponting (C)(WK)
Nathan Bracken
Shane Watson
Nathan Hauritz​

Kevin Pieterson
Andrew Strauss (C)
Ian Bell
Steve Finn
Matt Prior (WK)
Liam Plunkett
Alaister Cook​

Brain Lara(C)
Chris Gayle
Darren Bravo
Ravi Rampaul
Andre Fletcher (WK)
Jerome Taylor
Nikita Miller​

Herschell Gibbs
Mark Boucher (C)(WK)
Shaun Pollock
Makhaya Ntini
Hashim Amla
Wayne Parnell
Morne Morkel​

Fixtures
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#    Home    Away    Location
[URL="http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/1929864-post5.html"]1    Indian LION FISHION    South African CATFISH    Cable Beach[/URL]
2    Srilankans ALLIGATOR VS    West-indian JELLYFISH @    Ellis Beach
3    Australian SHARK VS English OCTOPUS @ Jan Juc Beach

Round 2

#    Home    Away    Location
1    West-indian JELLYFISH    Indian LION FISHION    Jan Juc Beach
2    South African CATFISH    English OCTOPUS    Ellis Beach
3    Srilankans ALLIGATOR    Australian SHARK    Cable Beach

Round 3

#    Home    Away    Location
1    Indian LION FISHION    English OCTOPUS    Ellis Beach
2    West-indian JELLYFISH    Australian SHARK    Cable Beach
3    South African CATFISH    Srilankans ALLIGATOR    Jan Juc Beach

Round 4

#    Home    Away    Location
1    Australian SHARK    Indian LION FISHION    Ellis Beach
2    English OCTOPUS    Srilankans ALLIGATOR    Cable Beach
3    West-indian JELLYFISH    South African CATFISH    Jan Juc Beach

Round 5

#    Home    Away    Location
1    Indian LION FISHION    Srilankans ALLIGATOR    Jan Juc Beach
2    Australian SHARK    South African CATFISH    Ellis Beach
3    English OCTOPUS    West-indian JELLYFISH    Cable Beach

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Your bro had a fantastic beach cricket story. best of luck for this one

 

[Meet]

Best of Luck mate!

 

[Varun]

Mihir's beach cricket was awesome. Best of luck for this one!

 

[Rohit Doshi]

VS

Match 1 @ Cable Beach
South African Catfish VS Indian Lionifish

VS

Weather: Sunny, Date: 15 April, Temperature: 14C (57F)
Attendance: 1042

Toss : Hashim Amla Win's The Toss & Elects To Bat First.

Lineups

South African Catfish : 1.Hashim Amla 2. Mark Boucher (WK) 3. Shaun Pollock 4. Wayne Parnell 5. Makhaya Ntini

Indian Lionifish : 1. Sachin Tendulkar 2. Dinesh Kartick 3. Virender Sehwag 4. Abhimanyu Mithun 5. Zaheer Khan

South African Batting Innings

Hashim Amla b Mithun 124 (42)
MV Boucher b Zaheer 30 (13)
Shaun Pollock c Mithun b Sehwag 24 (9)
Wayne Parnel lbw b Mithun 2 (3)
M Ntini b Mithun 1 (2)

Total (For 5 Wickets, 69 Balls) 181
Strike Rate: 262

Indian Bowling

Zaheer Khan 1/89 off 32 balls
Abhimanyu Mithun 3/71 off 29 balls
V Sehwag 1/21 off 8 balls

Protean Captain Hashim Amla, Kicked Off this tournament in a great style by scoring a century in the first match of this tournament. South Africa team face the strongest team of the tournament with the likes of Sachin,Sehwag,Zaheer in the playing squad. Every one new to this type of free form of cricket was unaware of the consequences and hence it was really a try match for all. Sachin said before the match that all players needed atleast one practice match before the main tournament begins and was unhappy to get none. 80 ball is what they had in their hands and Indian bowling with the likes of Zaheer & Mithun could not get Amla out earlier. Amla scored a 42 ball 124 that set the platform. Now the innings had to be steered on with still 38 balls remaining. Mark Boucher did play a 13 ball 30 run inning but proteans collapsed to mere 181 after that awesome start by Amla. Abhimanyu Mithun took 3 wickets for 71 runs in 29 balls. Sehwag took 1 wicket for 21 & Zak took 1/89 in 32 balls.

Indian Lionifish now needed 182 in 80 balls.

Indian Lionifish Batting Innings

SR Tendulkar st Boucher b Parnell 19 (13)
Dinesh Kartick c Boucher b Parnell 41 (16)
V Sehwag b Pollock 55 (28)
Abhimanyu Mithun b Pollock 0 (1)
Zaheer Khan b Pollock 14 (15)

Total (For 5 Wickets, 73 Balls) 129
Strike Rate: 176

South African Catfish Bowling

M Ntini 0/67 off 32 balls
Wayne Parnel 2/56 off 32 balls
Shaun Pollock 3/6 off 9 balls

Brilliant is what we witnessed today. Indian innings started pretty OK with Tendulkar hitting 13 ball 19 which is although slow as a start in this format. Then came the keeper, Dinesh Kartick who hit brilliant 16 ball 41 to get back the team on track with the run rate. But it was Sehwag who continued the proceeding for India after Dinesh departed. He as usual scored 28 ball 55 but then came the Pollock storm who took 3 wickets from his 9 deliveries bowled. First he got rid of Sehwag by cleaning his stumps up & then dismissing the bowlers cheaply. Zak showed some resistance but that was not enough & the strongest team in the tournament was dismissed for 129 in 73 balls.

South Africa win by 52 runs & Man Of The Match was awarded to Hashim Amla & South Africa had their first point on board.

Team|Played|Won|Lost|Tied|Points
South African Catfish|1|1|0|0|2
Indian Lionifish|1|0|1|0|0
Australian Sharks|0|0|0|0|0
West Indian Jellyfish|0|0|0|0|0
England Octopus|0|0|0|0|0
Srilankan Alligator|0|0|0|0|0

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Nice simple presentation, Tendulkar will play a big innings in next match for sure

 

[Gorro_124]

Good to see a Beach Cricket story again!