ISCI defends JCA cricket championship
ISCI defends JCA cricket championship
ISCI Cricket Club successfully defended their JCA championship on
Sunday with a solid performance against Indorama CC at Cibubur in
East Jakarta.
Indorama won the toss and predictably chose to bat first,
putting ISCI in the unfamiliar position of having to chase the
runs to achieve victory.
After a nervy start by the ISCI fielding team the bowlers
slowly exerted their dominance in the game, bowling Indorama out
for only 130 in the penultimate over. Dean Hewitt took 3-34, John
Stevenson (2-24) again putting in a tidy performance with the
ball, and Andy Foulds taking three catches behind the stumps.
Indorama's batsmen were never able to put the ISCI bowlers
under any real pressure, and found it hard to go on the
offensive. Shirish Rangole was the best of the bunch scoring a
good 32.
In reply, ISCI got off to a bad start and soon found
themselves at 13-2, before the experienced John Stevenson (35)
and Wilfred Schultz (16) put in 50 runs for the third wicket,
building the foundation for the successful run chase.
Indorama bowled well and always made it hard for the ISCI
batsman, maintaining a close attacking field and trying to force
the ISCI batsman to take risks and go for runs over the top, as a
result ISCI steadily fell behind the required run rate but always
had wickets in hand, and eventually made it home with over four
overs to spare,
Andy Foulds scored 26 not out off 17 balls, and hit three
four's in the 31st over which finally took the game out of
Indorama's grasp, and left Mohazzam Shah in his last-ever game
for ISCI to hit the winning run.
In the plate final played last weekend, India XI beat Senayan
CC by five wickets. India XI won the toss and put Senayan CC to
bat, who were only able to field a team of eight players for the
plate final. Having started off well Senayan CC ended up with a
score of 171 for seven in 32.2 overs.
India XI got off to a shaky start and were at one stage 23 for
two, but some steady innings by the middle order batsman and the
open field made it easy for India XI to reach 172 in 32 overs.
The winning teams will be presented with the JCA trophy by the
former Australian cricketer Dean Jones at the annual awards
ceremony at the Le Meriden Hotel in Jakarta on May 15th.
Interested cricket enthusiasts who wish to attend the awards
ceremony and annual dinner can contact JCA at prakash@cbn.net.id.