Monday, Sep 1st, USA (Seattle) wins Vancouver Six-a-Side consolation round.

Report by Fasial Awan, {U----S----A} 6 a side 5 Over games.

List of the Players are as follows: Mike Sachar(Capt.), Bunti Sondhi, Faisal Awan, Hassan Dawood, Rahul Reddy, and Sukhi Jhali. AJ Handa was the 7th Man but never made it due to an injury. lol.

Anywayz..... Our first game was against Pakistan.

Pakistan scored 77 batting first with loss of 3 wickets... USA was only able to score 64 with 2 wickets still in hand.

Now the Consolation Round:

USA Vs NewZealand: NZ scored 53/4 ... Bunti and Sukhi scored all the runs in 4.3 overs. NO wickets down!

Next game, USA Vs South Africa
South Africa Scored 40 runs with loss of 3 wickets.... Faisal and Hasan finished the game in 4.1 overs. Once again USA didn't loose any wickets.

FINAL: U.A.E Vs USA. U.A.E batting first scored only 49 USA tried another batting combination Mike(Capt.) and Rahul went out and finished the game in style in only 3.2 overs with captain scoring 40 of the 50 runs. Once again NO Wickets down!!!!! Some great hitting by Mike in the Final..... Seattle bowlers bowled excellent in the consolation round restricting the teams to the lowest totals of the tournament. Click here for pictures...

Sunday Aug 24th, Seattle I won the toss and elected to bat scoring only 135 runs all out. Merolomas got the run in 25 overs. Only exciting thing was Zia's 5 wickets... almost a hat-trick in one over.

Sunday, Aug 17th, Seattle I let Richmond get out of hand and let them score 381 runs. Many dropped catches were the main cause. Seattle I tried to come back but were reduced to 177 all out.

Saturday, Jul 12th, Seattle I batted first at Sperling against Ismailis. After 50 overs it bagan to rain and the game was called off.

June 21st, Seattle I lost to Salim Akbar. Salim Akbar 252. Seattle I could score only 235.

June 8th, Seattle I won a close game from West Van at Hugo Ray. Seattle got 237. West Van 229 all out in the 48th over.

May 3rd, Seattle I played against Salim Akbar at Upper Brockton. Seattle won the toss and decided to field. Salim Akbar had a good start. At the end of 25 over they were only 95 for 2. After drinks thanks to Mansoor (6/30), bowled some wonderful bowling. Salim Akbar were all out for 181.
Seattle had a good start but lost both their openers at 25. From there on things got real ugly, Seattle started losing wickets on regular intervals. The only resistance were Hitesh Patel (25) and Zia Khan (23). Seattle were all out for 141.
Seattle Man of Match: Mansoor Bhatti.

April 27th, Seattle I began its season with a big bang. Seattle I beat West Van I by 75 runs. Seattle lost the coin and were put into bat by West Van in a very hard and difficult condition to bat. Both youngster, Rahul Reddy and Faisal Awan was looking comfortable against WV bowling. They played all kinds of cricket strokes with very discipline batting and took the score to 98 runs. First wicket of Rahul (36) fell and Faisal (48) followed soon. Naveed (65) and Mike (64), who came early in the batting order, proved captain's decision of sending them early. Both had 98 runs partnership for the 3rd wicket. Naveed used his experience and Mike his muscle to entertain the crowed until Mike lost his wicket. Hitesh made a useful 24. Seattle's final after 50 overs was 279/6. Anish Chatterjea 3/48.
Seattle after some hiccups in the beginning of their bowling, soon settled down with some very disciplined bowling by Mansoor (3/33) and Rahul (3/31). Satish Jha (41) and Hassan Rafique (57) played a good inning for West Van and took the score to a respectable total of 204 all out.
Man of the match was Rahul Reddy for his 38 runs and 3/31 in bowling.

Sunday, Aug 31st, Seattle II lost the toss on a hot Upper Brockton day and were put to field after the three hour drive on their last game of the season. Seattle bowled well and kept Richmond to a low total of 221 on a very fast dry grassy wicket. Sunny and Wasif each picking three wickets. Seattle opener John W. (30) and Sunny (28) gave a great start. Mansoor (65) and Navaal (40) had a great mid-order knock. The tail long but persistant, kept scoring the required 5 runs per over. Seattle lost the game when 3 run were required on the last ball with 218 on the board.

Sunday, Aug 17th, Scintillating batting by Farqan scoring an outstanding 135 and glorious knocks by Ranjan, 68 and Naval 50 helped Seattle score 341 for 8 in 45 overs; Seattle establishing a new club record for the highest recorded total in club history as well as the highest league score in 2003. Abbotsford skittled out for 177 in 29 overs with Sunny grabbing 4 wickets supported by 2 wickets each from Gulli and Abid. Two weeks in a row Seattle was faced with a must win situation and the team members responded to the challenge by completely dominating the opposition and scoring huge victories.

Seattle annihilates Fraser Valley by 10 wickets
Sunday, Aug 10th, Seattle and Fraser Valley went into this game knowing that this was the most important showdown of the year as the loser was virtually assured of slipping into Division 2 next year. Seattle lost the toss and in typical Brockton Point tradition, Fraser Valley decided to take strike first. Conditions were a bit muggy and helpful to the opening swing bowling attack of Gulli and Abid. Seattle produced one of the best fielding displays of the year by taking spectacular catches, specially from Fahad, a run out from the deep cover and very soon Gulli (3 wickets) and Abid ( 2 wickets) both bowling a tight line had reduced Fraser Valley to 65 for 6. There was a slight rear guard action in the end and Fraser Valley managed to score 134 all out with Aslam getting another 3 wickets to wrap up the tail. Seattle went into chase with openers Salim and Ranjan both in good form and much to Fraser Valley's dismay treated the spectators to a wonderful display of batting characterized by intelligent running between wickets and punching the ball thru the gaps all over Brockton point for boundaries. In the end a chanceless knock by Ranjan (63 n.o) and Salim (53 n.o) brought the game home in 26 overs only with an unbeaten partnership of 135 runs for the opening wicket....Seattle won by 10 wickets and finished the game in style at 5:30 PM!!!
A comprehensive victory for Seattle who will take on Abbotsford in their one and only home game of the year..a victory will ensure Seattle a place in division 1 for next year.

Sunday, Jul 20th, Seattle finally chase 202 and won the game vs Northshore. Shami scored a glorious 88 not out. Details pending...

Saturday, Jul 12th, Seattle II batted first and scored again below par merely 85 runs. Just after Seattle came out of the ground it began to pour. Burrard did their best to dry the soaking wicket during a short dry spell but it started to rain again and the umpires called the game off.

Saturday, June 28th, Seattle II played their second game with Pakcan. Seattle lost the toss and were put to field on a 84 degree hot day at Crescent Park. Seattle restricted Pakcan from hitting out of the park to a gettable total of 253. Seattle continued their batting collapse, favoured with some unfortunate umpiring calls, were all out 106.

Sunday June 22nd, Seattle II lost to Abbotsford. Seattle II lost the toss and were sent out to field on a wet day. The ball was unrecognizable after 5 overs. Abbotsford scored 136 all out in the 42nd over. Seattle as usual had a batting collapse, were 57 for 7 wickets. Late order batsmen made it to a respectable 102 all out in the 43 over.

Sunday June 8th, Seattle II had a great game with Fraser Valley. Seattle batted first after winning the toss on the beautiful day at Lower Brockton. Great batting from Ranjan 56, and Salim 48. Seattle scored 168. Fraser Valley started hitting boundaries right from the start. Phenomenal bowing from Gulli (5 wickets) and Abid (4 wickets) kept Fraser Valley to a meager total of 57 all out.Sunday 25th, Seattle II got winning points due to no show from Windies.

Sunday, May 4th, Seattle II had a game with Merolomas II at Upper Brockton. Seattle got to the ground to find standing water on the wicket. The game was declared rained out.

Saturday, April 26th, Seattle II had a miserable day against PakCan. Seattle II won the toss and elected to bat on a slow and wet wicket. Seattle scored only 32 of 27 overs - all out. PakCan finished the inning, hitting sixes, without pressure, in the 7th over

SCCA lost to King County in the Plate championship semi-final.

SCC-A beat Lake Washington and Indo-Pak in the Plate Tournament. SCC-A will now play King County on Saturday at Ron Regis. The winner will play Beaverton Cricket Club (Southern Division Winners) in the Northwest Plate tournament finals.

Saturday, May 3rd, LWCC-B won the toss and elected to field.
SCC-A 167/9 in 40 overs (Navaal 34, Donovan 25, Yatin 21)
LWCC-B 104 all out in 34.4 overs (Rahmin 37, Donovan 4/19, Charlie 3/11)
Man of the match - Donovan Junior

SCC B lost the Cascade Cup final to MSCC on Saturday at Marymoor. Put to bat, SCC got off to a fair start through positive batting by Faizal and Mansoor. The middle order played some poor shots which saw them struggle at 67/7. Shammi with support from Zia and Naveed fought back to post a respectable target of 135. In the second half, SCC bowlers came back hard and had MSCC 50/4 due to fine bowling by Rahul and Rakesh . The MSCC middle-order batted sensibly to win the game by 6 wkts.

SCC-B wins by 5 runs in a tense fightback to reach the NWCL finals.......

SCC-B comeback to beat LWCC in their semi-final on Sunday was yet another example of the teams mental ability to fight back against all odds. LWCC were looking well set to win at 150/3 with Rakesh 2/35 and Zia pick of the bowlers. The introduction of the Kenyan experience of Vipul 4/18 and Naveed 3/5 reduced the home side to 168 all out. The bowlers were given excellent support by the fielders with key catches taken by Vikas, Mansoor and Bhasker. Earlier, SCC had to fight in the morning session to finish 173 after losing 4 early wickets for 37 runs. A fine 90 runs partnership by Faisal (56) and Rakesh (41). Also, great support from Shammi and the tail gave SCC a fighting target.

SCC-B will play Microsoft in the NWCL Cascade Cup Championship on Saturday at Marymoor

SCC-B beat Beaverton Tigers in Portland to move to the semi-finals of the NWCL Cascade Cup championship. SCC-B had to overcome tough resistance and difficult weather conditions to hold a place in the semi-finals. Beaverton scored 185 with Rakesh and Rahul the main wicket takers.
SCC started well but several heavy downpours made the job difficult. Rahul and Vikas batted positively with good support from the rest. The team fought all the way to win a nail-biter with Zia hitting the winning runs with 7 balls to spare. SCC-B will play its semi-finals on September 13th/14th against LWCC.

SCC B quarter final game will be on Sunday, September 7th at Beaverton, Portland on Sunday, September 7th. The full NWCL schedule for all Knock-out games will be posted on the NWCL web page. SCC B team for the game will be selected following next week practices - so all players from the team are encouraged to attend.

SCC B qualifies for the NWCL Championship tournament in September.

SCC B completed its Round 2 and is now ensured a place in the Knock out stages for the NWCL championship. Unfortunately, penalty points for not having a functional scoreboard at the home games may cost SCC home field advantage for the play-off games. The team will play its quarter final weekend Sept 6th or 7th. Schedules will be released by the NWCL after the final games are completed this weekend.

On Sunday Jun 29th, SCC B bounced right back by beating Beaverton by 6wkts. Rahul Reddy and Sunny Amjad reduced Beaverton to 125 and then positive batting by
Bunty Vikas, Rahul Reddy and Vipul Shah saw SCC coast to a win.

SCC B had a mixed weekend but remain on course for qualifying for R3 of the NWCL championship. R2 has 9 teams and only 5 will move to play for the championship trophy in September. SCC B lost on Saturday Jun 28th by 7 wkts against MSCC. Batting first SCC finished below par with 253/9 on a batting paradise. Bhasker top scored with 71. MSCC sailed to victory in 35 overs for loss of only 3 wkts.

Sunday, May 4th, SCC-B played their first game and scored only 59 runs. MSCC-3 managed to score without much loss and won the game.