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The game was played in constant drizzle but both the teams showed good sportsmanship spirit and completed the game. The toss was won by CRC and they chose to bat first. Then they changed their mind and requested to reverse their decision allowing them to bat first; in absence of the captain, the vice captain, Sudheer agreed and allowed CRC to change their decision. The CRC team did not have their eleven and only had 5 players present. They took the field with 5 players and rightly asked to leave the field by the umpire because they did not have minimum required 7 players. They were deducted 3 overs from their innings as a result of this. CRC could have easily avoided this by choosing to bat first but they didn't, god knows why.
After an early wicket Venky and Uday batted beautifully and laid a solid foundation. Uday played some well timed shots through the covers and scored a smooth 30. At the other end Venky was very aggressive and continued his great form with some huge sixes. Given the solid foundation, ACC was eyeing a big score despite of the wet and sluggish outfield. But the middle order batsmen never really got going and scored a combined 53 runs of 58 balls. ACC ended the innings on 131 runs; it was a little low given the start they had but given the conditions and reduced overs for CRC, it was going to be a tough total to chase.
The CRC's chase was rocked early by some accurate and fast bowling by Prashant Shukla. CRC lost 3 quick wickets and they never really recovered from that. Prashant removed 2 and Venky accounted for 1 in their opening spells. ACC did not let CRC settle striking at regular intervals and not giving away too many runs. Prashant came back for another over and got one more wicket. Laxmi got 2 wickets with Sudheer and Amit taking one each. It was a comfortable win for ACC.
Prashant Shukla was declared Man Of the Match for his fiery opening spell.
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05/08/2017
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University of Cincinati won the toss and chose to field. Openers Peri and Rohit played well. They gave a good start with Peri hitting a balls to boundary and damaging the shape of the ball with some NATRAJ shots. Rohit looked solid with neat defense and classy boundaries. They both have put 20 on the board before Peri got caught to a shot delivery from Raghunandan kini. Uday and rohit went in and played till the 12 over break. Once the break is done, Uday got bowled in 18th over by yajuvendra singh Thakur bowling. Akron needed a solid partnership at this point which was provided by Madhu and Rohit.The weather was usually hot for this time of the year .This made Playing condition very difficult for batsman. Because of high heat and himidity rohit and madhu got really tired and not able to converts 2's to 3's. Madhu and Rohit played cautiously till 24th over break.Mean while Madhu and Rohit decided to shift gears. Madhu started a boundary in 25th over of Urvish bowling and got 10 runs in that over.Rohit hit some clean lofts over midwicket and got out at 26th over of Urvish.Venki walked in and Madhu started hitting occasional boundaries and kept one end solid. Venki joined Madhu and they ran six 2's in an over. After running six 2's in an over,Madhu decided to deal with boundaries. Raghunandan started 28th over and first ball went for six and second ball went to flat boundary. Madhu miscued a shot in 28th over and bala took a clean catch to get rid of him. Vamsi joined venki and They went on to make a crucial partnership till 30 overs. Venki took a troll of most economical bowler of the match (Bala) with 2 sixes and three 2's.Vamsi opened with his favourite legside glance. Venki and Vamsi then shifted the gear at 33 over. Vamsi hit a humongous six striaght down the ground. Venki got runout in 34 over over. Abhishek walk in with vamsi and completed the inning.
Akron scored 223-5 in 35 overs. Top scorers for ACC - Rohit 51,Madhu 49,Venky 40 Wickets - Raghunandan 2 University of Cincinati started off the Chase with Vaibhav driving Venki for 2 Boundaries through covers. Venki leaked some runs in his fist over .Venky came back very strong in his 2nd over,Yas Mehta got a ripper of a ball and got out LBW.Urvish Patel Walked in. On the other end, Vamsi kept tight line and length to put pressure on the University of Cincinati Batsman. Vamsi is then rewarded a wicket of Vaibhav Kumar caught at point by Rohit. Chandra walked in and vamsi invited him with ripper of a ball. He survived with very close LBW shouts,whick umpire turned down. Urvish got a ripper of a inswinger from venky,which he unable to block and saw his middle stump flying. At this stage cincinati captain Raunak Joined Chandra played cautiously till 12 overs. Cincinati scored 60-2 in 12 overs. The next session was crucial for both the teams. Akron cruised back into the game with the right plan. Rohit and nitin started attacking the bowling as Nitin helped to get some dots in. Rohit kept tight line and lengths on his end while madhu attacked the batsman. Raunak and chandra frusted ACC bowlers with there defense and odd bondaries. In the middle Peri bowled a madien over to put pressure on Cincinati team. Here comes our wicket taking bowler rohit,Bowled a ripper to get rid of Chandra and got stumped by Sudheer(Local Dhoni) In no time, Cincinati lost Raunak,Vamsi and Varun for some good bowling by Rohit. None of the duo let any batsman settle in the crease. Amit came back to get Yajuvendhra out caught behind . Akron won by 84 runs! Chandra and Raunak of UCCC scored around 30 each. venky got 2 wickets, Rohit got 3 wickets. Overall, excellent performance from Rohit, who is the MoM won the game for Akron with the support of good bowling and fielding efforts.
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08/29/2016
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Akron after a long time, against all odds won the toss and
chose to field first. Akron had one of their finest bowling starts of this
season with opening bowlers getting a wicket each. Venkatesh, in his first
over, bowled Deepak Dhiman with an inswinger while Vamsi sent the stumps for a
ride claiming the wicket of Sunny Dhillon.
Farrukh Khan and Babar Najam were the new batsmen at the crease. Both
batsmen looked determined to build a strong partnership. They cautiously worked
the balls around for ones and twos with occasional boundaries. The first power
play was dominated by Akron. Prashanth replaced Vamsi for first change and he
was finding it difficult to get his lengths right. Venkatesh was given his
fifth straight over but he dropped his length short and was taken for runs.
Farrukh and Baber with their clean powerful hitting got things going for All
Stars. Rohit replaced Venkatesh but found it difficult to contain the flowing runs.
ACC started rotating bowlers with Nitin and Peri introduced in succession. Peri
finally got the much need breakthrough for Akron. In his second ball, Babar was
caught at deep midwicket by Venkatesh. Next batsman, Gurpreet Singh, was trying
to get set but Nitin got him bowled. All Stars had a set batman in one end but
was unable to build partnerships. Nitin and Peri bowled tight lines to put
pressure on the batsmen. Jagga Singh was caught at long on by Venkatesh in
Peri’s bowling and Ashu Chaturvedi was caught by Prashanth in Nitin’s bowling.
Farrukh was still going strong hitting ball around the ground. Vamsi was
reintroduced into the attack and he successfully bowled Farrukh. Suhas
Cherukuri was bowled by Nitin, becoming Nitin’s third victim.
Ohio All Stars scored 182 runs for loss 8 wickets in 35
overs. Top scorers: Farrukh Khan 85 (72) and Babar Najam 33 (42). Top Bowlers:
Nitin 3/41, Peri 2/29 and Vamsi 2/27.
In response, Akron took a ‘no mercy’ approach in batting.
Rohit initially put a show of his defensive strokes while Peri was brutally
assaulting the bowlers. The opening pair went onto to get their third fifty
partnership. Peri reached 50 at a strike rate of nearly 200. On the other end,
Rohit showed his class with some delightful stroke play. Peri fell to Gurpreet
caught by the keeper. Uday, who wasn’t 100% fit, was next batsmen. He played
confidently all around field. Uday was caught at gully trying to slash a wide
ball. Gurpreet Singh was the bowler. Abishek was sent at second down. He was
bowled in his first ball from Gurpreet. Akron lost two wickets back to back and
found itself in trouble. Kiran Mitra was promoted up the order and he ensured
Akron did not lose further wickets. Rohit and Kiran played good shots all
around the ground and got Akron to finish line.
Lakshmikant Peri was awarded the man of the match
Akron Cricket Club chased 183 for loss of 3 wickets in 23.4
overs. Top scorers: Rohit Kankaliya 85 (69) and Lakshmikant Peri 55 (29). Top
bowler: Gurpreet Singh 3/39.
Akron rebounded brilliantly after an embarrassing defeat in
their previous game. That being said, fielding efforts have to improve
significantly. Also, extras provided by
bowlers is alarming and it is something that should be worked on.
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08/14/2016
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DMI Orange won the toss and choose to field. ACC started the innings with Rohit and Dinesh while Baljinder singh and Vijay Bhaskar opened the bowling attack for DMI orange. DMI orange bowled in good areas troubling ACC batsman. In the third over of the innings Rohit got out to a beautiful out swinger from Baljinder Singh. Uday who is having a dream season, came to the crease and was comfortable right from ball one. Dinesh on the other hand was struggling to middle the ball and eventually got out trying to loft the ball over long on in Sameer’s bowling. Then came Abhishek who along with Uday tried to stabilize the innings for ACC. They batted decently with occasional ones and two’s and ACC were 38-2 after 12 overs. After the first break, DMI orange introduced spin attack. Abhishek in a plan to accelerate the innings hit one over long off and got out in Nabil’s bowling. He was caught by Sameer Kulkarni who ran to his right to complete an excellent catch. Vamsi was promoted top of the batting line up in a hope to accelerate the innings, but was gone LBW to the leg spinner Vishvesh. ACC was in deep trouble and needed a partnership badly. Sudheer came to the crease and was rotating the strike along with Uday before his innings was ended by Baljinder. Uday on the other hand was comfortable rotating the strike and hitting occasional boundaries. At the end of 24 overs ACC was 104-5. Madhu walked in to the crease and took a couple of singles before he was runout by Vishvesh. In the 26th over of the innings Uday completed his 50 runs and his stay at the crease was ended by Sameer Kulkarni. At this time ACC was 110-7. The lower order did not survive for much time. Venkatesh, Nitin and Kiran got out to Sameer’s bowling and ACC was all out for 129 in 29.5 overs. For ACC top scorer was Uday with 52 runs. Sameer Kulkarni took 5 wickets DMI orange started the innings with Thiag and Varad. Opening bowling for ACC was really good from Venkatesh and Vamsi. They created a couple of chances in the initial overs. ACC did not capitalize on the created chances due to poor fielding efforts. The batsmen who were struggling for the first 5 overs suddenly started playing aggressive game and it took ACC 11 overs to get the first breakthrough. Thiag who was trying to sweep the ball was caught by Uday in Rohit’s bowling. DMI orange were 71-1 in 11.3 overs. First ball after the break Varad was gone LBW in Rohit’s bowling. Then came in Sandeep Kondapally who along with Nabil took the game away from ACC. The bowlers couldn’t do much as the fielding effort was poor and there were not many runs to defend. Nabil got out to Venkatesh when DMI needed 5 runs. Karthik and Sandeep took DMI orange home with 12 overs to spare. Thiag (33), Varad (26), Nabil (28), Sandeep (21) were the top scorers for DMI orange while for ACC Rohit took 2 wickets and Venkatesh took 1 wicket. It was a bizarre performance from ACC. Only 3 batsmen scored in double digits. Poor batting and poor fielding efforts are the main reasons for the defeat.
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08/09/2016
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Cuyahoga won the toss and chose to field. Openers Peri and Rohit played well. They gave a good start with Peri hitting a couple of balls out of the park. Rohit looked solid with neat defense and classy boundaries. They both have put 55 on the board before Peri got bowled to a slower delivery from Bhaskar. Uday went in and in no time Rohit was caught at mid wicket by Suraj. Abhishek went in and got a tough decision for LBW as he got out for 2. Sudheer went in and played till the 12 over break. Once the break is done, Uday and Sudheer were defensive and score 2-3 in each over till 16. Soon, Sudheer got caught at covers by Ahmed in Pavans bowling. Akron needed a solid partnership at this point which was provided by Madhu and Uday. Uday hit some clean lofts over midwicket. Madhu started hitting occasional boundaries and kept one end solid. Uday got tired and missed a Yorker to hit his foot. He was retired hurt and Venki walked in. Venki didn't trouble the scorers much, and got bowled his 2nd ball. Vamsi joined Madhu and ran quick 2's. They went on to make a crucial partnership till 31 overs before Vamsi top edged one to the keeper. Uday came back from injury to hit a super timed six over midwicket. That's his third and then he got out after a well made crucial 48. Madhu stood there till 35 overs with all the crucial partnerships and scored an almost unbeaten 58. Akron scored 203-10 in 35 overs. Top scorers for ACC - Madhu 66 Uday 48 Wickets - Bhaskar 3 Cuyahoga started off the Chase with Suraj driving Venki for 2 runs through covers. Venki leaked some runs and came back well in his 2nd over. On the other end, Vamsi kept tight line and length to put pressure on the Cuyahoga openers. Vamsi is then rewarded a wicket of Suraj caught at covers by Abhishek. Ahmed, who is on the other end kept the score card ticking with at least boundary in each over. Smit Patel joined Ahmed but change in bowling worked as Peri got Smit Patel caught behind. Cuyahoga scored 83-2 in 12 overs. The next session was crucial for both the teams. Akron cruised back into the game with the right plan. Rohit and Madhu started attacking the bowling as Nitin helped to get some dots in. Rohit kept tight line and lengths on his end while madhu attacked the batsman. In no time, Cuyahoga lost Ahmed, Bilal and Dhruv for some good bowling by Madhu. None of the duo let any batsman settle in the crease. Rohit came back to get Sadiq out caught behind and Sachin for a catch in covers again by Abhishek. At 24 overs, Cuyahoga were struggling at 130-7. Nitin came in along with Vamsi to wrap up the innings of Cuyahoga. He got Dhaval out for a good catch from Saumil at midwicket. Abhisek has been excellent in field today and proved it right by inflicting a run out to get Madhukar out. Nitin didn't take much time to get Pavan bowled and wrap Cuyahoga's innings. Akron won by 66 runs! Ahmed of CuCC scored around 50. Madhu got 3 wickets, Rohit and Nitin got 2 each. Overall, excellent performance from Madhu, who is the MoM won the game for Akron with the support of good bowling and fielding efforts.
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07/31/2016
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In a thriller encounter which saw game swinging both ways ACC defended 186 against Cleveland blazers and won the game by 21 runs.
Blazers won the toss and decided to field. ACC openers Rohit Kankaliya and Laxmikant Peri went off to a great start and scored 50 runs in 7 overs. Laxmikant (26) then fell off to Pankaj in the 8th over and 1 down Uday was also caught out on Zero in the same over. In came Sudheer who didn’t have a great season till now and was up for the challenge. Rohit and Sudheer went on to build a good partnership with lots of singles and doubles before Rohit nicking one behind the stumps to an off spinner. Rohit scored 35 off 41. Sasi and Madhu were dismissed in single digits but Sudheer was looking good at the other end. Sudheer innings came to an end at 40 nicking to the keeper of left arm Pankaj. Cleveland Blazers were getting wickets at regular intervals. ACC were 135/6 at the end of 27th over. Nitin Parsa and Vamsi Cherikuri then held the innings together for the next 5 overs before exposing the tail. Nitin Parsa dominating the end overs helped ACC reach 186/9 in 35 overs. Nitin scored an Unbeaten 34. Pankaj was the best performer for Blazers with the ball claiming 3 wickets.
Top Scorers - Sai Sudheer - 40, Rohit Kankaliya - 36, Nitin Parsa - 34 and Laxmikant Peri - 26. Best bowler - Pankaj 3/30.
Raj Tilak and Manu Mehta opened the innings for Blazers with both players in good form this season. ACC speedster Vamsi and Debutant Prashant had one of the great opening spells allowing only 9 runs in first 6 overs and dismissing Manu at 3rd man (Caught by Saumil). Sandeep came in and his stay at the crease was ended by Laxmikant caught by Kiran at Long off. 2nd Down Arun and Raj then started building the partnership and were cautious in the run chase. Blazers were 48/2 in 12 overs. Nitin, Sasi and Rohit then started their spell and didn’t gave the batsmen enough scoring options and were happy giving 3-5 runs in over. Blazers at the other end didn’t mind too much and were happy rotating and ticking the scorecard. A much needed break through was needed for ACC and Raj (35) who was looking good was caught by Rohit off Nitin at Short Extra Cover. ACC then introduced off spinner Saumil and picked up well settled Arun and Suri in the same over and Blazers were 97/5 in 24 overs. With 90 to win in 11 overs, ACC looked favorite to win the game, but in came Gopichand for Blazers who is having a dream season and started exploding from Ball one. His quick fire 40 from 20 odd balls brought Blazers close to the game. He was bowled by Prashant. Blazers needing 46 off 33 balls with 3 wickets in hand; didn’t gave up the chase and brought down the equation to 33 off 30 balls. Last three wickets for Blazers fell to Vamsi, Rohit and a run out ending their run chase short of 21 runs.
Top scorer - Gopi - 40, Raj - 35 ane Arun - 25
Saumil Samant, Vamsi and Nitin - 2 wickets each.
It was a well fought game and ACC came on top to qualify for Division 1. Wishing ACC good luck for the Division 1 games this season.
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07/25/2016
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We are really thankful to Mr. Kishan Dyavanapalli for sponsoring us.
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05/26/2016
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Akron Started its season on a promising note in the First T20 tournament by beating Cleveland CC after almost 4 years. The next game against Cuyahoga was also won convincingly. But a loss in the hands of Hashlingden put a dent in the campaign to be become Cleveland Region champions. Akron still managed to be the top team in the region in the group stages with one loss and faced Cuyahoga in regional Semi's. Akron's T20 campaign ended with a loss in the Semi's by 4 Wickets. Akron took some positives from the tournament and moves on to the yearly MCT tournament.
Akron did not fare well in the regional stages of the tournament and lost to Cleveland United, Cuyahoga CC and Hashlingden and was eventually ranked 5th in the region. Lack of availability of the full team members threw the team off and Akron was struggling to find a place in Div-I.
Being ranked 21st in the over MCT group Akron landed in Div-II and the challenge ahead was to defend the title from 2014. Akron found it tough to find the right combination and the momentum which it lost during the Semi finals of T-20.
Loosing the first div-II game against Cleveland Warriors, pushed Akron on to back foot. But some good performances for the next 4 games made sure that Akron was on track and focused for the challenges ahead.
At the end of the Group stages in Div-II Akron was ranked 3rd in the over all Div-II and qualified for Quarter finals.
Akron played University of Cincinnati CC in quarter finals. Rohit's performance of 84 and 4 wickets along side Venky's performance of 24 and 4 wickets made sure Akron secured their Semi final spot. Rohit was the MOM.
Akron faced DMI CC-2 in semi finals in Rhodes park. Akron won the toss and elected to bat and had a decent start but after the 12th over things turned around and Akron batsman found it tough against the spirited spin attack of DMI CC and crumbled to 82 all out with many of the players not able to reach double figures. Akron put up a fight in terms of Shiva who kept the wickets tumbling on one end with some awesome leg spin and took 4 wickets.
Akron finally lost to DMI CC by 4 wickets, was a bad day for Akron in terms of loss but lot of things to learn for the young guys.
Overall the Venky, Shiva and Rohit made an impact and helped Akron go all the way to Semi's. There were some good performances in patches by other players but the team was not able to come together and depended more on individual performances.
Go ACC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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09/24/2015
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Akron CC beat Cobca-T in the finals of Division -2 to lift the championship trophy. With the semi final win Akron was qualified to play in Division-1 for 2015.
Akron CC displayed a spirited bowling performance by bundling out the opponents for 75 in 27.2 overs.
Akron during its chase kept loosing wickets at regular intervals but Srinivas Katta not throwing his wicket made sure Akron was home with the loss of 7 wickets. It was an over all team effort from the start of Division-2 games that made sure that Akron CC was on track to lift the trophy.
Go ACC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10/06/2014
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Final league game of the season against KCCC-1
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09/12/2014
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