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Wagon Wheels ! See how you scored those runs !

ljodah — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:51:55 +0000

: Adil Bhatti (Montgomery) Mid Atlantic top score 80*

All of our teams should become skilled in the usage of the CricHQ scoring app. There are lots of statistical & analytical tools you’ll love.

Here are the wagon wheels for some of the major innings at the Mid Atlantic Championship (not all of the matches were scored with CricHQ so not all of the top scores are shown).

Penn State Cricket wins school Award !

ljodah — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:56:36 +0000

: At the reception at Beaver Stadium Mount Nittany Club

by Lloyd Jodah

Penn State Cricket Club won the Most Improved Club Award at the Penn State Club Sports Honors Reception !

Penn State Cricket had a total of 3 nominations:

1) Excellence in Outdoor Activities Award
2) Most Improved Club Award (WON)
3) Best Secretary (Rishabh Bahel)

It was a wonderful accomplishment by the Club, which had come a long way within the past 6 months.

The Penn State Cricket Club played a couple of matches in New York back in 2009, but organizationally struggled to get to the next level to compete in American College Cricket for the next two years.

Then a freshman named Haris Mohiuddin, disappointed at missing the opportunity to play in the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship in 2011, re-focused the Club and a new strategy was formulated.

A young Penn State Cricket team then made it to the Northeast regional where they were among the first teams to play in televised domestic cricket matches in the US and Canada.

The addition of an Australian Coach, David Chakravorty, was another tremendous step.

The Nittany Lions then journeyed to Florida for their first nationals, the 2012 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship in March, and returned to Happy Valley with a # 15 Ranking in the US and Canada !

Their Coach, David, also happened to be one of the best play by play commentator on the televised matches.

GWU vs Cleveland,Carnegie vs Texas Tech,Texas A & M vs Penn State,Auburn vs UH Clearlake ! Nationals Day 1!

ljodah — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:56:02 +0000

George Washington University vs Cleveland State U

It was a hard fought game, GWU batted first and opener Vivek Hadkar 31 (3 fours) got them to a good start. Coming at # 5 Ashutosh blasted 48 (4 fours & 3 sixes) to take them to 141 in 20 overs.

Bowling for Cleveland State Pawan took 3 early wickets for 27 runs, but Ashutosh powered GWU’s recovery.

Cleveland State struggled, with only Abhilash of the early batsmen hitting 24 (3 fours) until Dhaval came to the rescue, smashing 6 fours & 2 sixes in a fantastic 53*. He hit the ball in the gaps to take over the game and win it for Cleveland State.

Carnegie Mellon vs Texas Tech

One of the first teams in American College Cricket, Carnegie Mellon returned to their 2nd American College Cricket National Cahmpionship. Two players, freshmen in 2009, returned as seniors, Sahil Jolly and Aayush.

Carnegie batted first, and put up a good total of 159 for 7. Naveen hit 53 (4 sixes, 4 fours) whilst Pratiq made 17.

Texas Tech never were out of the game, tough as the task was, and made 141. Raghav opened and made 37 (4 fours), Niihal Shah 27.

So Carnegie Mellon had returned to the sidefields of the Central Broward Regional Park, where it all started back in 2009.

Texas A & M vs Penn State

The Aggies won the toss and sent Penn state in to bat. Currently ranked at # 1, Texas A & M was eager to continue their unbeaten streak in American College Cricket.

However they were withut their top fast bowler Ockert Greyvenstein. Nevertheless, the Penn State batting struggled and made 83. Wasif took 3 wickets for 4 runs in 3 overs. Sudhakar 2 wickets for 19 in 4 overs.

A good opening partnership by Texas A & M openers, captain Hamza 23 (2 fours) and Anurag 32 (3 fours) set up the win for the Aggies. Left hander Anurag had been their top opener at the South West regional. Venkatesh 22 (2 fours & 1 six) took Texas A & M home for the win.

AUBURN UNIVERSTY vs U of HOUSTON CLEARLAKE

2010 South East Champion Auburn were restricted to 106 for 8 wickets against UHCL. Pramod topscoring with 30 (2 fours) whilst captain Naveen Thiaragrajan made 21 (2 fours). Varun ended on 20* (1 six).

Despite losing 2 of their top bowlers to graduation, Rahul Potghan and Ahmed Faraz, Auburn held the Clearlake batsmen and it took a captain’s knock by Prashant Manne of 57* (6 fours & 2 sixes) to get an excitingly close win for Houston Clearlake Blue Herons.

The win came after 19.3 overs.

Penn State Cricket names team for Nationals !

ljodah — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:24:19 +0000

: The Oct 2011 Penn State cricket team

Led by 21 year old Haris Mohiuddin, who had a spell of 3 over,3 wickets for 7 runs in the 2011 Midwest regional, and a very good batsman, the Penn State team is young, comprised mainly of 19, 20 & 21 year olds. One player, right arm off spinner & batsman Chirag Mehtani is just 18 years old.

After not making it to the nationals in 2010 or 2011 the team underwent a metamorphosis through the passionate leadership of Haris, and is eager to make its mark. Even Haris’ demeanour on the field is like that of a (Nittany) Lion about to strike.

Right arm fast bowler Rishab Bahel took 4 wickets for 15 against the strong York College batting. Big Rohit Reddy is a powerful striker of the ball, and the team has been practicing hard, and often, and will be accompanied by Coach David Chakravorty.

Penn State is in a tough Group A, where 4 of the other teams have a strong record – current # 1 Texas A & M and UMBC,University of Pennsylvania and USF who have all made the Semis before. Only new teams Arkansas State and Embry Riddle are of unknown strength.

The team:

1. Haris Mohiuddin (Captain)

2. Chirag Mehtani

3. Rishabh Bahel

4. Harihara Chockalingam

5. Rohit Reddy

6. Sidharth Datla

7. Reshan Fernando (wk)

8. Jeegar Shah

9. Eijaz Mulla

10. Sanchit Singhal

11. Sathvik Shetty

12. Rahul Ganesh Bhimanapati

13. Siddarth Sitamraju

14. David Chakravorty (Coach)

UMBC vs NJIT & Penn State vs York College on TV Asia !

ljodah — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:24:20 +0000

The 5 American College Cricket games broadcast so far in USA & Canada have been historic and groundbreaking – with 1 more to come for this Fall season – this Saturday at 7pm., York College vs NJIT.

No one else has so far even come close to televising domestic cricket in the USA and Canada.

With each broadcast the games on TV Asia look better and better – the camera people, though new to cricket, capture the action better. The added slow motion replays now bring the matches closer to the top level. The graphics and scores are more detailed with each game.

The commentary has been good, with Andre Kirton, Aoun Jaffarey (Indian U), Risabh Natarajan (NYU-Poly) and Hammad Rana (Indian U) joining myself, Lloyd Jodah for the York College vs Penn State match.

UMBC vs NJIT : This game went down to the very last ball !

For NJIT Ravi and Captain Prem Bhagavati got the team off to a great start, putting on 54 in 6 overs. Then Taha alli got the breakthrough for UMBC, taking the wickets of both openers in his first over.

A partnership of 34 steadied the NJIT Highlanders somewhat, but NJIT never really capitalised on their great start. Three wickets fell at 101 and NJIT were all out for 107.

Taha Ali took 3 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs, Raghav Bharadwaj 2 wickets for 14 in 3, whilst Sumeet Chordiya chipped in with 1 wicket for 24 in his 4 overs. There were 3 run outs.

UMBC struggled batting, and at the end of the powerplay (after 5 overs) UMBC was 23 for 3 compared to NJIT’s 48 for 0 at the same point.

Raghav Bharadwaj took it to the NJIT bowlers though, and struck 32 before he was 4th out with UMBC on 35 !

Somehow UMBC got closer and closer to the NJIT total, and going into the final over 11 runs were needed ! A four meant 7 runs in 5 balls, and finally 2 runs to win on the last ball, or 1 to tie !

The New Jersey boys got the wicket on the final ball to snatch victory from the boys from Maryland !

PENN STATE vs YORK COLLEGE :

The Penn State Nitany Lions batted first against the York College Cardinals and struggled. Varun Kullkarni however played a superb innings of 32, which included 2 magnificent cuts off Hugo D’Oliveira for sixes, as well as more exquisite strokes before getting run out.

Penn State made 84. Karan Ganesh bowled a great spell of 3 overs for 3 runs, taking 3 wickets. Hugo D’Oliveira, Suleman Mohammed & Bilal Shahid each chipped in with a wicket each, whilst opening bowler Yasneen Khan bowled a good spell, and took 2 very good catches in the deep.

Jasim Ahmed had 2 run outs.

It was going to be tough for Penn State to defend 84 as a total, Rishab Bahel gave it his all, striking 4 times, including taking 3 wickets in his 2nd over. Rishabh finished with 4 overs, 15 runs and 4 wickets.

However in the 2nd over of the match Raghav Agarwal gave the game away, bowling 6 ful ltosses to Akeem Dodson who dispatched then all o the boundary for 4s and sixes ! 40 runs were scored off the over, which included a noball and wide !

Dodson was out for 32, made in 8 balls (3 sixes & 3 fours) ! Karan Ganesh, 22* in 9 balls ( 2 fours & 1 six) and Hugo D’Oliveira 14* (1 four & 1 six) wrapped up the victory for York College !

Next year TV Asia will televise at least 18 American College Cricket matches in their entirety, plus highlights from others, and reports on American College Cricket.

6 games will be televised from the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship, March 13 to 18.

Photos – Mid Atlantic Championship !

ljodah — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:11:18 +0000

The Semis and Finals of the American College Cricket RegionalChampionship will be shown on TV Asia beginning Saturday,Oct 29. The schedule:

7 pm Sat Oct 29 -Rutgers University vs NYU-Polytechnic

7pm Sat Nov 5 – NJ Istitute of Technology vs Ryerson University

7pm Sat Nov 12- Winners of Oct 29 & Nov 5

7pm Sat Nov 17- University of Maryland Baltimore County vs NJ Institute of Technology

7pm Sat Nov 26- Penn State University vs York College (Cuny)

7pm Sat Dec 3 - Winnners of Nov 19 & Nov 26

TV Asia is available on Echo Star’s DISH Network Platform, on major Cable systems such as Cablevision, Time Warner, Comcast Xfinity, Cox, and on Verizon FIOS and A T & T uverse in the USA, and on Rogers and Bell Canada in Canada. Don’t have TV Asia ? Call 1800 652 2253
www.TVAsiaUSA.com

TV Asia’s distribution partners International Media Distributors has a program for distribution in Colleges- tell the University Relations Dept in your colleges. Educational Partners: www.imediadistribution.com/resources

CLICK ON PHOTOS to see whole. Photos by Rishab Natarajan, Kalpesh Patel & Lloyd Jodah.

Ohio State Buckeyes Cricket new Champ in the Big 10, win Gordon Gee Trophy !

ljodah — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:15:47 +0000

2010 winner of the Gordon Gee Trophy Purdue, fresh from their win over Indiana University, came into the American College Cricket Midwest Championship with a formidable record as the top cricket club in the Big 10.

In contrast, the new team from University of Buffalo was inexperienced, and happy to particpate in their first tournament. Both Purdue and Buffalo got off to a bad start: the Boilermakers lost to Carnegie Mellon whilst Buffalo were defeated by Cleveland State, Ishaan Bhatt took 3 wickets for 7 runs and Pavan 2 for 12 for the CSU Vikings.

The Carnegie Mellon Cricket club, hurriedly pulled together by Atishe Chordia working with Lloyd Jodah in 2009, was one of the original five teams that showed up in Ft Lauderdale Florida in March 2009, and showed a new path for cricket in America. They were part of some key innovations that spring for cricket in America and Canada.

The American College Cricket Spring Break Championship was the first “season ball” college cricket tournament in the USA, and the first national championship for colleges.

Three games were scheduled per day – another first which later rendered the 47 game 2010 Championship and the 67 game 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship possible.

The New York Times did a huge 2 page story in the Sports Section on the revolutionary 2009 event – the first time the nation’s top paper had covered domestic cricket in modern times.

Autumn and rain had set in and the weather was tough on the cricket players on Saturday, but not even wet 50-something degrees weather would stop the cricket. Two games were reduced to 12 overs and batting was tough all weekend.

Carnegie Mellon then took on Penn State and defeated the Nittany Lions behind a 50 by Mudit. The OSU Buckeyes gave the inexperienced Buffalo team their second loss, as Anupam Vivek took 3 wickets for 8 runs,and Anoop 2 for 3. Nakul made 19.

Penn State then knocked 2010 Big 10 Champion Purdue out of the tournament, but Ohio State’s win over Cleveland State earned Ohio State a place in the Finals against Carnegie Mellon University.

However the bowling of the Buckeyes, particularly last year’s Big 10 MVP Romel Somavat, overwhelmed the CMU guys and routed them for 28 runs. Somavat took 3 wickets to add to his 50 scored in an earlier game to earn the Midwest Championship MVP honors again ! Somavat was also one of 5 American College Cricket players of 2010 and a 2-time All American in cricket.

Ohio State easily chased the runs down to win the Gordon Gee Trophy !

The American College Cricket Midwest Championship for the second time bought exciting collegiate cricket to the Ohio State campus, and Columbus. The OSU Cricket Club, led by its President & Phd candidate Anupam Vivek continued their key role in American College Cricket by being great hosts and organizers.

The new Champion in the Big 10 – Ohio State Buckeyes !

More complete scores & photos to follow:

Gameday ! Cleveland State v Buffalo, Carnegie v Penn State, Iowa v Iowa State, Purdue v Carnegie, Ohio State v Buffalo!

ljodah — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:10:20 +0000

It’s autumn, the leaves are evolving into dazzling hues, the winds blow a bit chilly and in the Heartland of America college cricket teams take the field to battle !

The old custom of cricket sweaters, which originated in the English weather, achieve a new relevance in American College Cricket season – only now it may be hoodies !

It may be in the 50′s some days, but the 50′s the batsman is focused on is his own half century of runs !

Saturday, Oct 1st, gameday, there will be matches in Ohio and Iowa, with many Big 10 colleges competing - with national rankings, and 2 Championships, the Midwest and Great Plains, at stake !

The Buckeyes open their campaign against newcomer University of Buffalo, hoping to keep the Gordon Gee Trophy at Ohio State. Defending Champion Purdue want to win here to regain their top 10 ranking – which they lost after not making it to the nationals.

American College Cricket pioneer school Carnegie Mellon has a tough schedule taking on Purdue and Penn State. The Nittany Lions have some new blood eager to take the Gordon Gee Trophy back to Paterno country – Joe Paterno has been coaching there so long he might actually have been around when Philadelphia had one of the strongest cricket teams in the world (in the 1880′s & 18890′s).

New team Iowa State, will face the Hawkeyes and the Minnesota Gophers. The Gophers have been getting stronger each since beginning in 2010.

The guys from Buffalo, and Iowa State are dark horses, whilst University of Iowa showed flashes of strength at the 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship.

Cleveland State Vikings had their first tournament at the nationals, and have been practising hard since for this regional.

Ohio State University President Gordon Gee (who is also a member of the American College Cricket Advisory Board) is expected to attend the finals on Sunday.

by Lloyd Jodah

Oct 1,Saturday : Minnesota vs Iowa State,Cleveland State vs Buffalo,Carnegie vs Penn State, Iowa vs Iowa State, Purdue vs Carnegie, Ohio State vs Buffalo

Cricket TV – Penn State Nitany Lions, Midatlantic Championship

ljodah — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:20:37 +0000

Express speed- Akhil the Stump Breaker ! Akhil Kumar so impressed Adrian Gordon, Gordon spent some time with the fast bowler after,discussing his bowling.

Penn State Cricket Captain Vikram Kumar

Ijaz

Fast bowler Mohammed Sheik