U of Texas Arlington wins South West title !
Umer Syed (UTA)
The 2013 American College Cricket South West Championship took place in Dallas, Texas hosted by Club President Umer Syed with Haris Siddiqui and the University of Arlington Cricket Club. Teams came from Texas, Alabama and Arkansas.
TV Asia reported from the 2 days of highly competitive cricket in wonderful sunshine. Ultimately the UTA Mavericks ended a splend first year for them by winning the South West title (the club was started in Feb by Umer, with assistance from American College Cricket President Lloyd Jodah ).
MVP of the Pool stage was Divya Patel (ASU). The overall Regionals MVP was Umer Syed (UTA)
Apologies – due to an error, the Match Reports for the South West Championship was posted very late. The photos however, have been up since 1 day after the Championship.
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U HOUSTON CLEARLAKE vs TEXAS A & M KINGSVILLE : When Vivek Kotadia transferred to Clearlake, from Cleveland State, he quickly contacted Lloyd & got a club going. UHCL Hawks has since played in 2 Nationals, & now was in dallas to face new ACC member Tamu Kingsville !
The Hawks batted first & made 147 for 6. Rohit Bhogaraju 38, & Aditya Balasubramiam 34 were the top scorers. Pacer Udaya Reddy took 3 for 19.
The Javelinas’ Gourav Bajaj batted magnificently for 73* in 60 balls, with 5 fours & 1 six – no one else got into double figures as Tamu Kingsville fell short, getting 136 for 9 in 20 overs. For UCHL Ramesh Gangaraju took 3 for 27.
MVP was Kingsville Gourav Bajaj. http://www.crichq.com/matches/75951#inning-1
U of TEXAS ARLINGTON vs U HOUSTON COUGARS -an opening partnership of 73 got the UTA Mavericks to a great start as they piled up 193 for 9 in 20. Asif Hoque made 32.
The Cougars in response only mustered 74 all out in 17.1. Haris Siddiqui took 3 early wickets for 17 and Apoorva Patel 3 for 12 as Houston won easily.
UTA’s Siddiqui was MVP. http://www.crichq.com/matches/75937#inning-1
U of SOUTH ALABAMA vs TEXAS A & M AGGIES – Fallahuddin Syed’s 45 & 21* by captain Neel Patel helped South Alabama get 140 for 6 off 20, despite a great spell of 4 for 16, with one maiden, by Aggies’ captain & fast bowler Raheel Zubairy.
The Aggies got a solid start of 59 from Ankush Kothalkar 33, & Adhithya Rengarajan 23 but an excellent spell by leg spinner Srikanth Chalamal, 3 for 13 plus some excellent fielding by South Alabama, aided by bad running between the wickets by A & M resulting in 4 run outs,
and Texas was dismissed for 129 in 19.2 overs.
Chalamala was MVP http://www.crichq.com/matches/75938#inning-1
ARKANSAS STATE vs TEXAS TECH – Pranav Patel’s 51 run out, & captain Divya Patel’s 30 got the Arkansas State Red Wolves to 149 for 6 in 20.
Divya then followed up with a devastating spell of 4 for 17 but still the Texas Tech Red Raiders got the 150 required for victory for the loss of 8 wickets. Kamal Patel smased 56 in 32 balls with 9 fours & 1 six. Sami Motiwala & Shami Patel both made 28.
MVP was ASU’s Divya Patel http://www.crichq.com/matches/75942#inning-1
U of HOUSTON CLEARLAKE HAWKS vs U of HOUSTON COUGARS – the battle of the 2 Houston teams came down to the penultimate ball ! A 50 pening partnership between Aditya Mittapaly 59 and Rohit Bhogaraju 24 got the Hawks off to a good start and they reached 145 for 9 in 20 overs. Sameer Tai took 4 for 31 to restrict them from really piling it on.
After goin 0 for the loss of 2 wickets, Clearlake came back to win with 1 ball to spare. An incomplete scorecard prevented us from giving further details
MVP was Hawks’ Sameer Tai http://www.crichq.com/matches/75994#inning-1
U of TEXAS ARLINGTON vs TEXAS A & M KINGSVILLE JAVELINAS – New team Javelinas
took on UTA Mavericks who had made their debut at the 2013 Nationals, getting to the Final Four.
UTA captain Umer Syed smased 49 in 22 balls, Rohit Sridharan 40 in 29 balls to put up a 77 run opening stand. UTA finished on 182 for 8 in their 18 overs.
50 by Santosh & 39 by captain Gaurav Bajaj was not enough to win it for Kingsville and they made 130 for 3 in 18, showing potential for the future.
Syed took 2 for 25 & earned the MVP. http://www.crichq.com/matches/76067#inning-1
TEXAS A & M vs ARKANSAS STATE – Good top order scoring by the Aggies’ Adhitya Ragarajan 52, Anand Ghatty 39* & Ankush Kothalkar 38 got Texas A & M to 164 for 3 in 17 overs.
Then a proceedural error by the Umpires & captains, in reducing overs & calculating a wrong “Duckworth-Lewis” total – Crichq was NOT used as it should have been resulted in ASU being set a target which they got (nor was the tournament manager consulted).
This was hard luck for the Texas A & M team,and would have been avoided had the situation been referred to Lloyd before the teams agreed to the total set by the umpires. Umpires’ deciions are final on the field, but reduction of overs must be referred toTournament Manager (Lloyd) & Duckworth-Lewis calculations must come from Crichq.
However the Texas A & M captain Raheel Zubairy & team displayed admirable “Spirit of Cricket” in accepting the end result and are great examples of how any sport should be played.
Aggies’ Adhitya Regarajan was the MVP http://www.crichq.com/matches/76015#inning-1
and Texas was dismissed for 129 in 19.2 overs.
Chalamala was MVP http://www.crichq.com/matches/75938#inning-1
ARKANSAS STATE vs TEXAS TECH – Pranav Patel’s 51 run out, & captain Divya Patel’s 30 got the Arkansas State Red Wolves to 149 for 6 in 20.
Divya then followed up with a devastating spell of 4 for 17 but still the Texas Tech Red Raiders got the 150 required for victory for the loss of 8 wickets. Kamal Patel smased 56 in 32 balls with 9 fours & 1 six. Sami Motiwala & Shami Patel both made 28.
MVP was ASU’s Divya Patel http://www.crichq.com/matches/75942#inning-1
U of HOUSTON CLEARLAKE HAWKS vs U of HOUSTON COUGARS – the battle of the 2 Houston teams came down to the penultimate ball ! A 50 pening partnership between Aditya Mittapaly 59 and Rohit Bhogaraju 24 got the Hawks off to a good start and they reached 145 for 9 in 20 overs. Sameer Tai took 4 for 31 to restrict them from really piling it on.
After goin 0 for the loss of 2 wickets, Clearlake came back to win with 1 ball to spare. An incomplete scorecard prevented us from giving further details
MVP was Hawks’ Sameer Tai http://www.crichq.com/matches/75994#inning-1
U of TEXAS ARLINGTON vs TEXAS A & M KINGSVILLE JAVELINAS – New team Javelinas
took on UTA Mavericks who had made their debut at the 2013 Nationals, getting to the Final Four.
UTA captain Umer Syed smased 49 in 22 balls, Rohit Sridharan 40 in 29 balls to put up a 77 run opening stand. UTA finished on 182 for 8 in their 18 overs.
50 by Santosh & 39 by captain Gaurav Bajaj was not enough to win it for Kingsville and they made 130 for 3 in 18, showing potential for the future.
Syed took 2 for 25 & earned the MVP. http://www.crichq.com/matches/76067#inning-1
TEXAS A & M vs ARKANSAS STATE – Good top order scoring by the Aggies’ Adhitya Ragarajan 52, Anand Ghatty 39* & Ankush Kothalkar 38 got Texas A & M to 164 for 3 in 17 overs.
U of SOUTH ALABAMA vs TEXAS TECH – The Jaguars made 132 for 9. Their 2 topscorers Sridhar Reddy & Baghirat Pyrasani made 25, & were both run out ! Khizer Motiwala took 3 for 34, & Pushkar Ogale 2 for 18.
Motiwala followed up his bowling performance with 34*, whilst Kamal Patel 36 & Shami Patel 30 were once more in the runs as the Red Raiders won in 18.1 overs.
Motiwala collected his 2nd MVP http://www.crichq.com/matches/75981#inning-1
FINAL FOUR
TEXAS TECH vs U of SOUTH ALABAMA – South Alabama Jaguars got a rematch by qualifying to meet the Red Raiders in the final four. The match took place on a pretty Lewisville field, near a lake.
Fallahudin Syed was in the runs again, 57 in 40 balls to get the Jaguars to144 for 8 in 20. Sami Motiwala took 3 for 17 & Raghav Burra 2 for 16.
The Red Raiders got a start of 97 un 11.1 overs before losing their a wicket, Shami Patel for 39. Raghav Burra 56* and Zubair Shahid 29* took Texas Tech to victory.
Burra was MVP http://www.crichq.com/matches/76333#inning-1
ARKANSAS STATE vs U of TEXAS ARLINGTON – ASU batted first, & it seemed to be captain vs captain as Divya Patel scored 50 in 35 balls with 3 fours & 3 sixes, whilst Umer Syed took 3 wickets for 35 runs. Pranav Patel also scored 29 whilst Apoorva Patel took 2 for 14.
Captain Umer Syed’s 52* ensured UTA won easily, in 13.1 overs. Syed was Match MVP
http://www.crichq.com/matches/76703
FINALS :
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON vs TEXAS TECH – Univ of Texas Arlington batted first & piled up 182 for 9 wickets in 20 overs. It was consistent scoring, with # 1 through 7 getting into double figures ; top scorers were A Hoque with 37 and P Jadeja with 35*. Shami Motiwal took 4 for 33 and Arjun Tuli 3 for 29.
Texas Tech struggled to 95 for 7 off 20 overs, and except for the first 2 overs didn’t look like they could get UTA’s total. Haris Siddiqui took 2 for 12 and Sriram 2 for 23 as UTA romped and the South West regional title ! Match MVP was Sriram.
A great year for a club that was only begun in Feb 2013, superbly led by Umer Syed ! http://www.crichq.com/matche
