Madambakkam - New venue for this week's match

Maroon Tornadoes are playing in new venue this week.

Ground: Reddys Cricket Academy, Madambakkam
Timings: 7.30am to 10.30am (please assemble by 7am)

Directions from Tambaram (click the map to zoom):

Directions from Santhosapuram (click the map to zoom):

You can buy GPS locator before this Sunday if you don't want to get lost. ;)

Happy cricketing!!

Seniors vs Juniors (8/4/2013)

Juniors won 3-0 this week and took the overall lead to 5-1. In my opinion it should have been 3-3 if Seniors had won 2nd and 3rd matches. In fact they had to blame themselves for their failures. Those 2 matches went up to last ball and seniors were favorites to win those 2 comfortably.

Anyways, this week hero is Giri in bowling (6 wkts) and Venkatesh in batting (75 runs from 3 matches, 2 Notouts).

This week also saw:

* Venkatesh becoming 2nd highest run getter behind Kumar. He surpassed Krishna this week. At the end of this week, he has hit 945 runs from just 33 innings.

* Venkat has become the first player to have 500 runs + 50 wkts + 50 catches (Idhallam naane solla koodadhu, but still being a statistician, I've to appreciate Venkat as cricketer !!).

* Gana has crossed 900 runs.

* SenthilA has crossed 800 runs.

Cheers,

Venkat.

MT Organizer - Sponsor

Mr. Venkat

Season 1 to Season 5 - Total Runs

	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5
Ganapathy	102	179	269	193	143
Krishna	182	146	125	168	315
Nantha	168	104	108	66	97
Kannan	175	111	71	74	98
Inba	156	117	155	82	111
Arvind	83	147	118	95	104
Santhosh	38	107	117	78	50
Giri	41	15	2	2	22
Gopal	45	62	17	19	38
Karuna	3	11	10	32	10
Ramanujam	0	6	15	91	164
Ramki	0	16	3	23	37
Shiva	0	13	13	29	35
Jawahar	1	15	0	0	15
Jegan	0	0	0	0	7
Venkat	161	121	169	120	136
Vasanth	54	66	72	45	6
Venkatesh	153	114	299	48	254
Vijay	0	0	0	0	236
Kumar	246	342	250	213	198
Prasath	83	174	72	75	121
Senthil A	238	221	87	154	56
Vignesh	0	0	0	0	66
Rooso	0	0	0	94	57
Kamal	5	9	5	15	30
Prabhakar	5	2	15	61	6
Kishan	51	17	82	79	44
Saranraj	68	51	26	54	14
Sivaprakash	17	20	11	35	47
Senthil PT	31	50	11	32	10
Naveen	0	0	0	0	8

Match rules

• There will be 2 matches every week. One is 14 overs and another one is 8 overs.
• First match should start by 6.15am and should finish before 8am.
• 2nd Match should start as soon as 1st match is completed. It should be completed before 8.45am.
• 14 Overs match should be completed within 45 minutes from the time it commences. Beyond 45 minutes, 5 minutes grace time will be provided to the bowling team. Beyond grace time, 1 run x every minute delayed will be awarded to the batting team. If the delay is repeated in the 2nd 8-overs match, 2 runs x every extra minute will be awarded to the batting team.
• For 14 Overs, only 2 bowlers can bowl max 3 overs. For 8 Overs match, only 2 bowlers can bowl max 2 overs.
• By-runners will be provided only after they face atleast 6 balls. Injury is exception.
• 2 in-circle fielders.
• Umpire decision is final.
• Leg-umpire is mandatory.
• In case the opposition captain argues with valid reasons against umpire's judgement, the decision can be overruled in consultation with legumpire and batting team captain.
• None of the others in A and B teams should have the right to question Umpires' and Captains' decisions (on the field).
• Team A and Team B should call for the toss in Match 1 and Match 2 respectively.
• Runs for Wides, Byes, No balls and Overthrows.
• NO runs for Leg byes.
• NO LBWs.
• Overstepping will be called NOBALL. A FREE HIT will be given in the next ball.
• Waist high full toss is a NOBALL. But no free hit will be given.
• Above head height is a NOBALL. But no free hit will be given.
• 1 ball above shoulder height(but below head height) is allowed.
• If the batsmen hit ball on the trees and it lands inside boundary rope, 3 runs will be granted.
• If the ball crosses the boundary rope after hitting the trees, 6 runs will be given.
• Statistics will be maintained for all the matches if they are played with a minium strength of 8 members/side.
• Matches with less than 8 members/side are called FRIENDLY.
• Powerplay will be applied as follows:
• 2 overs for 8 overs match
• 3 overs for 10 overs match
• 4 overs for 12 overs match

-from mail dated 30/8/2012

Formation

Welcome to the journey of Cricket !! Our team has been named as "Maroon Tornadoes".

We have a 20 members team team that will be split into 2 teams, namely "A" and "B". "A" will be led by me and "B" by Vasanth. We have planned to go for jersey-tracksuit with team name, our names, sponsors' names, team logo printed on the jersey. The teams A and B will share all cricket-related expenses (ground fees, balls, bats, water etc). 50% of TShirt and Tracksuit expenses will be sponsored by Vasanth and me (Sponsors !!) and remaining 50% will be borne by rest of the team.

Below is team composition of A and B.

	Team A		Team B
1	Venkat (Captain)	Allrounder	Vasanth (Captain)	Allrounder
2	Kumar (VC)	Allrounder	Krishna (VC)	Batsman
3	Dwarak	Bowler	Vishnu (WK)	Batsman
4	Prem	Batsman	Saranraj	Batsman
5	Ganapathy	Batsman	Nandha	Allrounder
6	Balu	Batsman	Kannan	Bowler
7	Senthil A (WK)	Batsman	Hitler	Allrounder
8	Sivaprakash	Bowler	Prasad	Batsman
9	Jawahar	Allrounder	Inbaraj	Bowler
10	Senthilkumar	Allrounder	Mukund	Allrounder
11	Raghavan	Bowler	Giri	Bowler	Not a regular member, available on demand
12	Rajan	Bowler	Santhosh	Bowler	Not a regular member, available on demand

-mail from Venkat dated 7/9/2012.