Bowlers set up big win for Concordia

“Their openers aren't reliable, their tail is weak, and their fielding isn't impressive. Does that stop them from winning spectacularly? Of course not”. This recent quote from Andy Zaltzman describes best the home game for Concordia (playing for the 10th time in the season and) against table toppers HBS.

Concordia played their 9th match against Ajax on 17-Juli at their home. Overall, it was a roller coaster of a match which deservedly ended in a tie.

After making two untimely changes in the team, the captain, Tiggy manged to win the toss again, surprisingly for two times in a row. Adding to that, another shocking surprise was given by the opposition team by playing two kids of age 13, 10 in the match(last time it was only one kid, as said by one of our teammates).

Hari stars in Concordia’s 77-run victory 

Concordia managed to comprehensively beat Punjab 4 in a crucial encounter which was a fitting reply to the loss that they had suffered earlier in the tournament. The in-form batsman Hari carried on from where he had left off in the previous game and the opening batsman Arun and middle order batsman Prashant gave a solid foundation for the team to build a competitive total of 236. The opening bowler Aayush and the leggie Prashant chipped in with 3 wickets each to seal the deal and give Concordia that all important win.

Apart from the coin not falling in Dada’s favour, everything else went according to plan for Concordia. When the visitors won the toss, they had initially chosen to bat first but changed their mind (as Faizal shouted “Dada bowling” from outside the boundary and confused the visitor captain) and decided to put the home team into bat as the two captains made their way back to the dressing rooms.

CONCORDIANS BEAT VRA 2 COMPREHENSIVELY

Match Summary

Toss:            VRA 2 won the toss, who chose to field

Scorecard:     DSV Concordia (247-10  in 38.3 overs)

                  VRA 2 (147 all out in 28.3 overs)

MOM:           H Patel (Tiggy)

Match Preparation

After Saturday’s win over Groen en Wit, the Concordians preparation for the next match was already started.  This means that alcholic guys of our team have decided not to drink more than 2 beer, which shows a commitment of the team. Of course, non-alcholic guys have also decided not to drink more than 2 chocomelk or coco cola. The reason is still unknown to the author :p.

Anyways, on a serious note, Concordians were focussed and well prepared for the match. Tiggy, the captain of OVB has decided to change the coin, in order to win the toss which he has not able to do so for a long time. Although, each of the team member’s were quite confident of losing the toss, and eventually we lost the toss. Fortunately, VRA team has decided to field first and luckily we got what we wanted.  We were happy to bat, as it seems batting pitch with no grass on the pitch :p. The Concordians were well prepared and focussed. The idea was to put a good score on the board. 

Toss: Won by Groen & Wit, elected to bat

First innings: Groen & Wit -222/8 in 40 overs.

Second innings: DSV Concordia - 223/6 in 34 overs. 

The match scheduled between Groen & Wit(away game but played at Concordia) was cancelled due to rain earlier. On the rescheduled day too, the weather was very gloomy with a forecast of occasional rainfall. Groen & Wit, who won the toss, decided to bat first. Their previous victory in a T20 match in lieu of the cancelled league game was lingering in everyone’s mind and we were expecting a similar kind of batting from the Groen & Wit batsmen.

Team effort in a sweet victory !

If at all there was a time when the gloominess of this week decided to take a break, that was only for our 4^th game of the OVB Klasse….Maybe losing track of that, the so called strict umpires of Overgangsklasse (whom we are slowly getting used to) probably OVERSLEPT, and were kind enough to send an email saying that they would not be available for the game :P. I think everyone can guess what followed…

Hari fires again!  Concordia chased down a formidable target of 217

 Concordia chased down a formidable target of 217 in the 40 over away match played against HBS3 at Den Haag, on the shoulders of the in-form batsman Hari (83*). The chase had all the ingredients of an exciting cricket match with some good quality bowling and batting, runouts, sharp catches and an adrenaline rushing on-field spat/drama (‘Ram’ayan) which continued after the match as well.

Match Summary

Extremely difficult to write a report for a match that we lost. The weather gods greeted us with some heavy rains to delay the match by half an hour and as a result it was a 36 over a side game as opposed to 40 overs !!

We played our first match in the Toc d'Or (The Golden Guard) against HCC Zami 1. There was some confusion about the number of players and it turned out that I had include Casper in my mind, but not in the list. So we dropped him off at home and were 18.20 at HCC. We played at their main field which is very nice, but it was a bit slow in the outfield.

It was a perfect day for a game of cricket.i mean what better weather you can ask here in Holland. After all the formalities of overgang i.e. putting the side screens, rope, 30 yard circle etc. etc. it was finally time to start the game. Our beloved captain didn't let us down and as usual per expectation lost the toss (has been lucky for us) and that led opposition (ACC) bat first.

After a week-long horoscope reading of what the weather gods had in store for us finally we are able to complete a game and win it convincingly.

Third match of the concordia Zaterdag Eerste Klasse

The first match of new season for the 3-A team was an away game against Punjab CC in Rotterdam. The home team won the toss and elected to bat under cold and damp conditions.

The match started with a hint of rain around the corner so it was reduced to 35 overs per side. Captain Jan Willem won the toss and chose to bat