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Split Innings & Stats with some Twist

Cricbay Champions league. Brain child of Cricbay Community. This was possible by shortening the 2 tournaments. And moreover it was possible by the efforts of all the teams who accommodated the shorter versions and nuisances involved with shortening the tournament.

But finally the Champions league starts this Weekend. A new and exciting format. And that too with SPLIT innings - The Aussie style. A few teams have already played this format in Bay Area. But for most of the teams its New.

In the past Team Captains, batting 2nd had a good idea of the target and could decide on how to set the batting line up. He had the flexibility to change the lineup midway if needed depending on his team's performance or number of wickets lost. But withSplit innings, irrespective if you are batting 1st or 2nd, will the Captain have the same thought process?

It will be fun to see both teams approach in the 1st 10 overs, wherein both teams will try to set a target. Interesting... Decisions of when to take the power play, where to place the fielders, will definitely add a thrill. How many teams have discussed this amongst them; about how to approach split innings. Well there is no room to experiment. 1st match itself is a KNOCK-OUT match. That adds more pressure.....

That said, lets see if the teams batting first, will get their big guns at the start or save them for later. Talking of big Guns, I categorize them as those players who score majority of their runs in 4s and 6s. Arn't these guys lazy. They dont want to run between wickets..... But these folks are the Main weapons and I believe they will make proper use of Power play settings.

Lets leave the thought process and strategies to the Captains. And lets re-cap on some Stats... with a Twist

(Stats are based on playing atleast 20 innings and bowling atleast 40 overs....

Talking of Big Guns, here are some folks you should be aware of. Hopefully you do not face them this weekend ....

For folks with 20+ innings and 200 runs.
Max % of their runs were scored hitting the ball beyond the boundary line.

	Player	Team	M	I	NO	Runs	Avg	4s	6s	Runs in4s & 6s	% of Runs
1	Sunny Singh	Infinity	25	23	2	346	16.48	14	32	248	71.68
2	Ravi Shankar Poker	Poker CC	26	26	2	208	8.67	7	19	142	68.27
3	Chirag Patil	Daakus	45	44	1	465	10.81	23	34	296	63.66
4	Sumanth Gowda	Infinity	31	25	1	224	9.33	12	13	126	56.25
5	Ricky Bakshi	Cosmos CC	28	28	6	278	12.64	19	13	154	55.40
6	Vivek Sawhney	Legends	38	37	3	435	12.79	24	24	240	55.17
7	Buland Malik	Maharajas	55	48	7	300	7.32	14	16	152	50.67
8	Ankit Srivastava	Daredevils	36	29	1	246	8.79	9	14	120	48.78
9	Mihir Patel	Chargers	45	37	5	437	13.66	21	21	210	48.05
10	Shashank Singh	Chargers	41	35	5	465	15.50	30	17	222	47.74
11	Srikanth Budharaju	Thunderdawgs	46	44	5	412	10.56	19	20	196	47.57
12	Arun Ramachandran	Blitz	65	56	11	427	9.49	25	17	202	47.31
13	Chirag Jobanputra	Seamers	46	46	4	641	15.26	33	28	300	46.80
14	Saravanan Chidambaram	Champs XI	25	25	2	408	17.74	22	17	190	46.57
15	Anil Yadav	Legends	43	41	2	336	8.62	21	12	156	46.43
16	Aleem Mohammed	Arslan	36	34	2	217	6.78	7	12	100	46.08
17	Sarin Mehta	Bay Area Titans	36	35	0	363	10.37	13	19	166	45.73
18	Venkat Dabbara	Monsters	44	41	2	377	9.67	17	17	170	45.09
19	Vishak Venkatraman	Weekenders	57	50	7	201	4.67	12	7	90	44.78
20	Syed Amanulla	Rising XI	56	50	16	420	12.35	14	22	188	44.76

For folks with 20+ innings and 500 runs.
These are the evergreen folks. Don't u wish, you had them in your team. All you bowlers watch out. They are going to come after you .....

Champs XI and Challengers seem to have most of these folks. No doubt Jayesh Patil won the Max 6s award at Bata Cup which concluded last weekend.

	Player	Team	M	I	NO	Runs	Avg	4s	6s	Runs in4s & 6s	% of Runs
1	Chirag Jobanputra	Seamers	46	46	4	641	15.26	33	28	300	46.80
2	Harish Sridharan	Squared Leg	39	36	7	512	17.66	16	26	220	42.97
3	Tamijivanan Kathirvelu	Sun Cricket Club	58	57	1	707	12.63	46	19	298	42.15
4	Vinod Khannan	Challengers	74	72	10	792	12.77	56	18	332	41.92
5	Rajat Sar	Champs XI	63	61	6	903	16.42	31	41	370	40.97
6	Sandeep Sagi	Synergy CC	58	53	6	542	11.53	33	13	210	38.75
7	Krish Mantripragada	Cupertino Champions	83	75	17	697	12.02	25	28	268	38.45
8	Navaneeth Annadorai	Challengers	92	74	13	542	8.89	34	12	208	38.38
9	Raghu S	Daakus	75	73	15	629	10.84	34	17	238	37.84
10	Abhinandan Das	Champs XI	111	99	13	862	10.02	40	27	322	37.35
11	Amit Valia	Wisden CC	49	48	4	557	12.66	36	10	204	36.62
12	Anand Kannan	Champs XI	80	78	13	851	13.09	55	15	310	36.43
13	Sandeep Krishnegowda	Dazzlers	58	54	8	758	16.48	34	23	274	36.15
14	Sreeram Yerrapragada	Champs XI	77	62	16	523	11.37	30	11	186	35.56
15	Prashant Shah	Knights	110	101	24	741	9.62	28	25	262	35.36
16	Karthik Deivasigamani	Challengers	85	73	15	769	13.26	39	19	270	35.11
17	Venkataraman S	Syndicate CC	59	56	4	547	10.52	15	22	192	35.10
18	Rohit Chakravarthy	Challengers	105	99	14	1385	16.29	73	31	478	34.51
19	Rajesh Vallepalli	Wielders	74	71	16	575	10.45	18	21	198	34.43
20	Jayesh Patil	Challengers	97	93	13	1162	14.53	62	22	380	32.70

For that matter here are some unique records in Cricbay. Most of us might be aware, but still some interesting facts.

Highest run in an inning:

Whopping 120 runs off 64 balls by Bala R (Chargers). The first ever century in Cricbay.

2 other players missed on their century:

Ashish Chaudhari (Predators) 98* off 69 balls

Rajat Sar (Champs XI) 92* off 47 balls

There are a few big guns that have more number of half centuries under their belt:

Batsman	Team	50s
Bala R	Chargers	5
Abhijeet Manohar	Extreme XI	4
Arvind Sridhar	Eagles	4
Rajat Sar	Champs XI	4
Chirag Gupta	Weekend Champs	3
Dilip Patel	Spartans CC	3
Jones Philip	TCC Chargers	3
Karthik Deivasigamani	Challengers CC	3
Rajendra Badadare	Cheers CC of Foster City	3
Rohit Chakravarthy	Challengers CC	3
Sandesh Bawdekar	Kuchh Bhi XI	3

I wonder how many of these players remember the number of balls they faced to cross 50.

As there was another record during the regular season 2011.

Fastest 50 was scored:

Aleem Mohammed (66 off 22), scored 50 off 14 balls against Darkhorse CC. What a match that was. Arslan was chasing 149 and they lost just by 8 runs. If Aleem had stayed for another over ........ If wishes were horses .....

I can go on and on on out Batsmen, but lets highlight a few of our Bowlers.

Getting to the bowling side:

Another record was set this season:

Robin George (Friends XI) took 7 wickets with bowling figure of 3.4-1-05-7

Previous 7 wicket haul was by the Max wicket taker in Cricbay.

Manju Raja (Unknown XI). His bowling figures were 4-0-12-7

The Best bowling spell for me was that by:

Madhusudhan Ramakrishnan (4-4-0-3) against Falcons on 11/28/2008.

Yes, my friends 4 maiden overs in one Match. I doubt if anyone can match this record.

To list some unique facts, we have many bowlers who have taken 5 wicket haul more than once.
Here are the top 5.

Bowler	Team	O	M	R	W	Avg	Best	5w
Manju Raja	Unknown XI CC	440.50	29	1556	219	7.11	7/12	4
Navaneeth Annadorai	Challengers CC	333.83	33	1010	150	6.73	5/7	3
Girish Jagtiani	Cosmos CC	293.60	9	957	129	7.42	5/5	3
Amit Sarin	Daakus	355.33	13	1275	152	8.39	5/8	3
Anil R	Syndicate CC	192.33	10	706	73	9.67	6/6	3

Who is a better bowler. The one who takes more wickets with a good average, or who is more economical, or who has a better strike rate (wickets per over).

I can list those folks too, but never mind. Maybe some other time. Let me know what you think, As a bowler what do you think is the main quality ?

Well, I will end it here today. Next time I will highlight the All Rounders in our League. And some other stats with some more twist....

Let the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE begin and more importantly have fun playing Cricket on Weekends.

-by Manish Nadkarni on 12 August 2011

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