Excellent job in organizing and executing the Youth Camp! Kudos to Faraz and Ali who put together this very well organized event. I would also like to thank all of our BayCC and Mashal members who volunteered to coach our kids. We accomplished our mission by introducing and creating interest in Cricket to our youngsters.

• All the pictures of the Youth Camp 2009 are uploaded in the Media Link (We are adding more as they become available)! Enjoy them and give us feedback!
• Here is the link to the article which was published in San Ramon Valley Times on Monday (6/29) Contra Costa Times

What an electric scene it was at the Monarch cricket field in San Ramon…parents arriving for registration, children eager to learn and coaches ready to impart their cricketing skills - The moment had arrived for the inaugural and 1st of its kind Youth Cricket Summer Camp 2009 in San Ramon to kickoff!

Welcome to the Youth Cricket Camp 2009!

BayCC & Mashal respective management would like to thank all the participants & parents for such a successful start!

The planning and behind the scenes numerous meetings to make sure this weeks success has been amazing kudos to the Organizing Management committee and especially all the coaches time & effort - We pray and hope this camp is a huge success for all involved (especially kids, parents and organizers - all walk away with an experience to remember!!)

Thank you and looking forward to this exciting week of June 2009 when 51 kids of east bay learn the exciting and elegant game of Cricket!

Welcome again!

BayCC & Mashal Management

p.s we would appreciate your comments - please provide your feedback - Thanks

                                                               !!!!!!!!!!! I LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!
If the whole team performs as one composite unit , chances are they will surely win, and that is what transpired today at valley view park.

Another good sign  : If it becomes difficult to choose the MOM, it means everyone contributed to the win and i would prefer such a situation rather than a ‘one man show’ with a chance that those efforts can go in vain.

Today, history has noted Baycc blue(BB’s) win against the Falcons.

Everybody on the team participated energetically and saw thru to victory.

BB’s  started with fielding first, restricted the opposition to 56/20. We could have done better had we converted the opportunities that were offered and captilized correctly,but hey that’s the nature of the game.

Many a times  a bowler is not successfull at getting  wickets,but does influence a considerable pressure on the batting side and that helps other bowler to captilize and get wickets,reduce overall run rate/total score and Asim was exactly the man playing that role today, and therefore given the  MOM. He is also returning back to Pakistan( bad news for BB’s ). We wish him a happy journey and prosperous future AND hope he returns back as soon as possible :).
Batting was great as as bowling today. The set target was achieved with contributions from openers to middle order. we reached the winning run in the 14th over.Hope that will help our DRR somewhat.

Thanks,
-Parvinder.

RED WIN - What Incredible News:)

Reds defeated Twenty20 by 4 runs…a close match but what a match for Reds! I am not sure I can give a very colorful commentary of the events as Parvinder can but following is the update of yesterdays BayCC Reds Match against Twenty20 -

Batting - Reds won the toss and decided to bat first..and as usual Zarak & Imran gave a very good start to the innings and we were 25/1 in 6 overs and 37/2 in 10 overs….but not everything is perfect so the middle order collapsed only to resuscitated by late surge of Adnan, Rasim and excellent batting by Latief in the end to make sure Reds had a respectable/defendable total of 73 in 20 overs.

Zarak - 22, Imran & Tanvir - 6, Ali & Sami - 5, Adnan- 8, Rasim - 5 & Latief - 12

Bowling - Incredible start by the bowling attack by Imran, Latief, Saami, Ali, Adnan & Zarak - Twenty20 were reeling in 10 overs for 20 runs and 5 down…at this point we really thought we had the game and could be going home early…but drama is always there in any Blues & Reds match…

11th, 12th & 13th overs we became a little lax and relented 19 runs in 3 overs to give hope to the Twenty20 team and we did not take a wicket until 15th over when Ali made an excellent breakthrough and at this point the score was 44/6 but still it goes on….

Drama prevailed and continued until the 18th over when they needed 11 runs in 12 balls….Ali bowled an excellent 19th over took a wicket and gave only 3 runs 66/8..

Last over…Adnan has nerves and is ready to go…8 runs needed (2 wickets needed by Reds)…excellent start to the over (1 . W Y N 1 W)….got the wicket and then nerves starting showing on both teams 4 runs needed in 3 balls and at last we got an excellent throw from Zarak..Adnan collects and RUN OUT! ALL OUT…..Reds clinch a deserved victory but made it more painful on ourself then necessary….but the WIN is what counts….

Bowling all round was excellent - Imran, Latief, Saami, Zarak, Ali, Adnan, Fayaz…but the pick of the bowlers was definitely Ali with his crucial 16 and 19 overs!

MOM - Zarak for his 22 runs in 24 balls with 2 crucial catches and 1 runout!

Congrats to REDS on excellent WIN;) Cricbay Points - 10 !

Excellent Team effort - lets savor this moment and enjoy especially Imran (Reds Captain) - Relax for the week until Friday:) - before it all begins next weekend another game another positive update….:)

ZK over and out….please make any comments and commentary if I missed anything!

Detail Scorecard

Reposting Parvindar’s email:

By the “special powers” vested in me (VICE-CAPTAIN) , over-riding the Baycc Management, I have decided to introduce a new rule with immediate effect. :))

The rule: All Baycc members who did not (and in future do not) show up yesterday in   “Baycc only” matches get the punishment of “public flogging / lashes”. The same applies to members who leave the field before the match is over.

Number of lashes: Minimum 5 lashes each if less than or equal to 5 members breaking  the rule. Greater than 5 members, each rule breaking member gets the same number of lashes as the total number of members not showing up.

How many did ‘I’ get : All the records (members versus number of lashes) will be maintained on “http://mybaycc. com”.

When: Next Baycc club event.

Way to avoid the lashes: Get a note from home, acknowledging the folly and “He will not be doing this again…” Mind you this will be confirmed, not accepted “as is”.

Any way’s…  moving on…

Another great day of Baycc with cricket although gloomy weather (like some of you who said Yes or abstained from voting at all, did not show up)was playing spoilt-sport with us, nevertheless we continued on..

Arrival scene – Some members standing on the side coolly just cracking jokes…

Some making effort to organize, mark the crease.

Anis bhai in particular, was seen very animated and excited with the spray  marker while marking the crease.

Atif & Imran bargaining over the team splits..

Others more interested only in batting and bowling on the side.

Members were split in 2 teams unevenly as usual between Atif and Imran. Amazingly Imran was found with a weaker team or was that a perception…

Atif and his team batted first… reaching a total of 76 in 16 overs due to some good running between the wickets in addition to couple of 4’s and 6’s (  thanks to bad bowling  mostly)..

While most of the team members were having a ball of a time, cracking jokes, Atif record was stuck on “be serious guys..”  .. after every 2 overs Atif would go “be serious guys” …

Imran’s team started very poorly loosing quick wickets early on.

The Man of the hour, Ali (not our ‘DEER’ Manager)… gave a scare to the opposition with some good hits and running between the wickets, pushing the score in the vicinity of winning the match.

As Ali went on a rampage, Atif’s pitch seemed increasing “be serious guys”..

Oddly, during batting, Imran’s other team members who were also fielding could not field properly or complete the catches when their team members were batting . :))

But as we have learnt from past experience, a score of anything above 60, needs contribution of more than 1 batsman and for the same reason Imran’s team was short of 20 runs.

Thanks,

-Parvinder.