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Good news is we will field two teams for this 20/20 so everyone can get a chance to play. Another good news is 65 degrees tomorrow so lets have a practice session tomorrow at 4 pm. This may be our only good weather before 20/20 starts next week. Next week temps are not that good. Hope we will see all of you!

Those who have KITS please bring to ground. You can submit your availability at the NCC website. http://www.nationwidecricket.com/practice.php
Those who are new, (your names may not be added yet) so just send an email to KUNAPUR3)

We need to complete the roster and membership formalities by this Friday 03/19/2010 so that we can have the ground for us to practice and be ready for game 1 since it is a home game for us.

1) So lets meet this Friday from 11:30 to 12:30 PM Downtown Plaza 3 cafeteria ( near the monitors on the wall at the end ).
Anyone interested from Dublin office, please contact Uday Vadlatula ( VADLATU@nationwide.com ) for giving membership fees.

Summary by Amal
* NCC won the toss and elected to bat first.
* A couple of good partnerships, between Uday and Praveen and then Uday and Deepak took NCC to 45/2 in 8 overs.
* EKCC then came back strong through some accurate bowling from Akshar and Shreedip to keep the NCC run-rate down. Some bad shots from the NCC batsmen did not help the cause either.
* A last ditch 9th wicket partnership between Shai and Raju added 20 valuable runs and took NCC to 104/8.
* NCC came out all guns blazing for the second half of the game.
* A fiery opening bowling spell by Rajesh (3/12) and Shai (2/8) pegged EKCC on to the back foot from the beginning. They bowled out the first 8 overs, where they claimed 5 EKCC wickets giving away only 20 runs.
* Srinivas and Suresh Bala then came on and kept up the pressure with some accurate bowling.
* The NCC bowlers were supported with some tight fielding and runs were at a premium.
Srinivas (4/13) claimed wickets at regular intervals and EKCC were bundled out for 50.