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4th DSOBS Inter House Cricket Results
The 4th DSOBS Inter House Cricket was held on March 5, 2005 at the Central
Secretariat grounds. The semi-finals got underway under damp but sunny conditions.
On Ground 1 the last years champs 'K' house led by Sheel Sharma won the toss and put 'T' house led by Donny Singh into bat. Pepe opened the batting with 44 runs in 41 balls and Asheet Lanba's 34 runs off 22 balls along with Extras (35) allowed Tata to reach 148-8 in their 20 overs. Sheel Sharma and Moin Quereshi took a wicket a piece whilst Manas got 2 wickets and Raghav led the analysis with 3 wickets for 28 runs. Manas took on the chase for Kashmir but astute field placing by Donny Singh along with a determined Tata house fielding side resulted in the run outs of Shashi Vaish, Vivek Narain and Raghav Malik. Bowling figures of 2 for 14 by Ambuj Bansal ensured that Kashmir could only muster up 124 runs in their allotted 20 overs. Tata won by 24 runs.
On Ground 2, Arun Khanna beat Sandeep Chandra to the toss and put 'J' house to bat. Seeing the slightly damp conditions the experience voices of the Malhotras (Vipin & Anil) hollered the H house team to get on to the field quickly. Abhishek 'Boozy' Misra scored 61 off 51 balls, Sandeep scored 20 runs off 17 balls and J house finished with a late flourish from Vivek Seth (16 off 8 balls). But the J house start off 33 runs in the first 7 overs meant that Jaipur finished only with 135-8 in their 20 overs. 2 wickets by Shobit and a shrewd last over by Sunil 'Melly' Gupta along with Udayan's brilliant catching helped the H house cause. Hyderabad had no problem in knocking off the runs in the 16th over with Arun Khanna scoring 45 in 31 balls and Pranav Sahai scoring 32 runs in 14 balls.
For the 3rd/4th place, Kashmir rattled up 140-7 in 15 overs after being 52 for 7 at one stage. Shashi Vaish led the way with 43 runs off 30 balls with Sheel Sharma supporting him with 20 runs off 13 balls. Raghav finished the K house innings with 43 runs off 17 balls with four 6's and three 4's. Boozy's 4 for 14 was J house only consolation. Raghav's blitzkrieg seemed to have affected the J house batsman with Boozy scoring 22 runs off 31 balls and only Sandeep Chandra provided the flourish scoring 30 runs off 18 balls. Sheel Sharma showed his versatility by taking 2 wickets for 17 runs. J house could only score 86 runs in their 15 overs.
In the final, Amitoj 'Jonny' Singh led the Hyderabad House assault with 58 runs off 43 balls. With Arun Khanna's 43 in 36 balls, H house reached 149-8 in their 20 overs. Asheet, Dhiru (of 'O' house) Singh, Siddhart took 2 wickets a piece but T house were badly let down by their beer (sorry butter) fingers. Perhaps the liquid arrangements organised by Vipin was part of the overall strategy of Hyderabad House. In reply Tata faltered early with Sandeep Sharma taking a one handed catch to dismiss Pepe off Yadav and Vibhas Prasad accounting for Sanjay Mediratta and Dhiru. But Donny and Asheet rallied for Tata before Mannu bowling his flighted leg spin got Donny caught behind by Anil Malhotra (yes 'Paps' did keep wickets for H house) and Asheet fell to a brilliant catch by Jonny. Indu Shekhar kept up the tempo and finally Tata needed 9 runs off the last over. The tension was palpable and even had the senior DSOBS members including Shanti Bery, Kr. Prem Lal, 'Tishi' Khanna and Vikram Lal(match referee) fully engrossed. The last over bowled by Nalin yielded only 5 runs and hence Hyderabad won by 4 runs.
Gulab Ramchandani gave away the winning trophy to Hyderabad House and the event was attended by a large number of the fraternity including most members of the Board of Governors and the DSOBS executive committee. The event was sponsored by HDFC Mutual Fund, Kotak Bank, Daks clothing and prizes were provided by ITC, Taj Hotels and Tappu Prasad. Each house raised its own Funds with Kashmir House leading the fray. As always Vipin Malhotra organised drinks and Vivek Seth rounded off the event with a well organised Delhi chapter dinner.
Results Summary
Match 1: TATA HOUSE vs KASHMIR HOUSE
Tata House : 148-8 (20 overs)
Pepe - 44 runs in 41 balls
Asheet Lanba - 34 runs in 22 balls.
Raghav took 3 wickets for 28 runs
Manas took 2 wickets for 26 runs
Kashmir House: 124-6 (20 overs)
Manas - 50 runs in 29 balls
Ambuj took 2 wickets for 14 runs
RESULT: T won by 24 runs
Match 2: JAIPUR HOUSE vs HYDERABAD HOUSE
Jaipur House : 135-8 (20 overs)
Abhishek Mishra - 61 runs in 51 balls
Sandeep Chandra - 20 runs in 17 balls
Shobit took 2 wickets for 33 runs.
Hyderabad House: 137-3 (16 overs)
Arun Khanna - 45 runs in 31 balls
Pranav Sahai- 32 runs in 14 balls
Abhishek Mishra took 2 wickets for 18 runs.
RESULT: H wins by 7 wickets
Match 3: KASHMIR HOUSE vs JAIPUR HOUSE
Kashmir House: 140-7 (15 overs)
Shashi Vaish- 43 runs in 30 balls
Raghav Mallik- 43 runs in 17 balls (four 6's)
Abhishek Mishra took 4 wickets for 14 runs
Jaipur House : 86-6 (15 overs)
Abhishek Mishra - 22 runs in 31 balls
Sandeep Chandra- 30 runs in 18 balls.
Sheel Sharma took 2 wickets for 17 runs
RESULT: K win by 54 runs
Match 4: HYDERABAD HOUSE vs TATA HOUSE
Hyderabad House : 149-8 (20 overs)
Amitoj Singh- 58 runs in 43 balls.
Arun Khanna- 43 runs in 36 balls
Asheet Lanba took 2 wickets for 25 runs
Dhiru took 2 wickets for 27 runs
Siddharth took 2 wickets for 27 runs
Tata House : 145-7 (20 Overs)
Donny - 41 runs in 39 balls
Asheet - 38 runs in 29 balls
Nalin Khanna took 3 wickets for 31 runs
RESULT: H win by 4 runs
FINAL RESULT
Winners: Hyderabad House
Runners up: Tata House
3rd Place: Kashmir House
4th Place: Jaipur House