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2012-10-05 Cathedral CC Awards Night

Cathedral CC invites the cricket community to their annual awards night. See poster below.

2012-10-04 Capitals win their first Challenge Division trophy

Report by Mustafa Popalzai

Capital United Cricket club were playing in their first Challenge division final in their short third year history in OVCC; on the other hand Canterbury cricket club were looking to win their 5th challenge division championship in the past 7 years. However, it was by no fluke that Capital United C.C were in the final; they were 7-3 in the regular season and undefeated 5-0 in the Super Six stages with heavy margin wins against all other top teams in the league including thrashing Defence C.C in the semis by a dominating 10 wickets.

It was looking to be an exciting and very competitive final and the game definitely did not disappoint. Capital United's skipper Khoshal Nasery won the toss and decided to field first. The opening batting pair for Canterbury C.C did not last long as Nabiullah Nawabi was perfectly using the conditions and swinging the ball both ways. Nawabi snatched the wickets of Zafar Tayyab, Akber Hussain and Asif Sheikh in his first spell. Canterbury were still in the game as their batting ace card, Zain Mahmood was dropped in the slips off the bowling of Mykell Reifer. However, Capital United did not allow Canterbury to take full advantage of their second chances that they were getting and Canterbury started to lose wickets in a hurry without adding too many runs on the board. Canterbury's Harris Chaudary (27 off 40 balls) and Mubasim Bhnounr (26 off 57 balls) helped their team post a tricky total considering the grass level and cold conditions at Rideau Hall. Canterbury C.C were all out for 126 runs and the star of the bowlers were Nabiullah Nawabi (3-42), Mykell Reifer (3-20 off his 10 overs) while Ayub Ahmadzai also impressed with figures of (2-8 off his 4.4 overs).

Capital United were now chasing 127 runs and they got off to a very good start and were cruising at one stage for 0-39. It looked like Ayub Ahmadzai and Ajmal Omar who has been in tremendous form in the playoffs would comfortably bring CUCC home. However, Canterbury had other plans; Capital United lost 3 of their top order batsmen for just seven runs and the score board read 3-46 all of the sudden. It looked like it will be another championship for Canterbury and it looked like it will be another batting collapse by Capital United C.C. The new batsmen at the crease were Mustafa Popalzai and Tariq Hakimyar and they had a mountain to climb considering the tight bowling and fielding and enormous pressure which was being placed on the batsmen at the crease. In the next five over, only 4 runs came off the bat and Mustafa Popalzai was dropped by Vikram Arora off the bowling of Asif Sheikh in the slip. However, Mustafa Popalzai choose his favorite spot over mid-wicket and struck two huge back to back sixes off the bowling off Asif Sheikh. Shortly after, the batsmen started timing the ball and were looking confident. The momentum was slowly shifting and Capital United batsmen started to feel comfortable at the wicket. Tariq Hakimyar was playing a solid supporting knock and Mustafa Popalzai continued his stroke play. Canterbury C.C never looked in the game after that and Mustafa Popalzai struck another six over mid-wicket to pass the target and win the game for Capital United. The pair of Mustafa Popalzai (46 off 70 3x6, 2x4) and Tariq Hakimyar (26 off 84 1x6) added an unbeaten 91 runs partnership to hand Capital United its first Challenge division championship in its only third year of existence in the league. They earned a much deserving trophy and the results of their top quality cricket during the season had definitely paid off now.

2012-10-03 Cathedral CC Awards Night

Cathedral CC invites the cricket community to their annual awards night.

2012-07-20 Annual Burghs Memorial Game

Please join New Edinburgh cricket club as they host their annual memorial game. [

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2012-06-05

2012 Season is underway

The 2012 season is finally underway. The Defending Challenge division Champs, Burghs have started the season with 3 consecutive losses but will be looking at improving their record in the next few weeks. Cathedral and Defence has started their season promisingly by winning their first three games and seem in good form.

2012-01-10

OVCC Awards Night

The OVCC awards night is scheduled for Friday, January 20, 2012 at 6:30 PM. The Awards night celebrates the achievement of individual players as well as teams. Come out and cheer for the award winners and mingle with the cricket community.

The venue for the awards night is:

VILLA MARCONI
1026 Baseline Road.

The ticket price is $20 person and this includes the Buffet Dinner.

2011-09-14 Defence to meet Burghs in the final of Challenge division

2011 will certainly go down as the year when possibly the best ever two semifinals games were played in the CHG Division. Last Sunday, Defence played Cathedral at Lynda Lane while Burghs took on defending champs Canterbury in what were two great games of cricket.

At the end of the first innings in both games, the winning target was in excess of 200 runs.And who would have thought that both teams would chase it ? Burghs and defence showed that they meant business in chasing down 208 and 209 respectively. The top order came to the party for Burghs, who reached their target in 42 overs for the loss of 4 wickets only. Defence in turn relied on their middle order to do a rescue act and take Defence home in the 49th over with 2 wickets to spare. Nimeesh Kaushal (65) and Karandeep Singh (82) were the MoMs for Burgsh and defence respectively. On the losing side, Asif Sheikh and Amin Adil had another solid game for Cathedral, but their efforts fell short. On canterbury's side, Zain put in another all-round effrort, but it was not enough to get a win for his side.

The Challenge Finals on Saturday will be a showdown between traditional rivals, Burghs and Defence, in what should be a thrilling finish to the Challenge Division. Both teams showed great determination in chasing tough targets in their semifinal game and are deserving finalists after a great regular season. The weather forecast looks good on Saturday in what should be another great day for cricket in Ottawa. [Burghs Vs Canterbury] [Defence Vs Cathedral]

2011-09-13

Ottawa repeat as Citizen Division Champs

Ottawa needed only 14 overs to conquer the Royals batting lineup and repeat as Citizen Division Champs. The Ottawa spinners made the difference again as they made the target of 122 runs look more like 222 runs. None of the Royals batsmen stuck around long enough to give their team a chance at a gettable target under favourable conditions to bat. Fahd Shamim was the clear choice for MoM for hitting the highest runs (28) and then taking the most wickets (5/17) in the match. The game was a disappointing end to the Royals' season who had played brilliantly all year. Ottawa had great crowd support and did not disappoint them. Ottawa will rejoice, but after winning the cup twice, will set their sights higher for next year. [CTZ Div Finals Scorecard]

2011-09-13 Cecil Marshall Passed Away

Mr. Cecil Marshall (1939-2011) was actively involved in OVCC over many years as a player and an Umpire. A fine cricketer, he represented Canada at the 1979 World Cup. Before his retirement from Ottawa cricket, he was an integral part of Defence CC. Mr. Marshall will be fondly remembered. Funeral Mass will take place on Wednesday September 14th at 11:00am at the Good Shepherd Church, 3092 Innes Road, Gloucester followed by an internment in Montreal at the Mount Royal Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.heritagefh.ca [Orbituary (Ottawa Citizen)] [Cricinfo profile]

2011-09-08 Ottawa face-off against the Royals for Citizen Division Glory

Suthershan Manhas was the MoM for his all-round contribution towards the Royals' victory over Capital CC. Suthershan made 28 runs and more significantly took 6/24 to secure his teams's slot in the finals. Capitals continued their dismal show in the playoff crashing out the Citizen Division semifinals without much of a fight.

The other semifinals encounter proved to be much more competitive with Ottawa edging Defence by 15 runs to secure their second successive berth into the finals. Themiya was MoM for his all-round peformance. The match could have gone either way when Defence was at 127/7 but Ottawa made quick work of the tail to limit Defence to 135 runs.

Its Ottawa Vs Royals in the finals on Saturday at Rideau Hall. [Ott Vs Def Scorecard] [Royals s Capital Scorecard]

2011-09-07 Super Six Roundup

Burghs continued their dominance of the Challenge Division by winning all 4 of their Super Six games. They now play Defending Champs, Canterbury in the Semis on Sunday at RH1. Cathedral was certainly the most improved team in the Super Six, winning 3 out of 4 games after a dismal regular season. Cathedral faces off with defence in the other semis.

Zain Mahmood was the highest scorer in Super Six (216 runs) and owner of the highest score (141*). Ahmad Shah (183 runs) and Bhounr Mubasim(137 runs) were the 2nd and 3rd highest run-scorers.

Asif Sheikh was the highest wicket-taker with 15 wickets, followed by Ayoub Ahmedzai and Harpreet Nanda with 10 each.

The highest partnership was of 129 runs between Zain mahmood and Imran Lakhani.

2011-09-02 Zain Makes 141 not out !

Zain scored 141 n.o. (6 sixes, 10 fours) to rescue Canterbury from 83/6 to a respectable 218 runs. Zain and Imran Lakhani's partnership of 129 runs earned Canterbury their first victory of the Super Six after they had lost their first game to Defence. Zain who scored over 600 runs last season has had a relatively quiter season with the bat but his form may have picked up just in time.

Burghs with consecutive wins on the first weekend of Super-Six remain on top with 13 points. Catehdral also won both their games and are tied second with Defence. Royals and Capital remain winless and will face elimination unless they win on Saturday. [Cbury Vs Royals Scorecard]

2011-09-01 Citizen Semis showdown this Monday

Ottawa takes on Defence Royals and Capitals take on Royals in the CTZ Semis this Monday. Ottawa finished first overall in the CTZ division (42 points) and will start as firm favourites to defend their title.

2011-08-26 Individual records at the end of the Regular season of CHG division

There have only been Two Hundreds at the end of the regular season of the CHG division. Karan's (Defence) explosive century led to Defence's imposing 300+ total and to the most lopsided victory of the season so far. Karan is also the overall leading scorer with 285 runs. Nana (OCC) made the other hundred in a successful chase against Cathedral.

Delawar Ahmedzai's 6/26 against Nepean ranks as the best bowling figures in a match. Overall, the leading wicket-taker is Anshul Singh (Defence) with 20 wickets. Anshul is also the leading all-rounder as he also has 245 runs to his name (2nd on the Top 10 Batting list).

Rajiv Bhatia (Defence) is the leading wicket-taker in the league with 13 dismissals. Defence has the top scorer, highest wicket-taker and most prolific wicket-keeper in the Challenge Division.

Amit Jaitly of Barrhaven has the most catches with 10 to his name.

The highest partnership was registered between Riad Khan and Dennis Fernandez of Cathedral who put on 128 runs versus Barrhaven on RH1.

[Most lopsided win] [Best bowling figures] [Highest partnership]

2011-08-23 Burghs finish on top of Challenge Division at the end of regular season

Burghs won their last 2 Challenge division games last weekend to finish with the most number of points at the end of the regular season.
Ottawa had to win against the Burghs on sunday, but lost in a close finish after putting up a valiant defense of their 116 runs total. Nana tore through the top order of the Burghs to give Ottawa a chance but the Burghs held on to win with 2 wickets left.

Defence, Burghs and the Royals make it through to the Super Six with four bonus points for topping their individual groups.

In the Citizen division, Ottawa. Royals, Capital and Defence are through to the semifnals. Defence beat Canterbury on sunday to eliminate them out of the citizen division in a game whose winner would decide who would win the final semifinals spot. [Burghs Vs Cathedral scorecard] [Burghs vs Ottawa] [Def Vs Canterbury]

2011-08-23 The team behind the recent upkeep of Rideau Hall

Notice how the practise nets at Rideau Hall are suddenly playing better and with more consistent bounce or that the Rideau Hall changerooms have a fresh coat of paint on them ? The team responsible for these changes include Dennis Fernandez (pictured on right), Errol Daniels (pictured on left), Karandeep Singh and Boysie Nandlal. Errol and Boysie are Rideau Hall execs whereas Dennis and Karan were volunteers who contributed their time and energy to make Rideau Hall a better place for all of us. Thanks guys !

2011-08-15 Group C - The group of death in Challenge Division

Capital's hard-fought win against Canterbury yesterday kept their chances alive for qualification to the Super Six. However, what that means for both Ottawa and Royals CC is that they must win their final regular season game next Sunday to advance to the next round or be eliminated.

Group A is already decided with Defence CC topping the group and earning 4 bonus points in Super Six. Group B is a fight between Canterbury and Burghs for the bonus points. [Canterbury Vs Capitals]

2011-08-15 Salman Shakeel of Ottawa CC on top of three Top 10 lists

Salman is the highest wicket -taker in both the Challenge and Twenty20 divisions. He is also the top run getter in T20. See Top 10 list above.

2011-08-08 Ottawa pull of an amazing chase

Tharindu Nanayakkara shephered Ottawa's chase of 214 runs with a century after Ottawa were down at 137-7 at one point. Click on link for scorecard. [Ott-Cath Scorecard]

2011-07-18

OVCC are OCA Elite Champions

OVCC have won the OCA Elite Championship by beating Brampton in the Finals. Scorecard and report to follow shortly. The trophy comes with a $1500 cash prize.

2011-07-13

OVCC in Elite Tournament Finals

The OVCC team has reached the final of the OCA Elite Championships. OVCC will be playing Brampton Cricket league in the final.

The final will be played on Saturday July 16th, 2011 at L'Amoureux Park in Scarborough.

Scorecards coming shortly. [Quarterfinals Report] [Semifinals Scorecard]

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