The winning six

In Saturday’s first of three T20 games between Canadian College Cricket and American College Cricket: American CC won the toss and elected to bat but did not bat very well. American CC 85 all out from 14.3 overs. Canadian CC’s openers hit some early boundaries, one opener survived a couple of lbw appeals. Anand Erramilli fell for 41, his opening partner went on to hit the game winning 6 after 9.2 overs when Canadian CC reached 91/2.

Summary scores Game 1:
American College Cricket 85 all out (14.3 overs; Thushanth Pillai 25, Ravi Mahadevan 21, Waleed Hassan 4wkts/14r, Yadwinder Sharma 3wkts/8r)
Canadian College Cricket 91/2 (9.2 overs; Anand Erramilli 41, Luqman Rafique 36*, Aditya Raj 2wkts/5r)

Summary scores for Game 2
Canada College Cricket 233 (20 overs; Hassan Mirza 130*, Anand Erramilli 63, Yug Rao 4 wkts for TBA)
American College Cricket 196/7 (20 overs: Aditya Raj 56, Aditya Santhanam 42, Sahil [wore #2] 41)
Result: Canada College Cricket won by 37 runs.
Video from game 2 follows:-

Runs flowed early and freely in the Canadian innings, the two top scorers were the openers.
The two Adityas (Aditya Raj with 56 and Aditya Santhanam 42) gave the American innings a good start but three middle order batsmen then made between just 3 and 5. Sahil struck 41 in between Yug Rao taking 4 wickets.
The Great White North was closer to white hot than ice and snow. Outfield grass is kept short and the ground was designed to meet the needs of middle school players.
Canadian College Cricket innings has 218 runs from the bat and 15 extras (sundries); 6 byes, 9 wides
American College Cricket innings has 173 from the bat and 23 extras (sundries); 8 byes, 15 wides.

Ryerson beat Laurier in the opening match of the weekend.
Eddie Norfolk