Automotive Robotics-Volleyball Tournament

Its mid summer and everyone is enjoying the nice weather and are participating in some or the other league(Cricket/Tennis) and having fun with volleyball and as the volleyball fever is growing day by day, Automotive Robotics Inc(ARI) has decided to sponsor a league and is calling teams to participate in this event. See the flier below(For those of you who dont know, Sastry Kompella is the man behind this flier). Please pass on this info to all. Also we might need some volunteers for referee's. If you are interested please contact Praveen Mederametla.

Spike well  !!

!!!! Susheels Bachelor's Party !!!!

Susheel during the CITA-2009 league

As most of you know Susheel is losing his bachelor hood next month and we, the Transformers and rest of Peoria are planning for a bachelors party coming weekend !! ... Captain Papi has volunteered and we can all meet up at his place and he promised that the party wont be at his place.

Game 2: Transformers vs Warriors

GAME 2: Transformers vs Warriors : Winner : Transformers

With a loss in the first game against Peoria XI, This was a must win game for the transformers. Warriors won the toss and elected to bat on HOT and HUMID day.. In the very first over of the match, Navin twisted his ankle and was taken outside the field(Later we came to know that he fractured his ankle..Get well soon Navin!!). Excellent spells from Papi and Bhargav restricted the Warriors to 87, Bhargav finishing with 5 wickets.

In the chase, Susheel and Bharat opened the innings(As our regular opener, Vamshi is out of this game due to a knee injury). Susheel was dismissed early and which brought Bhargav to the crease, Both Bhargav and Bharat steadied the innings and played their shots and kept the scoreboard ticking. Bharat played the finest innings of this season(With his wife watching his first game, He had to play well :-)). By the time Bhargav(34) was dismissed, Transformers were in comfortable position in their chase.. Bharat(30+) remained notout with  Ravi(finishing the match with a six) and Hemanth chipping in few runs.

BOTTOM LINE: Fine line and length from the bowlers and sensible batting. With only top 2 teams qualifying the next round, the remaining games will be crucial.

Game 1: Transformers vs Peoria XI

Transformers Vs Peoria XI- Winner: Peoria XI

Transformers entered into CAP Leauge as CITA -2010 champions and with a whole bunch of confidence behind them. There are a few changes to the team. Sastry , The opening bowler and the guy who hit an amazing SIX off the last over(along with Ramesh, Man of the Match in the CITA Semifinals, who played innings of his life time and turned the odds) in a nail biting finish and a win over Bradley Victors in the CITA league semi-finals was traded and joined JAI HO along with Suneel Rajulapati.

Transformers batted first and scored 88 in 16 overs, Praveen Papireddy came into the crease when the transformers were struggling and scored a quick fire 34 to take the Transformers to a defendable score of 88. Peoria started off brilliantly and the runs kept flowing as Parag was demolishing the bowling attack as Saad played the supporter role and Peoria XI quickly crossed 50 by the end of 8 overs.

Transformers came back pretty good when Praveen and Sandeep were bowling exceptionally well and allowed only 20 off the next 5 overs. Match became exciting as they need just 4 of the last over. When the side needed just 1 run of 2 balls, Peoria XI captain kept his cool and steered his side to victory by stealing a single.

BOTTOM LINE: On the whole, Peoria XI played well and are well deserved for this victory. Not scoring enough runs of the first 10 overs and not posting a decent score on a RUN MACHINE pitch and the opposition quickly firing the barrel in the first 10 overs are the reasons for the FIRST loss to Transformers this season.

Current Season

Cricket Association of Peoria (CAP)-2010 League

This is the second tournament for this season organized by Cricket Association of Peoria..Total of 15 teams are participating in this league which has teams from Peoria, Bloomington.

League Round:  The teams are divided into 3 pools and each group has 5 teams and each team will get to play the rest of the teams in the group. Top 2 teams from each pool will qualify for the next round of super 6's.

Super 6's: The top two teams from each pool will be qualified for this round and will play the remaining 5 teams. So each team gets to play 5 games in this round.

Here is how the teams are pooled..

 Transformers Schedule