University of Texas Longhorn Cricket Club

09/15/2016

Hope everyone is having good start to the Fall semester. We will be having out first tryout session on Friday, 9/16! Car pools will be arranged for those who need them. Our first match of the semester is next weekend, so we look forward to getting the team back into gear tomorrow. Please contact us with any further questions!

11/22/2015

Follow the first SouthWest Regionals game for Longhorns. Click on the link for ball to ball update of University of Texas at Austin vs Univeristy of Houston game

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09/30/2015

Match Summary : LCC vs UCC, 9/27

LCC started off their Fall CTCL season with a match against UCC and fell short in a game they should have won.
After losing the toss, new opener James and new captain Shub started the innings solidly very nicely helped along by a large number of extras.They shared an opening stand of more than 100 runs before James departed soon after a well compiled half century. His wicket led to 2 other quick wickets before Ankit and Shub calmed things down and then accelerated well towards the end to take LCC to 191/4 in 28 overs. Shub carried his bat and really held the innings together with a crucial half century.
UCC started batting positively and targeted Zain and raced to a quickfire 50 off 7 overs before the spinners brought things under control. James exchanged his keeping pads with Zain (who kept very well as a part time keeper) and bowled his very useful spin and extracted 2 crucial wickets before holding on to 3 catches and executed a smooth stumping. Shub and Ankit bowled well and brought the required run rate to more than 10 runs an over the last 7 overs. Ankit bowled really well in the death and was very hard to get away, and came very close to getting eventual Man of the Match Daniyal out but Zain dropped the skier, a quite a important drop in the context of the game. UCC captain Daniyal and Hamza got together and hit some l***y blows and got the equation down to 36 off 2 overs before Shub conceded 23 runs in the penultimate over handing the momentum back to UCC who eventually ended the game with a 6 in the last over.
Overall, a solid performance by the team let down by not holding on to the catches and some sloppy death bowling.

Update : Congratulations to Zain as he has joined the board as the Publicity Director.

08/24/2015

Earlier this summer Longhorn Cricket Club encouraged Central Texas Cricket League to take the initiative of teaching elementary school kids about cricket. It looks like the kids enjoyed it a lot. Thank you CTCL for going through with the idea. University of Texas Longhorn Cricket Club will continue to do their part in promoting cricket!!

Hook'em Horns

08/22/2015

08/14/2015

Texas Cricket started their recruiting earlier today at the International Student orientation. Our next round of recruiting will be at the Party on the Plaza. Hope to see some of you guys there

07/02/2015

Regionals maybe in Dallas, TX this time!!

About 1 month after starting the U of Texas Dallas cricket club won the South West Regionals, then 1 month later won the National Championship, led by Sharath Raam

06/06/2015

The venue and dates for 2016 National Championship is out!

The 2016 American College Cricket National Championship will be played March 16 to March 20, 2016. Twenty four college teams will compete at the Central Broward Regional Park and nearby fields in 5 days of intense cricket action & fun to be National Champion and win the Shiv Chanderpaul Trophy. Shiv…

04/05/2015

Match report: LCC vs Ravens, 4th April 2015
Scorecard: http://www.centraltxcricket.org/scorecardfull.php?game_id=1750&ccl_mode=4

Longhorns dished out a dream performance, with both bat and ball to clinch a very important game on Saturday.

After losing the toss and having to bat on a cold, windy morning, few heads were down. Our captain Zain stepped up and decided to open the innings along with Amar. Zain put in a gutsy innings of 51, comprising of only 3 boundaries and a multitude of doubles. Shubham supported him very well at the other end, and upon Zain's dismissal took the role of the more aggressive batsman in the next partnership with Aman. Shubham played some scintillating shots from about the 20th till the 25th over, after which he was run out. Aman and Hassan batted beautifully and pushed the already monstrous total to an almost out of reach 237 in just 30 overs. Hassan ended up with a score of 32 in just 13 balls, with 3 boundaries, and a six, and his partner Aman too smashed 7 boundaries and ended up with 56 of 33 balls.

We knew we had a humongous total on board, but we can never take it easy in cricket. Nilabh and Prateek opened the bowling positively and where Nilabh kept it tight, Prateek bowled unplayable deliveries and struck from the other end. Hassan too came in as 1st change and bowled as tight as he ever could, and gave away only 20 runs in 5 overs, taking 2 wickets, and all this when the asking rate was nearly 11. Shubham and Ankit doubled up on the spin twins for the team, and while the stats don't reflect too much, they bowled well in patches especially since the asking rate was 12+ and the batsmen were simply trying to slog them each ball. Eishaan ended the proceedings for us by picking up the last 2 wickets in a spell that consisted of only 4 balls.

All in all, it was a superb performance with both bat and ball by the Longhorns. If we can keep a check on the extras (36 of them), then in the next few games we are going to be a force to reckon with.

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03/20/2015

UT Longhorns got back late Tuesday night from Fort Lauderdale, FL where they went to attend the American College Cricket Nationals Tournament. Unfortunately, we were not able to finish where we wanted to but we have opened up a portal for future longhorns to come forward and prove their talent.

We want to take this time to thank all our contributors and people that helped us in making the dream of attending the Nationals come true.

First of all, a huge shoutout to our biggest contributors Michael Gale and Majid Ahmed for their generous donations.

I also want to thank our other contributors for their generous donations. Contributors included Hill County Cricket Association(HCCA), Rajeev bhai(Ravens), Uzair Rahim(Panthers) and Ahmed Qureshi (Panthers).

I want to assure all of our contributors that the team and I are very appreciative of all of y'alls gesture and want to thank you for all the support in raising the profile of cricket in colleges

Regards,
Zain Rasheed Rajput
President
Longhorn Cricket Club

UT Longhorns

03/13/2015

Follow the UT Longhorns and University of Florida game ball by ball

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