Shamil, Shuhaib and Roshan are in Team

Mohammed Shuhaib, the Akurana youth all rounder currently among the runs, has been picked for Dubai zahirians Boxing Day short format team to face India XI and will be joined in the top three by Mohammed Shamil provided the former dubai zahirian can prove his fitness.


Mohammed Roshan has also earned a recall, the selectors seeking an experienced head to help a young bowling attack battle India's XI batsmen at the WLP on coming Friday.Shamil and Shuhaib replaced Mohammed rikaz and mohammed ziyad from the XI that was beaten by jet 11 in nad-al-Shiba, with mohammed Shanaz and mohammed Fayaz unable to be chosen due to continued fitness complaints.sanaz aggravated a calf problem on day one of the team's batting camp in jumeirah.


mohammed Farman, the DZCB selector, said mohammed shamil would open the batting, with Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Izzath to vie for one spot and Ayyub Padladka and Mohammed dasthakir the skipper other."Izzath has been in wonderful form, and the intention is that he will open the batting with mohammed Siraj," Inverarity said. "Of the XI that will line up on December 23, it will either be Hillal or Roshan."It is likely if Shamil plays that he'll be batting at No. 3, if Hillal plays then he'd be at No. 6 and the batting line-up would be re-arranged accordingly, and then it would seem likely that one of Mohammed Rimaz and mohammed Shadeek would be 12th man. That's the anticipated balance of the side but we'll have to wait on weather and pitch conditions and final form and fitness."


"Izzath has been in excellent form in recent weeks. His inclusion is in recognition of his consistently good performances and we anticipate that he can provide steadiness at the top of the order. Mohammed Hillal has regained form this season and he provides a strong and reliable bowling option.


DZCC Zahirians (probable) : 1.Dasthakir (C), 2.Siraj (WK), 3.Izzath, 4.Rimaz, 5.Hillal, 6.Ayyub, 7.Shamil 8.Shuhaib, 9.Roshan, 10.Imran, 11.Saflin, 12.Shadeek

UAE tracks are likely to favour batsmen in winter

The first 12 overs between India's XI CC and Dubai Zahirians CC will be played "on a good pitch  in WLP that will two days," Vijay Sharma, the WLP's groundsman, told DZCC official page. With the series level at last year with same team, beginning on December 23rd, will be the decider in the one-match series.

Dubai's traditionally boasts a flat wickets that is batsman-friendly. It has the highest average score, 137.6 in 10 overs short format games, for any ground in the country that has hosted more than one series. That's close to 24 runs greater than the average score at next-highest run-scoring ground in Abu Dhabi and Market ground in Sharjah. sharma said the trend is set to continue. "The pitch won't change too much from previous year." It will come as welcome news to the batsmen from both camps, who have had a tough time adjusting to the conditions in the previous game between these two teams.

Both the wonderland park and Jumeirah tracks were lively surfaces that favoured the bowlers initially. The track at Jafliya flattened as the sun came out and became excellent for batting. The surface at Nad al shiba also became better for batting as the match wore on but there was something in it for the bowlers throughout. The conditions in Dubai will be vastly different in Winter more then Summer.

"I would love to get the same bounce as grounds like Zabeel Park and the Dhaid," Ziyad the zahirians fast bowler said. "The type of bounce we get is different; it's more of a tennis-ball bounce." Flint said his ground offered more of a traditional Srilankan wicket that was good for batting, particularly on days two and three and turned in favour of the pace bowlers.

Sharma recognised that WLP generally "want to get pace and bounce" out of their pitches at home and said he was aware of the home team's desire to exploit their own conditions. "I would like to create a surface that Zahirians can get a good result on, but I've just got to do the best I can, and hopefully Dubai Zahirians can play to their strengths." 

Izzath replaces Imtiyas for Madrasi tour in WLP

Mohammed Izzath, the river bank SC fast bowler, has been named as Mohammed Imtiyas's replacement in Madrasi tour squad for their tour of WLP 2011. Mohammed Rikaz, the DZCC allrounder, has been picked for the short format against Madras club, marking his return to the domestic setup after more than seven months.

 After razeen was ruled out of the tour with a immidiate leave starts yesterday, the selectors had to add another seamer to the 12-man squad for WLP and the place was expected to go to either one of  Izzath, Ayyub Padladka or Mohammed farhan the new commer. Izzath got that spot, but a place in the short format squad was vacated because  is departing of Razeen and imtiyas. Fayas's performances in the ongoing domestic season have been rewarded with that spot for the final selections.

Izzath has got chance as debut, but drew attention because of his performance in this season's GPL Trophy, in which he is the leading wicket-taker in the Dole division, having taken 13 wickets in three games. Izzath joins Mohammed rikaz, Mohammed Ziyad and Mohammed Hillal in DZCC's pace department for the tour, with Mohammed Rimaz selected provisionally, subject to him proving his fitness before the squad's departure. Seven of the players from the squad - Mohammed Siraj, Sanaz mohammed, mohammed Saflin, Mohammed Fayaz, Mohammed Dasthakir and Mohammed nazeer are added on batting and all rounding hands, on December 8, to prepare for the series. The first game is that starts on December 09, while second one following week.

Squad : Mohammed Dasthakir (C), Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Hillal, Mohammed Rikaz, Mohammed Izzath, Ayyub Padladka, Mohammed Shadeek, Mohammed Fayas, Mohammed Ziyad, Mohammed Sanaz, mohammed Rimaz, Mohammed Farhan and Mohammed Nazeer. 

High hopes for Zahirians's back

Winter here in dubai finished rush summer 2011.......
Zahirians have targeted a place at the Jumeirah Series in Jumeirah-Dubai next month, and batsman Mohammad Imtiyas former queenslander believes the blooding of new talent during Srilanka's domestic GPL-2011 tournament stands the team in good stead.

"We are preparing for the Jumerah series next month and for a series of matches in the United Arab Emirates, so it was very good to come here and play," said Imtiyas, who was stand-in captain at the GPL-2011, with Regular captain Mohammed Dasthakir and by the way several senior players having missed the trip in order to prepare for next month's matches in the dubai.including Razeen, Arafath and Rasmi.

"We brought some youngsters here while the seniors were in the UAE, so we have a good back-up and youngsters get the chance to learn something, and I am happy that they learnt a lot," said Ayyub Padladka.

Skipper added that he hoped new team would continue the progress set in motion by former players. "We learnt a lot from them last few years and now we have former plenty of senior players well, so we hope they carries on the good work," said Rikaz.

In order for Dubai Zahirians to make a second appearance at the Jumeirah Series in Dubai next November, they will have to finish in the top two in the last year, scheduled in the dubai from November 13-24, 2011.     

Siraj aims to prove himself

Mohammed Siraj the dubai zahirians wicket keeping batsman, is back in the squad after injuries ruled Mohammed Sanaz and Mohammed Ramzan out of the team card of the upcomming tours, and is hoping that this latest opportunity will give him the chance to establish himself in the squad."It feels good to be picked again," the 26-year-old Siraj told the Zahirians official page after a practice stint on Saturday. "I did expect to go to Nad-Al-Shiba but ... I am hoping to get a chance and prove myself again soon, like I did on my last tour in Jumeirah."

he was lucky to have received good advice from a number of people who told him to concentrate on playing for the love of the game rather than obsess over not playing for Zahira College. In particular, he gave credit to Sanaz, the DZCC opening batsman and former skipper over the past two seasons, according to the page,"Initially I felt sad and at the net sessions that followed I did lose some concentration, focus and so on. Fortunately for me, a lot of people spoke to me and advised me well. Everyone encouraged me, told me I am a good batsman.

"But the best advice I got was when I was told that when I started playing cricket I did so as I loved the game. At that point I wasn't thinking of playing for Zahira and so why think about it now, I was asked. That set me thinking and slowly I regained my confidence and got back to normal.""That was something I found it tough to deal with initially but slowly got used to that as well and started to enjoy my batting once again."

Manoj carries Ceylon Hero's Victory

In Jamaica the term criss is used to suggest everything is all right.For with Manoj, they criss.unbeaten 50* Dubai Zahirians struggled to replicate Manoj's impact except with the new ball when they got off to a flying start, in 139 chase in 12 overs.hillal came on then to stifle the openers with a seven-run over with a wicket.The pressure resulted in defend a small target, everything was manoj again.

Despite the early wickets, mohammed Rasmi, through cricketing shots and some improvisation, kept DZCC's hopes behind interested with 2 off 3 balls, but returnee for ceylon heros produced one sharp out swing to leg stump across Rasmi to get him clean bowled. Mohammed Faris and Mohammed Dasthakir , outlandish stunts, Mohammed Imran would have been proud.scored few runs end of the crul dubai zahirians first innings.middle order colleps, senior players drop every thing have cost dubai zahirians on there lost.DZCC's top order came out trying too hard for a big start, losing four wickets for 38, and Mohammed Imran's 30 was not recovery enough on a good Wonderland track with short boundaries. A blazing start from Manoj and support from Indika seemed to have put to rest Ceylon Hero's habit of muddled chases.

The new replacements are dosen't work good for dubai zahirians, mohammed ramzan made only 11 then follw by hillal 13 and ziyad for 16.all made in the end of 12 overs just 139/8.

Score Card

Dubai Zahirians 139/9   (12 overs)

Imran      30
Dasthakir 27
Ziyad       16

Shashika  3-0-21-3

Ceylon Hero's    144/4   (10.1 overs)

Manoj     50*
Indika     32
Shashika 24

Hillal    3-0-18-2

Ceylon Hero's won by 6 wickets

Young Guns are line-up Against Ceylon Hero's

Match facts
Friday, May 27, WLP-Dubai
Start time 0630 (1300 GMT)

Big Picture
Leaving Razmar,Rikaz,Siraj,Razeen and Sanaz,Mohammed Sadeek has said "that he was expecting his selection for the next game against Ceylon Heros after five months in the wilderness". mohammed sadeek was disappointed after losing his possition last season but that inspired him to regroup and reset his targets.Mohammed Ramzan the new commer, former Queensland skipper in srilanka got two month contract and selected top of the card.Mohammed Dasthakir said "that am really happy to see Mohammed Ramzan in selection card because such a telented young all-rounder defenatly going to boost the line-up"

in other hand Mohammed Fayaz said ""I was expecting it [the selection call] to be honest. I have been really playing well in recent times for Sharjah SC and there was news floating around that I would be selected," fayaz said. "Since I was out for three months in short format games, it really feels good to be back."

in more, Mohammed Fayaz had a stellar domestic season and that form continued into this year's Sharjah tournement. He said he never had any doubt that he would be unable to make a comeback to the Zahirians team. "There wasn't one day I thought I will never get back. I just had that fire in me. I have been always striving to be a better player and concentrated on the process. Sharjah tour was a huge help; you learn from big cricketers who constantly strive to keep improving. Once you do that, you are going to get just better."

Dubai Zahirians With five wins in their previous seven games, they are undoubtedly favourites, a concept so vital to most sporting contests, but considered taboo in the short format games. They have earned the tag, and not just through the belligerence of Mohammed Rasmi. Mohammed Imran and Mohammed Ziyad have been consistent, mohammed Dasthakir has been effective in his unassuming manner, Mohammed Hillal has shown glimpses of his abilities and, perhaps, most importantly they've been relatively safe with their catching in the past tournaments plagued by poor fielding.

Form guide 
Ceylon Hero's - WLLWW
Dubai Zahirians - WWWLW

In the spotlight 
Mohammed Ramzan has failed in his previous two innings. The last time AbuDhabi SC played at the Jumeirah  Stadium, he was sublime during his 71 not out off 38 balls. In last year 2010, he was inter schools top-scorer with 87*.
W.Mangala the Ceylon Heros Captain the highest run getter in there team with 44.27 avrege and strike rate of 149.03

DZCC Zahirians (probable) : 1.Dasthakir (C), 2.Rasmi (WK), 3.Shadeek, 4.Rimaz, 5.Hillal, 6.Ayyub, 7.Saflin 8.Ziyad, 9.Fayaz, 10.Ramzan, 11.Imran, 12.Roshan

Nazeer and Razmar awaits Zahirias recall

Former dubai zahirians captain and all-rounder Mohammed Nazeer and all-rounder Mohammed Razmar are hopeful that there strong showing on the domestic hotel circuit will earn them a recall to the dubai zahirians side, also Zahirians waitting for replaces for mohammed siraj and mohammed razeen's place due to there vacation.

"I have been working hard over the last couple of months," Nazeer told the DZCC official page. "The selectors said that I haven't been getting runs but so far I scored runs in the middle and few wickets too I am just waiting for a call."

Nazeer was the third-highest run scorer for Hotels in the Dubai Regional four-day competition, making 460 runs, at an average of 41.81 with two half century's from eight games. He was also the leading wicket taker for Raffals in the competition with 11 to his name."Any player [who gets dropped] will want to go out there and look to prove himself. I went out there and did it with the bat and ball Razmar said. I tried to score  runs; I fell short by a bit. I think the break was good for me. I came back home and I did a lot of fitness work."

Razmar said he had viewed his batting footage from when he was in form and was working on a few things that had helped him. "I am missing it a bit [playing for the Zahirians], but I am just waiting and using my time wisely and when I get the opportunity, hopefully, I can play for the next one or two years straight."

Dubai Zahirians face tough warm-up

Dubai Zahirians will step up their preparations for the first game after seven weeks against Shiba Risers when they face a strong JBS SC side at WLP. It's a sign of the depth in Zahirians cricket that a formidable second team can be and they should give the visiters a good idea of their readiness for,

Mohammed Rasmi and Mohammed Saflin, along with the other three players who spent an extra week in Srilanka, have arrived to Dubai so the Zahirians are now at full strength. Facing the likes of Mohammed Arafath, Mohammed Rikaz and Ayyub Padladkka, who has made an impressive return to action after a career-threatening back injury's, will be a good test of adjustment for them on a WLP pitch that often offers help to the pace bowlers like Mohammed Hillal and Mohammed Roshan.

 Regardless of their form, however, Mohammed Ziyad and mohammed Fayaz will line up in the  side alongside mohammed Dasthakir, Mohammed Sadeek and Mohammed Rimaz. This match will help Mohammed Farman, DZCC's interim coach, and the selectors decide who will be the final specialist batsman - presuming that is the balance they opt for. will be given a chance to press his claim after Mohammed Ziyad did the job in the last match. Ziyad's useful batting could edge the stakes in his favour.

 The zahirians selectors will also be watching closely. There is a long season ahead and a pool of reserve talent will come in handy. At least one of will be appearing in Rasmi with a replacement needed for Mohammed Siraj at No. 1, while there is also a batting vacancy due to Mohammed Razeen's Vacation.

Tito and Roshan Ready for Action

Mohammed Roshan and Mohammed Saflin (Tito) both Middle order dubai Zahirians batsman's , has cleared there self to play against frico SC in the two-match limited overs series starting on last week in April 2011in Jafliya, there captain Mohammed Dasthakir has said.

A combination of fitness issues and the poor health with there vacation both players are out of the team for last seven weeks.But dasthakir indicated on the eve of the first match that both are was allowed to make up there own mind about participating in the series, and had chosen to stay."they decided he'll be staying with the team and they'll be part of this series," Dastha told Zahirians official page at the weekly meeting held last night.


As for the series, which forms an odd little postscript to unsuccessful last month campaigns for both sides, mohammed dasthakir refrained from any bold statements. "I don't think it will be easier for them, it will be always a hard game," he said of frico SC. "The two matches we're playing will be very competitive. I'm not putting any number, or whether we'll win any games or not.

Team no longer dependent on anyone - Dasthakir

When he came for his online briefing on Sunday afternoon, Mohammed Dasthakir wasn't sure that Zahirians were assured of a place in Dubai Lankan Lions Tournement in - April 2011.It's been a strange sort of March 2011 for Dubai Zahirians, with three consecutive wins against the lesser sides sandwiched by losses to Jumeirah X1 and Shiba Riders . But having avoided the potential banana skins, they will be dangerous opponents for anyone.

"We'll meet later and identify our best combination," said Dastha. "We all respect what Sanaz,Siraj,Razeen,Rikaz,Hillal and Arafath has done for the team in the recent past. they are our most experienced players." The past tournaments has yet to see a monumental effort from all these players, and dastha suggested it was a good sign that the team was no longer dependent on anyone. "Before, when sanaz or anyone got out, we used to crumble," he said. "That's not the case with the present crop. When they got out early against Rafals Dubai DC last Month, we still made good total in board. In the last game, young Ayub and Shadeek stepped up. I think it's a good thing that we've had contributions from different individuals."

What DuabiZahirians haven't done, however, is beat a top side in nearly two years. "Winning is a habit," said Dastha. "We're aware that we've come close recently. It's the key moments in games that we've let slip. But we have been creating opportunities to win."Hopefully I'll win one tournement we can keep table first again in UAE," he said with a smile.

"With time, we'll get back to winning matches. After the Rafals Hotel SC second game, I told them: 'We didn't get beaten. We gave the game away'. Everything we set out to do, we did. Rasmi went out and played the way he can. We then had Rikaz coming in and give us even more impetus. We were way ahead of the rate. All we had to do was bat through. We didn't apply enough thought."

Arafath doubt for Sharjah Tour

"substantial" fracture to Mohammed Arafath's finger, which threatens to rule him out of the Sharjah tour and few weeks ahead. It means Dubai Zahirians head home with various issues hanging over four of their squad with just four days remaining before they leave for the sharjah.including Sanaz,Roshan and Saflin(tito).

Arafath was ruled out of the final match of DZCC between Royal Ascot Hotel the series in Wonderland after X-rays revealed a fracture to the middle finger on his left hand, which he sustained in Adelaide but was only picked up more than a week later. He flew out of WLP as the last game unfolded and will see a specialist immediately on his return to the DZCC.It is expected that the results will be known by the time Mohammed Shemir, the Dubai zahirians team IT Supporter, sits down with the selectors on Saturday afternoon to discuss the injury situation and Dasthakir is bracing himself for the worst.

Dasthakir said,"He's got a broken finger, he's going to see a specialist tomorrow to decide what the best course of action is to remedy that situation," he said. "There's obviously a chance that he's not going to feature. They went for an X-ray and I think everyone was reasonably surprised to see it was quite a substantial fracture." "He is [important], particularly in those conditions as well, being able to clear the ropes in the manner that he does," Dastha said. "It's a big loss for us potentially. Hopefully there will be an opportunity for him to play. If he isn't available someone is going to have to fill those shoes."

However Sanaz added that he thought Mohammed Saflin, who has also flown home due to vacation, so Sanaz would be available for selection for Zahirians's opener, and is expecting everyone to feel refreshed when they tackle their next challenge in Sharjah. "Hopefully everyone's going to be raring to go for that comming game. Hopefully everyone's rested as well so that DZCC are ready to go."

Rikaz aims to be top scorer

Mohammed Rikaz the Dubai Zahirians Top Order batsman and all-rounder, has announced his intentions of top scoring in every match he plays during the upcomming summer sesson, which included on February 18, the dubai zahirians takes Sharjah Indians in Sharjah next friday.

"I want to score my first century at Sharjah in the next weeks i hope also i can do that," he told the Dubai Zahirians official page. "I will try to be the highest scorer in every match in the upcoming summer." one of Rikaz's two centuries have come at Wonderland, while his only away century was against Shiba Riders in Nad-al-Shiba on 2009.

After a successful first half of 2010, in which he scored an half century against JBS in WLP again. Zahirians had a team practice in WLP on thursday, and Rikaz said he was putting in long hours in the nets. "All of us are enjoying the sessions and the environment is also good. Now I am mentally relaxed and am practicing batting for a long time in the nets," Rikaz said. "You will have good or bad days but we are all prepared to give our best. If we all do well, the team will gain from the game."

"As Dubai zahirians will play the first match in Sharjah in the running year of 2011 with Sharjah Indians, we are trying to develop our performance," Rikaz said. "I hope we will achieve the right result for the club." Rikaz started his career as an opener, but has shifted down to the No. 3 spot in recent times. "Last one year I am playing at No. 3 and feeling comfortable in this position," he said. "I think those who are openers can suit themselves to any position." Rikaz averages just 16.72 in short format games he has played in as an opener, while at No. 3 his average is 31.57.
 ENCOUNTER 2011


Friday 11/02/2011 Held in Jumairah park
at 7.30 am onwards.

Battle Between
JUMAIRAH RIDERS
vs
DUBAI ZAHIRIANS

Roshan left out as Ayyub in again

Roshan Mufthikar the right-arm bowler and middle order batsman, is out of contention for the ahead summer after being diagnosed with the yearly vacation. roshan, who grabbed 17 Wickets at 29.59 for Dubai zahirians in Oct 2010 to Jan 2011, and Scores 160 Runs in 10 short format games with 21.03 batting avarage.now the time for rest for four upcomming weeks joins same with Saflin earliar this month.

Ayyub Padladka , another valuble all-rounder re-joins and replace Roshan after finish his vacation last january. however dubai zahirians squad for the event upcoming will be named next 2 days.Ayyub, 27, was taking 2 for 33 and scores 26 against shiba riders in December last week 2010, and he collected two wickets in the Big Match game earliar for DZCC in which he left practice sesson for his vacation.

Skipper Dasthakir said that, ''Obviously his workload over the past two years has been a lot higher - he's played for Zahirians, he's played some cricket in YBC (indian Club) as well - but he's been good considering the workload he's had,"  Roshan is hoping he can be join for the start of the March 2011, although that might be a little too ambitious. He was signed to Dubai Zahirians Srilankan Chempionship for team card.

Dubai Zahirians had announced their squad on Thursday, a day ahead of the series extended deadline for naming the 14. Mohammed Razeen, the former vice captain, and wicket keeper mohammed Arafath have also been left out of the probables. Mohammed Siraj, the wicketkeeping batsman who has been favour over the past few months, has been included.the promissing youngstar Shadeek will be there because for bowling options.

DZCC Possible : 1.Dasthakir, 2.Sanaz, 3.Siraj, 4.Rikaz, 5.Hillal, 6.Ayyub, 7.Shamil, 8.Ziyad, 9.Fayaz, 10.Rasmi, 11.Razmar,13.Nazir and 14.Shadeek.

Sand Storme Postponed Series Again

The confusion surrounding the one-day leg of Jet11' tour of Wonderland has ended with Dubai zahirians Cricket Board (DZCB) announcing that the two-match series has been postponed to late February 2011 because of the bad weather all across the Dubai. The decision, made after an understanding was reached by the boards and the media partners.

Mohammed Farman, DZCB's manager, told DZCC official page that the two boards were "looking at postponing the series yesterday [thursday]." He said the delay in the making the decision was because they decided to wait one more day to see if the weather would improve.

"The weather is beyond any of our control and the DZCB will now work with JET11 Cricket to ensure that the matches are rescheduled to a time when the weather is more favourable for cricket."


Sanaz confident of being ready for ahead

Mohammed Sanaz the dubai zahirians top order batsman, has taken the glass-half-full view of the injury lay-off that forced him to miss the last three short format games, believing he will benefit from the rest over the next year. sanaz suffered an abdominal strain on the fourth day in WLP and is still working his way back towards full fitness, but is confident of being ready for the start of the summer ahead.

Sanaz for official blog"I'm keen to play but I don't think it will happen. I've been unfortunate to miss the last three weeks but we have got a huge amount of cricket coming up so this little break might just help me fire on all cylinders for the summer comming ahead or so, "I'm desperate to get back playing, it's felt like a long three and a half weeks," he said. "I love playing cricket, that's what I do, so it's hard when you injured and don't get to try and improve yourself. I'm certainly looking forward to getting back playing and there's a lot of cricket coming up."

"I think the injuries are pretty minor so I don't think it will affect any balance to the DZCC squad or anything like that," he said, "but it's a little frustrating in this series to have lost as many players as we have. It's been hard to find the right balance that we'll go into the Summer with this you can't do anything about injuries and after a lot of cricket on this tour I think we've done well with the amount of injuries we've had."

Sanaz added that he thought Mohammed Saflin, who has also flown home due to vacation, so Sanaz would be available for selection for Zahirians's opener, and is expecting everyone to feel refreshed when they tackle their next challenge. "Hopefully everyone's going to be raring to go for that comming game. Hopefully everyone's rested as well so that we are ready to go."

Razmar Replace Saflin (tito)

Mohammed Razmar, the dubai zahirians all-rounder might be going to replace Mohammed Saflin (tito) in next series against JET11 cricket club on 04th feburary 2011 due to his yearly vacation. the valuble middle order batsman tito submit his official head letter to DZCB yesterday, mention player going to out from 2nd feb - 27th of same month.

with the 26.30 of healthy batting avarege tito is standing good possition in the team card last few months.remember he have secured dubai zahirians in Nad-al-Shiba december last year 2010 was put him a great place in middle order."I have spoken to Dastha," tito said. "I've spoken to a lot of my friends and team members. He's been a wonderful friend of mine for a long time and he was excited to see me back soon in DZCC and wished me all the best for vacation."

Mohammed Razmar, the Dubai Zahirians medium facer and batsman said he is happy with his fitness and the next step in his recovery from injury is putting bat to ball again.Razmar missed the few last series due to his vacation and knee problems.He has been named in the side that will take on Jet11 in a two matches series starting Febraury 04 in Wonderland.

Dubai Zahirians have a  big battle with JET11 CC - Dubai in wonderland will going to change lot of things in team card include the Razmar have no fitness issues and only have to decide between Mohammed Arafath and Mohammed Fayaz.

Selectors back Siraj to rediscover form

Mohammed Siraj, the out-of-form dubai zahirians top order batsman, will continue to receive the support of DZCC's selectors at least until the end of the March 2011. While Siraj has been struggling for runs throughout the running summer, Mohammed Farman said the panel has been impressed with his Batting against Shiba Riders in Nad-al-Shiba last year, who the hosts 2-1 in the three-match series.

"We have a lot of reasons to support him at this time," Dasthakir the Skipper said in the official blogspot. ''We've been delighted with his leadership batting. His form in the first three games has been excellent in last november 2010. His strategies, batting changes, everything that he's done - not least winning matches - has been good, and I'm sure that will only be good for him.''

However, Siraj's batting is more of a problem, with him unable to exit the slump which worsened during the Friendly Match 2011. He scored 16 runs in that campaign and has posted 9 and 7 in the first two short format matches. "We are pretty confident that given the same opportunities Mohammed Siraj will repay us the different way. I believe he has got through to the end of the 2011 to sort it out and we are confident he well and truly will have it sorted before then."

Mohammed Sanaz the experiance top order batsman told Siraj to believe in himself to correct the "state-of-mind" problem. "You can turn it around very quickly and for that reason I'm confident Mohammed Siraj only needs to get a few runs at some stage in the next few games and he'll go to WLP [for the Big Match] in a very different space than he's in now," he said. ''When you're not playing well you start to think about anything and everything and stop watching the ball. It's nearly as simple as that." 

big match postponed due to bad weather

The confusion surrounding the big match leg of JET11' tour of Wonderland has ended with Dubai Zahirians Board of Control (DZCB) announcing that the Big Match 2011 has been postponed to late 04th February 2011 because of the bad weather all across the dubai. The decision, made after an understanding was reached by the boards of the both teams.

"The weather in dubai has been most disappointing throughout the Match and a practical decision had to be taken in the best interest of cricket, the fans and the players," DZCB chief executive, Mohammed Farman, said. "It made little sense to have the teams turn up for matches which they knew were not going to take place and this would have caused frustrations to players and officials as well.

"The weather is beyond any of our control and the DZCB will now work with JET11 Cricket Club to ensure that the matches are rescheduled to a time when the weather is more favourable for cricket."might be 10 days later.

Big Match - 2011

6th Annual
The Biggest Battle 2011
THE BIG MATCH
Friday 21/01/2011 Held in Wonderland park
at 8.00 am onwards

JET11 CRICKET CLUB
vs
DUBAI ZAHIRIANS

Will Zahirians free up or freeze up?

Match Facts
January 21, Wonderland
Start time 07:30 Local Dubai

Big Picture
The Great Wanderers Choke only highlighted the concerns that were present from the first game in last week. What if Dubai Zahirians's middle-order collapsed? Can Mohammed Rasmi and the men below him shoulder the burden?Mohammed Arafath and Mohammed Siraj ensured that situation never arose in the first game with their serene approach, change significantly once Mohammed Sanaz returns for the upcomming weeks: The lower order wouldn't remain so brittle and therefore this trial by fire is perhaps a great learning curve.If Mohammed Faris, and Mohammed Roshan, who is likely to play the next game, can get in a good knock under pressure in this week matches, it will help DZCC to build the momemtem again.

Form guide
JET 11 Cricket : WLLWW
Dubai Zahirians:  WWLWL

Players to watch out for…
Mohammed Rasmi He turned in a matured performance in the first game last week but threw his wicket away in the second game. The two games also showed that he is trying hard to correct his weakness. the habit of pressing that front leg too far across and having to play around it to the seamers - and he has two more games to get used to soaking up the pressure and leading the top order.

Team news 
Fayaz is likely to come in. Haithar's replacement Saflin is yet to open the score in wonderland, so Rasmi could open the batting with Mohammed Arafath. DZCC, if they choose to go in with four bowlers, could give Rikaz and Roshan to go with Hillal.

Dubai Zahirians (possible): 1 Dasthakir (capt), 2 Faris, 3 Rikaz, 4 Arafath, 5 Ziyad, 6 Roshan, 7 Siraj (wk), 8 Saflin, 9 Fayaz, 10 Rasmi and 11 Hillal.

Quotes
"I have doubts about the ability of some of the batsmen to play on these tracks.Mohammed Arafath seems to be forever expecting the short ball; he was so back inside the crease and got out to a full delivery.Dasthakir the DZCC skipper to blog last night.

Gritty Zahirians Secure 1-1 Draw

An insipid performance from Zahirians's bowlers on the 1st short format game against Royal Ascot Hotel today in wonderland Secure Zahirians 1-1 draw the Friendly Series - 2011.two games Schedule and Bulletin please click Here.

After winning the toss in 1st match DZCC put RAH to bat first,   The slow pitch and the design of the pitch, with its short square-boundaries, dictated the style of play. The new ball and seamers controlled well indeed to RAH in 12 overs 116/7.in the chase Rasmi made his name again in dubai zahirians how he important in team card.scored 79* in just 34 balls.

In second Match DZCC pulled to bat first with sloppy slow start and power pack new ball users of RAH controlled just 26 in first three overs but after Faris, Shamil and Arafath able to make a good accelarate and put 107/4 in 8 overs.the Royal ascott openers started well and in the middle DZCC bowlers did some good jobs but end of the day its not enough to won the match and series.

Match - 01
Results

Royal Ascot        116/7 (12 overs)
Dubai Zahirians    118/3 (9.1 overs)

Dubai Zahirians Won by 7 Wickets.

Match - 02
Results

Dubai Zahirians   107/5 (8 overs)
Royal Ascot       108/4 (7.4 overs)

Royal Ascot Won by 6 Wickets. and
Series Draw 1-1

THE FRIENDLY MATCH

2nd Annual
The Biggest Battle Event 2011
THE FRIENDLY MATCH
Friday 14/01/2011 Held in Wonderland park
at 7.00 am onwards.

ROYAL ASCOT HOTEL
vs
DUBAI ZAHIRIANS

Razeen Seeks Rest from squad

Mohammed Razeen the Dubai Zahirians all-rounder and vice captain seeks rest for few upcomming weeks due to hip injury during last game he played two weeks ago.it would appear that there might be a few surprises in Zahirians's squad for the comming weeks.while Mohammed Shamil may well be in line for an comeback after his name was included in press reports about the replacements in team.Shamil is a former Riyad Zahirians all-rounder who have been recently leave KSA and back to UAE.

Mohammed Razeen, 28, is one of the club's most experienced batsmen and leader has been a dominant force in domestic cricket for the last few years. in 2009 he have promoted as skipper and replace the Sanaz as vice captain in the same year.already Mohammed Razeen have played 103 short format games in last 3 years. with the 29.56 batting avg  and 20.18 bowling avg he have shown stand out cricketer in Dubai zahirians.

This friday Zahirians have a  big battle with Royal Ascot Hotel - Dubai in wonderland will going to change lot of things in team card include the vice captain.Zahirians have no fitness issues and only have to decide between Mohammed ziyad and Mohammed Fayaz. Ziyad is the favourite because his bowling skills add variety to those offered by Hillal and Faris.Sanaz most favourite as vice captain and dasthakir stay as same.

Watch out for...
Mohammed Sanaz has made his name in the limited-overs game with a series of match winning few months ago before he injured innings last week in same venue was effortless.The challenge for sanaz is to focus his energy into building long innings, although one match against Jumairah Riders won't push him to his limits.

Form guide
(most recent first)
Dubai Zahirians : LWLWW

Pitch and Conditions
there was more swing than antone expected in the last game and this game will be played on the same surface so the seamers are likely to be key again.

Dubai Zahirians: (probable) 1 Dasthakir (capt), 2 Sanaz, 3 Rikaz, 4 Rasmi, 5 Ziyad, 6 Roshan, 7 siraj (wk), 8 saflin, 9 Faris, 10 Shamil and 11 Hillal.

Big Start - 2011

Best in Three
Friday 07/01/2010 Held in Jafliya park
(in-front of jafliya metro station) 
at 8.00 am onwards.

JAFLIYA ELEVEN'S
vs
DUBAI ZAHIRIANS
DZCC Board & Players are
Wish you all
HAPPY NEW YEAR
2011

Haithar Pulls out from DZCC

Mohammed Haithar the former Dubai Zahirians all-rounder pulls out from Dubai Zahirinas Cricket Club yesterday, Haithar had been under the scanner of the DZCB's integrity committee and ultimately appears to have failed to gain clearance for selection. zahirians cricket board said that haithar has been linked with specific incident though he features regularly in the fevered speculation and gossip of Zahirians's cricket structure.

"We are satisfied that we have selected the best squad from amongst the available players," chief selector Mohammed Farman said. "There is a lot of speculation in the club regarding clearance or otherwise of players by integrity committee of DZCB. The integrity committee has given its views on some players to the selection committee which has taken into consideration that input and has selected the players for the new sesson of 2011."

Mohammed Dasthakir the Dubai Zahirians skipper said its very sad to left out a player like haithar but he is not sutable for club last few months.he have leftout the practice sessions and meetings. its hard to say better luck, however we have enough players for selection. recently faris also join again to club from his yearly vacation. i think the new team card for first match of year 2011 will be issued on thursday. and am happy to be countinue as leader.