Every match UCC plays is scored on CricHeroes — every run, every wicket, every caught-and-bowled. At the end of a season, those numbers tell a story that a match report alone cannot: how often the club played, who carried it, and what the year looked like as a whole. The 2025 season is now a closed book, which makes it a good one to look at honestly.
UCC Senior — The 2025 Record
Senior played 79 competitive matches in 2025 — across external leagues and tournaments against clubs from across Bangalore. Of those, 47 were wins, 31 losses, and 1 tie. That is a win rate of just under 60%, maintained across a full year of fixtures against varied opposition. The season was not unbroken — no 79-match season is — but the overall record reflects a team that competed consistently rather than in patches.
The run-scoring was led by Arpit Deshpande, who accumulated 1,624 runs across Senior appearances in 2025 — comfortably the highest tally in the squad. Chandan S (889 runs) and Kunal A (672 runs) were the next most productive with the bat. With the ball, Pratyush Ranjan was the standout — 70 wickets across Senior fixtures for the season. Paras Kancholi (47 wickets) and Arpit Deshpande (46 wickets) completed an all-round picture that underlines how much UCC's key contributors do across both disciplines.
UCC Pluto — Competitive Across the Full Season
Pluto played 71 matches in 2025 — 38 wins, 32 losses, 1 no result. A win rate of just under 54%, across a calendar that ran alongside Senior's without the two squads sharing much in the way of fixtures. Pluto operates as a fully independent competitive team, not a development side, and its 2025 record reflects that.
The batting numbers for Pluto tell a similar story to Senior at the top: Arpit Deshpande led with 1,357 runs, followed by Chandan S with 1,090 — both of whom also featured heavily in Senior. Pratyush Ranjan contributed 970 runs with the bat for Pluto while also taking 57 wickets with the ball — making him the club's single most impactful player across both formats in 2025 when his combined Senior and Pluto contributions are considered.
What 150 Matches in a Year Means
150 matches across two squads over a calendar year works out to roughly three competitive fixtures a week across the club, on average. For an amateur cricket setup with no paid staff, no dedicated ground, and no membership fees, that volume of organised cricket is not incidental — it is the result of a well-run scheduling and logistics operation sustained entirely by the club's members.
It also means that across 2025, a significant number of players received consistent competitive match time. The Stats Hub carries the full 2025 leaderboards across both squads, covering batting averages, strike rates, bowling economy, wicket tallies, and fielding contributions. If you want to know where any specific player stood across the season, the numbers are there.
Looking at 2026
The 2026 season is underway, and both squads have continued playing at the same frequency. UCC's approach hasn't changed: leather ball cricket every weekend, tracked on CricHeroes, open to new members, no fees beyond the ground on match day. If you want to be part of what the 2026 numbers look like at the end of the year — the door is open.
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