Four in a row!! 15.03.09

Last week I posted something about our first ever winning streak. This week.... well its a whole different story

The day started as any other day for me. Who am I kidding? I woke up raring to go!! Partly because I wanted the dreadful trashing of Man U by Liverpool to get out of my mind. I hate Liverpool. By 3.30pm, alfonso witnessed our gathering. Mani as usual lost the toss. But its a blessing in disguise I guess as whenever he losses, we as a team seems to win!

We batted first. Our squad has pretty good strength in batting, but our problem lies in application. We seem to have turned a corner there as our batting didn't let us down for the third time in a row. In 11 overs we managed 70 odd, which is a very defendable score. Sridhar and Kaipilla were the main culprits. Mani was his enthusiastic self and just about managed to get off unhurt (we were ready to launch onto him, like always :-)) after he ran Kaipilla and himself out. We ended up playing one over short because of that.

There is this guy, one with an overgrown underwear, whom I was talking about last time in the opposition. Well his underwear had grown this time and also his reach for boundaries. He hit a couple of massive sixes, something we had never managed so far in this ground. I was virtually on the boundary line yet I could only watch the ball sail over me!! It was beautiful hitting.

It took a mishit from that guy and a pretty good catch from Sridhar to dismiss him. It felt as though there are no other batsmen to follow him in our opposition. Ramakrishnan (after a gap of 4 games?) and Raghu tore apart the batting line up as we went on to dominate and win the match convincingly.

That was not all....

We played another game. This time a 6 overs each match.

Our opposition batted first and scored 31 runs. The big hitting guy only turned to see his stumps uprooted by Ramakrishnan. Even I got to bowl. I took a catch of my own bowling and gave 6 runs in that over. Very economic :-)

For the second time in a row, I got run out. This time I thought that I had covered the stumps for the throw, but what a bad judgement that was! I really didn't know where my stumps were. Well, in the end, we romped home in the 5th over itself.

All in all, a very satisfying day.

As always, the bet money went straight to our stomach :-)

4 in a row machi.................

We are on a winning streak!! 8th March 2009

We are on a roll now.

I was on an official trip to Goa and so I did not take part in matches played in the month of February. I heard that we hardly played a competitive match and that we were shown the way out of Alfonso ground by broken glasses.

Now I am back to my playing self. Da Freaks has done something that was never done before in its life time. Winning two back to back matches! We are on a winning streak now. Though its just two games, but who can dispute? :-)

I forgot to mention that we won the second match of the two match day on 1st of March. And now, the big result today. We just didn't win, we won convincingly and that too a bet match for Rs. 50 (I, vicky and mani finished it of with a coffee and a couple of juices :-))

Here is the match analysis:

We batted first. We thought that was a weakness because without knowing the kinda total we should put on board (150 or 200), we end up getting confused and getting not even half of that!! We started off well with ganesh and ramesh powar (goutham) who put on a 14 run partnership for the first wicket, probably our highest in that category! Then, kaipilla and ganesh consolidated and after that ganesh with some bulky dude known to kaipilla.

After some lusty blows by them and some fly swatting by bharat (vv's close friend), we ended up scoring 83 off 12 overs.

Bowling second, we started off well. As usual our catching was a lot to be desired (with vv's close friend dropping a sitter), our ground fielding though was pretty good.

Alas came my turn to bowl. After so many excuses, which I ran out off at the end, I was forced to bowl. I can proudly say that I was the one who made the game alive!! My two overs went for 20 odd runs, vv & co probably wanting to tell me in my face that I was responsible for the loss, if we lost. But that was not to be, WE WON!! Except for one guy with extra grown underwear, no one else stood a chance against us.

I bowled the last over. I thought, well it doesn't matter if I run from half way of the diameter of the ground, I would still end up bowling short and slow. So, I tried to spin the ball and bowled a good over actually giving only 5 runs. I think I would stick to spin from now onwards, if at all I get a chance to bowl :-)

DA FREAKS RULE