We won the game today and it was quite an impressive display with both bat and ball, the most important thing though was that our fielding was good in spite of a couple of errors. We tend to make more of them every game but it was a good turn around today. When Kaipilla didn't drop a catch, you might understand what I'm talking about.
Mani won the toss and I'm not kidding. We elected to bat. I opened with KV this time. Wondering the faith the guys have in me, at least for their's sake I'm not disappointing, except for the fact that I run out of gas very early!! KV and Kailash (no. 3) hit a few runs but didn't stay in the wicket long, neither did Idli. I got out trying to flick (for a change) the ball on side and got top edged. Vicky, Sridhar, Kaipilla and Raghu steered the boat for some time and Yogesh played a good hand at the end to enable us reach 74 runs off 12 overs.
Both the opposition openers got out quickly before Sriram and Dinesh put on a good partnership and got the run rate above 6. The turning point came when Vicky removed Sriram (bowled, inside edged) in his first over. That was when it looked as if Dinesh's team was running out of steam. When I ran Dinesh out, with good bit of fielding from Raghu, the score was reading 51 from 9 overs. I remember the over before when I asked Sriram how many wickets were left, he casually said that not many got out and got plenty in their tank. Three overs after when I asked him the same question, he was a little embarrassed to admit that this was the last pair, we probably got 4 wickets between those overs. It was not lateral thinking that I left the last pair try three runs off a very wide delivery, it was just that the ball moved in between the bikes and left itself without cover at the other end for Yogesh to effect a run out. Mani, Jug head, Vicky and Raghu bowled well within themselves, Jug head is turning in with good performances with the ball for the past few games, good for us. Yogesh and Sridhar though did not fair well with their bowling as one would expect from them but there is always the next game. Same opponents.
Until then, cheers
Maddy
Mani won the toss and I'm not kidding. We elected to bat. I opened with KV this time. Wondering the faith the guys have in me, at least for their's sake I'm not disappointing, except for the fact that I run out of gas very early!! KV and Kailash (no. 3) hit a few runs but didn't stay in the wicket long, neither did Idli. I got out trying to flick (for a change) the ball on side and got top edged. Vicky, Sridhar, Kaipilla and Raghu steered the boat for some time and Yogesh played a good hand at the end to enable us reach 74 runs off 12 overs.
Both the opposition openers got out quickly before Sriram and Dinesh put on a good partnership and got the run rate above 6. The turning point came when Vicky removed Sriram (bowled, inside edged) in his first over. That was when it looked as if Dinesh's team was running out of steam. When I ran Dinesh out, with good bit of fielding from Raghu, the score was reading 51 from 9 overs. I remember the over before when I asked Sriram how many wickets were left, he casually said that not many got out and got plenty in their tank. Three overs after when I asked him the same question, he was a little embarrassed to admit that this was the last pair, we probably got 4 wickets between those overs. It was not lateral thinking that I left the last pair try three runs off a very wide delivery, it was just that the ball moved in between the bikes and left itself without cover at the other end for Yogesh to effect a run out. Mani, Jug head, Vicky and Raghu bowled well within themselves, Jug head is turning in with good performances with the ball for the past few games, good for us. Yogesh and Sridhar though did not fair well with their bowling as one would expect from them but there is always the next game. Same opponents.
Until then, cheers
Maddy
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