We are beating the sun, or to say for early part of it at least we are escaping its heat, morning game is in order and that is quite a relief for us all. Leaving the obvious reason behind, we also get to rest and get charged up for Monday. Its the third week of our brand new odyssey and my first blog.
Team: Mani (Captain), Vicky (Captain/ Item), Maddy (Captain/ Owner), Raghavendran (Idli), Kailash, Ram (Kaipilla), Sridhar, Raghu, Yogesh, Goutham and Jagan (Jug head/ Broker/ Agent)
After a win and a loss (more like a throw-away) in the first two games, we went into battle with our favourite opponents, Dinesh's team. They even got jerseys, Wild Wings or something they call themselves. But the thing is Sriram is calling himself the 'Boss', someone is 'Ambrose' (looked like a moth) and one other is 'Ryder' though he had the structure as Ryder and did not get to bat at all, I guess he is ok.
I think its voodoo or something but its been a while since we won the toss, be it Mani or Idli to challenge our luck. But its always good to bowl first and escape fielding in the heat. Only problem is there are so many teams playing, its hard to concentrate and field.
We got a wicket first ball, bowled, Mani doing the damage. A couple of hits and a run out after, Sriram joined hands with Mukesh? Was his name Mukesh? Anyway, it was the partnership which gave momentum to their innings, from 4 to 8 overs, we were put to the sword, specially Vicky was taken for granted. Runs leaked and it took a good over from Raghu to peg back things. Still the impact was enough for them to reach 94 in 14 overs. Thanks to Mani's last two good overs, we were chasing a gettable total.
Yogi and Goutham started the innings and Gouti didn't last long. He hold out to a full toss. Raghu and Yogi kept the runs coming at a steady rate. the most important thing for us chasing a total is not to lose wickets, that looked like the sort of plan in their mind. We were 27 off 5 overs. Raghu felt thirsty and got out :)
The partnership of the game came after Kaipilla walked in. He was timing the ball as well as he had ever done, and soon enough, the floodgates were opened. Thats when the opponents took their strategic time out, the first ball after got the better of Kaipilla, caught mid wicket/ square leg, the guy was standing in the middle!!
Yogi kept on going, bludgeoning the attack with timely boundaries and to think he ran for himself till the end speaks volume of his energy. When Yogi got out we needed 4 tuns off 2 overs. I took three of them in as much deliveries only for Idli to change the innings into an almost anti-climax. He was helping the Chennai Corp by sweeping the pitch!! He almost got himself hurt by doing that. The message was pretty clear from Kailash, don't let my brother face another delivery please. Idli score the wining run nonetheless, actually it took a full toss and an accidental connection of bat and ball to pull us thru, I should say.
A good run chase, this was. We didn't feel the heat (of the moment, that is). Lets keep it tight in the coming weeks.
Adios.
Team: Mani (Captain), Vicky (Captain/ Item), Maddy (Captain/ Owner), Raghavendran (Idli), Kailash, Ram (Kaipilla), Sridhar, Raghu, Yogesh, Goutham and Jagan (Jug head/ Broker/ Agent)
After a win and a loss (more like a throw-away) in the first two games, we went into battle with our favourite opponents, Dinesh's team. They even got jerseys, Wild Wings or something they call themselves. But the thing is Sriram is calling himself the 'Boss', someone is 'Ambrose' (looked like a moth) and one other is 'Ryder' though he had the structure as Ryder and did not get to bat at all, I guess he is ok.
I think its voodoo or something but its been a while since we won the toss, be it Mani or Idli to challenge our luck. But its always good to bowl first and escape fielding in the heat. Only problem is there are so many teams playing, its hard to concentrate and field.
We got a wicket first ball, bowled, Mani doing the damage. A couple of hits and a run out after, Sriram joined hands with Mukesh? Was his name Mukesh? Anyway, it was the partnership which gave momentum to their innings, from 4 to 8 overs, we were put to the sword, specially Vicky was taken for granted. Runs leaked and it took a good over from Raghu to peg back things. Still the impact was enough for them to reach 94 in 14 overs. Thanks to Mani's last two good overs, we were chasing a gettable total.
Yogi and Goutham started the innings and Gouti didn't last long. He hold out to a full toss. Raghu and Yogi kept the runs coming at a steady rate. the most important thing for us chasing a total is not to lose wickets, that looked like the sort of plan in their mind. We were 27 off 5 overs. Raghu felt thirsty and got out :)
The partnership of the game came after Kaipilla walked in. He was timing the ball as well as he had ever done, and soon enough, the floodgates were opened. Thats when the opponents took their strategic time out, the first ball after got the better of Kaipilla, caught mid wicket/ square leg, the guy was standing in the middle!!
Yogi kept on going, bludgeoning the attack with timely boundaries and to think he ran for himself till the end speaks volume of his energy. When Yogi got out we needed 4 tuns off 2 overs. I took three of them in as much deliveries only for Idli to change the innings into an almost anti-climax. He was helping the Chennai Corp by sweeping the pitch!! He almost got himself hurt by doing that. The message was pretty clear from Kailash, don't let my brother face another delivery please. Idli score the wining run nonetheless, actually it took a full toss and an accidental connection of bat and ball to pull us thru, I should say.
A good run chase, this was. We didn't feel the heat (of the moment, that is). Lets keep it tight in the coming weeks.
Adios.
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