Hi this is Maddy again, after a couple weeks of different dissections.
Ground - Triangle ground (we are fed up with this tournament business in alfonso, plainly sucks)
Opponents - Some local fellas
Our Team: Maddy, Vicky, Mani, Jagan, Raghav, Raghu, Sri, Ram, Yogi and Mr. Ambani (Suresh), only 10 this time
I am not commenting on who won the toss, we were asked to bowl first and it goes well for us in this heat. Raghu was asked to Captain the side and he seems to take it quite seriously, changing the field and bowlers around as he saw fit under the circumstances, not all his decisions were right but at least there was just one guy who was calling the shots today for us. He can only get better.
Our bowling for the first 6 overs were either quite brilliant or decent enough to suck the wind out of an ordinary batting team's sails. It even prompted Raghu to call on Raghav for an over, which started the landslide. It was simple equation. Pitch the ball, even if it is to a driving length and you get away with just a few runs. Full toss, leg stump, forget to run. It was raining boundaries in the last few overs especially of Mani and Yogi. Before that Sri and Mani did bowl some good overs to get a heap of wickets, we just lost the plot mid-way. From 27 in 6 overs to 80 in 12, the scoreline speaks for itself. Fielding-wise we were not bad, overthrows were controlled. Catches, most of them, taken except I remember Vicky misjudging one in the first over, but it did not cost us much.
Chasing 81 in 12 overs, we started off with Yogi and Raghav. Raghav ran himself out, but I guess we were not specific on a few things like a run being granted if it hits others inside the circle. Jagan joined Yogi for a few overs and the runs trickled. The push came when Vicky joined Yogi at the crease and they started running hard and we were abreast of the run rate. Raghu and Ram joined the party to take us close to the total, Raghu specifically was in good touch. With 8 runs to get in 2 overs, I joined Ram at the crease. Kaipilla in his usual self was trying.... something and thank god he eventually got run out. How did he ever think that I would run for a single to the danger end when the ball was in the keeper's hands, only he can answer :) Sridhar and I ran the next necessary runs in the end and I didn't get to face a single delivery :(
We won and overall it was quite good to be back to winning ways after the humiliating loss the other week.
I'll try to post a few more videos.
Ciao.
Ground - Triangle ground (we are fed up with this tournament business in alfonso, plainly sucks)
Opponents - Some local fellas
Our Team: Maddy, Vicky, Mani, Jagan, Raghav, Raghu, Sri, Ram, Yogi and Mr. Ambani (Suresh), only 10 this time
I am not commenting on who won the toss, we were asked to bowl first and it goes well for us in this heat. Raghu was asked to Captain the side and he seems to take it quite seriously, changing the field and bowlers around as he saw fit under the circumstances, not all his decisions were right but at least there was just one guy who was calling the shots today for us. He can only get better.
Our bowling for the first 6 overs were either quite brilliant or decent enough to suck the wind out of an ordinary batting team's sails. It even prompted Raghu to call on Raghav for an over, which started the landslide. It was simple equation. Pitch the ball, even if it is to a driving length and you get away with just a few runs. Full toss, leg stump, forget to run. It was raining boundaries in the last few overs especially of Mani and Yogi. Before that Sri and Mani did bowl some good overs to get a heap of wickets, we just lost the plot mid-way. From 27 in 6 overs to 80 in 12, the scoreline speaks for itself. Fielding-wise we were not bad, overthrows were controlled. Catches, most of them, taken except I remember Vicky misjudging one in the first over, but it did not cost us much.
Chasing 81 in 12 overs, we started off with Yogi and Raghav. Raghav ran himself out, but I guess we were not specific on a few things like a run being granted if it hits others inside the circle. Jagan joined Yogi for a few overs and the runs trickled. The push came when Vicky joined Yogi at the crease and they started running hard and we were abreast of the run rate. Raghu and Ram joined the party to take us close to the total, Raghu specifically was in good touch. With 8 runs to get in 2 overs, I joined Ram at the crease. Kaipilla in his usual self was trying.... something and thank god he eventually got run out. How did he ever think that I would run for a single to the danger end when the ball was in the keeper's hands, only he can answer :) Sridhar and I ran the next necessary runs in the end and I didn't get to face a single delivery :(
We won and overall it was quite good to be back to winning ways after the humiliating loss the other week.
I'll try to post a few more videos.
Ciao.
Great job owner!!...Better Cover the bowling next time!!..May be we played a below par team and not a great ground as well but have to adjust for couple of weeks..anyway next week we have better team to play!..
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