Humiliating Performance........

Da'Freaks :
Mani,Vignesh,Maddy,Raghavendran,Raghu,Sridhar,Suresh,Yogesh,Ram,Kailash,Jagan

Blog by: Manikandan(Not a great time to post my first blog!..)

We Lost by 32 runs after winning the toss and electing to bowl which has been our strategy these days. I would rate our bowling attach right up there with the best teams going around in tennis ball cricket, very rarely you get to have the luxury of having people bowling at some serious pace just that if we can combine it with little more discipline and vastly improved fielding performance we would be easily able to restrict the opponents to even more below par scores.

Scorecard: South Madras Stallions---95/9 in 14 overs
Da Freaks---------------------------63/9 in 14 overs

The defeat margin should say the story and i can hardly remember a game where we have been beaten up so com promisingly..Starting up with the few good things that we did on a day we were literally thrashed!..Having decided to bowl first jagan and suresh started off the proceeding as i wanted to hold myself back just to stop the leakage of runs in the middle overs. They did a prety decent job in the first four overs even though we did not manage to pick up any wickets. Myself and Sridhar shared the attach for the next four overs but i was not able to hit my stride with the congested crowd hardly allowing me to have a run up but no excuses after playing for so long in this kind of environment should have done better even though i picked up 4 wickets including the all important wicket of hari clearly i could have done better,just gave away few free hits with some poor bowling. Yogesh and vignesh were the stars of the day with the ball both restricted the run flow and picking up wickets as well with the kind of start and the way they batted in the middle we managed to pull things back a bit and in the end we were set a target of 96 to chase which i felt was 10 odd runs too many. Our fielding was shocking in explicable would have easily gave away 10 to 15 runs with ram having a worst day in the field managing to misfiled in all the positons he was made to stand and myself too did misfield few shockers along with others we clearly need to back our bowlers who run in hard in the heat and put in a big effort and it should be backed up by the fielders.

What followed after all this was something terrible i am just in search of words for the batting performance we displayed. Ganguly had gone about and said his team played rubish after the loss against bangalore but wat we did today worst than all that. Vignesh and maddy opened the innings and after 6 overs it was all done and dusted the ball hardly went off the square our batsmen struggling to even get bat on ball clearly we lacked the skills to combat some very good bowling and hari was just too hot to handle for our batsmen with someone like yogesh who is better player in our team technically found it hard to even get bat on ball they kept firing the balls on our middle and leg stumps for which we had no clue. All the faces told the story they were all shocked and the worst thing is i had to see all this from the centre umpiring. We managed to score 63 just because they brought about few of their weak bowlers.

We lost the three match series 2-0 but we had our chances to win the first game made a mess of it. We need to be disciplined if we really wish to improve as a team or as an individual this is something i just wish our boys will realize sooner than later we can clearly work out on our weakness as i have said before got great bowlers we can bowl to each other on our weak ares improve ourself but for which we require that discipline of being there in the ground on time and practice before the match no point saying our middle order has not had enough chances we need to be in touch with some good practice.

We better convert this anger and frustration on our opponents next week and come with a spirited performance. May be the next time we meet hari & Co got to prove them few things but before that we need lots of soul searching to do and lift our performance!..Come on guys!..lets start doing it!..