Today we are celebrating a good team effort, which resulted in a comfortable victory.
Ground: Alfonso
'Da Freaks: Vicky, Mani, Maddy, Raghu, Sri, Jagan, Sudharshan, Suresh, Easwar, Ganesh and Balaji (Goutham's uncle)
Opponents: A local Alfonso group
The pitch was opposite to the one we usually play on and the leg-side boundary was kinda short as well. We lost the toss and the opponents decided to chase. This was the first time we were setting a target after we took the morning game call. I guess in the back of our mind we all wanted to know how we would fare bowling second when the heat is turned on, both on and over the pitch.
I started with Sri, some how Raghu and co think I can fare well opening the innings. I wish I get consistent enough. Today though was not a bad day at all. Sri and I complicated a simple two and according to Sri I got him run out. Either way, he had to go. Vicky came and gone without troubling the score as he hauled out to fine leg. This is when Sudharshan and I joined to get the partnership going. I was able to run for myself for 4 overs and Vicky ran for the rest of my innings. 4 overs is decent for my stamina, hopefully I can continue and improve on this. We got the score from 7 for 2 in two to 44 for 2 in 8 overs. Then Sudharshan and I got out to some poor shot selection, I was some how able to get the short pitched out side off stump delivery straight to the fielder and Sudharshan caught out at mid off.
Raghu and Ganesh steered the ship for a few overs, in between Ganesh lost the ball hitting it inside one of the building. After some dance shows from Suresh, we managed to get 73 off 14 overs. We didn't manage to play the full quota. Probably a ball or two short of 14 overs.
Mani and Suresh were opening the bowling, Mani as usual was in good form, but Suresh was taken to the cleaners in his first over though we managed to get a run out in that over. The turning point was Jagan's over when he got 3 wickets, two skiers, Vicky managing to hold on to a great catch, even fell over and Suresh running across to collect a stunner. One caught behind, I took a very simple catch. Sridhar combined with Jagan and bowled some good overs, unlucky for him the nicks behind were not given out. Raghu was not in his element bowling. Gave away 7 runs in his only over. Always leggish. The opponents resilience was good. They kept on ticking the runs. At the end of the 10th over, they needed 20 runs to cross home. Vicky and Mani bowled well to keep them in check and we effected two run outs at the end to get across the finishing line with their score card reading 63 all out. In toto, we effected 4 run outs, 5 catches and once managed to knock off the stumps.
Everyone played their part well. Everyone had a say in our victory today, which is nice. Hoping for another team effort next time around.
I was not in the mood to take videos. But the victory gave me enough to take a few pics at the end of the match. Will try to capture more in the coming weeks.
Cheers,
Maddy
Ground: Alfonso
'Da Freaks: Vicky, Mani, Maddy, Raghu, Sri, Jagan, Sudharshan, Suresh, Easwar, Ganesh and Balaji (Goutham's uncle)
Opponents: A local Alfonso group
The pitch was opposite to the one we usually play on and the leg-side boundary was kinda short as well. We lost the toss and the opponents decided to chase. This was the first time we were setting a target after we took the morning game call. I guess in the back of our mind we all wanted to know how we would fare bowling second when the heat is turned on, both on and over the pitch.
I started with Sri, some how Raghu and co think I can fare well opening the innings. I wish I get consistent enough. Today though was not a bad day at all. Sri and I complicated a simple two and according to Sri I got him run out. Either way, he had to go. Vicky came and gone without troubling the score as he hauled out to fine leg. This is when Sudharshan and I joined to get the partnership going. I was able to run for myself for 4 overs and Vicky ran for the rest of my innings. 4 overs is decent for my stamina, hopefully I can continue and improve on this. We got the score from 7 for 2 in two to 44 for 2 in 8 overs. Then Sudharshan and I got out to some poor shot selection, I was some how able to get the short pitched out side off stump delivery straight to the fielder and Sudharshan caught out at mid off.
Raghu and Ganesh steered the ship for a few overs, in between Ganesh lost the ball hitting it inside one of the building. After some dance shows from Suresh, we managed to get 73 off 14 overs. We didn't manage to play the full quota. Probably a ball or two short of 14 overs.
Mani and Suresh were opening the bowling, Mani as usual was in good form, but Suresh was taken to the cleaners in his first over though we managed to get a run out in that over. The turning point was Jagan's over when he got 3 wickets, two skiers, Vicky managing to hold on to a great catch, even fell over and Suresh running across to collect a stunner. One caught behind, I took a very simple catch. Sridhar combined with Jagan and bowled some good overs, unlucky for him the nicks behind were not given out. Raghu was not in his element bowling. Gave away 7 runs in his only over. Always leggish. The opponents resilience was good. They kept on ticking the runs. At the end of the 10th over, they needed 20 runs to cross home. Vicky and Mani bowled well to keep them in check and we effected two run outs at the end to get across the finishing line with their score card reading 63 all out. In toto, we effected 4 run outs, 5 catches and once managed to knock off the stumps.
Everyone played their part well. Everyone had a say in our victory today, which is nice. Hoping for another team effort next time around.
I was not in the mood to take videos. But the victory gave me enough to take a few pics at the end of the match. Will try to capture more in the coming weeks.
Cheers,
Maddy
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