Waiting for Sunday, it seems like an era!! Woke up with a bad temper knowing that it had rained all night but Mani confirmed the match and I headed right out. A pitch to play on was enough for me, forget the outfield, I just wanted to play no matter what.
'Da freaks for the day: Maddy, Mani, Raghu, Ram, Jagan, Suresh, Ganesh, Yogi, Goutham and Goutham's uncle. Sudharshan came only for the second half.
Opponents: (I leave this for Mani to fill-in)
The outfield was water logged. We won the toss today and elected to bat as we felt that it might rain again this morning. Ram and I opened the batting and we were scoring briskly, 27 off 4 overs. Ram got himself run out and that brought Raghu in. We added another 12 runs off 2 overs and I departed, another run out. It was an impossible run but I obliged!! Raghu did not last long holding out at point. We were scoring more than a run a ball and looked comfortable for 90 plus score. Everyone was timing the ball sweetly and with a closer off side boundary we thought we should at least score 100. Yogi and Goutham combined well in the middle overs and we were heading towards that score. Yogi got out, guess what, another run out and Goutham departed soon afterward. There was a little delay in the middle after the 10th over when it drizzled but the sky opened up soon enough. With some lusty blows by Goutham's uncle, Jagan and Suresh (6 runs off 2 balls, last one was a four!!!!) we ended up with a good score of 94 runs.
Since the climate was very conducive, we were raring to go at the opponents. Their batting display turned out to be a joke.
Suresh got three wickets in his first over, Mani cleaned one, Goutham got another three in his wickets maiden over, Ram as usual bowled 3 overs instead of one but got a wicket, probably the batsman got frustrated :) Jagan bowled one over and got one wicket and so did I and in toto I got three behind the wickets. Raghu too got three wickets but unfortunately they turned out to be our own players in the first innings!! We finished the match in the 8th over and gave away just 35 runs.
There were a couple of comedies in the middle while Mani was fielding but other wise it was not a bad effort on the field. But honestly we weren't chasing the ball much.
The match started around 7.20 and ended by 9.15. Pretty quick.
Winning is good, lets find some better opponents next time. No sweat.
Cheers,
Madhavan
'Da freaks for the day: Maddy, Mani, Raghu, Ram, Jagan, Suresh, Ganesh, Yogi, Goutham and Goutham's uncle. Sudharshan came only for the second half.
Opponents: (I leave this for Mani to fill-in)
The outfield was water logged. We won the toss today and elected to bat as we felt that it might rain again this morning. Ram and I opened the batting and we were scoring briskly, 27 off 4 overs. Ram got himself run out and that brought Raghu in. We added another 12 runs off 2 overs and I departed, another run out. It was an impossible run but I obliged!! Raghu did not last long holding out at point. We were scoring more than a run a ball and looked comfortable for 90 plus score. Everyone was timing the ball sweetly and with a closer off side boundary we thought we should at least score 100. Yogi and Goutham combined well in the middle overs and we were heading towards that score. Yogi got out, guess what, another run out and Goutham departed soon afterward. There was a little delay in the middle after the 10th over when it drizzled but the sky opened up soon enough. With some lusty blows by Goutham's uncle, Jagan and Suresh (6 runs off 2 balls, last one was a four!!!!) we ended up with a good score of 94 runs.
Since the climate was very conducive, we were raring to go at the opponents. Their batting display turned out to be a joke.
Suresh got three wickets in his first over, Mani cleaned one, Goutham got another three in his wickets maiden over, Ram as usual bowled 3 overs instead of one but got a wicket, probably the batsman got frustrated :) Jagan bowled one over and got one wicket and so did I and in toto I got three behind the wickets. Raghu too got three wickets but unfortunately they turned out to be our own players in the first innings!! We finished the match in the 8th over and gave away just 35 runs.
There were a couple of comedies in the middle while Mani was fielding but other wise it was not a bad effort on the field. But honestly we weren't chasing the ball much.
The match started around 7.20 and ended by 9.15. Pretty quick.
Winning is good, lets find some better opponents next time. No sweat.
Cheers,
Madhavan
May be we were getting bit irritated with those close finishes and this could well be the start of a bigger winning streak!!...
ReplyDeleteBetter Opponents?....Ya of course but it this match was more to get the revenge back for wat happ couple of weeks back where the blog was titled Undone by the Mongoose!!...It was a sweet revenge and i guess a clinical performance in all three departments batting,bowling and fielding after a very long time!!...
Sorry for the disappointment guys but next week we are not facing any better opponents but a weak team who have been asking for a match with us for a long time so finally had to oblige anyway we should thrash them by even playing left handed!!...
Anyway we need to keep this going and i still feel our best is yet to come!!...atleast from me!!...Well done guys cheers!!...
Kind Attention Mr. KD Anand:
ReplyDeleteYou got a sufficient ground to plan for next week's treat!
Common Anand....
Its good that we won comprehensively.. But lets not get complacent. The team next week may not be great but not as bad as what Mani is suggesting them to be.. Lets keep our feet on the ground. Good work, guys. Lets keep it going next week..
ReplyDeleteSundar,
ReplyDeleteI don c the relevance of that comment..:) DONT SUPERIMPOSE THINGS:)