Its a good way to wind up year 2010 with a couple of victories. We backed up last week's win (which was not blogged) with another one this week.
The team : Vignesh, Mani, Sudharshan, Yogesh, Ram, Sridhar, Raghu, Sriram, Jagan, Suresh and Muthu.
The match was against Vimal's team but I don't know who Vimal is :-)... Having won the toss, we batted. Good job by Jagan to win the toss. We opened with Muthu and Sriram, the latter was looking good with some powerful hits. The bowling was not great and we scored close to 25 in the first 4 overs losing 2 wickets. We lost Sriram for a run out and Muthu sliced a catch to Point. Ram and Raghu came in with a good partnership. Raghu was playing really well and stuck a couple of boundaries too. And the running between the wickets between these two was good too. Ram played second fiddle and did a good job at that. Midway, there seemed to be a barrage of wickets with Raghu, Yogesh and Ram getting out. We were 57 at the end of 10 overs, But Jagan and Sudharshan played some good shots and ran well to get us to 89 in 14 overs.
Bowling was our stronger department and with 90 to defend, we were favourites. But nothing of note happened in the first 4 overs except a run out. Suresh was taken for runs as he sprayed the ball all around. Overthrows did not help the cause either. Jagan was introduced in the 5th over and he picked up 2 wickets, both off full tosses. When I took the ball, their score read 43-3 off 6 overs. But things turned for the better with my over where I picked 3 wickets and gave away just a run. From thereon, the opposition were not in a position to win but still they gave it a good fight. I bowled a tight spell of 4 overs for 15 runs and picked 4 wickets. Mani's last 2 overs were tight as well. They got all out for 76.
Thus ended 2010 with a victory. :-) hope we get off to a good start for 2011 and play consistently good cricket:-)
Wish you all a Happy new year....:)
Cheers
Vignesh
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