Game on March 13 -- Blame it on the bowlers!!

A great game of cricket and the longest day we had in the field but the disappointment was being on the losing side...

Da Freaks: Mani,maddy,freddie,kailash,jagan,sridhar,suresh,yogesh,sudarshan,mohan

Score: Aruncc: 94\9 in 14 overs
Da Freaks: 84\9 in 14 overs

Result: Da freaks lost by 10 runs

Blog by: Mani

It was a game against Arun CC and we were facing them for the first time...Actually i do not remember the last time we played a team where we hardly knew about anyone. The entire team of aruncc was completely new to us but that was not an excuse for the performance we put in.

We lost the toss and was bowling in a hot morning because by the time the opponent came and their batsmen started to play it was 8 and the sun was beating down. Jagan and suresh started of the proceedings for the day. They started of decently even though they did not pick up wickets. Myself and sridhar was bowling the next spell as runs started to galore with some very ordinary fielding. Not to forget the crowd we had on te field. Now that the holiday season has started we better be prepared for it. The openers really settled down i bowled good first over but the second over was a poor one neither did sridhar started of well. The drop catch by jagan in the deep added to our owes. They had scored 79 for the loss of one wicket by the 10th over. Yogesh got us the break through with his off breaks but he could not back it up in his next few overs. We were looking at a huge score in excess of 100 as they had 9 wickets in hand with 4 overs left. Sridhar bowled a spectacular 11th over in which he picked up a hat trick and brought us right back into the game. Then i picked up two in my next over as we picked up 5 wickts in the space of 7 deliveries. Tight bowling from sridhar and myself ensured that we kept the opponents to 95 which was a excellent result for us to pick up 8 wickets for just 15 runs.

The chase was on we felt we gave 10 more runs but believed we could chase it down since the ball was pretty hard and there was value for shots. We were off to a decent start but again failed to accelerate in the middle overs due to freddie's friend eating up the overs. The decision was made to get in freddie in place of his friend and it proved to work has freddie and sridhar started to play some attacking cricket and bring us right back into the match. Sri perished to an ambitious shot which paved way for yogesh to play an excellent cameo. He along side freddie batted in fantastic fashion to bring us close. The wickets of yogesh and freddie derailed our chase and left us to score 18 odd runs in the last over. We managed only 8 and lost by 10 runs.

It was a great chase but again we score 65 odd runs in the last 7 overs but still lost due to our poor batting in the first seven which continues to be our problem!!..A great effort by the guys in a hot day and with few heated arguments it took alomost 3 hours to complete the match!!...