A humilating defeat!!...

Good teams never repeat the same mistake but we have made it a habbit of just doing the same mistake time after time...Will we learn?......

Da Freaks: Mani,maddy,freddie,jagan,sridhar,kailash,ram,sudarshan,sundar,suresh, balaji

Score: Da Freaks - 42 allout in 12.2 overs
Skippers - 43\5 in 8.3 overs

Result: Skippers won by 5 wickets

Blogby: Mani

A change in our toss captain as freddie won the toss and da freaks elected to bat first admist few oppositions to bowl first (reason hot sun..may be they should consider playing book cricket). Maddy and suresh opened the innings with the score ticking along but maddy started off the first run out of the day by running suresh out in the first over. Balaji then batted along smoothly before maddy created havoc by running himself out. No one really got going apart from balaji as the runs came in trickle. Ram hit a half volley straight to covers which followed by kailiash and suadrshan running themselves out making it 4 runs outs for the day. We hopped to 33 in 8 overs which was pretty decent but we kept losing wickets. Freddie was looking good before he got himself out by running for non existent 3rd run. We fell as a pack of cards as da freaks folded to a meager 42 runs and not even playing the full quota of overs. I just had to watch all this unfold before getting to bat as the last batsmen for the day.

We tried to do our best with the ball but the total was not good enough. We manged to pick up 5 wickets. I picked up 2,jagan had 1 and 1 for balaji and 1 through a runout. The defeat left me angry but the failure had little impact for other team members which was a shame.

Maddy was disappointing trying to accomodate his friend after the 11 was announced. Sudrashan was asked to sit out but play for da freaks. The worst part sundar wanting to leave by 9.30 luckily the match was not stretched beyound it. Maddy needs to make up his mind of playing cricket in the hot sun because if we need to play and need to win there is no other choice.

Batting owes what do you do abt it?..The response from the seniour folks has been poor..I believe people have a problem here nobodies commitment is being questioned but their failure to take responsibility for their performances has not helped us. Nobody wants to talk about any batting plans but just go out there and play but this has no worked.Either we work this one out or be prepared for more such humilating defeats.

Hopefully we will have our plans worked out soon and comeback with a good streak of victories!!..