You guys have read it right DA' FREAKS are well back to the winning ways in our favourite ground ALPHONSO!!..The perfect display in all three departments of the game makes this victory even special!!..
DA' FREAKS: Mani,Maddy,Vignesh,Ram,Freddie,Kailash,Yogesh,Suresh,Srini,Sridhar, Sudarshan
Opponent: Skippers
Scores: DA' FREAKS - 100/6 in 14 Overs
Skippers - 52 all out in 10 overs
Result: DA' FREAKS Won by 48 runs!!...
The day begun well with winning the toss and deciding to bat first which is always a sensible option here in alphonso. The pair of Ram and Kailash opened the innings and it was a collective decision to have kailash taking strike at the same time not have freddie being the umpire!!...The duo provided an excellent start scoring 19 odd runs in 4 overs with kailash getting out in the 4th over after playing a good hand and the most important thing for a change he got out being bowled rather than being run-out. Srini the new member of the team played a couple of good shots but unfortunately got himself run out and it was more due to the lack of experience playing in these grounds where you can hardly spot the ball. Ram continued his rich vain of form with another strokefull iniings of 19 of just 14 deliveries.
The pair of freddie and sudarshan steadied the innings in the middle after the dismissal of ram. There was one innocuous bowler and freddie really struggled in getting him away. But Few big hits from both the batsmen ensured that the runs were coming. The sixes started to come with a very short leg side boundary and both batsmen clearing them with ease. Sudarshan run out brought sridhar to the middle and he finished of the innings in style with some great hitting sending the ball out of the ground twice and it made teams around us stop and take notice of what we were doing, by the end of it all we scored 100 in 14 overs which was a fantastic target to defend.
Myself(Mani) and vignesh opened the bowling. I went for 10 runs in the first over owing to some poor fielding coupled with few loose deliveries but the run out of the last ball helped. Vignesh bowled a good second over for just 4 runs and a wicket. Sri bowled the 3rd over and he too picked up a wicket and keeping the runs down. I came to bowl the 4th over with a purpose and it was achieved which was a huge statisfaction for myself and vignesh who wanted me to bowl that over. I picked up 2 wickets one of which was that of their hard hitting batsmen. Vignesh then bowled another good over and we tried maddy,suresh in between both doing a decent job. Maddy bowled a very good second over picking up wickets. There was some floppy work in the field by sudarshan but we held on to most of our chances as the wickets tumbled. Vignesh picked up the important wicket of salim ending any chances the oppnents had in the game. Suresh finished of the tail with two good wickets.
A great victory a morale boosting one and the good days are back as we returned to our home ground. If the rain stays away and we continue playing here in alphonso the way we did today i am sure there are more exciting days for the team coming up. The most important thing was even in all the defeats we had gone through the past couple of months the spirit in the team never went down and the guys were eager to win. Never were they even convinced of the win we had last week against a very weak team which i felt was a great attitude to show.
DA' FREAKS are back!!..Beware!!..Come on Guys!!...
Cheers,
Manikandan
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