Humiliating Defeat

Today was one of the worst performances ever! We were playful but never really played the game, it was as though we never really turned up for the game. We played against Seena team.

'Da Freaks for the day were Maddy, Mani, Vicky, Freddie, Raghu, Sri, Ram, Jagan, Jack, Ganesh and Yogi.

We lost the toss and were asked to chase. Our bowlers were taken apart without any restraint. The first wicket fell on the fifth over which says a lot about the domination the opponents had. Most of our deliveries were in driving length and it was much easier for them to hit it with ease. Mani was hugely disappointing as he gave away a lot of runs and didn't pick up a wicket either. Jack bowled well but apart from that Sri, Jagan and Vicky were also leaking a lot of runs. Need to mention about our ground fielding as well, again very disappointing. We let a lot of over throws and there were a lot of conversions of 1 to 2 and 2 to 3. Usually when things are sloppy, Mani and Vicky give a earful to all those around but even that didn't happen. We were just going thru the motions trying to complete 14 overs. Seena team scored 103 runs in 14 overs! All in all today was just not our day on the field.

And we thought we might fair better with the bat. Not to be so as Ram took two wickets by running Yogi and Ganesh out. All the engaged dudes got out without scoring (that is Fred and Vicky, not sure about Jack though). I got out playing a rash shot just in the sixth over. The opponents mixed the deliveries well, either short, which we never converted or yorks, which uprooted our stumps. Well there was not much to talk about our batting as we ended up with just 46 runs! Again the usual spark was missing. We weren't totally committed to the match. Our batting performance was equally bad.

I hope we can look back at this match and say that we couldn't play worse than this and take some lessons from this match. Everyone (especially the author) need to be a bit more serious on the field and try to win the match. After all we come to play, lets play then.

Cheers,
Maddy for 'Da Freaks