Winning start to 2012

The year couldn't have started better for 'Da Freaks as we managed a pretty comfortable win against Arun CC.

'Da Freaks for the match were: Mani, Vicky, Maddy, Kailash, Raghu, Sri, Yogi, Ram, Jagan, Suresh and Sudarshan.

We bowled first and probably for the first time Mani did not bowl though he was in the team, he had just arrived from Kerala. so the bowlers used were Suresh, Sri, Maddy, Vicky and Jagan. Our bowling was tight and we ensured that we didn't give away easy runs in the beginning. The changes to the opening bowling pair were not as miserly and gave away a few boundaries that set up the opponents to a decent score of 70 runs in 14 overs. It was mainly upto a middle pair that Arun CC was able to get to that score. Our ground fielding was ok though we should have held onto some easy catches. I can think of two that were dropped.

Our batting: we have found a stable opening pair who have been doing a great job of late. Ram and Yogi started the proceedings briskly and though Ram was struggling with a few short of a length deliveries, Yogi was more than making up the scoring. Kailash joined Yogi in the middle when Ram got out but as usual he did not bother looking at the ball after hitting it and just kept running and got run out. He came back saying that he intended on running once he hit the ball no matter where it went and that's not the way to go about it, is it? Mani got his much anticipated run down in the middle but he looked rather lethargic than bubbly, but maybe because he was jet-lagged (coming in train, whatever you call that) With Yogi going great guns we were never in any serious trouble as the score kept on ticking. Yogi finally got out after making a brilliant 36 but we got the job done in the last over. We never were under any sort of pressure chasing though and we kept our cool till the end.

Its a nice start to 2012 one which hopefully continues a lot longer.

Cheers,
Madhavan
'Da Freaks