We let almost the entire February pass by without updating the blog and that is a mistake. But that is not gonna happen now that we are updating the last match of this month :) And what a game it was. Getting 11 in the team may not be a problem but getting their asses on the field maybe. Even I slept till I got the third call to get my ass moving, well I made it albeit after the 3rd or 4th over :D We were left again with just 10 members. 'Da freaks for the day were: Maddy, Mani, Vicky, Jack, Sri, Raghu, Sudarshan, Yogi, Ram and Laxman (is it?)
Our match was against Kumar's team. We were bowling first and their opening pair got off to a good start. One moment of madness made one of them to reverse sweep Jack and he was caught at point. I wouldn't say that we bowled very well because most of the deliveries that got us wickets were full tosses and not even low ones. Another day we would have been chasing a mammoth total but credit to the fielding unit which did a wonderful job of holding on to the catches. Most noticeable were Sridhar who took two good outfield catches, I took a couple more and Raghu's brilliant piece of individual skill to run out the non striker. But then again, we weren't without our usual glitches. We had three golden opportunities to effect easy run outs at the keeper's end but Yogi and Raghu didn't collect the ball cleanly that too without any pressure. Had we taken all our chances, two more catches went begging between myself and Sudarshan, we might have been chasing a very modest score. Instead we were left to score 83 off 14 overs.
We are a good all round unit and our strength with the bat doesn't always show. We got nothing but ourselves to prove how good we are and that is exactly what we did today. The opening partnership between Yogi and Ram gave a solid foundation upon which a good cameo by Sridhar and a brilliant batting display by Raghu, who scored 20 off just 11 deliveries, took us across the finishing line with an over to spare. Raghu and Sridhar's running between the wickets was just awesome and the opponents were clueless trying to contain the flow. Raghu's performance is a good news for us as his batting display will help us score more runs.
Overall a satisfying day not that we didn't have anything to complain about just that we don't want to :)
Cheers,
Maddy for 'Da freaks
