It was nail biting series which twisted and turned every over. But Eventually it was the Swamis renamed themselves as Karnataka Cric club (KCC), came up with brilliant show at the end to win the game by one run in turn holding the series 2-1 in their favour. each team were drawn at a 1-1 at the end of 2 matches and the last match was just like a final. Just before the start of the 3rd match created few heated discussions on the side line in the bowling crease between Deepak and nithya resulted in box being placed. In the mean time another dishum dishum happened between Pradeep and Deepak. Inspiring nithya to bowl one of his best bowling spells while Pradeep (Alias gan-gooli so far) suddenly became a live wire in the field, as if hez competing with "Jounty". While Deepak losing his concentration with these discussions couldn't concentrate on the deliveries and got himself under tremendous pressure and couldn't deliver his best.
Teams:
RCB: Deepak, Madhu, Harish jr, prashant, Mehandi boy, Anil, Myself
KCC: Pradeep, Nithya,Harish Sr, Sudeep, Santosh, Srikant, Ajay
Match 1:RCB won the toss and elected to bat on the overcast conditions. MAdhu and Prashant opened the innings. MAdhu kept the one end up and kept rotating the strike. Deepak joined Madhu with team struggling at 8/2 after 3 over [with Srikant, their tear away fast bowler going with full swing]. before which mehandi boy had smashed a 4 of the first ball and got out the immediate next ball. They both steadied the innings. But the much required impetus was given at the end by Harish jr by some swashbuckling hits getting the score to 38. Required to get 39 of 8 overs, KCC lost their captain in the first over itself, Sudeep along with harish tried to consolidate the innings but the required run rate kept mounting. Amidst harish got stumped (????) but some confusions were created and it just continued. Once sudeep got out they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. They required 13 runs in 2 overs with harish and nithya in crease. But penultimate over from harish jr. fetched 6 runs but took up an all important wicket. KCC required 7 of the last over with one wicket in hand. They buckled under pressure and ran for a non-existing single of the first delivery and Srikant got run-out ending their innings with RCB winning the match.
Match 2:RCB again won the toss and elected to bat, But this time around they couldn't get going and struggled to rotate the strike. Madhu Got out early and Anil (new talented kid on the block) was getting accustomed to the pitch and playing conditions & meandi boy couldn't connect much balls trying hit the balls out of park. KCC utilised this to their advantage well. Deepak went in to field and it was his one of the luckiest days. It was looking like he was just trying to get out by giving catches to each and very member of the KCC but everyone obliged with dropping the catches making sure he is there till the end of match. But the run rate never picked up and were struggling at 16 after 7 overs. But Deepak came to terms in the last over getting boundary away scoring 8 runs of the last over setting 25 runs to win. Chasing this small total they KCC made merry, though they lost 2 wickets in an over (hehe I got those wickets by bowling lollypops...) there was nothing left for RCB to work on. KCC won
convincingly levelling the series 1-1.
Match 3:KCC won the toss this time around and elected to bat. Even this time Madhu tried leaving the field for the 3 rd match based on call, But somehow managed to stay back until closure. In the mean time deepak came up with 2 earlier issues and presented two rules, first being both batters need to leave the crease before fielder throws the ball while second is creation of box to prevent bowlers from bowling outside the sidelines. This created (kasi-visi) in the nithyas mind. RCB bowled with discipline and 3 man pace attack from prashant, harish and deepak strangling the KCC for runs, they scored 13 of the stipulated 6 overs. Chasing a modest 14 runs of 6 overs, RCB started well with 2 being scored of initial over from srikanth (fiery fast bowler) without taking any risk. The second over was the turning point of the match, after losing a wicket to runout(Smart work from ajay), the next ball batsmen came down the track to hit the ball out of the park but nithya fired a full toss on the face of the batsmen. And fight started between Deepak and nithya on whether it was no ball or not. This stirred up both Nithya and Deepak. Harish batting well at the other end scored a boundary and got the score to 9 of 3 overs.requiring 5 of last 3 overs RCB had the match on third hand, mean time suddenly discussion between Deepak and pradeep create smoke which resulted in pradeep becoming live wire in the field. Deepak losing his temper, couldn't concentrate on Batting. In the mean time came to bowl the 4th over of inning Nithya, came up with a brilliant maiden over picking up deepak on the last delivery of the over. This created havoc in the RCB. Prashant joined
Harish with RCB needing 5 of 2 overs now. Harish took a single, But Srikant , KCC's most trusted and pace battery made sure no further runs were given making sure 4 required of last over. The pressure now had already getting mounted on RCB's. resulting in a silly run out of prashant. required 2 of the last ball , harish sr, one of their most experinced campaigner of the KCC, bowled intelligently keeping the ball our side the offstump and held his nerve to clinch a victroy to his team.
As a team is going over to trip next week, there won't be cricket next week .It would be good to see who would be replacing their captaincy from "pradeep" .. Pradeep is moving to better opportunity in uk in different business as now he has understood that he is unable to cope up the pressure of capataincy in KCC.So I suppose its now time to say to pradeep (And even Deepak solanki- Retired member of SNCG) from your team as well as from opposition. "All the best for future endeavours".
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