In another week of thrilling cricket, spectators saw the mentors bow down to their captains in a 3 match series. Though mentors started brilliantly and were on top in the first match and won comprehensively in the first match. Moment came where mentor were trying to get back to their comfort zone of different teams but in vain.. Taking the challenge captains team raised their level of the game thrashed the mentors X1 in the next 2 games. though the mentors Again went in with change in rules Discarding the sidelines rule(introduced last week), it didn't help them in their cause to win a the series of cricket. Last game was turned to a 6 over affair with no weak link in bowling still couldn't snatch a win neither could win the series...
Teams:
RCB: Sudeep,Praadeep,Harish jr,Sriaknth, santosh, Praveen kannambadi, Myself
KCC: Nithya,Deepak, Harish Sr, MAdhu, Jay-Pee, Venu
It all started on a fine sunny Saturday morning (26th June) with only nithya,venu,pradeep and myself turning to field at exact time 7:30.. so obliviously we had a great game warm up match. Venu along with nithya scored 16 of 3 overs. chasing 17 of 3, pradeep and team lost by 2 runs..
Same time all the big guns joined the field missing all important training/practice match which has been a fashion these days in India..
Match 1:
After all permutation and combination teams were set up as discussed earlier. The match began at 8:00. Mentors won the toss and elected to bat. The ever controversial madhu along with talented Venu opened the innings for Mentors X1 and the fast an furious Srikanth opened the attack for the caps X1. The mentors moved the score slowly and steadily. New talent was born today SNCG once again in the form of Santosh, New MFF Pace foundation who bowled brilliantly keeping the mentors guessing. At one stage they were 24 of 6 overs. But suddenly few lapses in the field cost dearly for Caps X1. Taking full advantage madhu, JP hit few lusty blows and took the score to staggering 42. Chasing 43 of 8 overs, Caps X1 were not upto the standards with losing wickets quickly . both their big hitters Sudeep and pradeep fell in cheaply and The experienced pace trio of Deepak, harish and nithya did the job for mentors.Harish(JR)hit huge 6 and kept the caps in hunt but trying to repeat the same once again couldn't clear the fence owards long on with nithya taking a fine catch to end the cameo, Praveen tried his best on one side to keep the innings together along with ticking the score but it was too much left at the end with no wickets left at the end. Srikanth hit a few lusty blows but couldn't continue for long with increasing pressure. Caps were completely outplayed by the mentors. They coulsn't utilise the an over which had be bolwed by their opponents weeklink. while mentors had played their card perfectly to win comprehensively.
Talking in the post match presentation after the match, the mentors were trying to shuffle the teams to have some competition thinking they were invincible. Sudeep took up the challenge of one more match if caps can't deliver then there would be reshuffling...
Match 2:
It was do or die match for caps and again as they had to win this match to stay in the series as well as to keep their side in tact. they lost the all important toss and put to bowl.JP and madhu this time around took the mantle of opening the innings for mentors. The dependable trio of srikanth, Harish jr, santosh controlled extremely well to restrict the mentors to 31. Deepak, The Senior dependable campaigner for mentors took charge and ran well between the wickets and picked the gaps to get the team to a decent total. Chasing a 32, Caps opened the innings with Sudeep and praveen. Variation specialist Deepak opened the bowling for mentors which turned out to be eventful over of the match. catch was dropped early in the over. But sudeep suddenly took up the charge hitting 6 which was on the boundary lines and harish tried taking the catch but was touching the fence. As its not perth, it was taken 6. and deepak lost his control. Sudeep trying repeat the same shot fell with harish taking a comfortable catch. deepak seemed relieved man. The score of 8 gave good impetus to the caps X1. while mentors thought that match was over after taking the danger man sudeep out. but it was captains knock from pradeep who rotated strike well with Praveen who was anchored the innings till the end. Though pradeep got run out amidst. and nithya got harish jr with a beauty of delivery though after discussions about side line. it didn't hurt the caps innings and they cruised to victory with still one over left. The pace trio had finished their quota of overs and were left with one over to be given between madhu and JP. The successful strategy which worked for them in the first match had got them to drown this time around. I had the honour of closing the match by striking 4 to complete the victory along with the man on mission Praveen, who batted till the end in the successful run chase leading the team to victory.
Talking in the post match presentation nithya/ harish felt they found wanted with fourth bowler option and final match which was supposed to be a 6 overs affair is the real test of character" there were also rumours that a win was lucky.. reacting to the same caps felt that they had played according to the plan and executed it the plan to perfection. they also pin pointed that the fourth bowling options wasn't completely utilised by the mentors. and its a big boost as to win a match without the requirement of attacking their weak link and felt confident before the last match.
Match 3:
Both teams were happy going to the final match as there was no requirement weak/all rounders/ part time bowler to be bowled as the match had reduced to 6 overs affair, but caps last match's main stay Praveen was unavaiable due to some personal reasons.. There were also rumors in vidyapeeta circle that mentors influence had done the trick in getting him unavailable for the match.
Mentors once again won the toss and elected to bat first. This time around Harish and nithya opened the innings and also Mentors had planned to give no chance in the match with both JP and Venu were kept to slog at the end and the formidable 4 to build the innings early in the match. As usual srikanth initiated the match with fast and furious deliveries in the first over. nithya got a lusty blow for 6 and few good hits from Deepak got them going. Harish jr bowled a Yorker of the series to get rid of in form Madhu. But it was JP who hit few excellent shots in the end to get the score to 30 of 6 overs. Caps required 31 of 6 overs in all important final game started with sudeep and pradeep. Harish opening the bowling attack for mentors got the first major break through sneaking through pradeeps defences to hit the timber.Harish jr joined sudeep and blasted a 6 of a short delivery which went miles. but harish sr took his revenge by taking harish jr caught behind. Then I joined sudeep and we consolidated the innings. Once sudeep started connecting the ball it was just a matter of time to close the game. in the mean time I got out holing out to Deepak of harish sr. Santosh joined sudeep requiring 11. Santosh rotated the strike well along with sudeep who was now seeing the tennis ball like foot ball. Sudeep hit 2 boundaries off nithya and finished the match in 5th over.they finished match with once again with an over to spare without any respite provided.
Caps X1 won the Series 2-1 over mentors X1. They just proved mentors that it is a team to recon with. now it needs to be seen how would they come back next week to take revenge. But there might be few members leaving the team for better carreer by next week.. All the best guys..
Note: this blog is not intended to hurt anyone. in case ur hurt, I am not responsible. It purely reflects ur performance in my views :)..So just njoy and u can comment in this blog ..
Not but not the least....
Winning One match might be lucky.. but its difficult to be lucky twice..
Now there arises a question as to who lucky...
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