Sports was victorious in the end.....

It was a cool day at SNCG on a breezy Saturday morning. SO most of the team couldn't get up on time and be there for practice session.. and I had to wait 40 mins to get the first person (Apart from from me of course) to field in the form of MR "Pradeep" and slowly but steadily people started joining in and started practice session. mean whIle i watched few fascinating game of cricket in the side pitches..Sudeep and Harish Jr couldn't leave their bed as well as switch on their mobile and hence couldn't join. Madhu who ha taken rest by taking leave on Friday for his official work too came in late preparing for this all important contest. But for the disappointment of few we couldn't had all important series of mentors vs. caps. So the teams were made with mix & match with the available player and played an 2 good games of cricket. and Only thing I can say today is CRICKET WAS THE WINNER ALL THE WAY....


Teams:

pace X1 - Nithya, Deepak, Madhu, PRashant, Jay-Pee
Spin X1- Srikanth, HArish,Pradeep, Venu and myself

Match 1 :
Pace X1 won the toss and elected to bat with JP and Madhu opened the innings while srikant opened the attack. JP was trying to slog every ball . but one got connected and went for 4. Inspired by this Even madhu tried in the next over hit the ball out of park but it went straight to srikant who doesn't miss any held the catch comfortably. All the efforts put forth the previous day was wasted.. Nithya, was in a hurry and couldn't control his emotions and trying it the ball out of the ground top edged to get out caught and bowled. Deepak came to the crease and steadied the ship by playing conciously along with JP. After 6 th over prashan came over to bat in place of JP to increase the run rate. succeeded in getting 10 runs in the 7th over getting to a healthy run rate. I had the opportunity to bowl the last over and bowled 2 lolly pops to get 2 wickets with pace X1 were all out but had set a healthy target of 32 of 8 overs.But it was disaster for spin X1 when they opened the innings that their innings never got going.. Venu and HArish opened the innings followed by pradeep, myself and srikanth. Madhu was a surprise package picking wickets with his off-spin

Match 2:
Spin X1 won the toss and elected to bat first and batted effectively by holding the wickets. Meanwhile they took 10 runs from the last matches hero. While rest of the pace trio of deepak, nithya and prashant bowled with pace , precision and accuracy to complete the innings.. Mean time Harish got a urgent call and spin X1 were now with one bowler short. But "Venu" came to the party by rotating his arm and getting crucial wicket of madhu. while pradeep took wicket of nithya. But prashant and JP without taking any more risk played natural cricket.Prashant finished the innings with style by hitting 6 over long on..

Now there is a new hope of new teams being formed and new cricket being played at SNCG as few senior pros might be moving out going forward.. also next there might not be cricket at SNCG as there would be official duty for most of the players on account on of "bharat Bandh" on 5th July. on account of the same Wipro applied thought and compensated on 10th July and we had to work instead of play .IN the mean time I hope you enjoyed the few fascinating games of football in this World cup. So lets just sink in with the World cup.. 

Till then SAYONARA.....