It was Battle for supremacy in the gentleman’s mental game at SNCG on Saturday. Mr Venkatesh took away the new talent on the block award, There was no competition for Sahshi as he was the best man behind the stumps taking some scintillating catches, helping bowler strategies his deliveries (putting his Skills learned in US to good effect along with the US outfit…)The teams were shuffled across after match (I don’t know for what reason…) .. But the Venkatesh made sure he won all the three games he was part off who had Vaishak for his company.. While Harish (Sr) was at the other end getting company from Karthik, Santosh & Prashant.. ehhee… Nihya and me were on 1-2. All other were as usual late entrants.. Shashi was the lucky and played on both the sides getting batting practice on both sides to get acclimatized to the SNCG conditions..
Match1:
NVVK X1- Nithya, Vaishak, Venkatesh, Kiran UK
[Shashidhar K]
HSPK X1- Harish (Sr), Santosh M, Prashant, Karthik,
NVVK won the toss and elected to bat with Vaishak (playing after ages…) opened the innings with Venkatesh, New comer to SNCG with high expectation while Harish opened bowling attack and took full advantage of lack of match practice from Vaishak, getting his wickets getting him bowled. Then it was my turn to join Venkatesh and kept rotating the strike. Scored slowly and steadily But there was sudden double break with both venkatesh and nithya going in quick succession. Then It was me and shashi made sure that we complete the allotted 6 overs. And at last I too could hit a six in the final over (which is still a 8th wonder heheh) to get the score to 25. Needing 26 of 6 HSPK had a bad start with Prashant getting run out with out even facing a single delivery with brilliant work from Shahi. Then Nithya got Harish (Sr) and they were struggling at 0 for 2 after one over.. And it became 2/3 after 3 overs when santosh got out. Then it was karthik who was battling a lone battle with shahi giving him the much needed SAATH. But requiring 20 of last over Vaishak got caught & bowled his younger one to finish off the match.
From Match 2 onwards:
Nit-Har X1- Nithya, Harish (Sr), Srikanth, Karthik, Prashant, Shashidhar K, Santosh M, Kiran UK
[Prasad- for 3rd match]
Har-Deep X1- Deepak, Harish (Jr), Rajesh, Sudheer, Prasad, Mohan, Vaishak, and Venkatesh
Match 2:
Nithya/Harish won the toss and elected to bat first. Prashant/Karthik opened the innings while pacy Harish Jr, opened the bowling attack. He ad the early success taking prashant bowled by beating him in pace. The Harish took guard to resurrect the innings but couldn’t stay there for long. Then it was my turn to join karthik to build the innings. Though we got couple of boundaries and run rate slowly started to move up, I got run out trying for a suicidal second. Nithya joined karthik an tried t o increase the tempo. But some good tight bowling from Deepak and co restricted the nithya/haris to 38 which was a below par score on the SNCG for 8 overs with so much of open spaces available.. The new pair of Venkatesh and Rajesh opened the innings while veteran Harish sr took up the challenge of bowling. The venkatesh/Rajesh played sensibly scoring with 3-4 an over without taking any risk the match was evenly poised at half way stage with battings side still requiring 22 of the 4 overs. And Rajesh got out trying to increase the tempo. But then t came to battle of Harishs.. As Harish Jr took on the bowling of Harish Sr, and hit 2 mammoth sixers and a boundary to get the match almost on the verge of finish. Karthik came back to take Harish Jr caught behind But it was just the formality before they won the match.
Match 3:
Once again It was nitha/hari X1 who won the toss and elected to bat first. This time around Santosh and Karthik opened the innings while Mohan started the bowling attack. Harish Jr took Santosh out and then I joined the Karthik. Deepak came to bowl the 3rd over and foxed Karthik with slower leg cutter with Santosh completing a brilliant catch to end the innings. Then it was Nithya who came along with a team needing a partnership dearly, But Deepak succeeded in Nithya to go for a biggie with keeping fielders in the in Field and inviting for a big bash. Nithya fell a prey for the strategy and got an edge to get caught and bowled in the last delivery of the over. Then Harish Sr joined me and we both were trying to build the innings but trying to chip shot Harish Sr hit the ball straight to fielder at mid-wicket and the partnership was broken again Prashant joined me but Deepak foxed me with yet another slower leg cutter. Srikanth came to bat got few lusty blows to get the score to 30. in the mean time Harish Jr attacked Srikant on his private parts an match was halter for few minutes. It was disclosed later that he target things that he loves… oops… But any ways chasing target of 31, venkatesh opened the innings with Prasad but slowly they were building the innings but Prasad got out and even though Venkatesh was playing brilliantly getting few boundaries to keep the tempo. Sudheer, Rajesh were there building the partnership for small but efficient enough to keep the team on track with the required run rate. Deepak came to give a perfect foil for venkatesh. Both played effortlessly and were on target. At one stage Team required 12 of 3 overs and Karthik came to bowl. Vaishak spoke the future that “Match would finish in this particular over and Karthik would be giving 2 boundaries.” But Karthik made sure that his brothers words were taken with utmost respect and gave away 2 boundaries in first two deliveries. Venaktesh retired trying to give batting practice to rest of the team. Vaishak came to the crease. Karthik bowled another long hop and made sure his bro Vaishak hit the Six to complete he match. There were rumors that Karthik and Harish Jr were not playing up to their potential due to match fixing from their respective brothers.. The investigation is in progress.
So it was good show of cricket all in all, with lot players turning into SNCG for the matches.. It is expected that it might improve still further with the quality of cricket being improved tremendously by the bunch of the players…
Oops I had forgotten to mention that in second match “while shouting to a fielder to throw at the bowler end, I was shouting as batting end”. Deepak felt it was the confusion.. And had urged to put it in the blog as confusion. Hence I Have put it across the same way I suppose. Anyways until next week....
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Battle of the Royal Rumbles on 14th Aug 2010
It was the same day 63 years ago on Aug 14th Aug late night that Indians had fought hard and got the independence to India But the At SNCG we were witnessing 2 teams playing for supremacy, pride and honor apart from the normal fun. It was also on the day of auspicious occasion of “nagara panchami” that the teams were trying to put their venom on opposition and played some real hard cricket.
Madhu played brilliantly in the second encounter and scored a fascinating fifty in a 6 over game was the highlight of the day with shower of luck from heavens. But nothing to take away from the spectacular hitting; the first 2 matches were played with only 6 people and fantastic four came an hour (oops along with some one special with dheera…Sudheera) later to join the troop an hour later as usual. The fourth match was getting into a good contest with MNM-X1 were 15 after 3 overs but on eve of school children getting prepared for Independence Day Celebration made sure there no more contest for the day and also they made sure wipro’s walk-in was successful.
MNM X1- Madhu, Nithya, Mohan [Prashant, Deepak]
[SUDHEER]
KHK X1- Karthik, Harish Jr, Kiran UK [Harish Sr, Srikanth]
[Late Entrants]
Match 1:
It is a joke to specify this as a match as even though it was a far better performance from KHK X1 than INDIA displayed against NZ last week. KHK won the toss and elected to bat. Karthik took the strike while surprisingly Madhu came to open the bowling attack. The intent behind, he bowling the first over was very funny which was the first of its kind that I have heard for a long time; quoted as said from madhu“ I am bowling well at the nets and am in rhythm so that I will continue” .. But whatever he kept his words giving only 4 of the over. Mohan came to bowl the second over and turned the match on its head by picking both karthik and in form Harish Jr in consecutive balls. First he hit the timber to roll the stumps to send karthik back to hut, and then he induced a false shot from Harish to get him caught and bowled. I came to bat and tried to rotate strike with 1’s and 2’s. The score was 12 when Madhu came to bowl again his final over. A juicy full toss which could have gone over anywhere in the field was hit straight to Man with the golden Arm at hat moment “Mohan” and he wasn’t in a any mood to leave anything.. He completed the catch to restrict KHK X1 to 12. Chasing 12 Madhu finished in hurry with 2 fours and six in 2 overs and showed the form he was in. Man of the match went to Mohan for his brilliant bowling performance
Match 2:
Once again the MNM X1 lost the toss but was put into to bat from KHK X1. And Madhu started the innings while karthik started the proceedings for the KHK X1. Madhu continued his golden form from his previous innings along with the much needed luck. As they fortune favors the brave whatever he touched was turning into gold. 10 of the first over and 14 of the second over (from Me ) but to everyone’s surprise Mohan dropped a catch (bad luck continued with KHK X1). Harish bowled a brilliant over next up giving away only 2 runs and at the half way mark it was 26 for Madhu as well as MNM X1.There was another chance provided to madhu with a missed stumping from Nithya by a whisker. Next 2 overs were again bread and butter for madhu as he scored a 15 of the karthik’s over and 8 of mine and was on 49 after 5 overs. It was raining 4’s and 6’s at the SNCG. Harish came back again and bowled another brilliant over giving away only a single of the last over of the innings. Madhu completed well deserved fifty and retired to give some opportunity for the others. But Nithya couldn’t score of the last 4 deliveries and stiff target of 51 was set to KHK X1. Chasing the daunting target, Harish Started off brilliantly with four of first delivery. But Mohan continued his trick once again getting Harish very early caught and bowled. Karthik came to crease and started playing brilliantly from the word go. He hit a huge six of Madhu and got the score to 22 of 3 overs. Karthik trying to hit nithya out of park couldn’t connect and nithya had the stumps reeling. Then it was my turn to get into battle. Got a boundary off nithya and few singles and twos. MNM required 24 of the last 2 overs and I could get few boundaries off madhu and we required 11 of the last over. Direct hit from Karthik from square leg ended my innings. Once again Bad luck haunted the KHK X1.
Match 3:
Once again It was KHK X1 who won the toss and elected to field first now with added members into the squad. Veteran Deepak & Prashant joined MNM while Harish Sr and pace man Srikant joined KHK. Srikant started off the proceedings while Madhu and Prashant came to bat. This time around it was perfect trio of Srikant, Harish (Sr and Jr) bowled brilliantly giving nothing away to the opposition and even the inform Madhu couldn’t do much and got out to trying to up the tempo. Only Deepak was stranded at the other end looking for the partners. Sudeer who was playing for both teams bowled a good over for KHK and batted for MNM. But It was all over in the 7th over when Harish got the stumps uprooted to end the innings. Chasing a modest target of 26, KHK opened with K square (Me and karthik) and Mohan started the bowling. We played cautiously until 3rd over with score being 9. By then Karthik got the call from home i.e. HM of sweet home (call to get back home soon) He responded brilliantly to the call from Mr. karthik, as he took on Prashant in the fourth over for a six and boundaries. By the end of 4 overs KHK required only 5 of the 4 overs. Nithya took the imp wicket of Karthik but by then the match was almost over. Harish who joined me completed the job to get the victory.
The fourth match was stooped in between due to Independence day rehearsal practice as said earlier. I wish you all the HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY and hope we would continue to think of the independent INDIA over and over again rather than celebrate it today and forget. As most of us are almost settled in life to some extend (there might never be a complete settling), I suppose it is time now for us to think in terms of what we can do to the society to improve the living conditions of millions of people who are struggling and underprivileged. Also its time to think of the problems growing pollution, Poverty, corruption .etc .etc (the list goes on)... and to come up with the solution.
Lets Remember all those Mahan atmas who gave away their life for us to play cricket today (of course other activities) without any concerns and India to be an independent Nation. Let’s hope we would be able to pass the rich heritage we had got to the next generation and work towards it.
Vande mataram….
BOLO BHARAT MATA KI
JAI
Madhu played brilliantly in the second encounter and scored a fascinating fifty in a 6 over game was the highlight of the day with shower of luck from heavens. But nothing to take away from the spectacular hitting; the first 2 matches were played with only 6 people and fantastic four came an hour (oops along with some one special with dheera…Sudheera) later to join the troop an hour later as usual. The fourth match was getting into a good contest with MNM-X1 were 15 after 3 overs but on eve of school children getting prepared for Independence Day Celebration made sure there no more contest for the day and also they made sure wipro’s walk-in was successful.
MNM X1- Madhu, Nithya, Mohan [Prashant, Deepak]
[SUDHEER]
KHK X1- Karthik, Harish Jr, Kiran UK [Harish Sr, Srikanth]
[Late Entrants]
Match 1:
It is a joke to specify this as a match as even though it was a far better performance from KHK X1 than INDIA displayed against NZ last week. KHK won the toss and elected to bat. Karthik took the strike while surprisingly Madhu came to open the bowling attack. The intent behind, he bowling the first over was very funny which was the first of its kind that I have heard for a long time; quoted as said from madhu“ I am bowling well at the nets and am in rhythm so that I will continue” .. But whatever he kept his words giving only 4 of the over. Mohan came to bowl the second over and turned the match on its head by picking both karthik and in form Harish Jr in consecutive balls. First he hit the timber to roll the stumps to send karthik back to hut, and then he induced a false shot from Harish to get him caught and bowled. I came to bat and tried to rotate strike with 1’s and 2’s. The score was 12 when Madhu came to bowl again his final over. A juicy full toss which could have gone over anywhere in the field was hit straight to Man with the golden Arm at hat moment “Mohan” and he wasn’t in a any mood to leave anything.. He completed the catch to restrict KHK X1 to 12. Chasing 12 Madhu finished in hurry with 2 fours and six in 2 overs and showed the form he was in. Man of the match went to Mohan for his brilliant bowling performance
Match 2:
Once again the MNM X1 lost the toss but was put into to bat from KHK X1. And Madhu started the innings while karthik started the proceedings for the KHK X1. Madhu continued his golden form from his previous innings along with the much needed luck. As they fortune favors the brave whatever he touched was turning into gold. 10 of the first over and 14 of the second over (from Me ) but to everyone’s surprise Mohan dropped a catch (bad luck continued with KHK X1). Harish bowled a brilliant over next up giving away only 2 runs and at the half way mark it was 26 for Madhu as well as MNM X1.There was another chance provided to madhu with a missed stumping from Nithya by a whisker. Next 2 overs were again bread and butter for madhu as he scored a 15 of the karthik’s over and 8 of mine and was on 49 after 5 overs. It was raining 4’s and 6’s at the SNCG. Harish came back again and bowled another brilliant over giving away only a single of the last over of the innings. Madhu completed well deserved fifty and retired to give some opportunity for the others. But Nithya couldn’t score of the last 4 deliveries and stiff target of 51 was set to KHK X1. Chasing the daunting target, Harish Started off brilliantly with four of first delivery. But Mohan continued his trick once again getting Harish very early caught and bowled. Karthik came to crease and started playing brilliantly from the word go. He hit a huge six of Madhu and got the score to 22 of 3 overs. Karthik trying to hit nithya out of park couldn’t connect and nithya had the stumps reeling. Then it was my turn to get into battle. Got a boundary off nithya and few singles and twos. MNM required 24 of the last 2 overs and I could get few boundaries off madhu and we required 11 of the last over. Direct hit from Karthik from square leg ended my innings. Once again Bad luck haunted the KHK X1.
Match 3:
Once again It was KHK X1 who won the toss and elected to field first now with added members into the squad. Veteran Deepak & Prashant joined MNM while Harish Sr and pace man Srikant joined KHK. Srikant started off the proceedings while Madhu and Prashant came to bat. This time around it was perfect trio of Srikant, Harish (Sr and Jr) bowled brilliantly giving nothing away to the opposition and even the inform Madhu couldn’t do much and got out to trying to up the tempo. Only Deepak was stranded at the other end looking for the partners. Sudeer who was playing for both teams bowled a good over for KHK and batted for MNM. But It was all over in the 7th over when Harish got the stumps uprooted to end the innings. Chasing a modest target of 26, KHK opened with K square (Me and karthik) and Mohan started the bowling. We played cautiously until 3rd over with score being 9. By then Karthik got the call from home i.e. HM of sweet home (call to get back home soon) He responded brilliantly to the call from Mr. karthik, as he took on Prashant in the fourth over for a six and boundaries. By the end of 4 overs KHK required only 5 of the 4 overs. Nithya took the imp wicket of Karthik but by then the match was almost over. Harish who joined me completed the job to get the victory.
The fourth match was stooped in between due to Independence day rehearsal practice as said earlier. I wish you all the HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY and hope we would continue to think of the independent INDIA over and over again rather than celebrate it today and forget. As most of us are almost settled in life to some extend (there might never be a complete settling), I suppose it is time now for us to think in terms of what we can do to the society to improve the living conditions of millions of people who are struggling and underprivileged. Also its time to think of the problems growing pollution, Poverty, corruption .etc .etc (the list goes on)... and to come up with the solution.
Lets Remember all those Mahan atmas who gave away their life for us to play cricket today (of course other activities) without any concerns and India to be an independent Nation. Let’s hope we would be able to pass the rich heritage we had got to the next generation and work towards it.
Vande mataram….
BOLO BHARAT MATA KI
JAI
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