It had been raining all night and stadium had accumulated moisture well. This coupled with the Over cast condition on Saturday morning, it was perfect for blowers to take upper hand, Pacers thriving for pace enjoyed the pace, bounce and swing while spinners got the grip and bounce from the surface making batsmen dance to their tunes. Now coming to match results, Nithya & Co with their strong bowling attack won the series 2-1 over the Sudeep & CO who were filled with batting blasters..
Bowlers X1- Nithya, Harish JR, Kiran UK, Raghavan from 2nd Match: Madhu (nayawala) & Prashant
Batters X1- Sudeep, Sudhir, Harish SP (Spinner), Mohan from 2nd Match: Madhu, Santosh,
Match1:
At last the first match began at 8:30 on a overcast condition perfect for bowling though not due to weather nor from ground conditions, but due to the late latif in the team that match initially began with 6 at first and then became 8 by the end of the match .. Rest came to the next match. Nithya won the toss and elected to bat, I started the innings while sudhir opened the bowling attack. In the 2nd over Harish JR joined as a second partner to me in no-striker as the team size increased. He was in a punishing mood and hit a boundary to increase the tempo. I go out in the third over while Nithya took and catch behind the stumps and mean time Harish trying to hit the ball out of the ground was caught in the deep. Then it was Nithya ably supported by Raghavan who led the counter attack. Nithya even got a six over mid wicket and increased the tempo an target of 42 was set for batters to win the game. Batters started really well with 9 of he first over (thanks to a miss-filed from myself) also blowers had kept their fielders spread across giving easy singles amidst them. I gave away a six in the next over and score was 19 and match was running out of bowlers hand when a sudden turn of events happened. Sudeep trying to take second ran while Mohan dislodged the bails and said its out while few neutral boys had few confusions while sudeep was confident it was not out and Nithya felt it was out.. What else.. at last sudeep left the ground slowly sadly deeply wounded. Harish SP got run out for brilliant in field throw from Harish Jr. Then even Sudhir trying to hoik it over long on perished as he couldn’t clear me .. and Mohan led the single battle but got out in the last ball of the innings losing by 10 runs..
Match2:
Batters won the toss and elected to bat. The two most feared opening batsmen in the vidhyapeet circle Madhu & Sudeep opened the innings while the devastating fast bowler Harish Jr opened the attack for bowlers. It was beautiful over keeping them down only for a single off the over. I got the opportunity to bowl the second over hehhe.. We repeated the same sequence once more and after 4 overs the batters were 7/0 after 4 overs.. Then Nithya came to attack and sudeep was thrice lucky as 3 catches were dropped from all corners of the ground. But in the next over our nayawala madhu bowling his first over took sudeep caught at deep with Prashanth completing the catch successfully. Raghavan bowled the last over with is wrong foot bowling, batters couldn’t go fast and were only able to score 16 with 17 as the target. Bowlers X1 started the innings with Prashant and Raghavan both in the hitting mode followed by Naya Madhu who blasted a six as well in course to victory. In the mean time Sudeep and co were trying new strategy with the slow bowlers (Santosh, Sudeep, Madhu under the able guidance of Harish SP ). But still the match was over in 4 overs with bowlers winning the series by winning both matches.
Match3:
Bowlers won the toss and elected to bat first and lost madhu in the first over from Mohan. Madhu came to bowl and 3 wickets fell in the same over with Madhu (nayawala) getting run out while Prashant & Harish got out trying to it the ball out of the park. Bowlers were struggling at 12 /4 and Nithya and joined together to kind of partnership but Nithya too got out caught out. Then it was ragahvan who joined me till the last over to get the score to 26. Sudeep got raghavan bowed in the last over to complete the bowlers innings. Raghavan bowled the first over while Harish SP and Sudhir opened the innings for the Batters. Raghavan couldn’t get his line right and bowled few full-tosses and score was 9 after the first over. I bowled the second over giving 3 runs. Prashant bowled the third over who gave a four as well as took wicket as well to keep bowlers in hunt. I got the wicket of Harish SP in the next over getting him stumped. Nithya & Harish JR tried to close the game bowling last 4 overs. But Batters finished the match in 7th over itself getting a consolation win.
That’s all folks for this week. Till next week. Just Enjoyyyyyyyyyy.
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