Irvine Willows

Going by the discussion on Whatsapp the match promised to be interesting to say the least, if not a nerve-wrecker like last time. This past Sunday IW were again pitted against their homegrown rivals CG. With the help of few of their friends the 'CG' faction was determined to settle the score once and for all and show the world which was the superior team. Not to be left behind , IW was all ready for whatever CH had in store for them. With this as the background players from both the teams slowly started gathering at the venue. The excitement was too much for Ram to stay at home and wait for the lock to tick to 7, who was the first one to arrive. CG: Venki, Gour, Partha, Gautama, Vivek, Ram, Vijay, J (female player), Prateek and Dharmendra IW: Abhijeet S, Rajesh, Chandru, Tharendhu (T), Abhijeet J, Pratik, Amit, Rishi, Senthil, Prithvi (new guy ) and Anand IW won the toss and elected to bat. Prithvi and Rajesh opened the innings. CG looked quite confident. I th

We had awesome couple of games this past Sunday. Due to the ongoing CG tournament and tooth extractions our regular folks were missing in action, but we were joined by 2 newcomers, who helped save the day enabling us to play on either side of the pitch. We hope they continue to join us Sunday after Sunday. We had to change our venue, but this time we were slightly better prepared, as Abhijeet had already scouted the Stonegate ground and informed us of its availability, thus we were able to start the game by 8:30. Team A: Abhijeet S, Abhijeet J, Amit, Rishi and Shashi (new guy, Rishi's friend) Team B: Senthil , Chandru, Rajesh, Tharendhu (new guy , walk-in, nicknamed T) and Anand While the first match was kind of predictable, second match turned out to be quite interesting. Team B batted first and made about 30 runs. I think everybody contributed with the bat, especially Senthil who was responsible for some fireworks. T, the new guy, showed some promise and