Irvine Willows

H i, The intensity of last Sunday's game was raw, energy level high and participation was full-on. Everybody's game was up by couple of notches. The bowlers couldn't bowl a lose delivery without getting heaved over the rope, the fielders couldn't afford to fumble without getting an earful form the fellow fielders, the batsmen couldn't run the risk of running a cheeky single unless they didn't care for their wicket or team (which wasn't the case). As Chaitanya expressed towards the end of the match, it felt as if we were playing an actual competitive match. The weather was perfect too, cloudy and pleasant. In fact now-a-days you might have noticed that it gets cooler in the mornings and evenings, some of that was spilling over well into later part of early morning and we were not complaining. Some of us arrived a bit late and the game had nearly begun. This time we had a bigger crowd, you could tell by the number of people sitting on the bench....

Hi, As you must have grasped from the wonderful videos posted by Rajesh, we had 2 amazing matches last Sunday. The fact that we had a great turnout helped set the stage. The most wonderful thing was that everybody arrived before 8 and the game was underway almost immediately. I have made a metal note to myself, given the current level of enthusiasm and the crowd, I dare not be the odd one out and arrive late (I highly urge you to do the same too). The weather was perfect, we had a great cloud cover almost throughout the session allowing us to play without feeling the heat. It was as if we were destined to have a great game! Team A: Abhijeet, Pankaj, Vivek, Vikram, Siddharth, Prajit, Sanjib, and Senthil. Team B : Venkat, Partha, Rajesh, Rohin, Pratik, Ram, Chandru and Anand

Boy oh boy...what a day it was to play cricket...and what a contest wet had in both matches...in spite of the wet outfield on the long-on area...everyone was so much on the field to put their 100% as if we were playing a real match.. We had few new players : Ruchik,Vikram,Amit. We welcome them all...keep coming.. We started around 7:50 with about 12 people on the ground. and then people started pouring in (yes...). By the time it was all done, we had 16 in total..still below our record turnout...Anand keep a record !!!

Hi, I quickly wanted to acknowledge our awesome outing this past Sunday. We played 2 very entertaining matches. Both the teams won a game, so basically everybody went home smiling. The weather wasn't too bad when we started, the cloud cover didn't make us sweat and the going was pleasant. But this good fortune lasted only a match a half and midway through the game Sun came out firing on all cylinders. But still it wasn't too bad and totally worth it.