Cricket ???? See if this encourages you to be on ground next time !!!!

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 !!!
Match 1:

 Team A : Abhijeet, Manoj,Venkat,Ruchik,Vikram,Rajesh,Pankaj,Rohin
Team B : Arvind,Vivek,Dharmendra,Ram,Chandru,Pratik,Amit,Siddharth

 Team a won the toss and decided to bat(surprsing !!!). It was a 14 over match in the end. The start was good and slow and the runs were coming at a regular inteval. Excellent batting by Venkat, Rajesh, Pankaj allowed the score to reach 88.

Team B fumbled and eventually lost by about 17 or so runs. Sorry guys, I don't remember details so don't want to put incorrect information..we need Anand to do a detailed commentary...

 Match 2:

 Team A : Abhijeet, Manoj,Ruchik,Vikram,Rajesh,Pankaj,Rohin
Team B : Venkat,Vivek,Ram,Chandru,Pratik,Amit,Siddharth
One change for this match : Venkat moved to team B as Arvind and Dharmendra have to leave.

 This match was started as 10 overs per side but team B were tattering to 17 in 5 overs with only Siddharth as the last man, So the it was further reduced to 8 overs. He put his best efforts and the score reached to 28.

 It was 29 from 8 overs for the team who scored 88 in the first match. Easy one right....but team B had something different in mind. All their bowlers were so determined to not give runs an take wickets that team A was all out in 24 runs....

 There were two superb catches that should be mentioned. Both were on the ON side. Both were at square leg : Amit picked the low flick off the bat of Ram at forward short leg. It was a must to see the catch. Everyone was so amazed by the refelexes and agility, that Amit got applaud and laughs at the same time. The other one was at backward square leg. It was typical Rohin style : Jumping in the air, picking the ball with both hands. This time the batsman was Pankaj.

 Once again welcome to all and keep coming guys !!! See you all next Sunday at the same ground !!!

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Abhijeet

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