It was a long weekend in Singapore as the Visak Day fell on Friday..and had a sunny and bright weekdays, so was happy that atleast can have a full match on the Saturday.
But alas! all the hope went bleek when it started raining on Friday night.. went to bed with a heavy heart and hoping that it stops raining and the ground won't be too wet for a delay or no match the next day morning as it was an early morning start..
Got up early to find the clear sky may be we are lucky today and it was ... thanks to the Rain god....
Reached the ground and found it not too wet. All was set up for a good match and fun again it was spoilt by and on field umpire..One of the umpires for the match pulled out from the assignment at the last moment. Lucky enough we had one umpire to start with..
Once again the toss luck was with me (when ever i am in doubt i loss toss to the oponent captain.).The opponent captain won the toss and elected to field. Had to make a cautious start as it was an wet out field and the pitch too would have kept low due to damness. As regular opners were not there had to go with a changed pair of Ramesh and Guruvinder. They Played a sensible cricket till Ramesh played a rash shot and was bowled by a low kept ball in the 6th over.
One end was kept safe by guruvinder and he was given a good support by Karthik they pushed the score to 63 in 10 overs with smartly taken singles and running between the wickets and few good shots to the fence.
In the 11th over Guruvinder was bowled again by a low kept balls.Then we lost a couple of wickets at the regular intervals and at the break we were 77/4.
All were thinking of a target of above 200 from 30overs, but the way we lost couple of wickets reaching 150 seemed a difficult target. Usually at the team regrouping i tell my players to just stay there and play the 30overs the runs will come by.. it seems couple of them had heared that. And that to pay off when we had a good partnership between Bobby and Tariq, then tariq and Mani. Mani was playing a anchors role. The trio together helped the team score to reach 137 in 20 Overs.
Again Lost of couple of wickets playing some rash shots including the hero of couple of matches :) :) :)...Mani got out in the 27th over we had to complete the 30overs because the opponent were short of 1over and when i joined Johnson told him to keep the wicket in tact and just play the 30 overs.Both were not out and kept the wickets and we could post a target of 180 to the opponent in 29overs.
had to take the wicket keepers job as Mohammed was not available for the match and the stand in Keeper (guru) also was injured playing a friendly the day before.
The only condition which was against was hot sun and the very dry out field even a small edges can make the ball travel like a bullet to the fence with all seamers in the line up.
Started with our opening pairs of Manesh and Johnson. Johnson got the break thru in his first over itself with a blinder taken by bobby at covers(1st time anyone commented on my captancy :) :) )). Our bowling pairs were doing good in the 6th over of the inning that of Johnson , ramesh hit the wickets from deep and got one of their best batsmen short of ground to adjudge him Run out clebration followed was like a EPL player celebrating after scoring a goal(LIke of Torres).... Again johson bowled one of the batsmen in the very next ball of the over with the help of a very well judged catch by Guru in the deep he was involved in another wicket with the same well judged catch in the deep...
Then it was the turn of the next pair.. It seems like bowling in pairs keep rewarding the team in between a small changes :) :) :) ..The Pair of Mani and tariq couldn't get the reward they were worthy of.. so had to changes the ends for them so Bobby was introduced and the 1st ball of his over got the edge and was taken by tariq in the slips..the gamble paid off.. We too were running one over short due to constant field changes due to left and right combinations...
after the Drinks break and change of ends for the bowlers it started in our favour and with a good judge catch by Manesh the game started in our favor. though at the start of the innings i was just trying for a win.. but the way my bowlers and fielders supported i knew we could for the max and it was the case.The opponents were all out for 87/10 in 21overs...
Noteables:
Batting:Mani 30, Guru 26, Karthi 18....
Bowling: mani 6-1-19-3, Tariq 5-1-23-3,Johnson 4-1-17-2,Bobby 2-1-7-1
All went in our favour this week... Mariners too lost to Anza and IIT won against Jelutang...
Cricket is really a funny game 1over or 1player or the conditions can change the full game.. So my dear friends as long as you play... play it to the fullest and have fun don't worry of the results...
Have a great week ahead and forget about the cricket till you play the next match He He He He..... i don't know how i am telling this when i am thinking of it....
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