It all started in the morning with all our team members ready and raring for the match waiting eagerly at the railway gate ..... yes the captain and the team were just outside the ground for close to 20 mins.We all reached the ground,and were very sure on not to repeat the last match fielding performance.
Captain Rajiv won the toss and didn't have any second thought in electing to field first.Well begun is half done and that's what rajiv and bala did for our team.Rajiv left the batsmen fishing at the crease while Bala evoked fear with his rising deliveries.He bowled his 3 for mere 9 runs and picked up a wicket ( stumps cart wheeling)..Rajiv made a quick change to bring me in at the end of 4th over assuming the new ball would swing outside and the batsmen would play for off spinners... but couldnt fox the batsmen.. I floated a couple of deliveries and that was well timed by the batsmen to the boundary. the remaining balls were the quicker ones that swung away from the batsmen who edged and missed.
Then came the move of the day when Girish came into attack.Aplomb was his bowling ...and most of his medium pace deliveries were beating the batsmen repeatedly and they never had any clue whatsoever.He also managed to effect an agile runout of his own bowling.
Param joined hands with him with some tight spin bowling and he picked up 3 wickets (bowled,caught by fielder & lbw) out of his quota of 4 overs by conceding 22 runs with a tight field set where the bastmen could hardly find any boundary which was the need of the hour for them. As the slog overs came in Rajiv called me back to finish of my quota of overs and the innings as quick as possible and i effectively replied to him by picking 2 wickets (bowled) and finished my spell conceding 24 runs.This time i made sure that no floaters were provided for easy picking and mean while Rajiv joined me in from the other end completed his 4 overs giving away 13 runs.They ended their innings at 104. Considering the time involved for the batsmen had to make to the middle which is nearly 200 mts from the pavilion and the mins in between overs, we managed to finish off 20 overs within the allocated time of 1hr and 20 mins which is to be appreciated. This was possible cos of Quick field changes and swift movers on the field in between overs. The energy was quite visible among our players.
Since we all were sure that we should not drop catches and misfield that occupied most of us in the previous match, We didnt misfield nor drop any catches in this match, but our fielders went on a defensive by not attempting few catches, bala being one who couldnt run in for a difficult chance, thanks to his ankle sprain. Efforts of Sundar and nithi on the field has to be appreciated.
It was our turn to chase 105 in 20 overs. Our in form opener Shivaram and "Appu" praveen started the innings in a positive manner.Shiva continued from where he left in last match and was in amazing touch .The balls flew to boundaries very regularly and kept the umpires busy. Shivaram's cut, pull and coverdrives were a stand out in today's knock. Praveen trying to switch into aggressive mood played a faulty pull shot whiche dragged from outside the off stump that costed his wicket.Bala went in and joined shiva aptly in the run chase. Both ensured that the target was minimized to a larger extent before he lost his wicket.By then Rajesh and I were padded up waiting for our chances to have a go since there were few dollies been thrown to the batsmen by the bowlers. Bala helped thier cause by giving away his witcket to innocous delivery.
28 runs needed to win when I walked in to bat. I was offered some wide deliveries and fulltoses to improve the scoring rate further and i obliged them with hits to the fence and one catching practice in between which they failed to capitalise on it. Just when the match was about to get over with 5 needed to win Shiva threw his wicket because of tiredness and in walked the "Inzy"Rajesh to finish it off with his presense. He was obliged a waist high full toss which he hammerred to midwicket to mark the victory. Thus 105 was chased in 16 overs.
Shivaram played an astounding innings of 67 and won the MOM. He looked in terrific touch and was a lot assured at crease. Keep up your good work mate. All the bowlers bowled well and the ground fielding was refreshing. Nithi was very attacking while fielding, but I wonder how most of the balls went to him alone in the past 2 matches, he got to be a bit rationale while attacking the ball and he can prove his fielding credentials even while backing up for a throw from the other end, which he always forgets to... fortunately no runs were conceded. We have made efforts to correct ourselves very fast from the previous match mistakes.
A good team effort...
" FIVE out of SIX and our place in the Final is FIXED "
Hail Criccruisers..
Blog By
Koushick.
10 comments:
Kannungalaa.... kalakkareenga... great job guys. Ensure to repeat this with the slash support team and with the CTS (whom i presume we wil meet in the finals)
Koushik... good narration da.. and next time i dont want u to attempt any of your floaters etc etc nu. And adhu enna sir new ball la kudutha the batsmen wil get fooled by playing for off-spin naa ?? unakku old bal kuduthaalum they wil get fooled la thinking that it wil spin nu :-)
To our gilly... machi shiva, kalakkara po.. un kaattula mazha dhaan.. ellaa matchum MOM award vaangardhunaala contributiona mattum WAIVE off pannuvomnu nenakkaadha kannu :-)
Dai bala... eppo lendhu nee bouncerlaam poda aarambicha ?? and wat hapnd to kaaja. no mention abt him.. was there any 12th man or exact 11.. going by the description ground is AM jain-C is it.. ippovae next tournament kku undiyal kulukku daa rajiv.. Great show girish, rajiv, param and bala.. kadaisila ennoda slotkku aappu vechitteenga.. its ok namma annan nithi is always there to help me regain slot :-)))
dai...avan andha outswingers narrate pannala..adhu naan edit panni ezhudhinadhu..cos i thought so..inimel andha thappana ennam enakku varaadhu!!! :)
dai..yesterdays match was against Slash only... they have lost all their matches except winning against CTS... vethu pasanga...
Btw thanks for reminding about shiva... next match karandhudren..
Hi Guys
The last 2 matches are just cakewalk for us and so too will be the last match.Expect some changes particularly the guys who have not batted has to go up inorder to get some good batting practise. Mainly i want rajesh to come up and play a long innings which will make our team even more stronger and so too the present captain. But let shiva open the innings asusual but with rajesh. Thats the only change i wan to see in the next match.
Everything went on well for us and importantly girish's bowling, which is definetely a positive sign as we dont know whats in store for the finals for us.Next match even praveen has to given the ball so that we can bring some changes whenever needed in the big game.
Atleast a minimum of 8 runs has to be added with shiva's batting because he stopped 2 unstopable balls from koushik.
Koushik,faster onnu podu ana pudikara madhiri poduda.
Your fasteronce cannot be stopped in the region between gully and point even if batsmen keeps his bat in to it.So athe mattum pathu sei, pavam shiva!!!!!!!!!!!
ok...comment accepted..let rajesh open the innings with shivram... this time if we win the toss we will elect to bat first and see wats our batting potential is in 20 overs.
Good Blog Kouschik!!!!
Let's bat first if we win the toss. The only match that we lost was when we batted first. Some food for thought.
Ideally Next match Shiva should open with Rajesh and rajiv coming in at NO.3. After that we can probably shuffle around with Param,Myself,Prakash,Ranga,Nithi.
Rgds
Girish
comment accepted :D
new ball will be shared by girish and appu.
Kudos to the team.....
Changing the batting order is a good idea.The rest can get a chance and its a good time to see the depth.But we must make sure that the momentum is not lost before the finals.
@ sri kumar.
dei new ball la off spin podaradhu ennaku kashtam da. But this time rajiv wanted me to bowl quicker one's rathers than floaters, which he said after i completed that over. i was trying to bowl off spin which was hit to the boundary and when i bowled the quicker s i had the out swing happening to beat the batsmen.
And dey overa pessitta nee ... both the wickets i took were clean off spinners which spun sharply to disturb the timber.
guys.. my suggestion is let nithi open with shivaram... am damn sure rajesh wont feel comfortable abt facing the new ball. Nithi kkum chance kudutha maadhiri irukkum and even if he is going to come back within a over one down porardha oru psychological feelingla rajesh might feel ok abt it... after let koushik and rajiv follow... and so far i dont think appu has fired in any of the matches..
and in bowling dept all the four main bowlers dont bowl or bowl only if very very necessary.. rajiv, bala, param and koushik stay away from bowling. Before u guys play the finals ensure that everyone got exposed to playin a role either with the ball or with the bat..
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