Thursday, March 13, 2008

Cricket Mania


Today we decided to try cricket instead of football. This decision was taken in our college itself. So we decided to play there itself. We formed a team of seven members each (players are from our class only). The pitch was very damp and so we decided to play overarm match instead of the usual bowling match. We won the toss and chose to bat. Our team was captained by Sai. The pitch had uneven bounce early on in the innings. So we struggled to make fast runs. I got out cheaply to a low kept delivery but it was only after giving my team a solid platform to launch from. Puli took charge and he scored runs at his own will. We made 48 runs in 10 overs, with help of some swashbuckling shots from PPK and Puli.
The opponents started in a bad note. They lost two quick wickets of Sullan and Pinch hitter in quick succession. They had only one wicket and had scored only 19 runs of 6 overs. But 'Khani Abhi tho Baakhi Hei'. I came to bowl the decisive spell and gave away 12 runs in a single over to turn the match. They went on to win the match comfortably. I became the 'Man of the Match' for my excellent work with both bat (1 run of 8 balls) and ball (1 0ver 12 runs, 1 wicket).

1 comment:

Prashanth Krishnan said...

Nice Post here da, chronicling a nail biting thriller. I think we must provide original photo content from next matches (one of which we may have tomorrow, possibly as we will be free in the morning), so that our readers get some authentic feeling of our experiences. :-)