More than anything, our bowling have been spot on, our
bowlers are stepping up and dismantling the opposition teams....
We lost the toss and batted first on a wicket that was helping the seamers.. One bowler in the opposition team bowled particularly well and exploited the conditions to the tee... I think I got a snorter of a delivery that climbed face-high from slightly back of a length and Mayur took a very good diving catch for the first wicket.... Yash was playing well too, till he also got a similar delivery that took off from a fullish length and seamed away to take the shoulder of his bat and the keeper did not miss.. Neil and Ayaz were at the crease, Ayaz was promoted in the batting order today and looked in control till he played a slightly false shot to a fullish ball and it didn't help that, the ball again stood up and hit the bat makers label and we were 4 down by then, as Neil too had just got out, an over before, to a wide full toss down the leg side, which in my opinion should have been left alone.... Akshay’s innings was promising and in one over, he played a couple of good looking drives one towards the on-side and one on the off, the off side cover drive was probably my pick for ‘shot of the day’.. but as it so often happens, he was unlucky to be given out leg before to a ball that was clearly going above the stumps.... the umpire in question, was busy on the cell phone and before the over I even asked him if I should umpire from both ends, just so that he could reply to the frantic text messages…. that might have been coming from his girl-friend or Jugal or both….
We kept losing wickets and the scoring rate also dropped to 4.5 RPO…. but we had a good partnership for the 7th wicket, between Nagesh and Nishant, who played in to their innings, put away the bad balls and kept the scoreboard ticking.... Nagesh got out to a short wide ball that should have been hit for a boundary, but he holed up to short cover instead.... Then came Umar and he just demolished their bowlers.. their best bowler who had figures of 3-0-8-2 went for 19 in his last over and 3 of the 4 boundaries in that over came from Umar's bat... In the last over too he hit their left arm spinner Deva for one big six over mid wicket and one straight drive boundary SMASH that went at the rate of knots.... We managed to reach a par score of 160 in 25 and we needed our bowlers to take charge…. and what followed was a masterclass…...
We lost the toss and batted first on a wicket that was helping the seamers.. One bowler in the opposition team bowled particularly well and exploited the conditions to the tee... I think I got a snorter of a delivery that climbed face-high from slightly back of a length and Mayur took a very good diving catch for the first wicket.... Yash was playing well too, till he also got a similar delivery that took off from a fullish length and seamed away to take the shoulder of his bat and the keeper did not miss.. Neil and Ayaz were at the crease, Ayaz was promoted in the batting order today and looked in control till he played a slightly false shot to a fullish ball and it didn't help that, the ball again stood up and hit the bat makers label and we were 4 down by then, as Neil too had just got out, an over before, to a wide full toss down the leg side, which in my opinion should have been left alone.... Akshay’s innings was promising and in one over, he played a couple of good looking drives one towards the on-side and one on the off, the off side cover drive was probably my pick for ‘shot of the day’.. but as it so often happens, he was unlucky to be given out leg before to a ball that was clearly going above the stumps.... the umpire in question, was busy on the cell phone and before the over I even asked him if I should umpire from both ends, just so that he could reply to the frantic text messages…. that might have been coming from his girl-friend or Jugal or both….
We kept losing wickets and the scoring rate also dropped to 4.5 RPO…. but we had a good partnership for the 7th wicket, between Nagesh and Nishant, who played in to their innings, put away the bad balls and kept the scoreboard ticking.... Nagesh got out to a short wide ball that should have been hit for a boundary, but he holed up to short cover instead.... Then came Umar and he just demolished their bowlers.. their best bowler who had figures of 3-0-8-2 went for 19 in his last over and 3 of the 4 boundaries in that over came from Umar's bat... In the last over too he hit their left arm spinner Deva for one big six over mid wicket and one straight drive boundary SMASH that went at the rate of knots.... We managed to reach a par score of 160 in 25 and we needed our bowlers to take charge…. and what followed was a masterclass…...
Neil and Umar started our bowling…. both bowled probing yet very different
lines and lengths, Neil bowled a lot fuller and shaped the ball away nicely,
and beat the bat almost every second ball.. in one particular over he bowled 5
out-swingers, out of which 4 consecutive balls at slightly different spots in a
foots length radius, I think if was batting then and thank god I was not, I
would almost be ready to commit suicide, but the batsman in question committed
'harakiri' instead.... Neil ended up with a big haul of 4 wickets and equally
impressive bowling figures (if anyone has the other half of the scoresheet,
kindly share....)
Umar bowled a slightly quickish and shorter length at first and pushed the batsmen on the backfoot and then had them beaten for pace at times and at times for movement.... I think he took 3 wickets in all but kept the scoring in check, they were 21 for 2 in 6 overs and the wickets just kept falling at regular intervals thereafter, Yash and Akshay replaced Neil and Umar and although Akshay bowled a wayward and expensive (15 runs) first over, he came back well to bowl a tight spell of 4 overs…. Yash got the ball to move nicely away and bagged 2 wickets with some good accurate medium pace deliveries.... Nagesh and Ayaz were somewhat off the mark to start off with, but came back well to wrap things up.. initially, Ayaz was not his usual confident self and bowled some wides and also some very short balls and was punished for 16 in one over, after switching ends he bowled better and his quicker ball in particular was lethal in his last over, thankfully I was not keeping....
The keeper for today's match was Akshay and except for the 3 misses, he did a great job, stopped some of the quicker wayward balls hurled by some of our good, decent and at times bad bowlers.... and did a fantastic job overall for the thankless job of wicket keeping....
Anyways another convincing victory for the team today, well played and WELL PLAYED
Although, Jugal Daruwalla's match predictions were off today on the group, it's effects were as usual felt in the dressing room but not in the middle.... Albeit, the market regulator DHOBI's restraining order still stands.... and that's a WRAP......
Umar bowled a slightly quickish and shorter length at first and pushed the batsmen on the backfoot and then had them beaten for pace at times and at times for movement.... I think he took 3 wickets in all but kept the scoring in check, they were 21 for 2 in 6 overs and the wickets just kept falling at regular intervals thereafter, Yash and Akshay replaced Neil and Umar and although Akshay bowled a wayward and expensive (15 runs) first over, he came back well to bowl a tight spell of 4 overs…. Yash got the ball to move nicely away and bagged 2 wickets with some good accurate medium pace deliveries.... Nagesh and Ayaz were somewhat off the mark to start off with, but came back well to wrap things up.. initially, Ayaz was not his usual confident self and bowled some wides and also some very short balls and was punished for 16 in one over, after switching ends he bowled better and his quicker ball in particular was lethal in his last over, thankfully I was not keeping....
The keeper for today's match was Akshay and except for the 3 misses, he did a great job, stopped some of the quicker wayward balls hurled by some of our good, decent and at times bad bowlers.... and did a fantastic job overall for the thankless job of wicket keeping....
Anyways another convincing victory for the team today, well played and WELL PLAYED
Although, Jugal Daruwalla's match predictions were off today on the group, it's effects were as usual felt in the dressing room but not in the middle.... Albeit, the market regulator DHOBI's restraining order still stands.... and that's a WRAP......
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