Great knock by Yuvi. Lovely composure all through also helping team cross the winning line with Ahmed 👏🏽.
Manoj brought all his energy in running quick singles (I am sure there is a reason – he had to go back home 😆 quickly). Game won by singles and doubles apart from generous extras. Rutu once again played his part at the top seeing off opening spell. Rest all chipped in few here and there. Nice team work!
Bowling: Ramee’s experience against new bees, a lesson on how to pick wickets at the start and end. Excellent opening spell combo with Ahmad. Both Ahmad and later by Joel made batters fear with few raising deliveries. Joel was unlucky not to pick but it will soon happen, matter time. Then Shreyans out-spinned them at both spells finishing off their innings. Bhavesh provided support by picking a wicket.
It was a testing day for bowlers after 6 down probably due to reverse batting order but our guys kept pushing and eventually finishing them off. So score slightly higher by 30 odd runs.
The opponents are tennisball players transitioning into leather ball. Extras indicate their struggles but their good balls was unplayable hitting at right areas, some giving extra bounce. That reflects the good resistance showed by our top order lead by Rutu. Going forward we continue to build on this approach plus perhaps few learning’s from this game both for batters (more acceleration by singles) and bowlers (ways to break partnerships), reduce the catch drops. I will continue to welcome all the support and suggestions on improving our game.
Special thanks to
- Gaurav for scoring and especially for his trademark (2nd time so it can be called now 😀) Aloo-Gobi. It was aplenty for 40ppl. So if you are hungry at tea time you know where to land 😀
- Jan, Manish, Anirudh and Advik for supporting the team
- Arnav and Rishi for their fielding giving much needed break to 4-5 players. Good job and we continue this formula going forward.
PoM: Yuvraj
Signed off with a round of drinks.
– Maddy
