Been a while since i posted my last post.....Its good writing again into my blog...
This sunday(17.8.2008) i had made my debut in TNCA 4th division league , and it turned out to be awesome day. This is was the third match for my team Prasad cc and my first.On the back of 2 defeats in d first 2 matches , we badly needed a win here , so we had rigourous practice sessions the days before.The match was at MIT(Chromepet) and i reached the place around 8 in the morning. We had a warm up session for an hour and the match started at 9 30. We lost the toss and fielded first, we had a reasonably good start , we took a wicket early in d 4th over and we were bowling well.I got my chance to bowl in d 8th over since i'm not good in controlling the swinging new ball and so i don't open the bowling. I bowled reallly good and even had only maiden over of the match to my name. Then i struck , a wicket in my 4th over(14th over of the innings) and they were 2 down for 50.Then we hardly had the luck on our side , they kept on scoring at fast rate and finally they scored 264 all out in 49 overs.It was a such a tiring day for us running all over the ground when they were scoring. The pitch was a dead one , no pace watsoever in it , so it was a day for d spinners to shine.Still i bowled well enough to be the most economical bowler of d day bowling 6 overs at the cost of 15 runs with a wicket. Set a stiff target of 265 , our batsmen had to shine.We started of with a bang a la sehwag style, Jani smashed the bowlers apart , and he even hit 3 cosecutive 4's but got out the fourt ball going for another boundary.Then we lost another quick wicket , but we stablised there after with both pramod sir and satish scoring well.Even aftr pramod got out , we had guru who was in awesome form scoring. At the 2nd drinks break at 31 overs, we were 165 for 3.We were cruising to victory , until tragedy struck.Immediately aftr the break , satish got out for a well made 64. Then it was guru's turn to get out chasing a risky single.Now we were in trouble , and thge rest of the batsmen failed miserably except Udhay anna.Finally we were 8 down for 230 aftr 47 overs.That is when Ravi sir went in.Let me describe ravi sir, He's 42 years old , owner of the 4th largest construction company in south india , and plays cricket for the passion he has for it. Never seen him bat before but he heard if he hits , it goes out of the park.He's such a nice person and u'll never tag the word aggression with him if u see him.Back to the match , he had wild swings at every ball but he connected with none.So finally we needed 22 of the last over which we thought was completely impossible. Ravi sir started the over with a bang hitting the first ball for a 6.Then a no ball , then a boundary and then again a huge 6 from ravi sir.Now we needed jus 5 runs from 3 balls , we had come so close.Next ball was a dot ball , nw 5 of 2 , thn ravi sir hit it high in the air and got out.Aaaaaaah , we cudnt beleive it.nw we needed 5 of 1 ball with me at the non striker end.Uday anna went for a paddle sweep but we cud get only 2 runs for it.A heart breaking finish , we fell short by just 2 runs.So close yet so far :(
