The curious case of Praveen Sake and Andrew the bailer

Gone are the days of "Jack of all trades and Master of none". It is clearly an advantage to be a specialist and our Praveen has clearly illustrated why. It is very funny to check the NJSBCL profile page mention Praveen as a RHB (Right Handed Batsman) where a suitable title would be RHSC (Right Handed Square Cutter). There can be none better than Praveen to play the shot ( I even pip him slightly ahead of Sachin in terms of the power he generates and the ease at which he plays the shot. He would have played that shot off Akthar even if he had to chase it from 3kms outside the leg stump). Seeing the bowling charts for the games concluded so far, the PP's have clearly displayed better performances being very frugal and attacking (opponents being dismissed twice before the quota of 16 overs) it is highly confounding to the failure of this approach by PS as he has clearly found it advantageous playing his teammates this way in the practice games. In hindsight we can say that he has indeed failed to adopt this usual style to his batting. On an average any batsman is sure to receive 5/20 balls short and wide outside the off stump. If a stricter mind can enforce a rigid discipline to sway the arms for only those rank bad balls (eventually guaranteed to get dividends of at least 2 or more runs) and the rest quietly played for singles we are looking at an attractive 30 from 20 balls with a strike rate of 150 (an attractive strike rate comparable to any hedge fund manager's take home package). Shifting to last week's match against The Legends who showed no signs of having even one legend after a horrible display of batting eventually making the numbers in our bowling charts more miserly than a Chidambaram's budget. The statements would have well been forced to reverse had it not been for Andrew who in addition to matching his burly, gigantic figure and first name with the usual suspect from Queenslander (Symonds), also played a similar role in bailing the team out. Struggling at 38/4 from 9 overs it was a laborious effort made to look easy with his soaring sixers (now better known as DLFers). Rightly our captain has immediately addressed the top order to fire. The remaining show was all Satish's with wonderful accuracy (with the precision of a surgeon) and pace to dislodge the wood work more than once. A commendable effort. Tamizh was candid as ever with his usual teasing line which ultimately fetched him a wicket. Reward for good work. Arun was clinical and yours truly completed four overs with just one wide. Fielding was remarkably strong with Praveen taking one nice catch and Ram plucked one too. Not to forget was Ram's early contribution in disturbing the batsman between balls ultimately proving fatal for the willow man. To summarize it was a victory hard earned and well deserved. The weekend ended even better with Chennai Super Kings winning the IPL quite to the contrary from Ram's predictions earlier.