NJSBCL : Match 2 : Plainsboro Panthers Vs The Legends

This was the second match with more hype among us in the team about the opponents "The Legends".

Preparations:

The weather was far better than previous games. I thought the pitch would be little wet because of the rain couple of days before the match. But it was dried down and no wetness in the pitch. We started preparing the pitch by laying the mat, putting the boundary cones. Thanks to all the guys who helped in preparing the ground for the match. I would like to get same kind of co-operation from all of my team mates.

The opponents started to show up and involved some practice. The umpires from Devils11 team showed up on time. We havent altered pitch length it was same as last match. Thanks to the opponents for not raising some unwanted concerns about the pitch length and neither the umpires.

Toss:
It was toss time with Umpire Jaimin and two captains me and Jay Patel. Umpire tossed the coin and Jay called it as "Head".And it is head. My toss luck started to follow me. The opponents decided to field. We were happy because we decided to bat first if we would have won the toss.

Plainsboro Panthers Innings:
As usual our openers Praveen and Paresh opened the innings. I told Praveen to play his game freely and Paresh to hang on there for a while.Praveen came back to pavilion by scoring 2 runs,got out for a straight slower one. Swamy joined Paresh and started taking the singles. Swamy got out for excellent delivery from Jigar after steady innings for 10. Andrew went in and started resuming were Swamy left and we saw some excellent running from Andrew that day. Paresh got out after a long inning for 12. Paresh forgot that i gave him a bat to hit the ball and played all the balls with his body.Gosh!!! we would have scored 20 more runs if we had leg byes.

We reached 31/3 after 8 overs.Ram and Andrew started the innings after the break. Unfortunately Ram got runout for a excellent throw from the fielder for 2 runs.Sekar got out for a duck. He tried to hit ball over the mid wicket for six but caught out at the boundary.

Andrew started picking it up scored couple of sixes. Before that we havent got a single boundary. Sathish played well with Andrew moving single and hit a superb boundary. Andrew skied the slower one from Gary and caught by the keeper. Varun joined Sathish and started running for almost everything but unfortunately Sathish got run out for 8. Then we sent Krishna and asked him to move singles and not get out. He struggled a bit initially and then started moving singles. We were 73/8 by 15 overs.

Last over first ball from Gary went for wide and 2 bye runs. Second ball Varun and krishna ran for a quick single and we got two more in over throws. Third was a single. Krishna got out in fourth ball for 6 runs. I went to crease as a 11th batsman, scored 1 run of the fifth ball and last ball innings varun took a single and i pushed for the second to steal a run but he got out. We didnt mind about that wicket as the innings is over. Finally we score 83/10.

It is same as last match score but with a extra wicket.

The Legends Innings:
We were very confident to bowl them out. I took the new ball to bowl first over and gave 2 runs. Next came Sathish and bowled an extra-ordinary over he took a maiden wicket as last match. I gave 4 runs in the third over. Sathish again bowled excellently with another maiden for 1 more wicket.At the end of 4 overs ,the opponents were 6/2. Arun came into bowling and gave 2 runs, the last ball he bowled was a slower one, the batsman skied to long off and Krishna Mohan took a
superb catch. I asked Varun to bowl the next over and he bowled some extra-ordinary deliveries that the batsmen had no clue where ball is going to pitch and come.Arun took one more wicket in his next over.At the end of 8 Overs, they scored 17/4 wickets.

I came into bowl the 9th over after the break. During the break i told swamy that i will take a wicket at long off/on and got the same. Praveen took a excellent catch at long on. Sathish took one more wicket and gave four runs those four runs are only runs given by Sathish in this match. Next Arun over costs 12 runs, he couldnt get his line and length. But we had nothing to worry as it is very much tough task to get 50 runs in 5 overs. Next over Varun took one wicket with a superb zipping delivery. Next over i took another wicket of guys who was stuggling and we couldnt get his wicket before that over and the last ball of the 14 over from me, the batsman hit the ball the midwicket and a superb throw from Sekar cost them another wicket. Finally Sathish finished off their inning in the thrid ball of 15th over. They scored 43 with all their 10 batsmen out.

Celebrations all around. We won the match by 40 runs with some wonderful bowling from Sathish. The bowling figures doesnt change much from last match which is 12 runs and it was cut short by Sathish.

I wish our top order batsman to fire and to correct few mistakes in bowling.

Here are few snaps before you go into scoresheet.

                                     

Scoresheet :

Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:

S.No	Batsman Name	How Out	Runs	4's	6's
1	Paresh	Caught	12	0	1
2	Praveen	Bowled	2	0	0
3	Swamy	Caught	10	0	0
4	Andrew	Caught	24	0	2
5	Arun	Caught	0	0	0
6	Ram	Run Out	2	0	0
7	Sekar	Caught	0	0	0
8	Sathish	Run Out	8	1	0
9	Varun	Run Out	6	0	0
10	Krishna M	Bowled	6	0	0
11	Thamizh	Not Out	1	0	0

The Legends Bowling :

S.No	Bowlers Name	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wickets
1	Ravin	4	0	15	1
2	Pintu	4	0	16	0
3	Jigar	3	0	22	1
4	Pankit	1	0	3	2
5	Gary	4	0	27	3
6	Zuben	1	0	12	0

The Legends Batting Innings:

S.No	Batsman Name	How Out	Runs	4's	6's
1	Chetan	Bowled	1	0	0
2	Mayank	Caught	4	0	0
3	Ravin	Bowled	1	0	0
4	Jay	Caught	5	0	0
5	Hardik	Caught	9	0	0
6	Gary	Caught	9	0	0
7	Pintu	Caught	1	0	0
8	Sonu	Bowled	9	1	0
9	Tushar	Run Out	1	0	0
10	Jigar	Bowled	1	0	0
11	Pankit	Not Out	0	0	0

Plainsboro Panthers Bowling Innings:

S.No	Bowlers Name	Overs	Maiden	Runs	Wickets
1	Thamizh	4	0	10	2
2	Sathish	3.3	2	4	4
3	Arun	3	0	16	2
4	Varun	4	0	13	1