Rebels XI. The Rebel XI team is new to NJPCL but few guys are known to us personally.
Preparations:
The match was scheduled to start 8 AM as few of the Rebels XI team members are playing in Cricket Ball league. We went to the ground before 8 AM. since it is home game for Rebels XI we took a break from preparing the ground. The match was delayed 45 mins because the groundsman is cutting the grass with mower vehicle.
The pitch is newly laid one fresh for the match and we know its going to be on the slower side. The pitch is not so proper it needs more ground work to get it prepared fully.Its very uneven at the bolwing end. It was very hot and humid on that day.
Toss:
We had the toss around 8:20. The neutral umpire Mr. Ashok Diwaker was not there at the ground that time. So we decided to toss ourselves between me and Azhar(Rebels XI Captain).Azhar tossed the coin in the air, I called it "Heads" but it turned out to be "Tails". Rebel XI decided to bat but we have to wait for the groundsman to finish his work on the inner circle. This our first match of the season where we were chasing.
Rebels XI Batting Innings:
Thyagu and Venkat opened the innings for Rebels XI. They both dropped the anchors and played really. Hardly we have got any chance in the first six overs. The ball is really doing nothing on the dead pitch.Even the batsmen felt the effect of dead pitch.
Varun bowled an excellently in the middle. He dropped the first chance in 6th over. I tried Harieash for bolwing first over he bolwed good but second over costed us more 11 runs came from that over. So I tried Arindam as we dont have the regular fourth bowler on that day.
Arindam gave the first break through for us in the 9th over.After that Varun started materializing the change in the pitch and two wickets.They started hitting Arindam as they have enough wickets in Hand. We dropped three catches in Arindam's Spell.
Then me and Sathish finished the proceedings they were finally 88/9. The last run out was not given by the umpire.Our fielding was very bad that day. We dropped some easy chances and gave them more runs by fumbling at the fielding.It was one of the day we want to forget about our fielding.
Umpire was very pathetic. He hadnt given any easy calls. There were lots fo wides given which were not actually wide and they were no balls which were not given are actually no-balls.On the whole, I as one of the executive board of directors, advised not to use the umpire any more for the tournament.
Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:
As usual our regular openers Praveen and Paresh, out there in the middle. They both gave us
very good start that we were 38/0 in 4 overs with huge six from Paresh. Praveen got out for
4 runs unfortunately with the ball slightly brushing the end of the bails above the leg stump. Swamy went in as started running singles and got out with his usual style like Sehwag for 6 runs.
Since we lost 2 quick wickets, i asked Arindam to go next to drop the anchor. He did drop anchor but the scores didnt move and he got out in the point for 1 run. Then asked Sekar to go and move the score but to hang in there. He came back with same speed at which he swings the bat. Our top middle order collapsed totally. I sent in Andrew asked him to stay and move singles. And scores are moving only with the extras that opponents bowled.
Now its Paresh turn to get out. I sent in Sathish he played sensibly before he got out for 3 runs. Then i sent in Varun.Andrew and Varun played sensibily so that our target came down to 23 in 8 overs. Varun got over anxious to hit the ball and bring the match home and missed the ball which got him out by hitting the stumps. Varun got out for 7 runs. We need 16 runs in 6 overs with 3 wickets in hand. Though it seems a easy target we were loosing the wickets cheaply. I was very tensed and there comes our savior Harieash who played excellently without any fear. He got unforunately when we need 1 run to win. Then Srinivas went in there to finish the proceedings but the opponents bowled a wide and made us win before any more hiccups.
Finally we won but we had lot of mistakes that day. But our next day match performance made
us look differently about which i will post it soon.
Scoresheet :
Rebels XI Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Thyagu C | Caught | 21 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | Venkat K | Caught | 28 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Prabhu R | Bowled | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Afreen A | Bowled | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Praveen | Caught | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Azhar | Bowled | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Sai M | Bowled | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Rajasekar V | Caught | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Prasaath S | Not Out | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Vatsal P | Bowled | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Susheel K | Not Out | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Plainsboro Panthers Bowling :
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Thamizh | 5 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| 2 | Sathish | 5 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| 3 | Varun | 5 | 0 | 19 | 2 |
| 4 | Harieash | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 5 | Arindam | 3 | 0 | 29 | 3 |
The Legends Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Paresh | Bowled | 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Praveen | Bowled | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Swamy | Caught | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Arindam | Caught | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Sekar | Caught | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Andrew | Not Out | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Sathish | Caught | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Varun | Bowled | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | Harieash | Bowled | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Srinivas | Not out | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Thamizh | Did Not Bat | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rebels XI Bowling Innings:
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Azhar | 5 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
| 2 | Sai | 5 | 0 | 26 | 3 |
| 3 | Afreen | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 4 | Susheel | 5 | 0 | 26 | 3 |
Match Summary
| Team | Score |
| REBELS XI | 88/9 in 20 Overs |
| Plainsboro Panthers | 89/8 in 18.5 overs |
| Result : Plainsboro Panthers Won by 2 Wickets with 7 Balls remaining | |
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