By the time we reach the ground they were practising
Toss:
For the third time in this season, i lost the toss. But the opponents decided to bowl first and asked us to Bat first. Thats great we want to Bat first anyways as Andrew was on the way at that time.
Before we start our innings, the opponent captain, Aseem called me along with the umpires from Jersey Jaquars and asked me to check the pitch and boundary distances. I said its fine.
Plainsboro Panthers Innings:
Since our regular openers are not in a mood to open that day, I asked Swamy and Ram to open the innings. The first over was so nervous because we had 3 runouts chances. Thanks to our opponent Keeper Keshant, our both openers were safe.When things are going well Swamy got out in the same fashion. I dont know how many more times he is going to get out that way. He needs get himself realized before it matters a lot for us. Next i sent Sathish in to rotate the strike. Ram and Sathish played really well.But unfortunately Sathish got runout which we thought its a not out and in the break explained how he got out.
Next I sent in Paresh, we hope him to fire with given runrate in which we were proceeding the innings. but he got out for 5 runs. Meanwhile Ram was silently boosting our runrate by rotating the strike and hitting odd boundaries. Next Andrew went and asked to go for it as we had enought wickets. Ram was scoring in a good pace before Aseem bowled a full toss he tries to clear in field and caught superbly by shortish mid - on fielder.Praveen went in and looks to hit the ball clean but was getting mishits. He also got run out for 5 runs. Sriram went in tried to hit the ball and got out for fullish delivery from Aseem for 2 runs.
Sekar went in and played sensibly opposing to his style of hitting the ball.Andrew mishit one ball in the covers and dropped by some poor fielder.Then he made use of luck given and hit two awesome sixers at long on before got run out for 19 runs in 16 balls. Piyush went in got run out for 1 run. We were 75/8 in 14.3 overs that time. We sent Varun and asked him to rotate the strike and not to get out. This time sekar got runout for 8 runs when running for the call from Varun. We were 79/9 in 15.3 overs when i went in.
Varun told me he will take a single and give me strike. I asked him to play his shot and i will run. We converted the singles to doubles for next two deliveries and the last ball Varun got into pads and couldnt run for that.I was again not out without playing a single ball.
We scored 83/9 in 16 overs. All the three matches till now in NJSBCL we played first and scored 83 runs. Yes exactly 83 in all the three games. One more thing to point out here we had some 5 run outs in this game which is one of the worst running for us.Hope to call properly and run sensibly in coming matches.
Maha CC Innings:
Hemal Patel & Pranav started the innings for Maha CC. I told Sathish that we need to take Hemal's wicket as early as possible, as he is one of the good batsman in their team. I bowled the first and gave three without getting any wicket. Sathish started the second over and tried to catch the ball which is hit by Hemal but it was not reachable. In the third ball Hemal hit the ball towards which came to very low and dived full infront and took one of the superb catch.Yes we took the Hemal's wicket we planned for.From there on they started to loose wickets at regular intervals. they scored 34/4 after eight overs.They need 50 runs in eight overs.Varun bowled some excellent deliveries and took two wickets. I asked Piyush to bowl the tenth over where the dangerous hitter Aseem captain of Maha CC hit a six of piyush over. Then i decided to bowl the 11th over. First the season i am bowling to left hand batsman started getting wide balls. The one good ball which happened to be short ball was thrashed to six over the school building and the ball was lost. Then i changed my bowling to spin from around the wicket. The batsman was very cunning trying to disturb my concentration by taking more time before each. Everybody in my team was frustrated of his behavior. I gave 14 runs in that over. I felt really bad that i bring down my team with that over. They were in very comfortable position that time as they need only 23 runs from 5 overs.
I asked Sathish to bowl the next over. It was the first ball, Aseem was over confident and was trying to hit Sathish to six but as said over confidence will make you fall he got out with a superb delivery from Sathish which hit the middle stump. The batsman cant believe himself. We were enjoying and expressing ourselves angirily.
The next over bowled by Varun, he controlled the runrate by giving only 2 runs. Next over i bowled and took one wicket of full toss and gave 3 runs in that over.
We controlled the run rate in past 3 overs very well. AS a result they were in need of 16 runs in 2 overs. There was much confusion whom to give bowling either Sathish or Piyush. And we decided to go with Sathish. He bowled excellently, took one wicket and gave 4 runs in that over.
So in the final they needed 12 runs. I gave the ball to Piyush and told him to keep it fuller. The first ball was full toss and the opponents were shouting no ball from the pavilion and the next ball the same. Leg umpire shouted "this is not a no-ball and if anybody shouts one more time, i will give out". Then the opponents stopped shouting. Ball by ball tension keeps rising but we hope we had a definite chance. they need 7 runs in last two balls. The batsman hit the ball to Sekar he fumbled a bit and throwed the ball accurately to Andrew, and he took of bails before the batsman reaches the crease.
HOOOOOO!!!! We won the match. Big Celebrations all round. We knew it was big win for us. I should appreciate the fielding our team which was 200% opposite to the match we played the day before. Excellent fielding by everybody and especially by Praveen who throwed the ball every quickly and cut the runs to ones which were supposed to be twos.
Good Show guys!! I wish everybody to give the best effort here on to keep up the good work.
We were getting few appreciation mails and few stomach burning messages around. Lets not get it to head or toe.
Scoresheet :
Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Swamy | Caught | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Ram | Caught | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Sathish | Run Out | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Paresh | Caught | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Andrew | Run out | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Praveen | Run Out | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Sriram | Bowled | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Sekar | Run Out | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Piyush | Run Out | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Varun | Not Out | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Thamizh | Not Out | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Maha CC Bowling :
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Sanjay | 4 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| 2 | Rohit | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| 3 | Umair | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | Keshant | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| 5 | Aseem | 4 | 0 | 24 | 2 |
Maha CC Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Hemal | Caught | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Pranav | Caught | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Dharmesh | Caught | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Vishal | Caught | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Amin | Caught | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Rohit | Run Out | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Aseem | Bowled | 18 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Sandeep | Caught | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Umair | Bowled | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Keshant | Not out | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Sanjay | Run Out | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Plainsboro Panthers Bowling Innings:
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Thamizh | 4 | 0 | 25 | 2 |
| 2 | Sathish | 4 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
| 3 | Varun | 4 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| 4 | Piyush | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 |
Match Summary
| Team | Score |
| Plainsboro Panthers | 83/9 in 16 Overs |
| Maha CC | 78/10 in 15.5 overs |
| Result : Plainsboro Panthers Won by 5 runs | |
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