The climate was very awful; it was colder and windy and very contrary to last two weeks
Piyush was not available at the last moment and we had too look out for option and disturb other players who we gave off on that day. But fortunately we got Jeetu and it was bit embrassing for me to ask Jeetu or anybody to come and join the team immediately.Sometimes it is an issue if any of the player dont show up at the last minute or informing about the unavailability lately. But most worrysome part this kind of things are happening bit frequently this year. Due to such happenings whoever does give a word and not show up at the last minute not because of emergency, we are letting our team down.
I request our team players not to do such activity to let your team down.
Ok Lets come to the match.
Preparations:
Its our home ground match so we had to start preparing the ground. Thanks to all those guys who are giving hand defaultly to help ourselves during the preparations.I respect their dedication and commitment and want to extend my thanks to them wholeheartedly.
Toss:
Not again this time to lose the toss. Yes its too much surprise to myself and my team, i won the toss. We elected to bat without second thought as the climate was awful, back are the colder and windy days. Also because one of team member Jeetu was on the way.
Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:
I asked our regular opening pair Paresh and Praveen to start the innings unlike last week where Ram and Swamy opened the innings. We were targetting 100 atleast for this game as we thought the opponents were little weaker than our previous opponents.
Paresh started the innings well with 11 runs off Ranjith over who never bowled in the whole innings. It seems going well before Praveen got caught at long on, going for the short. He got out for 5 runs. From then on our batsman started practising Parade from Pavilion to Crease and back to Pavilion.
Paresh is the only player who single handedly took the batting innings for us. He scored 39 runs with couple of huge sixes and a four. We expected him to score 50 as he looked to be in a good nick that day. Other than that we no notable performance from any of our batsmen.Its a total batting mess that day.
We got all out for 71 in 14.2 overs. First time we scored less than 83 which was what our exact score for last three matches.
Adroit CC Batting Innings:
Adroit CC started their batting sensibly, not looking for big shots. They were slowly moving singles. First chance of Tanuj was missed in the gully by Jeetu which was bowled by Sathish. Next over i got the first break through by removing Parag Shah for 4 who hit the long off and caught well by Harieash.Very next ball was hit to sky by Tanuj and the chance by dropped by Varun.
Next Varun compensated this mistake by removing Tanuj with a good catch by Jeetu at point.
From there on played more sensibly but very slowly we continued to miss odd run out chances. At the break after 8 overs Adroit were 24/2. They needed 48 runs from 48 balls. We were were confident next three overs costed only 8 runs and they need 40 runs from 5 overs.
Next three overs costed 24 runs from me,Sathish and Arun and got one lucky run out after so many misses.They needed 16 runs from 2 overs same as last week match equation where we pulled the match comfortably.
The penultimate over from Sathish turned to be match turner. Srikanth hit a six over long on and that was a good hit nothing to be blamed off and they need 6 runs of final six balls.
I bowled the last over i tried to keep fuller or york length, first three balls conceded 3 runs. Next ball went for a double with fumble from Sekar costed us the extra run.
Adroit were very comfortable as the score were leveled and they need 1 run off 2 balls to take the match home. I changed my bowling to spin and coming around the stumps. the 5 ball was a dot ball. Now they need one run. Last ball i kept it too fuller and but it was on bit leg stump, the set batsman Ranjith, pushed the ball to short leg and i was shouting Paresh to throw the ball for run out without knowing that directly hit Paresh hands who took it on the second attempt.
Yes its unbelievable it was a catch and we tied the match without loosing it. Its fortunate that we tied inspite of poor display from us with batting and mediocre bowling. Excellent bowling from he was very economical.
I request everybody from our team to stand up to raise ourselves to avoid the mistakes and pust ourselves for a better performance.
Scoresheet :
Plainsboro Panthers Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Paresh | Bowled | 39 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Praveen | Caught | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Ram | Bowled | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Sathish | Caught | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Arun | Caught | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Andrew | Caught | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Jeetu | Run Out | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Sekar | Run Out | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Thamizh | Bowled | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Varun | Not Out | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Harieash | Caught | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Adroit CC Bowling Innings:
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Ranjit | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | Gopal | 3.2 | 0 | 16 | 2 |
| 3 | Naren | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| 4 | Sai | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
| 5 | Ravi | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 |
Adroit CC Batting Innings:
| S.No | Batsman Name | How Out | Runs | 4's | 6's |
| 1 | Tanuj | Caught | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Parag | Caught | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Ranjith | Caught | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Ravi | Run Out | 20 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Srikanth | Not out | 11 | 0 | 1 |
Plainsboro Panthers Bowling Innings:
| S.No | Bowlers Name | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| 1 | Thamizh | 4 | 0 | 19 | 2 |
| 2 | Sathish | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| 3 | Varun | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| 4 | Arun | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
Match Summary:
| Team | Score |
| Plainsboro Panthers | 71/10 in 14.2 Overs |
| Adroit CC | 71/4 in 16 overs |
| Result : The Match was tied in last ball with wicket | |
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