Our first match for this season was against ANZA. We had a good outing against them last year, but this year we fell short by 20 odd runs.
Marina lost the toss and was asked to field first. Ankit K, playing his first match for Marina, started the bowling and created a chace in the very first over. However the catch was spilled at point by Ankit S. The missed catch resulted in a split webbing and a dislocated finger. He tried to field on for a while, but the swelling increased and he went to hospital to get it checked. He will be out of action for about a month....
Our bowling was pretty decent. We conceded 158 runs in 30 overs. This is a regulation score in turf city. Mags lead the bowling with 3 brilliant wickets...2 in his very first over. Prem took 2 wickets, 1 to Prasad and 1 to Ankit S. Pareet bhai was wicketless but bowled brilliantly throught the match. we had two runouts... so the final score was 158/9...a pretty decent show by the bowlers.
We were pretty confident of chasing down the target....but we kept losing wickets regularly. I was out in the second over. Prasad and Prem tried to bat steadily for a while, but prem was caught trying to clear the mid off. Wickets kept falling....prasad, swami...until KV and Yogi tried to put on a fight. They were going on well but the run rate kept creeping up. Ultimately both were out trying to clear the huge turf city boundary. This led to another mini collapse as Sai was caught for a duck.
But then we had a refeshing show of intelligent batting from Mags and Pareet. Both ran the singles well and kept the scoreboard moving. Maggie hit a few sixes towards the end, but the run rate was already beyond us. We lasted till the last over...but lost the match by 20 odd runs.
Mags was the star for us both with the bat and ball.
Ankit S's injury costed us quite a bit. We were a fielder short from the very first order and we missed out on a top order batsman. However 158 was very much chasable in turf city and we had the batting line up to chase that easily. But the familiar Marina collapse happened and we lost the macth.
Going forward we need to put a lot of effort in our preparation. This was our first match and may be some of us were rusty...but this can't be an excuse for our next macth. We have a decent 3 weeks break before our next game. I will try to arrange for NETs/Friendlies and I hope everyone is available for them.
Marina lost the toss and was asked to field first. Ankit K, playing his first match for Marina, started the bowling and created a chace in the very first over. However the catch was spilled at point by Ankit S. The missed catch resulted in a split webbing and a dislocated finger. He tried to field on for a while, but the swelling increased and he went to hospital to get it checked. He will be out of action for about a month....
Our bowling was pretty decent. We conceded 158 runs in 30 overs. This is a regulation score in turf city. Mags lead the bowling with 3 brilliant wickets...2 in his very first over. Prem took 2 wickets, 1 to Prasad and 1 to Ankit S. Pareet bhai was wicketless but bowled brilliantly throught the match. we had two runouts... so the final score was 158/9...a pretty decent show by the bowlers.
We were pretty confident of chasing down the target....but we kept losing wickets regularly. I was out in the second over. Prasad and Prem tried to bat steadily for a while, but prem was caught trying to clear the mid off. Wickets kept falling....prasad, swami...until KV and Yogi tried to put on a fight. They were going on well but the run rate kept creeping up. Ultimately both were out trying to clear the huge turf city boundary. This led to another mini collapse as Sai was caught for a duck.
But then we had a refeshing show of intelligent batting from Mags and Pareet. Both ran the singles well and kept the scoreboard moving. Maggie hit a few sixes towards the end, but the run rate was already beyond us. We lasted till the last over...but lost the match by 20 odd runs.
Mags was the star for us both with the bat and ball.
Ankit S's injury costed us quite a bit. We were a fielder short from the very first order and we missed out on a top order batsman. However 158 was very much chasable in turf city and we had the batting line up to chase that easily. But the familiar Marina collapse happened and we lost the macth.
Going forward we need to put a lot of effort in our preparation. This was our first match and may be some of us were rusty...but this can't be an excuse for our next macth. We have a decent 3 weeks break before our next game. I will try to arrange for NETs/Friendlies and I hope everyone is available for them.
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