First Match with Walker Town XI

The match started a bit late and it is decided to be a 40 over a side match. The opposite team (Walker XI) won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored a well made 240 before they get all out in 37.1 overs. I shared the new ball with another bowler, who bowled really fast and hit the bat on the makers name. Sridhar (doing keeping at that time) missed few balls of his bowling and went for few byes. Though my first over was not a great one which went for 9 runs, I took two wickets in the 3rd and 4th overs of my spell and ended up with respectable 4-1-18-2 figures. I messed up a catching chance but did not miss out on dolly later. One guy on the opposite side made a top score of 61 and played well. Sridhar who is supposed to be our top batsman injured his wrist while successfully taking a diving catch to his left in his own bowling. So he could not bat in our innings.

We started reasonably well scoring 50/1 at the end of 10th over. It all started to go awry from then the next 3 overs yielded 4 runs and we lost 3 more wickets. I went into the middle with one thing in my mind to bat through the 30 over mark and re-assess the next steps then and that was the instruction from the captain too. I resisted gentle dollies for a while and scored 5 singles and tried to give strike for the batsman at the other end who is coring fast. One slower ball from the off-spinner spelled the doom and i lofted the ball into the hands of long-on. Damn it, i always do that, with no real power or intention i just gave a catching practice to that fellow. After spending next 10 minutes thinking how awful my batting became, decided not loft/slog the spinners for the rest of the season. So lets see how i succeed in standing up to my own words. Though we batted out full 40 overs, we could score only 160 (something)/8. Ravi top scored for us with good 41. Needless to say i am disappointed, but as always hoping to do well in the next match.