We played Tarakarama XI this week and nothing changed with the result from the last week. We lost again. We won the toss and elected to bat and we failed again in posting a good total. If not for Vatsav's (went in at no.8) late good knock of 40+ in quick time our scorecard would have read must worst than final reading: 142 all out in well before the stipulated 40 overs. Well not much changed with my batting fortunes either, i went in at no.10 and scored 4 runs. Though i wanted not to loft the spinner (as i promised myself, i did it again, this time i think i have a reason to do so...) as i am left with no.11, i had to go for slog and i connected it reasonably but it got more altitude than the distance and holed out this time in deep mid wicket. That concludes my batting misery.
We needed early wickets to put them under pressure as the score is not big enough to defend if they play through 40 overs. I shared the new ball with Moinder...boy...he bowls fast and the amount of bounce he get...ball just whistles past not only over the batsman's head but also the keepers'. With my gentle medium pacers, i was just trying to put the ball in the right area and i must say i pitched them short more often but i got away. Thanks to the small total we were defending, the opposition was not in a hurry. In a spell of 3 overs i managed to bag a wicket thanks to Sridhar's very good catch behind the stumps. I ended up with the figures of 3-0-14-1.
One more notable thing about me in this match is my pathetic fielding. I could not reach to a reasonably difficult catch and opened the Howrah bridge to let the ball sneak under my legs through to the boundary.
Lets see how i do next time... i had a feeling this time our team's fortunes definitely change for good.
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