On sunday we had a friendly match at infosys campus scheduled at about 8:30am.
so was planning to wake up at around 6 am as i was not sure how much time will it take to reach there from cv raman nagar.
i first heard the alarm ring at 6 am but finally woke up around 6:30.
and after having some tea starting around 7:10 am.
was pessimistic about the traffic towards electronic city but found it to be a cruise ride. as fly-over construction was going on, missed the right turn towards entrance of e-city. luckily there was option of U turn and reached the ground.
The security personnel was letting us in as he had not received the intimation mail from people on their side. typical nature of these men to show what power they possess!
finally we were let in after lots of walkie talkie, hand signals talks among security personnel.
what a ground was it! loved it at very first sight.
i didnt see my captain losing toss, but as everyone does it, the toss winning captain elected to bat first.
arun and jimmy started off and the very ball from jimmy was driven high in air towards me. as i was standing on long-off very straigt and close to stumps, had to run backwards and was nowhere near the ball which touched ground near the inner circle.
in the very next over from arun, i was standing at deep fine leg. the batsman flicked the ball towards me. i had the greated opportunity to prove myself as a fielder.
but somehow i got blanked out by the very thought and played if safe by just trying to stop the ball from reaching fence. i couldnt stop it and it added to more frustration of myself.
after 6 overs, pwoerplay was still on, got chance to bowl. the very first ball was too short and kept low. the next ball was on leg stump for the left hander who flicked it for a four. then bowled some good length balls as i got the lenght properly.
pradeep started bowling from other end and i was pushed towards deep covers.
got one chance in form of a easy flat catch towards me and again i played safe as i had been dropping all of the catches. so another chance was wasted. i just donno what happens to me while catching. never in my life have been such bad form. have always been known as a good fielder.
was lucky enough to get 2 wickets in 5 overs and giving away 27 runs.
jimmy,jhenkar were hammered a lot. but narayan and pradeep had put on the brakes.
bala did manager to get 100 in style with a six of jhenkar and retired himself to give batting practice to other teammates.
in all they made 226 in 25 overs.
by end of my overs, i came out of field as we had ashok as 12th man, who was willing to come on ground and field. that way we had decided that he will bat and i will only bowl. though i was looking forward to get the first chance of batting, i had accepted this thing. was very painfull for me to do this. but hey team comes first. so cheered myself up!
we started batting in the worst form. preetam got out by slashing hard at point.
then anwar walked down on pitch and got bowled at leg stump.
then ashok and jhenkar looked in good form.
but jhenkar couldnt cut off power from buttom hand while flicking towards square leg and got out cheaply by giving easy catch at mid-wicket.
ashok and narayan were going well when out of nowhere ashok tried to steal a run and as result got himself runout.
pradeep went out and returned within 2 balls.
shankar was looking out of touch and got out early.
sashi as usual kept his cool and aimed for playing out 25 overs.
then narayan got out and shastri went in. the worst knock he had ever played.
bowlers, specially spinners troubled him lot and he evetually got out trying to pull a good length bowl from spinner. jimmy went in and tried hitting a six the very first ball across and got bowled. finally arun chipped in and helped sashi finish off the 25th over. sashi showed his potential by hitting some marvellous square cuts shots, hitting 3 consecutive boundaries.
at the end we got around 180, which showed we are were not at the peak of our own performance.
Keep reading, as we have another match of 20-20 cup at this weekend.
so was planning to wake up at around 6 am as i was not sure how much time will it take to reach there from cv raman nagar.
i first heard the alarm ring at 6 am but finally woke up around 6:30.
and after having some tea starting around 7:10 am.
was pessimistic about the traffic towards electronic city but found it to be a cruise ride. as fly-over construction was going on, missed the right turn towards entrance of e-city. luckily there was option of U turn and reached the ground.
The security personnel was letting us in as he had not received the intimation mail from people on their side. typical nature of these men to show what power they possess!
finally we were let in after lots of walkie talkie, hand signals talks among security personnel.
what a ground was it! loved it at very first sight.
i didnt see my captain losing toss, but as everyone does it, the toss winning captain elected to bat first.
arun and jimmy started off and the very ball from jimmy was driven high in air towards me. as i was standing on long-off very straigt and close to stumps, had to run backwards and was nowhere near the ball which touched ground near the inner circle.
in the very next over from arun, i was standing at deep fine leg. the batsman flicked the ball towards me. i had the greated opportunity to prove myself as a fielder.
but somehow i got blanked out by the very thought and played if safe by just trying to stop the ball from reaching fence. i couldnt stop it and it added to more frustration of myself.
after 6 overs, pwoerplay was still on, got chance to bowl. the very first ball was too short and kept low. the next ball was on leg stump for the left hander who flicked it for a four. then bowled some good length balls as i got the lenght properly.
pradeep started bowling from other end and i was pushed towards deep covers.
got one chance in form of a easy flat catch towards me and again i played safe as i had been dropping all of the catches. so another chance was wasted. i just donno what happens to me while catching. never in my life have been such bad form. have always been known as a good fielder.
was lucky enough to get 2 wickets in 5 overs and giving away 27 runs.
jimmy,jhenkar were hammered a lot. but narayan and pradeep had put on the brakes.
bala did manager to get 100 in style with a six of jhenkar and retired himself to give batting practice to other teammates.
in all they made 226 in 25 overs.
by end of my overs, i came out of field as we had ashok as 12th man, who was willing to come on ground and field. that way we had decided that he will bat and i will only bowl. though i was looking forward to get the first chance of batting, i had accepted this thing. was very painfull for me to do this. but hey team comes first. so cheered myself up!
we started batting in the worst form. preetam got out by slashing hard at point.
then anwar walked down on pitch and got bowled at leg stump.
then ashok and jhenkar looked in good form.
but jhenkar couldnt cut off power from buttom hand while flicking towards square leg and got out cheaply by giving easy catch at mid-wicket.
ashok and narayan were going well when out of nowhere ashok tried to steal a run and as result got himself runout.
pradeep went out and returned within 2 balls.
shankar was looking out of touch and got out early.
sashi as usual kept his cool and aimed for playing out 25 overs.
then narayan got out and shastri went in. the worst knock he had ever played.
bowlers, specially spinners troubled him lot and he evetually got out trying to pull a good length bowl from spinner. jimmy went in and tried hitting a six the very first ball across and got bowled. finally arun chipped in and helped sashi finish off the 25th over. sashi showed his potential by hitting some marvellous square cuts shots, hitting 3 consecutive boundaries.
at the end we got around 180, which showed we are were not at the peak of our own performance.
Keep reading, as we have another match of 20-20 cup at this weekend.
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