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Cricket Encounters..

We played our last league match of 20-20 cup against ITC.
ITC won the toss and elected to bat first. Anyway we were short on in-form batsmen as they were not available on weekend. ITC made around 150 , thanks to inconsistent bowling. i did bowl couple of good overs but gave away some 32 runs in 4 overs.
In first over of mine, i had bowled one bad ball on leg side and as keeper was close to wicket missed it and went for four. the very ball, had bowled an incutter which landed perfectly just outside off stump but passed very close by to leg stump at the same time keeping low. keeper missed it and voila that was another 4 runs in byes.
got couple of wickets for same incutter ball. nowadays i am trying more of the incutter as i am getting good inswing. normally my strength is outswingers and legcutters.
and one good thing that happened to me that i cant forget for long time is that, finally i was able finish off one super catch standing at mid-wicket. thanks to jhenkar the bowler. i was in real need of this one to boost my confidence as had been missing catches in all the matches.
our batting just flopped as ITC was bowling a good line. bowlers did a very fine job and finally i got a chance to bat out last 2 overs. shared last 2 wicket stand with mukund and praveen. another tourney ended on bad note!
Lets see what i can do better the next time. My goal now is to be consistent in all matches and bowl with economy of not more than 5. if given chance, prove myself as a batsman too...
till then keep watching..

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