We played 4 matches last weekend ( Saturday and Sunday) including our second /last league match of the tournament. Saturday, we played against our regular opponents and as part of sharing the team members across the two teams, Vinay and Satish played against us. One of the highlights on Saturday was Satish scoring yet another 50. He is making this as a habit which augurs well for our team batting.
Still, I would say we failed to put up a huge total on Sunday where we played against Puma in our second and final league match of the tournament. Though, Satish is in his prime form with the bat, got out in the very first ball of the match. With his current form he has set up a high expectation, I think it is too much to expect from this guy in every match. After that initial hiccup I think we recovered well by adding 45 runs in 6 overs. I thought Preetish and I batted sensibly to carry the innings. we failed to accelerate the rate from 6th to 10th over. Ideally we should have doubled the score in the remaining 4 overs which would have taken our score to around 90 runs but we ended up scoring 76 runs that too with the help of Ilan and Arjun. Though we felt we were 10-15 runs short on that pitch, it was actually a challenging total considering the bowling power we have and we took the match till the last over. during our bowling also we were controlling the things till the end of 6th over. They(Puma) needed to score 44 runs in last 4 overs. In the next 2 overs ( 7th and 8th ) they scored 33 runs and looked to complete the target in the 9th over itself. Rana provided one more twist by bowling one of the best overs of the match by giving just a single run which again swung the balance in our side. This situation lead us into the last over of the match where the opposition still needed to score 10 runs. I think I made a mistake by giving the ball to Arjun instead of Ilan. No doubt Arjun is a fantastic bowler and he bowled well for us in the earlier matches but on that day he was a bit disturbed and was not at his best. Also, Ilan looked in good touch and bowled well in his previous over. Still, I gave the ball to Arjun hoping that he will win the match for us. He proved me wrong and again he got disturbed by the batsman who hit 2 sixers to clinch the match for his side. We lost one more close match! I still think we will make into the knockout stage of the main cup as we maintain healthy net run rate compare to other two teams in our group.
Turning Points: We did not bat well from 6th over onwards where we needed more runs to put up a big total and while bowling also we lost during the same time ( 6th to 10th overs) where we gave away 44 runs.
Overall, there are lot of positives we can take from this match and also I hope we will learn from our mistakes to improve and perform better in our future matches.
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Still, I would say we failed to put up a huge total on Sunday where we played against Puma in our second and final league match of the tournament. Though, Satish is in his prime form with the bat, got out in the very first ball of the match. With his current form he has set up a high expectation, I think it is too much to expect from this guy in every match. After that initial hiccup I think we recovered well by adding 45 runs in 6 overs. I thought Preetish and I batted sensibly to carry the innings. we failed to accelerate the rate from 6th to 10th over. Ideally we should have doubled the score in the remaining 4 overs which would have taken our score to around 90 runs but we ended up scoring 76 runs that too with the help of Ilan and Arjun. Though we felt we were 10-15 runs short on that pitch, it was actually a challenging total considering the bowling power we have and we took the match till the last over. during our bowling also we were controlling the things till the end of 6th over. They(Puma) needed to score 44 runs in last 4 overs. In the next 2 overs ( 7th and 8th ) they scored 33 runs and looked to complete the target in the 9th over itself. Rana provided one more twist by bowling one of the best overs of the match by giving just a single run which again swung the balance in our side. This situation lead us into the last over of the match where the opposition still needed to score 10 runs. I think I made a mistake by giving the ball to Arjun instead of Ilan. No doubt Arjun is a fantastic bowler and he bowled well for us in the earlier matches but on that day he was a bit disturbed and was not at his best. Also, Ilan looked in good touch and bowled well in his previous over. Still, I gave the ball to Arjun hoping that he will win the match for us. He proved me wrong and again he got disturbed by the batsman who hit 2 sixers to clinch the match for his side. We lost one more close match! I still think we will make into the knockout stage of the main cup as we maintain healthy net run rate compare to other two teams in our group.
Turning Points: We did not bat well from 6th over onwards where we needed more runs to put up a big total and while bowling also we lost during the same time ( 6th to 10th overs) where we gave away 44 runs.
Overall, there are lot of positives we can take from this match and also I hope we will learn from our mistakes to improve and perform better in our future matches.
For the detailed scoreboard, please click here.
yeah it was a close match and we lost it by small margin. In the last over it was just one hit (sixer) that made the difference to the match. We fought really well but I think we need to improve our fielding little. We didn't drop any catches but every run saved will matter when it comes to close matches like this. Lets put a better show in our next match of the tourney.
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