JECC bt SomCav by 8 wickets.
Man of the Match: Preetham/Mittal for their excellent batting/bowling.
Special mention to Dhanukshka for his continuos talk on the field. Keeping us on toes on the field and frustrating the opponent batsmen all day.
Easy victory for the Eagles in a must win to go to Division 1.
Toss: We lost the toss and fielded first in a very hot conditions and damp outfield.
Bowling: There isn’t much to write here as everyone bowled exceptionally well. Suneel opened the bowling with Rushi and bowled economically and Rushi picked up the first wicket. Then came Mittal and Himanshu and tightened the screws further. Dhanu and Preetham followed and bowled brilliantly. Somcav were all out for 107 in 37.1 overs. They would have been well short of that score if we picked up our catches.
Batting: Preetham opened the batting with Mittal and both took only couple balls to get their eye in and started there expansive drives and pull shorts. This is how to play, wait for the loose ball and dispatching that ball. In the mix calming down your adrenalin in playing shots is very important because that will make you go for the shots on good balls. Their calling and running between the wickets was excellent. We finished of the target in 18 over’s with couple wickets down.
Improvements: We have already discussed this but let me remind you again.
I understand that the conditions were too hot but
1) Fielding: Catches win matches. We dropped too many easy chances and couple of run outs. If this was another team that will definitely haunt us.
2) Batting: No complains except one, finish the job.
3) Bowling: 17 extras in the score of 107 should be tightened going forward.
Verdict: All in all we played as a team and won the must win game to go to Division 1 next year. We achieved our 1st goal and let’s get on and finish what we started for, to win the championship.
Score card: http://www.dreamcricket.com/clnj/scorecarddisplay.aspx?gameid=2050
great job Eagles! Good way to get into the play off stage
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