Intone Eagles Won by 5 wickets NJ Titans CC : 197 / 7 in 40 oversIntone Eagles CC: 200 / 6 in 37 overs
Man Of the Match : Nagarjun. (61 Not-Out)
Kennedy Park is a beautiful ground with very nice out-field and a high scoring game was expected. We lost the toss and obviously NJ Titans opted to bat first. They openers started off well, but were sent them back in no time in my 2nd over with Dhanu taking a diving catch in front of him at short-mid wicket and a nice caught behind by Naga. We gave their #3 batsman an easy chance early on…, but he played sensibly later and helped them put up a good total at the end. They struggled to play Sid, but runs were flowing out due to quick outfield. Srinath (1st change) produced another wicket taking their #4 batsmen ..good catch by Vishal at point.
Brought in spinners (Ananth and Dilip ) from each end. Ananth got his wicket in his very 1st ball (good catch at gully by Sekhar). Their middle order batsmen showed some resistance, Sekhar & Dhanu bowled very tight line and length including an exceptional caught & bowled by Sekhar. Remaining batsmen just slogged..finally setting up a target of 198 for us to win.
Our chase was flawless. Excellent start by Dilip and Dhanu…gave us an 80 + runs (I think) opening partnership (highest opening partnership this season so far). Dilip was run-out (questionable) at 45. Actually he scored more than 50 …his 1st cover drive should have been a clean six over the covers, if the ball didn’t hit the poll at the boundary. Mr. Consistent opener Dhanu (41) was again un-lucky to have missed his-century 3 time this season. Both of them laid out a great platform which was much required for this chase.
Then comes Naga…what can I say about his batting…clean shots..on-drives, cover-drive boundaries,… he played all around the park. His and Sid’s partnership after the opening pair set up everything for us. Sekhar did well in supporting Naga getting the game closer to winning…leaving me just 2 runs for the victory and I finished it with a boundary. We chased 198 very convincingly and I am very happy to see such an excellent batting display. Our batting is improving with every game..
Keep it going Eagles !!!! I have to say that our fielding was a little sloppy and we have to improve on it. We dropped at least 5 catches today…else we would have packed them up for under 120. Our batsmen really did their job and performed very well making sure that our loose fielding did not cost us the game. Overall, Yet another great team-work and an excellent batting display. I am sure there will be more such innings to follow. I think we would be #2 in the points-table though we and #1 (HRCC) have the same points.
Cheers !!! Go Eagles !!!
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