The game yesterday had some bittersweet moments. Although we won it was not a victory we ought to cherish nor take into our heads…there is a long long road ahead of us.
We fielded first and luckily I did not have to eat my words when I said “yes we have 8”, when actually we only had 4 players. It was a mediocre start in the first over which I bowled conceding 11 runs, 9 of those extras although it set up Jacinth with two strikes from the last two deliveries which he executed with class getting a wicket. Our bowling wasn’t great…it just did enough as the batsman weren’t up to par so I think there is a still a lot of work to be done in that department. Also our fielding was a bit shaky, we have to communicate! The pick of the bowlers I have to say was Shashank. Great pace and always on target.
Our batting was good…well good with respect to the deliveries and fielding of the other team. We have to start hitting the side nets and not attempt hitting the back nets every time. Lucky for us it paid of this time around. We were also helped by poor bowling from the other side as they conceded 25 extras (~ 75 runs). We also saw some good clean hitting by Kasun and Jessie.
Overall a good performance by the majority of the team although the senior players had a sub-par day, maybe that’s why one of them decided to stay back and make up for it ;).
Let us carry this winning way over to next week when we play the top of the table, an unbeaten team, we’ll change that next week :).
Are u getting dropped for the next game ruskin? :P
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