Monday, June 20, 2005

Midwest, Game 3

EDIT(June 21-6pm) ::::::here's the scorecard

UCCC played its 3rd league game in Group A of the Midwest Cricket Tournament yesterday. The game was against Charleston, supposed to be an easy team to beat. Some of the current players of UCCC had some unfinished business at Charleston. UCCC was defeated in a humiliating fashion by Charleston two seasons back and they did not get to meet last year. So, UCCC was hungry to take revenge and revenge they took...
It was a 4-hour drive to Charleston. Our captain lost the toss and we were asked to field first. On a terrific batting wicket, our bowlers managed to bowl Charleston out for 120 runs in 26.1 overs in a 35-over per side game. I managed to bag 4 wickets in 7 overs for 33 runs and failed miserably in bagging that magic 5th wicket from the last last 6 balls i bowled. The last ball of my spell was a yorker which missed the target by less than an inch outside off stump and went through to the keeper...it just wasn't to be. Anyways, this happens to be my best bowling figures in the Midwest Cricket League. All our bowlers bowled well and made sure that the opponents don't get to score a lot.
The chase was a joke. We chased down the target in 13.5 overs with 9 wickets to spare. It was a very sweet revenge with Vijay S, who was also part of the UCCC team that lost to Charleston two years back scored 52 from 20 balls! He made good use of the ridiculously short leg side boundary for a left-hander and in the process ensured that he, not me, gets the Match Ball as an acknowledgement for the Man of the Match performance!
It was a very good victory, UCCC winning for the first time this season with me being a part of the team ;).

12 comments:

Heidi Kris said...

Congrats Ram =D>!!

Good show by u too.. 4 wicket!

Point noted. ur team winning with you playing too :D

Jammy said...

Hey, 4 wickets in 7 overs is an awesome performance. Congrats and best wishes for many more successful games to come.

Ram said...

Sri- thanks! :D

Jammy- thank you! :)

Luckykid said...

33 runs
so thats where they got their runs from!!!! ;)
congrats buddy
the same applies to me too
UCCC winning a midwest game with me playing!!

Ram said...

Niranjan- what a pessimistic way to look at things :P. Did u check out my other post? u've been tagged :D.

Unknown said...

congrats man

Vetty Max said...

Way to go Ram.

But I think you should have got the man of the match. Anyways there is always a next time.

Prasanna said...

ram, pessimistic way ellai da... it just shows that there is scope for improvement!!! :D
anyways...good show..keep going!!! :)

Ram said...

idli- thanks

k7- even i thought so considering the short boundary and their hapless bowling attack...but yes, there's always next time:).

pv- u always miss my :P...

Anonymous said...

dai good show da....btw when du show us ur batting skills ...:-?

Ram said...

sudh- well, as a true member of the team, i should hope that the top order takes care of scoring the runs. But am sure there'll be a game or two where i'll have to do some slogging or get involved in building a partnership. I hope it aint required, but the inevitable might happen pretty soon.

Luckykid said...

thats me buddy!!!