07/01/2019
Match Report - Chhatrapati Sec 63 against SPCC
6 Jan 2019
Toss - Captain Kamal won the toss and decided to bowl first. Slight Damp pitch and heavy weather around, made us opt out of Bat first plan.
Bowling - Raj and Hitender started bowling, kept Opposition in check, Hitender took 2 wickets in his first over as well. Souvik came in first change and got another wicket in his 2nd over. Sourabh bowled his first two over economically, as chances were dropped and boundaries were given on misfiled.
Opposition was 85 for 4 in 14 overs. That’s where we lost bit of plot, allowed them to score 58 in last 6 overs. Catches (2 straight in hands and 2 slightly difficult one were sprayed, and least 4 boundaries went through hands. Another overthrow in last over conceded 5. Opposition ran between the wickets, very well and converted many ones in to twos.
Bowling today was very good, Saurabh, Souvik, Raj Bhai all bowled fast spells. Had fielding been sharp, we certainly would have stopped opposition below 120.
They reached 143 in 20 overs, which was certainly par considering large boundaries on the ground.
Batting -
Amit ji and Jatin ji opened, started cautiously against bit of swing early on. Amit ji cut loose in fifth and got the run rate going to 8. Amit ji was out in 6 over for 24 off 20 balls. Kamal ji joined Jatin bhai in middle and kept run rate ticking. Both strung together a long partnership. Jatin Ji scored 50 off 48 balls and when he got out we needed 23 off 24 balls. Souvik joined Kamal ji but perished after scoring 2 runs. HItender joined Kamal ji but scored 1 off 4 deliveries. Last over we needed 7 but kamal ji got out on 3rd delivery, Raj bhai on 5 delivery. Kamal ji played well for his 49 off 41 balls but couldn’t finish.
Freakish Match this one, as this was not meant to be, but we found a way to loose. Bowling was ordinary, just the nerves got us. Many points, Set batsmen could have scored bit for freely in middle overs, but they left less then 6 runs an over with 8 wickets in Bag. All the Blame on guys in Middle order. lot of introspection needed and need to make amends real quick, hopefully in next match....