This was a much awaiting game for us, Hawkes hosting Spartans. And most memorable game in HAWKES History and will be remembered for a long long time.It wasn't the best of the weather to play cricket on the day, Wind's are blowing around 20mph.Spartans won the toss and had no hesitation to bat.
Our opener bowlers Sreenath and Chai started well intandum with wind behind them. And it was a day for Chai to lead from the front as Captain and lift the spirits of Hawkies from Challengers jolt we had last week. To his credit, Spartans are on the back foot loosing 2 quick wickets.I didn't see him bowling with that Speed and accurate in the past. Sreenath and Chai did an AWESOME job with the Ball. It was a well supported job by rest of the bowlers too and We restrict FALL OPEN 2009 Champions to 63.Our bowlers gave a good chance to our batsman to crack at the total.
Hawkes didn't have a good start with the bat, lost Bala early. And Pranai went 1st down and had a decent partnership with Sreenath and gave a hope to rest of the team. After that its was all ANIL ANIL ANIL, who had a fantastic day with the bat. It was the clean hits from Anil, gave Hawkes the 2nd hope and slowly we r reaching the target. And finally it boiled down to 18 from 18. It was not easy for a new batsman to go there and make runs, but Chamara and Venki, made it easy to score a boundary each and took close to the target. It was these fours yield the pressure in the final overs.
Finally the DREAM came true for Hawkies Beating the FALL OPEN 2009 Champions.And Undoubtedly THE MAN OF THE DAY was ANIL.Hats off to ANIL and CHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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