Here we are after 5 seasons in Cricbay and looking at 6th season with hunger for more cricket. Let me babble about the history of the Hawkes Cricket Club for the people wouldn't know about and for the people know about it but need some refresh. I would tell my side of the Hawkes History and hopefully you will get to here the other sides from rest of our gang.
Hawkes Cricket Club born from an coffee table conversation between 3 friends, Deepak Garise, Hemanth Rama and Kartik Kadam. Unfortunately We dont have Deepak (currently live in india ) and Hemanth playing with us anymore but we are fortunate enough to have Kartik.
As I remember It was a very bumpy ride for Hawkes at the beginning. We had our ups and downs and struggling to get it under control. As the First Captain of Hawkes CC, Deepak was fearless, determined and very enthusiastic. I always admire his strong leadership and handling pressure when it gets heat up on the field. Sometime he make the game go heat up... :) But he always got everybody together and lead us the way. I was one of the players would get up and oppose his many dissions, But now as the Captain of Hawkes after him, I know exactly how much pressure he handle. Hats of to you Deepak. And Thank you for putting effort and time to create this team so we all can enjoy today.
My self and few more players who currently playing in HawkesCC is very proud to be part from the very first game Hawkes had on March 16th 2008 against Daakus. (Score Sheet) Players who had witness our first game would be Kartik Kadam, Piyush Yadav, Sreenath Kotamala and Anil Komma. We lost the game that day but we got our selves together and here we are in our 6th season in Cricbay. You may dont know that we faced Daakus not knowing they will be our first opponent in Cricbay career, week before the game week for a Practice game. We won that game and as I remember Kartik was on fire that day. So technically, We won our first game against a Cricbay team :)
What can I say about the team today?? We have THE winning team. Winning team that capable of restricting any opponent team 50runs with our strong bowling attack.... Winning team that capable of chasing over 100 runs with our amazing batting attack.... Winning team that capable of making any opponent team batsmen to think twice before hitting in air or stepping out from the batting crease with extraordinary fielding skills... MOST IMPORTANTLY WE ARE A WINNING TEAM THAT ANY TEAM SHOULD BE SCRAED OF!!
We have achieve a lot since the beginning, Now its time take it to the next step. WIN A CUP. We came close many times... we had the perfect team but still we failed. NOT ANY MORE!!! put all our loses in the past and lets get ready to face the new season with much more passion and enthusiasm.
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Nice one chai! Made me nostalgic about when the team started.It was actually not a coffee table but tennis court discussion between 3 of us Deepak,Me and Hemanth.Deepak,Sreenath and Anil used to play for team called pheonix and Deepak was saying maybe we should make a team and Hemanth in his characteristic way was highly enthusiastic about it.U and Piyush Joined us the next week and our energy multiplied and we have not seen back since then :)
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