Lets move forward

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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Famous Win against Spartans!!!!!!!!!!!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hawkes vs Spartans Score Sheet