Hawkes Vs. Spartance (RS8-06/19/11)

Kudos to Vinay for writing this wonderful article.

The much awaited playoff game had finally arrived. Much to the our delight, we were put into bat by the spartans. The openers gave a very good start, ably helped by some very poor bowling by the spartanz. Pranai was at the batting best, blocking deliveries when needed, taking singles and doubles when on offer and dispatching boundaries when the opportunity presented itself. After purab's wicket, caught at point, Raj and pranai carried on and in no time we had 50 on the board. We were really excited and felt 110 was a gettable score and that is when all hell broke loose. Some very good bowling by spartanz and bat shot selection from Hawkes batsman ensured that we put up only 79 on the board.

A very determined Hawkes team didn't want to go down fighting and the reliable bowling attack showed up once again. I believe we were exceptional in this department. Everybody the skipper turned to bowled his heart out. Everybody held on to tough catches and it looked like we had a chance to defend yet another low score, but it was not to be. Maybe another 15 runs would have done the trick. We have played as a team all season long and this game was no different.

I would like to single out pranai's extraordinary all round performance though. He batted brilliantly, bowled really well and took a terrific catch in the deep in the dieing moments of the game, keeping us in the match. He is definitely my MOM.

Match Highlights -

* Pranai Scoring 26 runs in 27 balls with a boundary and a massive six.

* Pranai taking Spartance #1 batsman out with a awesome catch on the boundary.

* Vinay taking 2 extraordinary catches.

* Piyush taking a awesome catch behind the wickets.

- Wretten by Vinay Krishnappa -