Kudos to Vinay for writing this wonderful article.
Hawkes kept up their good form and ensured they had yet another boring win. It was a good all round effort. It is just amazing that each one of our wins have come from the contribution of more than half the team on any given weekend and this game was no exception.
Hawkes lost the toss and again much to our delight were asked to bat first. Purab and Mitesh started off for the Hawkes. We were unlucky to lose Mitesh early who tried real hard not to let the bowler be called for a wide by trying to force a wide delivery outside the off stump into the ON side. Purab mistimed a cut shot straight to widish gully. Sreenath tried to get a little too cute with one that was pitched up and in trying to pinch a single on the off ended up edging to the keeper. We kept loosing wickets but managed to get runs at a good clip managing 16 of the first 3 overs. Our most consistent batsmen back in the pavilion it was left to some of the others to put up a good score for the bowlers to defend. Anil and vinod did really good by making sure we dint lose any more wickets and built a good partnership. We were 46 at the 10 over break for the loss of 4 wickets. Another couple of overs of good running and we were back in the hunt of a score in the upwards of 100 and that’s when hell broke loose. We lost way too many wickets trying to up the tempo and ended up losing 8 wickets in the 17th over and were in danger of not making use of the our quota of overs. Titans sure were in a generous mood; the highest contributor to our score coming from extras. Some big hits towards the end of the innings ensured we ended up with more than respectable score at the inning break.
We started really upbeat with Pranai hanging on to a very tough caught and bowled chance. Titans never looked like making a game of it. We kept picking wickets and regular intervals. All the bowlers were on top of their game and ensured a boring win, much to the delight of our captain. It was a much better bowling effort compared to last week’s in terms of the number of extras we gave away.
Keep up the good work guys. We are into the home stretch, two more to go and I am told both are good teams. Let us keep up the good work.
Highlights:
Anil and Vinod's wonderful partnership.
Sreenath's direct hit to get a run out.
Some very good fielding in the infield.
- Wretten by Vinay Krishnappa -
