Kudos to Aditya for writing this wonderful article.
Fall season Third game for Hawkes, much Awaited game as many of us are waiting to prove our mettle and prove to other teams that we are a good contenders.The game is with Top Guns XI
A sunday game , Hawkes was the home team and Starting from the first , we won the toss this time but fielded first in a dry outfield. Don and Swamy continued their form by opened the bowling with a decent start and kept the batting team to make their own runs.Innings started with decent bowling and good supportive fielding this time mainly by vidhyadar and Asish who took two catches each to dismiss dangerous batsmen wicket at 3rd over and started to build pressure on batsmen who looking to captalise on their starts.After the first spell by both the opening bowlers its turn for Sagar and sreenath compelled each other well with some slow balls and picked wickets and with lovely support from Piyush and sagar the score after the first 10 overs was 41 for the fall of 4 wickets which was quite good with some decent bowling.Then after Aditya and sagar continued to bowl in tandem and make the batsmen to make mistakes.the batsmen started to to build some partnerships to cut loose in the final overs with few tough catches going down.But fortunately by learning from the past games , we hold ed our momentum till the last overs which restricted the opponents to 92 even after some big hitting in between the overs.
The first target of our team is to get a good partnership with rotating strikes in the first 10 overs.Asintha and piyush opened the innings but this time lost both the openers very soon and the following batsmen also followed the same path quickly and with no time Hawks were at 26 for 4 wickets after 7 overs.With Sagar and vidhyadar in the crease , we slowly felt a little bit of pressure but both the batsmen took their time and tried to consolidate the innings and made sure they don't loose their wickets which was very crucial at that time. And watchful rotating strikes and by taking some calculated risks both sagar and vidhyadar turned the game and made the bowlers to commit mistakes.And soon after 17th overs both batsman's made sure that Hawks are in Driving seat and assured they remain unbeaten till the end and finally won the game from no where with beautiful and sensible cricketing shots.
Once again Thanks a lot to both Sagar and Vidhyadar for their awesome partnership where sagar lead from the front with his 36 and vidhyadar supported very well with his run a ball 19.
This win boasted the team with confidence and made sure that we are on Hunt for few more wins with the very following game coming on 5th November.
ALL THE BEST TO OUT TEAM...GO HAWKES AND PROVE OUR METTLE.
-written by Aditya Konduri-
