The Match We all Enjoyed So Much...

After started playing cricket, recently we have won the first 3 match serious against Manohar team and beaten them 2-1 after that, Senthil fixed the match with another team for 3 match’s series. Whoever with the series will receive sum of Rs 300/- as a bet. So, before we started the series played a normal match against that opponent. In that match in spite of scoring 80 odd runs we failed to win the match because of poor fielding. Subsequent to that we played 1st match of the serious and lost the match by huge margin because of poor bowling, batting and fielding. Before starting the 2nd match of the serious Senthil was asking me to do the captain ship. Though, I was not interested first, later wanted to take that as a challenge. Because, last time when I was doing a captainship under Sekar; successfully we had won 9 matches continuously. But, when I was about to captain for 10th match suddenly without any prior information the captainship was handed over to Senthil. Though, I wasn’t cared about removing captainship was really embarrassed for the fact that being friends either Sekar or Senthil didn’t have courtesy to inform me and didn’t have any open talk. It was unforgettable.


After that now, Senthil has given another chance to do the captainship for me and successfully we won that match. It was a one of the greatest match we ever played because it was sheer team effort. Everyone in the team has contributed their part to win that match. Starting with Suresh and Sundar both opend the innings and played freely. Especially sundar has given the great start and played well. After him, Rajesh, Appu Senthil and I got out cheaply. Then, Shiva, vinoth and Sasi have established the innings with reasonable scores of 65 runs.

Last two times, we lost the match because of letting openers of the opponent team to score freely and didn’t take their wicket. So, this time we had a plan to restrict them by not giving free runs. For that we deployed 4 fielders in the close circle and 3 fielders on the boundary of offside. As per our plan, Dharani and Rajesh bowled with proper line and length; completion of their over’s they have given only 19 runs for 7 over’s and taken 3 wickets. It was greatest bowling by Dharani and Rajesh. Especially, Rajesh who doesn’t bowl frequently bowled very well on that day. After that, Shiva who came after long time to play with us bowled with great control and restricted the score by taking wickets. Also, Vinoth played his part to take the important wickets of the opponent. Moreover, Senthil kept well and didn’t give any extra runs for the opponent. Add to that, Suresh, sasi Sundar and other team members all fielded well and taken all the catches. Especially, Suresh has taken 3 important catches and sundar has taken one difficult catch. Overall, It was a perfect team effort each and every member of the team played with sprit and given 100% to win that match. Still, we have one more match pending to win the serious. We hope we will give out best efforts to win that match. Thought of writing this article after winning the serious, but the reason why I am writing now is, even if we miss that chance to win the serious at least this match will be remembered forever for our friends and team members stand out efforts.