Tuesday, September 22, 2009

BREAKAGE OF GLASS




It was my second weekend cricket. Everyone had already come to MES grounds, Jayanagar 4th Block. Then, we did practise for few hours. Then, the match started. As usual, Our team likes to chase and Srinidhi Adiga's ( Captain of LSI team, which won previous year's LSI Premier League) won the toss and chose to bat. They scored 85 runs in 10 overs. We could not chase it. We lost by 7 runs.
The second match, again Adigas team won and chose to bat, this time they scored 89 runs. It was a tough ask. Adiga ans Shashi, had played well. They had scored  many sixes and fours.  I and Nagesh were the opening batsmen this time. Again, it was lady luck. We got to a good initial start. I hit several sixes. One of them broke a house glass. We all pooled in and paid for that. I was feeling very uncomfortable in that situation. Pavan, and Adiga and many others went and spoke to the house owner. I was standing behind, little scared and was afraid also :) Then, the match continued, and shastry gave a wonderful standing. We finally chased 90 runs.

The third match, we changed the ball. Again, Adigas team batted. This time , they scored 94 runs. We doubted if we could chase that score. Shashi and Adiga and others played well again with several sixes and  fours. We came to know while we were batting that the ball was actually favourable for batting side. One of the six lead to a ball loss. We had to play with another ball. We chased 95 runs in 9.2 overs.

Then, We had a photo session, after the match. Hoping to play lots more in the coming days :)

My First Cricket @ LSI !

Cricket is my Passion. Whenver I play, I will be having the mindset ," must win". Though, people say, winning and losing is a part of the game, I personally feel, If you play you got to win. I have had a wonderful experience playing cricket at LSI. And, I am also happy that, I have contributed fairly well to our team.

Till now, I have played for two weekends with my LSI co-workers. The first week, we played at Oxford College of Nursing grounds. First, we had planned to play at Green Pitch, later due to bad field conditions, we shifted the venue to Oxford. That day, was a LADY LUCK for me. The opponent team had scored 84 in 10 overs. In reply, we lost early wickets. We were 45 for 7 in 6.1 overs. Then, I got to bat. I scored 3 sixes and 2 fours. Then, we needed sixteen runs in 15 balls. Then, we lost a wicket. The opponent team won the match. Though, we lost, I had satisfaction that i did play well in my debut match at LSI :)

The second match, opponents scored 93, but we chased it in 9.* overs. Nagesh and Raman and few others  played well, to take our team to a victory.