P&G CC made a killing this past weekend again. We beat Singapore Management University by 8 wickets with 11 overs to spare (that's massive in a 30 over game)!! This sets us up nicely for the rest of the season with 20 points from 3 games. Caveat - we're still not at the top of the leader board yet! In fact we're 16 points behind Polaris (current leaders and unbeaten in 4 games), albeit with a game in hand. There are 3 other teams with more points than us, but they've played 1 or 2 games more than us as well. It's going to be a hot season.
They batted first on what was the hottest and most humid weather I have ever experienced (and I come from Bombay!) and restricted them to 141 for 7 in 30 overs, largely due to miserly middle over bowling, especially from Tapish (2 for 16 in 6) and Bakir (0 for 19 in 6), good catching from Matt and a stunner from Paddu. The weather did a turn-around when we started batting and it looked like it would rain any minute. With none of us having any idea about Duckworth or Lewis, we decided to go for the kill. We got there in 19 overs and with only 2 wickets lost. Sriram came back with a bang to score 38 not out in 40 balls and Paddu with a quickfire 29 in 20. Mr Extras top scored with 53 (more than a third of the target!!! (Thank you SMU).
Another highlight was some heated exchanges - one of the fielders got himself into trouble with the umpires for having a go at me and then Sriram got into a bit of an exchange with the keeper.
Check out the scorecard here.
2 parting thoughts...
- Next opposition in 2 weeks is Tanker Pacific. A team we've beaten a 100 times. Having said that, they beat the team that beat our 8 man team in the first game!
- I'd love to play a friendly against a Division 2 team. I think we're good enough to get there on current form. Let's see if we can pull that off this coming weekend.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment