KCCB Vs PCC Summary
This game was played in PIMA Park ground where most of us were playing for the first time. After three consecutive wins, this time we lost in a close game. It may not look close from the eventual result of the game, but I believe we were just 1 wicket away from the victory.We won the TOSS and decided to BAT first as this has been our one of the winning formulas in the last 3 games. The wicket was fast and bouncy. PCCs opening bowlers were doing a real good job and we lost Gopi in the first over itself. In absence of our openers, Gopi had to open the innings with Sandeep. Chaitanya was tried at number 3 and he helped Sandeep in seeing off the new ball especially the ones delivered by Andy from PCC. He almost faced all the deliveries from him. It was hard to score run and the run rate was about 2. Chaitanya soon fell and Rahul went in who also fell in succession soon. Apart from Sandeep nobody really could cope up with the different conditions in this game and we continued losing wickets one after another. Sandeep played a few beautiful shots in his knock of 39, which happened to be the highest from both sides. A SIX on the midwicket was the highlight of his innings. Srujal played a counter-attacking knock scoring 16+ runs in quick time. He continues impressing with BAT. Srujal and Krishna were tow players who together with the tail spent time in the middle and added almost 60+ runs for the last 5 wickets and took us to a total of 114 in 28 overs. Krishna remained unbeaten at the end.
They started off their chase well and Gopi provided us the first break through when Sinha took a catch, which was just superb by our standards. They went on to play defensive as the target was not much and we tried hard for wickets, changing bowlers now and then and setting the fields accordingly. I feel all the bowlers, Gopi, Nagesh, Chaitanya, Sandeep, Srujal and Anand, who were used, tried their best to stick to the basics but the main problem was extras conceded. We gave as many as 30 wides, which is just too much when we are defending a total of 114. There is no point singling out one or two bowlers but this is an area we will have to think about and control ourselves if we want to win such games. The game against JGR was won by defending a total of just 89 because of the way we had bowled. Srujal took 2 and Anand 1 wicket. They were 6 down for 85 and needed about 30 to win and we were away by a wicket or two. We tried to attack them by setting close fields and it seem to work for a while when Sandeep and I bowled two consecutive maidens. But the wicket was the key and their batsmen perhaps knew it so they played really cautiously. The leg umpire at the end, which might have turned the game in our favour, turned down a close run out appeal. A difficult chance was missed by Krishna behind the stump when he could not hold on to a catch. They were home in 28th over. PCC won the game by 4 wickets.
Hope we learn by the mistakes and do well in the next game to comes. We are almost halfway through the season as far as the number of matches goes. We would have to win most of our matches from now on if we want to have some positive chances for us. We missed the services of our regular openers in Sumit, Bharath and Anurag. Rahul did play for us but could not ball because of backache. These small things perhaps added to the negative result this time.
Sumit is now out of Phoenix for the time being and sadly won’t be playing for us this season. As far as KCC-B is concerned, I see it as a big loss because he was one of our consistent batsmen. Some of us would have to step into his shoes and play the same role. On behalf of KCC, I would like to thank Sumit for playing with us and entertaining us by those beautiful cover drives and wish him all the best in his future endeavors. And please do keep in touch with all of us.
posted by Anand @ 11:21 PM
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