In an afternoon where clouds were playing catch up with each other, the mighty ICT Team took on Software A.
S/W A won the toss and elected to take the willow. What followed was a disastrous start when their opening duo went out without scoring a run. Madhu and Santhosh started the bowling spell for ICT and both of them had a dream start with the first two wickets falling with just 4 runs (that too extras) added to the scoreboard. Both of them bowled a nagging line & were disciplined in their length, except for some extras by Madhu. Their change bowlers, Selvakumar, Shijo & Suresh, continued from where their colleagues left and carried on the good work. Ramkumar came to the rescue of S/W A as he amassed 23 runs before he was snapped by Suresh. The remaining batsmen came, fiddled around for some time, and went back - none of them could reach double figures. The match statistics summed up the whole story - there were only 5 boundaries in the whole innings - and ICT looked like mighty beasts taming the minnows! In the end, they did manage to play out 19 overs and with the help of 15 extras, S/W A lost all their wickets for 65 runs.
Well, with only 66 runs to win, when everybody expected an easy-go round for ICT, they started off disastorously, losing Sathya off the first ball of the innings and Madhu to the third ball, Senthil Mani being the successful bowler. It was a great sight to see stumps being castled within such short intervals! The scoreboard read 0/2 in the first over, and everyone thought we had a match on our hands. S/W A was delighted and were right back on the game, but Santhosh and Senthil had different ideas in that they stuck to their gameplan and scored runs in ones and twos. With the bowlers being too generous by giving away plenty of extras, they didn't have any problems in maintaining a good run rate and just when the batstmen wanted to accelerate, Senthil got out for 8 runs. Selvakumar joined Santhosh and made a fluent 11. Vinith, captain of ICT, decided that it was time for him to have some match practice, came in, hit a brilliant boundary to the square leg fence before getting out for a quickfire 7 runs - he did manage to create an irrepressible interest in the gallery by his ubiquitous presence. All this time, Santhosh had been grafting and compiled a well-polished innings of 21 not out with a superb boundary on the off side. Predictably, ICT wrapped up the match in less than 10 overs and jumped up the table to be the leader as things stand today.
The way they played today and the brilliant strategies that their captain (Vinith) comes up with time and again, ICT certainly is a strong contender for this year's championship! EDS-B & FRM-A, better watch out!!
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S/W A won the toss and elected to take the willow. What followed was a disastrous start when their opening duo went out without scoring a run. Madhu and Santhosh started the bowling spell for ICT and both of them had a dream start with the first two wickets falling with just 4 runs (that too extras) added to the scoreboard. Both of them bowled a nagging line & were disciplined in their length, except for some extras by Madhu. Their change bowlers, Selvakumar, Shijo & Suresh, continued from where their colleagues left and carried on the good work. Ramkumar came to the rescue of S/W A as he amassed 23 runs before he was snapped by Suresh. The remaining batsmen came, fiddled around for some time, and went back - none of them could reach double figures. The match statistics summed up the whole story - there were only 5 boundaries in the whole innings - and ICT looked like mighty beasts taming the minnows! In the end, they did manage to play out 19 overs and with the help of 15 extras, S/W A lost all their wickets for 65 runs.
Well, with only 66 runs to win, when everybody expected an easy-go round for ICT, they started off disastorously, losing Sathya off the first ball of the innings and Madhu to the third ball, Senthil Mani being the successful bowler. It was a great sight to see stumps being castled within such short intervals! The scoreboard read 0/2 in the first over, and everyone thought we had a match on our hands. S/W A was delighted and were right back on the game, but Santhosh and Senthil had different ideas in that they stuck to their gameplan and scored runs in ones and twos. With the bowlers being too generous by giving away plenty of extras, they didn't have any problems in maintaining a good run rate and just when the batstmen wanted to accelerate, Senthil got out for 8 runs. Selvakumar joined Santhosh and made a fluent 11. Vinith, captain of ICT, decided that it was time for him to have some match practice, came in, hit a brilliant boundary to the square leg fence before getting out for a quickfire 7 runs - he did manage to create an irrepressible interest in the gallery by his ubiquitous presence. All this time, Santhosh had been grafting and compiled a well-polished innings of 21 not out with a superb boundary on the off side. Predictably, ICT wrapped up the match in less than 10 overs and jumped up the table to be the leader as things stand today.
The way they played today and the brilliant strategies that their captain (Vinith) comes up with time and again, ICT certainly is a strong contender for this year's championship! EDS-B & FRM-A, better watch out!!
Click here to read the complete scorecard
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