Thunders Vs Patriots - T20 Tournament Match

Thunders start the spring T2o tournament on Saturday(04/26/2008) , 8AM at Reston ground against Patriots.

Venue Address:
Lake Fairfax Park
1400 Lake Fairfax Drive,
Reston, VA.

The 11

Kalyan, Krithik, Sanjai, Joseph, Rajesh Sharma, Prasanna,

Karthik S, Akshay, Karthik, Bommi and Anand

Match Highlights:

Thunders lost the match by 4 wickets. Not an impressive start for Thunders in this spring T20 tournament.

• Patriots won the toss and elected to field first.
• Thunders had not have a good start. They lost the wickets in the regular intervals. Not a single patnership had built by them.
• The only resistance to Patriots was from Thunders opener Kruttik who played patiently and showed his character with fine knock of 29 runs.
• Also a final threat came from Thunders hard hitters Karthik Sutharsanam and karthik at the end by scoring couple of massive sixes at the final overs.
• But it was not enough to control the Patriots from their first win in this tournament on the first game.
• Thunders were bundled out 94 in 20 overs for the loss of 9 wickets.
• Patriots started chasing well though they lost thier opening partership on the first over from Thunders vice captain Anand.
• Blunder misfielding of Thunders dropped two catches on the second over from Thunders captian Sanjai; made enough platform for Patriots batsmen.
• Patriots batmen used this chance well and settled down by scoring slowly and put the pressure on Thunders.
• Again, more catches were dropped by Thunders made Patriots ease to the game. Thunders bowlers didn't make any significant impact since the poor fielding support from the team.
• Finally it was good finish by the Patriots captain Ram to register their first win in this tournament.
• Thunders have to make much more improvement on fielding, otherwise Thunders will be just a spectator to this tournament.
• Will Thunders bounce back? Let's watch on the next game to be played on May 18th.