Thunders V/s 3C : 1st Fall League Match

And then it started....again !!!

Thunders started the Fall tournament and with it the quest to prove itself as a better team than what it was before. If you go by the way match went...this was certainly not the way how we can assert our claim to be better for sure.

Anand won the toss and as a golden rule for Fall conditions, chose to Bowl on the skidding Reston mat pitch. Bowlers made great use of the conditions and wrapped the 3C's batting line up with tight bowling and sharp fielding. The 3C could only give a target of 65 but which in the end was again made monumental with the now regular batting line up collapses. Again the lack of practice and temperamental issues plagued the team and wickets were lost to bad selection of shots and weakness of the mind.

Apart from the Stand between Sujai, who showed why he is respected in the team and Deepak, who is settling well into the team and position, the other batsmen could not stay at the wicket and in a flash we were 8 wickets down with still around 10 runs more to score for the win. In the end with able guidance from Sujai at one end, Gaurav (myself) managed to stay on the wicket and take it to the end.

It is high time our batting needs to show consistency and take it from here, as along the road now; this shall be more of a Batting Game rather than bowling. Next match 3rd Oct ...brace up!!!

Special mention for Bowlers : Gaurav(2 wkts), Anand(2 wkts) , Prabhu(1 wkt), Sujai(1 wkt), Gagan(1 wkt), Vijay(1 wkt) and Midhun(2 wkts) who were all among wickets and kept it tight for the other team till the end.