Thunders V/s All4One

Living upto the name "Thunders", the team complimented the Rain and Storm which was part of the reduced pre-QF game played on the Centrville ground. We roarded, and we poured our hearts out in this convincing win, washing out the opponent and marching onto the QF's.

It was a good toss to lose as our opponents helped us by opting to bat first in the wet conditions; which are more favourable to bowl than to bat on. Maybe All4One wanted to play its strength and put a hold onto the reduced 15 over match by blasting out and put us in pressure chasing in the difficult conditions. But; that was not to be, with all 11 of ours players showing how the fielding can change results (instead of only ball and bat). This team is rising as a high quality fielding unit with the inspirational Sujay in the centre always raising the standards laid for all the rest. We were diving, catching and converting all the chances to Run-outs whenever there was a one. There was a 100% rate in catching and there were 3 run-outs with some amazing throws from the deep and some direct throws which never let the opponents breathe easy. Bowling was on the money, and with no extras given; All4one batsmen were always in pressure and had to work hard for any run. The team wrapped them up on a low score of 42 which was never enough for 15 overs unless there was a total collapse of our batting (which is not new to us also :-)) ).

But that did not happen and Kruttik opened the batting with some fast scoring helped by number of wides, and in moments we were 18 odd in 2 overs without loss. All4one did get some inroad with 3 quick wickets after that but with runs always coming the score was reached comfortably with everyone chipping in and Sujay taking the score to the end with a blasting 4 to reach the final runs, as if making a statement of dominance in the complete match.

It was a team effort that I would love to see everytime we walk onto the field and I take my hats off to every team member who played his part to full potential. It was a day when it never felt like that we could lose and that's exactly what we have to take forward from here. We are back in QF and this time we have to break the jinx of not going to the latter stages.

In the end I can thank all the team members for being a little biased to hand over the MOM trophy to me. To say the least that could have been given to all 11 on this day.

No looking back now ......" GO THUNDERS !!! "

Venue : Sunday, 24th Oct 2009 , Centerville Ground
All4One : 42 all out
Thunders : 45/4 in 9.3 overs.

Man of the Match: Gaurav - Bowling (3-1-5-2) and 5 runs in batting and excellent fielding

Other performances:
Bowling
Kalyan - 3 - 0 - 10 - 2
Sujay - 3 - 1 - 2 - 0
Kamesh - 3 - 0 -10 - 2
Prabhu - 3 - 0 - 17 - 1

Batting
Kruttik - 6 runs, Deepak - 9 runs, Kamesh - 5 runs and Sujay - 10 runs.