Next stop Poker Star

Not from a Star Wars movie……. Poker Star is our next opponent. Poker Star is not exactly a rookie team in Cricbay since this is the second tournament they are playing in Cricbay. They have played 17 matches and won only 2 matches. They won their last match and did not surrender easily to mighty Spartans; the match was only won by 9 runs.

So I look through score sheet after score sheet to get some idea about our next opponent and it is very interesting to see that they have lost 80% of their matches but fought each of them till the end.

Poker Star this season
Weekend Cricket Warriors won by 23 runs
Indians [Patriot CC] won by 4 wickets
Dakus won by 7 wickets
Spartans CC won by 9 runs
HitnRun won by 15 runs
Poker Stars won by 1 run


I did some digging and found out that some of the players are veterans of Cricbay and used to play in other teams before creating Poker Star. Poker Star has good openers and spread their good bowlers in 20 over’s rather than putting on the top like some rookie teams do. Maharajas should not take this game easy and should follow the same winning strategy that we have been following.

Players to watch from Poker Star…. Praveen, Anupam Pandey and Vikram Rao. From Maharaja’s Amit, Anoop and Bipin. I hope I am not pressuring Bipin by picking him the player to watch.

Also there is another interesting match in Cricbay this weekend…Spartan vs. Indian. Maybe Indians topple Spartan this week before Maharajas do.

Maharajas rest of the schedule for Round1:


5/30/2009--> Weekend Cricket Warriors (Away)
6/13/2009--> 5 Umpiring assignments
6/20/2009-->Weekenders (Home)
6/27/2009-->Spartans CC (Away)



Go Maharajas and make it 7-0.