Old is Gold.....

It was a great match.....A match to remember bcoz it was our experienced players blazing all guns out….We can only think how tough its gonna be to get in the team ….We had 6 of our top players not playing in this match…..So the only criteria to get in the team is to perform….No one can take his place for granted or think he had performed in past ……It’s a very healthy competition in the team ….

First it was Amit with a great spell of bowling ……and then Niloy with his power batting

We won the toss and elected to bowl and it was Amit and Buland who tightened up the screw from word go….We got our first break through in the second over with a clever bit of bowling by Buland and soon in his 2 nd over he gave us a another break through …..Abhishek and Buland were working in pairs…..We gave away 19 extras but that was not the bowlers who did that but it was the pitch and some bad decision by umpires……I am sure Manish would agree to that……

Aizaz Bhai bowled a great line but was very unlucky with the decisions…….Vikas took a beauty with his leg spinner ….Ball pitched around middle stump and turned to get the edge and rest was done by Manish…. And then came our deceptive bowler Abhisek ….he just got one over to bowl and got one wicket …..He was the best bowler in 2006 Fall and he is getting only one over to bowl…so what can someone say …..this is the competition we have in our team ….

By mid way they were 27/4 in which 11 runs were from extras …….then came our strike bowler Girish…though he took 1 st over to settle but once he was in his grove he was deadly as ever…..

One of their batsman got stuck and he even cleared the fence once on my bowling which was not at all a good feeling….but we came back strongly and got them for 50 in 18.5 over’s…

Now it was again left to our batsman ….and with no regular openers in team ….. Niloy showed confidence on Manish and Rajesh who did a good job by hanging there and getting the runs…We lost our first wicket as Manish who was caught at point ….and then we had our hero of the 2 nd game Mr Buland sent at one down …and for a change he defended the first ball but only the 1 st bowl and the second one was a skier which was taken not much to our delight… and then walked in our captain Niloy….he was determined not to come back until he get us through the finishing line….and he did that with some style….

We could see the glimpse of his younger days…he was at his best ….A huge six over mid wicket is all I can say and rest would be self explanatory…..

Another Victory for Maharaja’s……we need to keep the momentum going………