Tuesday, February 26, 2008

CABS team does it again........!!!!

Today was all about placements..With half the class working on placements in the Audi..The other enthusiastic group was working on placements not so far...though the placements had different meanings all together...
This full day belonged to CABS cricket and the cricket belonged to CABS...Three matches were played and CABS won 2-0, the third match was a tie...This, to the best of my knowledge is the first tie in CABS history..Wat an entertaining day of cricket we had...!
Let me jump straight into today's action. I hope it was destined to be CABS' day..because in all the three games played it was the CABS team that won the toss...The first match SLOPPER* and and ADMIN gave a good start followed by some pretty useful contribution by WATSON,VIRU and others..WATSON though was consistent throughout...CABS team amassed 52 in 12 overs..thanks to the performances of the batsmen..The WTF team though were just as usually brilliant in the field..SOURAV mali bowled really well...opening the bowling for them...Eveyone did their work to perfection and they had a debutant in their team, though he was from another dept...
The WTF reply was stupendous, NATTU DRAVID and the debutant playing some great strokes...MS PATTU was simply lightning in his strokemaking whereas DRAVID's innings was just a delight to watch...They played really well and brought the match to a nail bitting finish..with them requiring just 3 runs to win off the last ball...It was VIRU who bowled the last over...and he along with WATSON can claim full credit for the victory..because it was off the bowling of VIRU that WATSON took an excellent catch to dismiss DRAVID in the third ball of the last over..this according to me is the turning point of the match...However In the last ball of the match VIRU conceded just one run..the CABS team had won the match just by 1 run..ADMIN and JONTY missed the fielding because of known reasons..but it was an excellent match...
In the post lunch session 2 matches were played...in the first of which CABS posted a massive 60 on the board and the WTF once again played well to fight back,but fell short...It was a convincing win for the CABS team...PRAVEEN-ul-haq stumbled and hurt himself in the legs and because of which he had to miss the last match..but even though he was injured he opted to bat for his team which needed him badly...That was very spiritful playing by PRAVEEN...Nothin else was special as far as this game was concerned. It seemed to be a repeat telecast of the first game..except that it missed the THALA(hey!!don't laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!)..im not kiddin...for all of u who do not know..thala played cricket today..but he was stubborn not to HANDLE THE BALL(even during fielding..ha..ha..ha)....
Ok..now for the match of the day..in the third and final match of the day also., team, won the toss..and batted well...everyone jus chipped in with the bat and again CABS team got on to 51 off 12 overs. With mEEEani playin an important role with the bat.. In WTF reply...REP and debutant played a steady knock..once REP was dismissed, DRAVID superbly and was followed by some hard hitting by PATTU...They seemed to be in a comfortable position of winning the match...requiring just 6 runs from 3 overs..but it was VIRU who once again played the Guardian Angel in the 10 over...But for his tactical bowling and the heroics of mEEEani..the match would have been easily won by the WTF...he took two mind-blowing catches to dismiss the top batsmen, the debutant and PATTU..IRFAN RAJ was in the nonstriker's end while wickets fell at the other end....But thanks to SOURAV who was not helpful with the bat as he was with the ball..he tried, tried and tried to somehow hit the ball with the bat..but failed miserably..with the match ending in a freak tie...something to remember for a long time....
As far as the performances go..hav lots to say..Batsmen were superb..DRAVID was effortless in his stroke making...PATTU was hard hitting..ADMIN was classfull....SLOPPER* was skill ful and WATSON played some blistering strokes in all the three matches...REP and JONTY also had good time with the bat.....BOWLING was great with the hard ball and the good condition of the HCG pitch..SOURAV spearheaded the attack for WTF and to good effect...VIRU was the pick of the bowlers....though JONTY, WATSON,McOFFICER,REP,PATTU all made the ball to move and had the other team players staggering...
Today was equally good for the fielders ..JONTY was just brilliant as usual...DRAVID took an almost impossible catch...WATSON took a few good,tough catches and PRABAKHAR too was good in the field. Considering the number of matches he has played in this pitch, he was great in the fielding..though a popular opinion among his team mates is that he would be better in the field if he puts his mobile aside....SLOPPER* too took a good catch let alone PATTU who has a few to his credit though he dropped a sitter...FLAMBOYANT and SHERYL made their debut today..and I welcome them to join us and groom their talents consistently..
Now comes the most critical time for me..Identifying the player of the day...Today had a variety of performances and some great cricket...So I have no other go but to select 3 players as players of the day...One, the debutant harish who seemed to be planted to the crease...Two, NATTU DRAVID for his consistent performance with the bat through out the day...Great batting DRAVID.... and finally, WATSON for his all- round performance...he played well with the bat..took crucial wickets and some jaw-dropping catches...Congrats players of the day ..sorry if anyone has any second opinions..because it is just my own decision...also my regrets if i had missed out any noteworthy performances..
Finally, we all once again proved our sportmanship..we played some glamorous cricket and cricket was at its best, and CABS cricket has started to win hearts among other dept. players too...great work ppl....Finally, I hope ul-haq will fit to play Thursday's match...let's meet on Thursday for the next edition of CABS cricket,hopefull....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would be glad to receive feed backs................bye................
*we are seriously considering to re-christen SLOPPER, name suggestions are welcome....

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