CHAK DIYA CABS team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oops!..sorry....couldn't take the finger off the key in time...that is the amount of excitement....This day goes into the history of CABS cricket as one of the most remarkable days....
CABS cricket truly had a promotion today....Wat else do u want?We beat one of the formidable teams today..and that too in a bowling match!!!
Talents came pouring in..it was in the HCG and i don suppose that we have ever started playin so early...the weather was great and the conducive for a great day of cricket and the air was filled with enthu...we faced a manifold team...it had people from a variety of category...3rd year...4th year....ECE dept,Biomed,hostelite,dayscholar and what not...But the oppsition was dauntless. There was no separation today as CABS and WTF. It was CABS vs the opposition and the spirit was simply immeasurable.....
Jus as we expected we won the toss and no doubt we decided to bat...ADMIN and ul-haq opened the innings...and ADMIN got the team onto a flier...but unfortunately ul-haq ran out of his crease....but then came the highlight of the day...the best partnership till now...DRAVID joined ADMIN at the crease...and both were classy,with free flowing bat and there was no hurdle for the flow of runs..even the fastest bowler in the opponent team could not get the better of them. No stopping them!! ADMIN made some blistering shorts..though every one of them were on the leg-side,his strong area...DRAVID played some glorious shorts all through the ground..though his shorts through the square need special mention..the partnership heaped up runs, going steadily at 7.00 runs per over...jus when we foresaw a great total on the board, ADMIN misqued a delivery and threw away his wicket..he returned back to resting place for a standing ovation..DRAVID followed soon...receiving no less appreciation from the team mates...great partnership guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then the batting order started to wobble a little...REP failed today and surprising ly even VIRU could not thrive....WATSON and PATTU scored few,crucial runs...but the runs did not come as easily as before...but somehow because of the commitment of the people..we reached 86 runs in the stipulated 14 overs at a healthy run rate of 6.14....
Then the CABS team went on to field..full of confidence because of the score we had etched...Though the opposition had a strong batting line up, they were actually low in confidence seeing the spirit that we showed in the field...VARUN SINGH's bowling needs special appreciation....he bowled the first over of the innings with real good consistency throughout...the bowling was great..with VARUN SINGH and DRAVID(sounds strange isn't..dravid opening the BOWLING!!!, it happens only here) opening the bowling..both of them bowled at good length...and restricted the flow of runs for the other team...DRAVID removed the supposedly dangerous player of the opponents with help from VIRU who took a blinder in the deep...The bowlers did a great job and they were well supported by the fielders....the pick of the bowlers include WATSON who claimed 3 important wickets....therefore compensated for his batting....PATTU was great in whatever he did...he did some intelligent work behind the stumps to dismiss another important wicket of the opponents...though they had great players except one the others kept walking back...thanks to some great bowling from us...SLOPPER too had a good time with the ball ..Good work SLOPPER and though he did not miss out in the fielding we have decided not to take any further steps in rechristening him.....i don hav to speak about the fielding...it was the fielding that took us home today...be it REP or IRFAN or JONTY or WATSON or DRAVID..everyone was simply scintilating....something tells me that i have missed out someone..sorry if i hav missed someone...
Owing to the tight bowling and fielding the opponents needed an almost impossible 22 off 12 balls...and thanks DRAVID who made life much more tougher for them..guess what???a maiden in the penultimate over...needing 22 off 6 balls the opponents were under tremendous pressure...PATTU bowled the last over and the opponents were staggering literally...even the batsman who had proved to be a nightmare for the CABS team in the previous occasions was helpless....DRAVID dropped a sitter.. Though the batsman was run out...the opponents fell short by a mile...CABS TEAM grabs a remarkable victory!!!!!!!!!!
Now for the players of the day.....undoubtedly the batting heroes of the day were ADMIN and NATTU...The bowlers of the day, PATTU, WATSON and VARUN and DRAVID( just for that last but one ,over).. I jus couldn point out one bowler. There cannot be any second opinions about PATTU's keeping...Today, he justified me in naming him MAHENDRA SINGH PATTU in more than one way.....that run out was a great work pattu!!!
The next match had nothin important to say...it was between CABS team and the ECE team. Seeing the performance of the CABS team in the first match the opposition team ran for covers just after starting their bowling. Though here comes the cherry on the cake...HARI WARNE caught a real blinder...that goes down as one of the best catches...great work warnie.......
Altogether, today had everything...additionally we proved that we are capable of winning matches against strong teams and that too in the conventional bowling format....great work CABS team and great commitment members....too great was today's playing...keep up the spirit and lets continue this form and reach the next levels...see you soon in the next edition...till then keep the spirit going and accumulate the energy...so that we can unleash our strengths on the opponents....Asusual, am sorry if i have missed out any noteworhy incidents or important players...And ofcourse,your feedbacks are welcome...see you soon.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cricky under the march sun

Well, since the Cabs updater is quite busy with all the activities buzzing around@college, i take pride in posting my first ever post@CABS - the cricky blog of CSE-B .

Lets get down straight to today's match , Yeah its March1 today and Sun was at its brightest today scorching down at us while we were trying to get some cricket going in an almost empty college.
Here's today's attendance in cabs cricky,

Real Person Cabs Nicky
Yusuf - yousuf(admin)
Mukesh - Mukesh Jonty Singh
Manoj Seelan - Viru Seelan
Varun - Varun Singh
Vasanth - Vasanth Lee
Vignesh.R - RV ponting --->strange ????
Natarajan - Nattu dravid
Manivannan - Slopper mani --->soon to be changed ????
Winston - Win richards
Prasanna - pras clarke
Hari - Hari warne

well, quite low right ?? yeah, thats how many stand up to play on a sunny day ..
Today was not the usual sort of like CABS and WTF meeting head on ,, rather some players of cabs and wtf got interchanged to weigh up together i suppose .. and yeah, their field power got raised cos jonty singh was taken by clarke :(
also,nattu dravid was literally limping with his small bruise on his leg that he dragged while playing for the major match the previous day,so he was put a common man - he kept the wicket and held bat for both teams,that is what a common does acc to us. Viru went the other side instead we got warne to raise our weight in bowling dept .

Venue - HCG
Tossssssssss, the coin made sound as i put it up in the air, HEADS pras called and guess wat, TAILS it was and we got to bat.

Me and slopper started out and played a mix of loose and great shots ;) and very soon i gave away my wicket and the rest played their game and we totalled upto a not so impressive 36 in 10 overs.

They started well i must say , we ran ran and ran behind the ball and i added a cramp on my leg which still pains.
they had to get 9 from 18 balls i think , i got the ball and snap took the first wicket of their innings (8 overs for first wicket!!!) and then it seemed that we still had some chance to wrap it up(did we really??). Slopper bowled the 9th over and they had 3 to get from 6 balls i acc to my brain.warne bowled the 1st ball of the last over and bang jonty hit it at mid-off and slopper in his usual sloppy manner missed the ball
(i decided that we're not changing his nick for some weeks here on)
they ran 3 runs for it and yeah yeah - They won with 5balls to spare.
Rest for everybody now and they had enough scorch balls from the bright Sun than the cricket ball, atleast half a litre d'eau each had. [ d'eau - of water ]
varun singh left the venue to home at this juncture and so dravid joined the other team..bad for us..

Next match , Tossss(yeah it tossed only a lil) was by pras as lee called and lost it, i asked for a re-toss as it din't toss as i expected..and so did pras , i called HEADS and yeah u know , it was TAIL :( [ damn i thought , why doesn't this coin show up a HEAD]

Anyways , geared evryone to face the Sun much than the shots of the other team.
They started impressive and made up a total of 32-A.O in 9 overs.
bowling dept wasn't impressive except me taking 2wickts in my 2nd ovr and warne,lee were tight in their spells,fielding was a thumbs down as i missed a easy one and slopper as usual.u know...
Me and slopper started and couldn't hit a big shot in any case,even loose balls we missed.
yeah u know the term - exhausted.Evryone came and got out at the other end and i was standing here hopeless abt the match.Finally it was win richards' grip at the bat and we decided to put mokkai.
[mokkai (in cricket)[n] - to stand at the grease without giving away your wicket and neither trying to score runs]
Then it was finally over as i got over trying to break free by hitting and the ball ended in viru's hands.We lost this one too..

Today's CABS performance awards goes to

Batting - Viru, Jonty , dravid
bowling - Lee, dravid(2nd match) , viru (great slow ones),warne
fielding - jonty, clarke, viru(excellent catches although he dropped an easy one)

Ok guys, see ya in the next edition of CABS cricky [hope the sun doesn't drain away our cricky spirits]