What started out this weekend as a hopeful one sided match with Bombay Boys looking the favourites to win, finally ended with a nail-biting finish taking the match right upto the last over. After losing the toss to Champions, and having to field, BB still seemed to have got off to a good start. The first 10 overs showed tons of promise, the next 10 and the following innings - absolutely none. Excellent stats from Asif Bhai, 4-1-10-3 and decent contributions from Ketan 3-0-8-2, Monty 4-0-15-2 Arun 4-0-17-0, Chakra 4-0-22-0 and Anand 1-0-5-0 had the Champions bundled out for a not-too-bad not-too-bad 77.
Now ( pause here for effect ! ) It didn’t seem that difficult a task. Atleast initially. Till it became hopeless.
The champions played a total mind game and sledging was at its best. Our openers failed. Monty got caught between deciding to go-for-it and play-it-safe and was back to the pavilion too quickly. Arun didn’t make it either and was joined by Satchit shortly. It was left to Ketan and Vikram to take us to the end who played it smart and played quick strokes. An admirable effort from Vikram and a good knock by Ketan kept it going till KT fell too. Attempts from the skipper and Anand added just a couple of runs and the overs were getting over too soon. Vikram held on steady till the end and Asif ended the finale with the last 2 runs in the very last over with 2 balls to spare. A cool start but a very unecessary risky finish. Needless to say, it was an exciting match alright ! We sure had a great time !
Point to be noted : We gave 28 extras ! Bowling Check ! And the batting line-up totally collapsed. I know its easy for a non-player to be a critic (even a critic is someone who’s been on the field usually) but face it guys, we could have done better. You are the Bombay Boys !
