It was a soggy week end, Friday night and day shover's had put the already rain crippled game in doubt. The morning drizzle also did not help my cause and i was thinking about other options for spending the week end. To mine and Raju's(my room mate who plays for Coogee bay rebels 2nds) surprise the expected message from my captain of the second grade Matt, never turned up. So on the thought of returning back with out much action in our minds we started the train ride and then the bus ride. As soon as we got down from the bus there was a slight drizzle which welcomed us to Booralee park. Booralee park is one of my favorite grounds just for its outfield and location. Well coming back the rain gods had a sight of relief towards us, it stopped raining to help our cause. the game started, Matt own the toss and choose to bowl first with unknown conditions and slow out field. The first ball was filled with action, Prezo one of our bowlers bowled a short ball and the batsmen totally lost trying to play a pull. leaving him smelling the ball and then the smell of his blood. The ball hit his fore head causing a wide open cut just above his left eyebrow, he was rushed to the hospital and he had to endure six stitches. Well his story does not ends here guys.
Then after a great spell from Javed our pak player in the team from one end and Prezo from other scoring runs was a tough act. There were few good blows by the batsmen and our skippers field placing and some good catching by Ashi brought their downfall one shot too many is what can be said. Each of the bowlers bowled well and they lost 8 wickets. After grabbing the 8th wicket by a run out thanks to a direct throw from Johny, my thinking about the situation was just one more to go because of the early injury. But to my surprise the guy comes out with six stitch to his forehead wearing a helmet to protect it. He walks in winning our hearts with his grit and determination. He was also successful in not only saving his wicket but also helped his team a 2 overs defect to our team cos we could not complete the full quote of overs in time.
The target in front of us was 151 in 38 overs an achievable target by any means. Matt walks to as i was having a hot dog thinking i am never gonna get to bat soon came into another surprise as he asks me to open this game thanks to absence of our regular openers due to injury and non availability. I had a good feeling about playing this time a feeling which creeps in all of a sudden and helps you play well. we walked in and my partner was Raju, just as the first ever match. I say off the first over and was feeling comfortable, but not for long. This guy walks in bowling really good balls moving out in a very odd way and odd lengths, may be it was the conditions. Then after a double and a single i saw Raju playing a loose short and giving his wicket with out opening his account. i was left to face the guy and i was dancing in the pitch. After few body blows and a rash short i lost my wicket to a gem of a ball which broke my defense and clipped the bails. I walked out this time knowing that i lost my wicket to a good ball. Then i say Simon loose his wicket the same way the i had lost and this time around the bail was broken. We were into a shock, and i see Ashi walking in. He chilled our nerves with a huge six and a four and in typical Ashi style he lost his wicket trying to attack the ball out of the round. There were a number of catches going down for us but did not do any help. wickets kept tumbling in with the score crawling slow and low. Dinga the star of the 5th Grade showed few shots and some runs where scored the typical way Dinga plays. how do i know about it, well net sessions and watching him hit few sixes while fielding in the near by ground is how i know. Well coming back to the game, that did not help us in any way cos he also lost his wicket, but nothing could have been done at that moment to our teams cause. The game was well over as Dinga mistimed a shot to covers and was caught. End of the game after few hand shakes i just walked out without even asking how much we scored.
Yet again a game lost, but there were a few positives in this game and of course the courage show by the Guy.
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