Well the dream run of winning two in a row is over and we lost this one. This time we faced a better all round team and beating them would have tasted more sweeter then the previous two wins. And we did a good job of pushing them and had only ourselves and our fielding to blame for losing the match.
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These were a few words from our new sports correspondant. Mr. Noor Ud Din, who is comtemplating the fact that where would we be once our fielding improves.
We had the honor of fielding in the heat which took some energy out of us. The batsmen started attacking Wicky and Anees from the start but Waqar bowled well and only gave away runs because of sloppy wicket keeping from our new but usually reliable keeper Rizwan. Anees went for a flurry of boundaries in only his second over and was not able to maintain good line and length so necessary from the strike bowlers.
Even in the face of such sloppy fielding we never let the game get out of hand. Some tight bowling from Sameer and me stemmed the run flow and we were back in the match. The good thing about their batsmen and what we can learn from them, is that they kept on taking calculated risks. And they played a few airy shots but they only fell in vacant areas. Sure they edged a few, missed a few here and there, but the flow of runs never completely stopped.
There was a Guest appearance by Manoj who bowled full and had a clean bowled on his first ball. But too bad he couldn't continue because of shoulder pain.
Finally in the end Rizwan had a chance for two lovely stumpings which showed that he is fast improving which is quite encouraging for us. In the end they scored 180+ runs because of poor fielding and poor bowling at the death. Otherwise we would have easily restricted them within 150-160 runs.
Our batting started off confidently, this time Wicky's trust in Nisar paid off and we had the treat of watching some delightful boundaries. A flick off his pads for a boundary, ensured that he has improved his shots on the middle and leg. He was going good with some beautiful boundaries, running between the wickets and also a six over long on. Probably a little too early to say form is temporary and class is permanent, but we do hope to see him flourish and keep the runs coming for us at the top order.
He fell to a slower ball and skied one in the air, it was a bit far from the fielder and he ran in and took a wonderful catch making me wish that we could have a few boundary fielders like him.
Run rate was very good in the first five overs since after Nisar Wicky came in and had a nice little partnership with Bilal and in the first five overs we had fifty runs. But the bowling team kept changing bowlers in order to find the two right bowlers for the occassion. Which they did and the two started bowling a very tight line and length. Our batsmen were pushed in a shell because of that and in that passage of 3-4 overs we lost the match by having too many runs for our middle and lower order to score off the remaining overs.
Wicky in order to push the fielders got too cheeky in the end and was run out after trying to take a single with the ball in the keeper's hands. That wicket was crucial for us, since today we were without the services of Ahmed and therefore we needed someone for scoring quick runs. Bilal played a good anchor innings but wasn't able to cut lose and didn't have any partners with him who could do that for him. In the end 30 from 32 balls were good but not match winning.
Sameer Bhai came in at number 4 with some high hopes from us and showed us a few delightful strokes in the gaps. But in the end it was too much to get for him and with Rizwan at the other end who is very good at rotating strike, there was too much to get for him, single handedly. If Amir would have come up the order he and Sameer might have found the extra 17 runs somewhere in between to win the match for us.
Good Things...
1. Nisar's coming into form.
2. Rizwan's Stumping.
Bad Things...
1. Fielding. We need to work on taking catches on the boundary and also stop the boundaries. One poor thing about our boundary fielding was that the fielders there were not sure whether to come forward to take the catch or stay back to stop the boundary. A few times, they started to go for the catch but stopped mid way because of which they were not able to either come forward enough to attempt the catch or stay back enough to stop the boundary. We gave away a few boundaries because of this.
2. Scoring from the top order. We are still not breaking the 100 runs mark in the first ten overs and not even coming close to it. We shuffled our top order because of this goal and this strategy is not working out uptil now.
iiv buhjbhjjjjjjjjjjjjQ
These were a few words from our new sports correspondant. Mr. Noor Ud Din, who is comtemplating the fact that where would we be once our fielding improves.
We had the honor of fielding in the heat which took some energy out of us. The batsmen started attacking Wicky and Anees from the start but Waqar bowled well and only gave away runs because of sloppy wicket keeping from our new but usually reliable keeper Rizwan. Anees went for a flurry of boundaries in only his second over and was not able to maintain good line and length so necessary from the strike bowlers.
Even in the face of such sloppy fielding we never let the game get out of hand. Some tight bowling from Sameer and me stemmed the run flow and we were back in the match. The good thing about their batsmen and what we can learn from them, is that they kept on taking calculated risks. And they played a few airy shots but they only fell in vacant areas. Sure they edged a few, missed a few here and there, but the flow of runs never completely stopped.
There was a Guest appearance by Manoj who bowled full and had a clean bowled on his first ball. But too bad he couldn't continue because of shoulder pain.
Finally in the end Rizwan had a chance for two lovely stumpings which showed that he is fast improving which is quite encouraging for us. In the end they scored 180+ runs because of poor fielding and poor bowling at the death. Otherwise we would have easily restricted them within 150-160 runs.
Our batting started off confidently, this time Wicky's trust in Nisar paid off and we had the treat of watching some delightful boundaries. A flick off his pads for a boundary, ensured that he has improved his shots on the middle and leg. He was going good with some beautiful boundaries, running between the wickets and also a six over long on. Probably a little too early to say form is temporary and class is permanent, but we do hope to see him flourish and keep the runs coming for us at the top order.
He fell to a slower ball and skied one in the air, it was a bit far from the fielder and he ran in and took a wonderful catch making me wish that we could have a few boundary fielders like him.
Run rate was very good in the first five overs since after Nisar Wicky came in and had a nice little partnership with Bilal and in the first five overs we had fifty runs. But the bowling team kept changing bowlers in order to find the two right bowlers for the occassion. Which they did and the two started bowling a very tight line and length. Our batsmen were pushed in a shell because of that and in that passage of 3-4 overs we lost the match by having too many runs for our middle and lower order to score off the remaining overs.
Wicky in order to push the fielders got too cheeky in the end and was run out after trying to take a single with the ball in the keeper's hands. That wicket was crucial for us, since today we were without the services of Ahmed and therefore we needed someone for scoring quick runs. Bilal played a good anchor innings but wasn't able to cut lose and didn't have any partners with him who could do that for him. In the end 30 from 32 balls were good but not match winning.
Sameer Bhai came in at number 4 with some high hopes from us and showed us a few delightful strokes in the gaps. But in the end it was too much to get for him and with Rizwan at the other end who is very good at rotating strike, there was too much to get for him, single handedly. If Amir would have come up the order he and Sameer might have found the extra 17 runs somewhere in between to win the match for us.
Good Things...
1. Nisar's coming into form.
2. Rizwan's Stumping.
Bad Things...
1. Fielding. We need to work on taking catches on the boundary and also stop the boundaries. One poor thing about our boundary fielding was that the fielders there were not sure whether to come forward to take the catch or stay back to stop the boundary. A few times, they started to go for the catch but stopped mid way because of which they were not able to either come forward enough to attempt the catch or stay back enough to stop the boundary. We gave away a few boundaries because of this.
2. Scoring from the top order. We are still not breaking the 100 runs mark in the first ten overs and not even coming close to it. We shuffled our top order because of this goal and this strategy is not working out uptil now.
3. No wickets still from our attack. We need to have some wicket taking bowling, field placing and most of fielding in order to get the openers out cheaply.
Incident
The other team, before their fielding started, collected together on the pitch and prayed for the match. Looked very good that they not only had the faith but also the courage to show it.
Shape up guys we need to win this match to make it to the second round.
2 comments:
You did not mention my bowling at the depth. The 18th and 20th overs just cost 14 runs which included 1 wicket and a runout.... but it would have been great if we would have been winners ...
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