Congrats to Saurin for becoming a proud father to 'Aneri'.
It was a beautiful day for cricket… Praveen went in for the toss, which we won and decided to bat first.
BellevueBoyz Innings – 113/6 off 16 overs. Hitesh- 42, Madhav – 22~, Sameer – 22~, Pravin – 9.
Hitesh and Madhav opened the innings. They started pretty nicely, hitting the opponent bowlers all across the ground.
Many boundaries were hit and strike was being rotated as well. They kept on scoring for about 6-7 runs an over for about 8 overs.
The first wicket went down at around 52, as Madhav was run-out. It was particularly good to see Madhav hitting some good shots.
Sameer joined in and kept moving the scoreboard along with Hitesh. Hitesh was bowled by another mystery ball, which kept low, the score was around 80 runs in 11 overs.
We lost few quick wickets after that – SB, Saurin, but the scorecard kept ticking, thanks to some good batting by Sameer and Pravin. They helped push the score over 100.
We lost a few wickets at the end, not before pushing the score to 113. Overall , an excellent batting effort.
Highlight -
Batsman latched on to any loose balls that came their way.
It was good to see Madhav right into thick of things. He was batting as good as ever.
Stealth Innings – 63~ all out off 11.4 overs.. Pravin 2-12-1, Hitesh – 2.4 – 19 – 2, SB – 3 wickets, Mahesh – 1 wicket.
Pravin and Hitesh opened the bowling attack. Opponents started scoring freely from the very beginning.
They were about 30 runs in 4 odd overs, when Pravin took a sharp catch off his own bowling.
SB and Mahesh took over after that and they bowled a tight line and length, which pushed the opponents to play some rash shots.
Stealth started losing wickets. SB took 3 wickets and kept opponents in check. Mahesh took a key wicket , the only batsman that was scoring well for Stealth.
Would like to specially praise Sameer’s and Amit’s fielding effort on the boundary. Pravin took another good running catch at long-on.
The score kept moving at around 4-5 runs an over. Hitesh took 2 wickets in the 12th over to wrap up the match.
Highlight ('Aneri' Moment)– A blinder of a catch by Saurin to finish the match. He dived towards his right and grabbed the ball mid-way in the air. Great effort.
Special Thanks to Chintu for showing up at the match, doing the leg umpiring, but more importantly keeping himself injured since we have a problem of too many :)
It was a very nice team effort to counter the challenge posed by Stealth MSCC. We got 23 or 24 points.
BTW: This was the first game for Saurin after birth of his Daughter - Aneri.. hence his classical catch is termed as 'Aneri' Moment :)
Author - Hitesh Puri :)
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