Another nice day for cricket, a bit windy though… We won the toss and decided to bat first on a batting pitch.
The outfield at Ron Regis was slightly slower than earlier matches we played, but still quite fast.
BellevueBoyz Innings.
Hitesh and Saurin opened the innings.. Hitesh scored a boundary of the first ball, but got out in the first over trying to hit another one.
SB walked in next. He and Saurin played pushed the score to about 15, when Saurin was run out off a direct throw in the 3rd over.
Samir went in next, he along with SB played some nice shots all across the park, scoring at 6 an over for next 4-5 overs..
SB was next to get out as he was bowled for about 15. Rajiv was next in with score around 50 in 8th over.
Rajiv and Samir started accelerating the score hitting boundaries, running nicely between the wickets for next 3-4 overs.
Samir was out next before playing a good hand of 34 runs. Chintu walked in next.
Chintu played a quick hand of 10 runs with couple of innovative boundaries. Amit came in after Chintu’s wicket, but he was out soon.
Mahesh walked in next with about 2 overs to spare and the score around 100. Mahesh played quite patiently and gave strike to Rajiv as much as he could.
Rajiv on the other hand really pushed the scoring in his score of 43*. The partnership really proved valuable as they accumulated 24 runs in last 2 overs.
We finished out innings at 124/6, overall another good batting effort lead by Rajiv.
Incrediblz innings.
Hitesh and SB opened the bowling. They started nicely although there were a few runs being scored as well at around 5-6 runs an over.
Rajiv and Mahesh replaced the bowling attack, however Incrediblz started hitting some runs. The first wicket went to Rajiv in 7th over with score around 50.
Vaman came in next. The opponents were sitting pretty comfortable in the chase around that time needing just 6-7 runs an over.
The running between wickets was good and they took advantage of that converting single into doubles.
However, as they tried to do that one more time, a Great throw by Chintu from the deep cover helped us grabbed Vaman’s wicket as he felt short of his crease.
Incredibelz chase was helped by some sloppy catching ( we dropped 3 catches in the game) and couple of missed run-out chances.
There were some runs scored during the chase. Towards the later part of the innings, Incrediblz lost wickets as tried to push the score..
Rajiv chipped in with 3 wickets, Mahesh and Sb took 1 each. There were 2 run outs – 1 by Chintu and 1 by Mahesh. They were all out for 107 of the last ball of the match.
At the end the score was good enough to earn BB a 5th consecutive win, we got 22 points
However, our fielding effort was quite sloppy and unacceptable at times. We need to work it out and show a better performance next time.
We have a good chance of making to the semis, but have some tough games ahead. We really need to pull up our socks for the games ahead.
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