The game was played at Spring Canyon Ground (Small) which usually yields a lot of runs. Eagles won the toss and elected to field even though four players had not arrived by 9:15 am for a 8:30 am start. Prabhakar and Srinivas were given an opportunity to start the bowling proceedings. Srinivas in particular could not control wides and by the end of 6 overs Eagles had leaked 39 runs. Amit started well with a maiden wicket but Ashish and Rajesh steadied the inning for the Blasters. Wickets thereafter were hard to come by and the Blasters went into the break with about 72 runs on the board with just 2 wickets lost. Ashish (35 in 37b, 4*4), Rajesh (44 in 31b, 7*4), Harman (12 in 14b, 2*4), Nirav (13 in 12b, 2*4) contributed well to take the Blasters to 145/6 in 20 overs. 34 extras were yielded due to ill-directed bowling with lack of a regular keeper adding to the woes. In reply Dhruven and Umesh started well for the Eagles. Ibrar, Harman, Sanjeev and Rajesh were hit around for quite a few boundaries in the first six overs and the score read 44/2 in 6 overs with the loss of Umesh and Hari. Amit (13 in 7b, 3*4) was bowled by Rajesh and Parag was run out without facing a ball. Eagles went into the break with a score of 76/4. With Santosh not being allowed to bat due to his "no show" while fielding Eagles had only 9 wickets to play with. Vilas (6 in 7b, 1*4) and Sanjay (10 in 10b, 2*4) were then dismissed leaving Shekhar to join Dhruven who was playing steadily at one end. In the end the asking rate jumped to 8 and then 10/12 runs an over with wickets continuing to fall. Dhruven played a fine knock of 43 in 50b (4*4) and Shekhar made a contribution of 13 (13b, 2*4) in the lower order. Eagles score 125/9 in 19.2 overs resulting in Blasters winning the game by 20 runs.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
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