The game was played at Mira Mesa Community Park (Outer). Mavericks won the toss and elected to bat on a field with uneven patches of grass and soil. Sushmit and Vikas opened the batting for the Mavericks. Naman started the first over erratically conceding 11 runs including a four, 3 no-balls and a wide. Rosie, Samir continued the bowling but Sushmit seemed to be in good touch. Boundaries were hit in the next few overs being bowled but we also picked up a few wickets. Mavericks reached 49 in 6 overs. Balaji hit a straight six on the short straight boundary. A ball from Shiva shot high over the keeper, Parag for four byes. Sushmit played good shots to the cover region and Mavericks seemed to be prospering well. Mavericks reached 66/4 in 10 overs and Sushmit seemed to be in control and guided the inning well.
Rosie picked up Sushmit after the break. Sushmit returned with a well made 31 (32b, 5*4) on a pitch that was not predictable in either bounce of movement. We then pulled the scoring back and dismissed the Mavericks for 102 in 17.1 overs. Naman featured in two run-outs with Nagendra falling short at the keeper's end and Arun falling short at the non-strikers end. Mudit standing at short square leg hit one direct to get rid of Balaji. Amit hit one from short cover/mid-off. A good effort in the field had brought us back in the game after a bad start to our bowling. The pitch however was one where a batsman could get bounced into discomfort.
Our start to the chase was even worse. We lost a wicket in the second over, another two in the 3rd and two in the fifth. The score read a shabby 26/5 in 4 overs. Samir was bowled by Vikas after having hit a nice looking boundary square on the off-side. Rajendra picked up Gopal and Naman in the space of three balls in the third over. Vikas returned in the 4th to pick up Aravind and Mudit. Mudit was caught one handed at deep mid-wicket by Sunil. The previous ball was a no-ball for overstepping and Srinivas had declared a free hit in a low tone. Mavericks went for the appeal and demanded the wicket saying that we have never played with this rule in the past. Mudit walked back with annoyance for a second time in two weeks on the same ground.
Shiva was scoring a few runs but then lobbed one straight up to short square leg. Parag hit Pavan for a six towards deep square leg on a full toss on or outside leg stump. The pitch was a difficult one to survive and with 6 wickets gone and plenty of overs to go, a partnership was needed to change the tide. The wicket continued with Amit, Rosie and Narasaiah dismissed in quick succession after the loss of 6 wickets. Parag (8 of 21b, 1*6) was the last to be dismissed just before the 10 over break.
It was a pathetic display of batting with the entire batting squad returning to the pavilion with just 5o on board. Mavericks thus won by a huge margin of 52 runs.
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