The first game of the series was played at Spring Canyon Ground (Small). Samir won the toss and elected to field first.
We did a fantastic job at bowling by dismissing the Mavericks for a meagre 74 in 17 overs. Not a single batsman from the Mavericks crossed 10 runs. Vijay S picked up 3 wickets for a mere 14 runs. Hari picked two wickets and Sam hardly conceeded any runs for a wicket. Suresh bowled Sushmit who had struck two boundaries in his short stay at the crease. Samir restricted the scoring towards the end with wickets having been taken regularly through the inning. Rahul B picked up two catches behind the wicket and also featured in a coupe of run-out dismissals. We did drop a simple and another moderate catch and also gave away a few byes. Every other act on the field was impeccable with just five boundaries being conceeded.
In reply Santosh H and Manish opened aggressively with Rajendra being struck for a boundary by each of the openers in over number two. The highlight of our inning while batting was the knock by Sam. Before being run-out when called for a second, Sam had scored 22 runs in just 17 balls. The inning had a boundary to square leg and a six on a full toss behind square on the leg side. Naman (11 in 15b, 1*4) and Hari (6 in 5b, 1*4) were the batsmen to remain unbeaten when the target was reached with 4 wickets and 30 balls to spare.
It was a convincing win and was done in a manner "howie" usually do it when not in the ocassional "bad team form". Batsmen who do not bat regularly at the top got an opportunity to go up the order. No player would have had any complaints over the proceedings of the day.
Well done, let's beat the Mavericks in Game 2 and register a series win, having lost one against the Strikers.
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