March 8, 2015

Well well well!!!! 2 consecutive days of cricket. The second day i.e. today witnessed an awesome and unique match that never happened before in the history of Rockerzzz. We decided to play a 2 innings match with 10 overs in each inning. The lead in the first innings will be carried forward to the second inning and the target will be set accordingly. It seemed interesting at the start and it lived up to the expectation:

Team A: Tanzeel(c), Mehran, Sumit, Arunesh, Buland and Ameen

Team B: Vicky(c), Afaque, Rehan, Gaj, Suraj and Faisal

Team A batted first

Team A 1st inning: 103 runs in 10 overs

 - Sumit and Tanzeel had a very good and healthy opening partnership

 - Both the batsman took on the bowlers, scoring briskly and taking their team to a wonderful position

 - After the end of 7th over, with the score on 69 runs without loss Tanzeel decided to retire and other batsman took their charge

 - Sumit along with Mehran finished off wonderfully with 103 runs on the board

Team B 1st inning: 96 runs in 10 overs. Team A lead by 7 runs after the first innings

 - Vicky as usual was at his best. He along with Faisal was almost taking the match away from Team A

 - Faisal was scratchy, not contributing much to his account but giving good partnership to Vicky perished in the 6th over

 - Until 6th over neither of Team A's bowler was making any impact

 - Tanzeel decided to bowl himself. A dip and low ball ended Faisal's inning with Team A at the healthy score of 60 runs in the 6th over

 - Tanzeel's next ball was a run and Vicky was on strike. A wonderful slow ball on the off stump ended Vicky's innings as well. Team A was back into the match

 - Mehran was thrown the ball for the next over. His superb over brought 3 wickets for the team. From 60 for no loss, Team B was down to 68/5

 - Few hits from Suraj towards the end gave the lead of 7 runs to Team A

Team A 2nd inning: 97 runs in 10 overs. Target was set 105 runs in 10 overs for Team B

 - Sumit again played a role of an anchor, smashing bowlers from Team B out of the park at regular intervals

 - Tanzeel joined him after the fall of first wicket of Ameen and he too continued from where he left of in the 1st inning

 - Huge partnership between him and Sumit set the target of 105 runs in 10 overs. A huge ask for Team B considering a weak batting line up

Team B 2nd inning:  85 runs all out in the 9th over

 - Arunesh and Mehran bowled a superb opening spell. They gave only 3 runs in 2 overs while 23 after the end of 4 overs

 - Wickets were falling but Vicky tried to keep Team B in the hunt. But it was getting difficult for him as well

 - Buland took an outstanding catch running from deep point to the cover region to see the back of Vicky off Tanzeel's bowling and also brilliantly run out Rehan with a throw from cover. He hence redeemed himself from the sitter he dropped early on

 - Once Vicky got out Gaj took charge. But his blinder was not enough and Team B fell short of 19 runs and got again in this inning in the 9th over