My friend works in a multinational software company, I accompanied him for a cricket match played between his and some other company. This is a Twenty twenty cricket tournament. It will be played by the soft tennis ball. The cricket ground is a little bit small than normal cricketing grounds. This is billabong cricket ground located on NOIDA, sector 34.
The match was played between Sequence Design Systems and Interra Systems. Interra won the toss and decided to bat. They did get a steady start, there openers were playing were cautiously but were aggressive on loose deliveries. The Sequencer's were bowling good. They had few good bowlers, but, as it happen, non of them are regular players, so wide and no balls were coming regularly.
My friend is a good bowler and part time batsman too. But, he was not given the opening spell as the opening batsmen were supposed to already play the opening bowlers cautiously, so they thought to get rid of their second line bowlers. This did work up to some extent as they did not concede too many runs in the initial overs.
After a steady start Interra lost their first wicket. The second batsman was not that good. There were some catch drops and miss-fields by the Sequence players. AT the later stages Interra players did show some aggression and got a handsome total of 136 runs. My friend helped sequence in saving some runs by taking couple of wickets in the final overs. Umpiring was good in this innings.
Sequence started very slowly, one of their batsman was trying to hit every ball but was unable to connect even a single one. The other opening batsman must have been feeling boring till now as he was just standing on the other end, and was waiting the non-conneting batsman, wasting the balls. After waiting for few overs, the team decides to call him back. They send a messenger to come back. As there is a rule in cricket that if any player is retired hurt, he can come back bat if seven wickets have fallen. But, this guy did not come back, then other players start to shout 'come back come back'. Suddenly, this guy hits two consecutive sixes and provides some relief to his team. He got out just after hitting two sixes, as if he was waiting to hit those sixes only.
Next batsman was looking in a hurry and was trying to slog every ball for a six. Though, he was looking a good batsman, but somehow he was only trying to hit sixes over the leg side, probably because this side is a bit smaller than a normal cricketing ground. Finally, he gives a lolly pop catch at the deep leg boundary. Next batsman looks like an experienced one and starts with singles. The remaining opening batsman and the new batsman starts playing sensibly and keep hitting the loose balls. Suddenly, the pressure comes on to the fielding side, there bowlers start to feel the heat and start a stream of wide balls. The opening batsman plays a good knock and falls at an individual score of 47 runs. Now team need only 3 more to win and scores them easily.
Sequence won the match in 47.* overs. The Sequence opener, 47 runs and two wickets(I guess) got the man of the match award.
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