Continuing the winning streak as a Cricket team captain!!

Whoa!!!

An amazing day coming to an end. By the way am still working at office on this beautiful Sunday Night(I donno whether its beautiful or not as i havent seen it, am sitting infront of my Laptop with some documents around). I know you will be wondering why i call this an amazing day...Well, i have a very good reason for that!!
Today we had the second match in Cricket Hungama 07(An annual cricket tournament in Microsoft which will be played against internal teams-a total of 64 teams participating this year). We won it in flying colors and now we are in Pre-quarters. By the way, am the proud captain for my team "ASM Warriors". Here is the summary of the match in my own words addressing to the team after the match:

Hi All,

It is just amazing to have such a team. To summarize the match in few lines, here it goes:

The opponents won the toss and asked us to bat first. Starting the batting line up without Ravi.C was unexpected but Srini came handy as he opened the innings with Nischal who ultimately proved to be “The Wall” for ASM Warriors. It was a good start with some cheeky singles and timely boundaries until the mishap of Srini’s run out happened. As always I went in to keep the scoreboard ticking with a four and 2 sixes but finally fell for a fulltoss with the long on catching it without any trouble. Vipul went in and smashed a boundary which lightened up our camp but fell for the same shot I played to the long on fielder. It was then a series of wickets falling with a similar dismissal style(i.e., catch to the long on fielder). On the other end it was Nischal who stood strong like a wall who kept the scoreboard ticking. Finally with the help of Biswa’s boundary on the last ball of our innings, we ended our innings at 76 for 9 wickets in 10 overs.

We had some healthy discussions during the break and we knew what we had to do. That’s exactly we did on the ground later.

Davinder started the innings with a superb delivery(Yorker right in the block hole!!! It was a feast to watch such a delivery) which proved too good for the batsman who was sent for a duck. Having adrenaline level increasing with the spirit of the boys, we were unstoppable. Davinder struck again with one more wicket. What better start can u expect as a captain. Then it was Vipul’s turn. Amazing overs followed by Davinder and Vipul which totally took the game away from our opponents. Then it was Biswa and Nischal who left nothing for the opponents with some decent fielding by the team. It was a spirited team performance with everyone contributing in some of the other form which made us win this match.

Guys,
This is a good improvement but remember, the matches from now on will be tougher and tougher. We need to improve a lot to become the champions and remember noting can be achieved without hard work.
We definitely need to improve in the batting department and also fielding. We need to practice really hard to grow stronger and stronger. Lets not lose it from here.

Heads up: We will be playing OEM in the next match on Thursday / Friday. OEM is a very good team compared to our previous opponents. Most of us have seen their match today and they are a pretty good batting as well as bowling side. Lets go and rock them!!!

Final Scores:
ASM Warriors: 76/9 in 10 overs. Nischal 25, Praveen 21.
CSD Edge II : 44 all out in 9.2 overs. Davinder 3 overs-14 runs-3 wickets


Thanks and Regards,
Praveen

Ok. So that was my day today and now back to boring work. Catch you later!!!