Detroit Cricket League, Season 2004
TITANS v Crusaders
Power Middle School, MI
21 Aug 2004 (25-over match)
Result: TITANS lost by 9 wickets
The match started with Kapil winning the toss and electing to bat.
The outfield was wet. Still the Pitch was hard enough for good game.
TITANS batting
Though Kapil and Shilpan try to establish good opening
partnership, Gopi's ball hit kapils hand and
landed in the safe hands of Crusaders' wicket keeper.
Then Srini Came in. He started with his defensive
start. But before settling down, he lost his wicket.
He got clean bowled by Rajesh.
Gopi entered the field. He played defensively. This is
the time when shilpan started rotating his strike.
The partnership went fine then gopi lost his wicket to
vishwash when he lifted the bat. The ball swinged in
the air and took the wickets.
Sunil replacd Gopi, but got bowled to Arvind. Then
Sandeep tried his best along with shilpan.Then he got
out to rajesh.
Abhilash tried to defend, but got run out.
Shilpan played a good innings among titans and he gave
a catch to wicket keeper then.
Niraj and Vinay's partnership added few runs to the
score board.After Niraj's wicket, Vijay came in just
sticked to the wicket for an over.
Then both lost their wickets. Titans ended their
batting scoring 72 in 19 overs.
Though the players were morally weak, In the break the
captain ensured the players get back to their form to
win this match.
Crusaders batting
Crusaders started good with their batsmen. Aravind
stabilizing at one end, Viswesh was hitting runs at
the other end.
Kapil's brilliant move helped us to get the wicket of
Viswesh. After that Crusaders planned to stay to the
wicket till the end.
And they did it. They patiently scored singles and
twos till 19th over and won easily.
Crusaders won by 9 wickets.
Batting was poor display.
Though Bowling was to the line and length, we bowled
19 overs but got only one wicket.
PS: A Special Thanks to Gopi for sponsoring the Idly/Kara
podi / Chutney.
Funny moment of the match : In the dying moments of the game, TITANS got frustated for not getting any wickets and Malik batting so slow. Malik realized that and later apologized for playing slow.
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