ICC vs CBSI Megabytes (Trial Game 2)

Saturday, 14 April, 2001.

The ICC team suffered the most demoralising defeat at the hands of the CBSI Megabytes. On a day when nothing went the ICC way, CBSI, displayed immense maturity in their batting abilities, posting possibly the highest score in the Detroit circuit.

Pradeep won the toss and promptly put the CBSI team in to bat with the age old belief that the batting line-up would live up to any run chase. The Megabytes started aggressively, but the loss of the openers, slowed them down a little bit. Then the CBSI captain Raj and Pramod stabilised the innings by slowly building the score to reach 60/2 in 12 overs. From there on, what followed was sheer mayhem as sixes and boundaries poured through and the Megabytes posted a score of 150 at the more than healthy rate of 6 per over. The ICC on its part, was at the wrong end of most decisions with as many as four catches being grassed, two being taken off controversial no-balls and a few not so close run-outs going against them.

The batting was always going to be under immense pressure and the tight line and length followed by CBSI made scoring difficult. Eventually, Babu hit a skier and Makarand misread the turn to be back in the stands with the score on 11. Wickets fell at regular intervals with Girish Shankaran and Shrini involved in horrible mix-ups and Pradeep getting caught behind. Satish and Sanjeev started a semblance of a fight-back when Sanjeev got caught at silly mid-off off the last ball before the break. The game was as good as over then with the score on 36/6 in 12 overs. Praveen and Satish bought back some lost pride after the break with controlled aggression, Satish being the aggressor with Praveen smartly rotating the strike and punishing the odd bad ball. The pair added 48 in 11 overs before Satish holed out. Anurag and Praveen made some quick-fire runs before getting run-out. Pradeep, probably to reward yours truly for the not-so-thankful job of keeping the score, sent yours truly out to make ample use of the last over to score a quick-fire 5 and return unbeaten with his highest score.

The lessons learned were numerous. The sloppy fielding and inaccurate bowling needs a lot of reassessment and the team needs an overhauling for the rest of the season in these areas. In a rare display of composure, the bottom order stuck-out its neck but the top- order needs to come out better than what it did this day, especially in the face of bigger run-chases. Five run-outs would also be simply unacceptable!

SCORECARD

First innings:

150/9 in 25 overs (Scorecard Not Available)

Bowling:
(This may not be used for analysis as the runs dont add up and the figures are grossly inaccurate) O M R W Pradeep 5 0 19 2 Satish 5 0 23 4 Shrini 2 0 16 0 Mohan 5 0 27 0 Anurag 5 0 31 1 Praveen 3 0 14 1

Second Innings:

99/10 in 25 overs

Batting:

Babu c Kondal b Shrini 02 Makarand b Prabhakar 07 Girish runout (Jagan/Shrini) 01 Pradeep c Madhu b Kondal 02 Shrini runout (Jestine/Jagdish) 01 Sanjeev c Jagan b Pramod 04 Satish c Shrini b Jagdish 30 Praveen runout (Jagan/Raj) 19 Anurag runout (Jagdish/Pramod) 03 Mohan notout 05 Ravi runout (Jagdish/Madhu) 0

Extras : Legbyes - 1, Byes - 3, NB - 7, Wides - 14

Bowling:

O M R W Shrini 5 0 13 1 Prabhakar 5 0 19 1 Kondal 4 1 13 1 Jagdish 3 0 16 1 Pramod 4 0 20 1 Raj 4 0 17 0

(Mohan Kamath)

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