The PC Kerala save

[Umair7]

Player Name - Sam Fisher
Batter x1 (Opener)

 

[NaviN GandhI]

All-rounder x1 (RM)

I will go with LHB (Batting) and (Bowling) RM

 

[mohsin7827]

There's still plenty of spots left, so I'll tag a few more people
@Umair7 @Disharies @Ed Smith @mohsin7827 @NaviN GandhI

Mohsin7827
Any available spot

 

[pillowprocter]

We are unchanged for our second match. Just giving everyone a fair chance.

 

[pillowprocter]

And we've lost again... skill issue. We had a solid start this time, but K Gowtham destroyed our top order, including the big wicket of Samson. After that we were in freefall, until Ed Smith and Saxena got us to a somewhat respectable total.

Our bowlers were all quite expensive, and a rain delay meant it was a 35-over chase of 185. Karnataka got it with 5 overs to spare, despite our best efforts.

Spoiler: Scorecards

Spoiler: 2nd XI

Neptune: 3
Unni Krishnan Menon: 10*
Neo: 45, 1/32
Supreme General: 9*
Kevin B: 6, 1/25
Chattri Batra: 1/41
Ddrap: 0/13
Na Maloom Afraad: 3/24

Feel free to suggest any changes for next match.

 

[pillowprocter]

After consulting absolutely no one, 3 changes:

Out: Cereal Killer, Anmol, Ruyel Miah
In: Neo, Supreme General, Na Maloom Afraad

 

[Till Valhalla]

Drop C Killer

Post automatically merged: Mar 8, 2023

After consulting absolutely no one, 3 changes:

Out: Cereal Killer, Anmol, Ruyel Miah
In: Neo, Supreme General, Na Maloom Afraad

Yes

 

[pillowprocter]

WE'VE WON ONE!

In the first innings, we looked quite shaky up top and didn't exactly race out of the blocks. Ed Smith and Supreme had to dig deep to set a platform, before Rudi blasted his second 50 of the season to get us 230.

The bowling in the powerplay was disciplined, but didn't take any early wickets. Fusco Wirihana and Jalaj Saxena, however, ran through the Hyderabad batting, before the pacers returned to finish it off.

Congrats to MOTM @RUDI

Spoiler: Scorecards

Spoiler: 2nd XI

Neptune: 79
Unni Krishnan Menon: 36
Cereal Killer: 38*
Sam Fisher: 54*
Anmol: 35 and 1/25
Kevin B: 10 and 1/45
Navin Gandhi: 2* and 1/24
mohsin 7827: 1/38
Chattri Batra: 1/28
Ddrap: 1/39

Post automatically merged: Mar 8, 2023

Should Aravind be dropped or do we stick with the winning combo?

 

[Till Valhalla]

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WE'VE WON ONE!

In the first innings, we looked quite shaky up top and didn't exactly race out of the blocks. Ed Smith and Supreme had to dig deep to set a platform, before Rudi blasted his second 50 of the season to get us 230.

The bowling in the powerplay was disciplined, but didn't take any early wickets. Fusco Wirihana and Jalaj Saxena, however, ran through the Hyderabad batting, before the pacers returned to finish it off.

Congrats to MOTM @RUDI

Spoiler: Scorecards

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Spoiler: 2nd XI

Neptune: 79
Unni Krishnan Menon: 36
Cereal Killer: 38*
Sam Fisher: 54*
Anmol: 35 and 1/25
Kevin B: 10 and 1/45
Navin Gandhi: 2* and 1/24
mohsin 7827: 1/38
Chattri Batra: 1/28
Ddrap: 1/39

Post automatically merged: Mar 8, 2023

Should Aravind be dropped or do we stick with the winning combo?

Yeah yeah win against Hyderabad

 

[pillowprocter]

Unni Krishnan Menon comes in for Aravind.

 

[pillowprocter]

This was a fun idea, but don't think I'll continue it. It's hard to find the balance between giving a blow-by-blow assessment of the team's performance (to the point I include 2nd XI) and trying not to let posting a single match become an enormous task. The speed at which this is going also means our first season will be done in 2 months, and I'm not too crazy abut having this type of commitment during Ramadan.