Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Polaris completed with easy win in second league

Match Summary:
Date: 12-Nov-2011
Ground: Swamy Narayan Gurukul
Teams: Polaris vs Siemens
Toss - 'Polaris' and opted for batting.

Polaris Innings:
Polaris's decision of batting first went in the right way as their openers Madhu and Susheel gave a brilliant start by scoring 74 runs in the first 10 overs. Madhu(55 runs in 50 balls) played wonderful cover drives and leg glances in his innings. Susheel(47 runs in 48 balls) rotated the strike well and nicely placed the ball in the gaps. They put 123 runs partnership in 16.2 overs before Vignesh dismissed Madhu. This is the Highest partnership ( 123 runs) for the first wicket or any wicket so far in the tournament(in first 5 matches). Vignesh(2/12 in 4 overs) and Prem(1/17in 4 overs) of 'Siemens' have bowled very well. Especially in the final overs, they did not allow 'Polaris' batsmen to score big strokes. Praveen(14 n.o in 10 balls) chipped in with important runs in the slog. Finally, 'Polaris managed to score 149/3 in 20 overs.

Siemens Innings:
Degula of Polaris gave an early blow to 'Siemens' by dismissing their openerr in the first over of the innings. Later, Vignesh(21 runsin 26 balls) and Devi(11runs in 19 balls) played steadily by putting 28 runs for 2nd wicket in 5 overs. First change in the bowling of 'Polaris' by introducing Niranjan and Ratna gave good result. Niranjan(2/6 in 2 overs) took 2 wickets in consecutive deliveries in his first over. Ratna(1/7 in 2 overs) took a wicket of his 2nd ball of the over where Chandra took a stunning catch at Extra-covers. Seetaram was put into bowling in the 10th over and he conceded plenty of runs in the form wides before taking his first wicket. Mahesh took this catch superbly by covering 10 yards distance. Seetaram took 2 more wickets in his second over by dismissing Rajesh(18 runs in 6 balls) who looked dangerous and the settled opener Vignesh. It's another good catch taken by Polaris team, where 'Arun' took the catch by diving towards his right at Long-on for dismissing Rajesh. 'Siemens' innings came to an end in the 14th over of the innings bowled by Seetaram, where a run out is made by Ratna/Susheel and then Seetaram completed the formalities by taking 2 more wickets. 'Siemens' could score 81 runs before being allout in 13.4 overs. 'Siemens' lost last 5 wickets for just 3 runs in the span of 15 balls.

The major difference between the two side being ground fielding and catches. 'Siemens' left couple of chances and could not stop few balls going to the fence which is actually possible. On the other side, 'Polaris' did a good work in the field. Their captain Chandra led the team as an example by taking an excellent catch and this followed by the catches of Mahesh and Arun.

'Polaris' won the match by 68 runs.

Seetaram was adjourned as 'Man of the match' for his excellent bowling display( 2.4-0-16-5 ). Also, this is the first 5 wicket hall in the tournament.

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