I know my team members Lions are sad because of this bizarre calculation of NRR but that’s the way it is. We have to accept with sportsman spirit and lets cheer up for Tigers or Panther tomorrow.
Hoping to see you all at 6:45 AM tomorrow Don’t miss the thrilling match between these 2 wonderful teams.
3 people having lunch on a normal day, spark of an idea and that’s the birth of Digicorp Cricket League (DCL).
I was so excited about the idea that in a day we (Mehul and I) decided three teams and names of the teams
1) Lions
2) Tigers
3) Panthers
I love these names as it reminds me of my school time (St. Xavier’s Loyola) where 4 dens were there. 4th one was Bears. But here we could make only 3 teams of 11 players out of more than 40 guys in the company. I was in Lions den in those days so I had to be in Lions team here.
Obviously girls were at a loss this time but I did make it up for the loss after the league.
All the matches were kept on the weekdays to avoid disturbance on the big public University Ground.
On Saturday, Sunday it is impossible to play on University Ground for most of you out there but people who do play on that ground can not play anywhere else. Energy flow on this ground is so high you simply can not miss that. This ground needs another post of its own so I will not go into details here. Perhaps someone can write a thesis on this lovely ground of Ahmedabad.
All three teams were quite equal in strength and thank you Mehul for helping me in that. League matches were of 14 overs each and Final was of 16 overs. All matches were played on the hard tennis ball.
First match was held between Lions and Tigers on Friday. Match started early morning at 7:30 and kicked off DCL.
Tigers won the match quite convincingly thank to their captain Nilesh’s performance. Nilesh was man of the match.
Second match was between Tigers and Panthers on Monday and Panthers lost the match in the last over by an inch.
So that makes an interesting, jaw dropping, do or die match between Lions and Panthers as both lost to Tigers in their league matches. Only a win was a way to get into finals.
As promised match started with sheer excitement and Lions scored well batting first. Panthers started well and played well till the end but again their bad luck came to haunt them in the last over. Panthers again lost in last over but they won hearts of everyone including mine.
So now comes the Final between Lions and Tigers. Tigers were favorites for the final as they had won both the league matches but Lions were roaring to take revenge of the first match loss.
Tigers won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 86 runs in 16 over which is a very good score on that pitch and ground. Target of 87 runs look tough but achievable as Lions had good batting line up.
Lions fumbled early on but one person in the team stood the ground. That was Samarth and whole team had high hopes for him. He did not play well in first 2 matches so he had to play this time. He was there till the end. 14 runs were needed of the last 2 overs and he was the only recognised batsman on the ground at that time.
But there comes a part time bowler of Tigers team which was severly missing one full time bowler and Samarth hits a GIANT GIANT six in that over. Well 11 runs were scored in that over and only 3 runs were required in the last over. Aryaman took the last over but it was too late and Lions won the nail biting final of DCL.
That makes a glorious end of 2008 for Digicorp and Lions . With great hopes and aspirations we are entering a new year 2009 now.
Happy New Year to all of you and thank you for reading this article.
Don’t forget to check out the Photos of prize ceremony held on the same day at Digicorp House.
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