The match coverage for InfoCepts IT Cup - 2010 Quest, for the company newsletter - PULSE
Memories, sweet and sour memories, which come to your mind, engross you and perk you up, sometimes sadden you by reminding of missed opportunities and sometimes fill you with joy in abundance. Memories are the perfect foil to pictures and videos captured in a digital medium. Aren’t they? Digital mediums don’t bring the same aura about all that was there. Memories do.
Similar memories were witnessed as InfoCeptians marched into the Old Subhedar Cricket Ground last Saturday, Jan the 30th, 2010 to play their first league match of the IT Cup. The one who had played before knew what was in store for them, another start for the quest of the Cup, another display of coming together, grittiness and the sporting spirit. Those who were new had their own share of butterflies in their stomach. Some were thinking of making into the playing eleven and some of making one chance count. MicroPro, a comparatively lesser known teams against us from the group, first match jitters, nerves and a hidden confident self – all weird combinations of feelings building up at the same time. The toss was lost but the decision to bat first by the opposition captain went well in sync with our ideology to chase.
The match started well to our likes with the opposition losing 3 wickets in fewer than 6 overs, to a good opening spell of fine fast bowling by Suvratanu who accounted for both the openers. Then some middle order resistance from MicroPro prevented a collapse and slowly they built on a platform. Having wickets in hand the batsmen tried the long handle and hoics on the leg side to good use in the ending over to give a momentum push which saw the batting team ending up with a very competitive total of 86 after 14 overs. The pitch wasn’t that great to bat on, with ball stopping a bit after pitching and making shot play difficult for batsmen. The chase was very tricky and good application on the pitch was the ask for the day.
The InfoCepts innings started slowly with singles and doubles taken by Chandra and Milind, but both missed out to score on loose balls and got out cheaply trying to go over the top. Anupam and Vijay G joined in at the centre but for the first few over even they were unable to accelerate. The result was asking rate climbed upto 8.5 from the original 6.2. The seriousness had even made the vociferous supporters in the pavilion go silent for sometime. Then suddenly the scenes changed in just an over when Vijay decided enough is enough and went boom-boom in typical Afridi style clubbing the bowler to a huge six on long off and then a boundary in the next ball. Anupam, one not be pulled back of any competition, responded with finely played cuts and heaves and collected two boundaries in the next over to make life easier in the middle. Then on it was just a matter of time that the game comes to a finish. On individual scores of 25 and 19 Anupam and Vijay departed in quick succession to give the opposition some hope but Alok and Ravindra kept their cool and easily scored off the remaining runs. When a run was needed of 4 balls, Ravindra crashed a ferocious square cut to seal the win for InfoCepts in style. The chief contributors Suvratanu with figures of 4-0-22-4 was man of the match by good measure.
The serious faces were smiling once again, cheering and hugging the batsmen, a good start to IT Cup was registered and as people say, “A good start is half the task done” InfoCepts has started the quest in the right direction.
More updates soon, the other two league matches on Feb 6th and feb 13th.
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