Third edition of the D Bank Cricket League consisted of 20 Participating teams. The match would be 5 overs a side and all matches were eliminators. Each team should comprise2 women and the opening batsman and the opening bowler should also be a woman. This was the set-up of the tournament. Now let me update you on my team.
I was part of the Scorchers Team, and our squad consisted of...
1) Captain on Call (CC) - has immense capacity to talk on the phone
2) Juvenile Thakoor (JT) - the youngest player of our team
3) Chulbul Pandey (CP) - our woman player
4) Didi from the South (SD) - 2nd woman player
5) Two overs on the Trot (TT) - this is me
6) CorpFirz (CF)
7) Hanu (H)
8) Mr. N from Admin (NA)
9) Another Mr.R from Admin (AR)
10) Chief Strategist (CS) - he was also the coach and mentor
11) Mr. MIS (MIS)
12) Tax Consultant (TC)
13) Risky Risk (RR)
The tournament was scheduled on Monday, February 20, 2012. And we scheduled our first practice session just 3 days before i.e. Saturday. It was an early morning session with one of the participating teams at a Municipal Ground near our office. Reporting time was 07:30 hours, only JT and NA were on time, TT, RR, CC and SD trickled in post 8; with 15 minutes gap respectively. The other team was on time and most of their members were present. We practised some bowling and batting for an hour; to call our efforts pathetic would be an under-statement. Most of us were holding a bat or ball after a very long time. Post practice we headed back to work. CC reported the status of the practice session to CS, and CS decided we needed another round of practice in the evening to decide what will be the batting and bowling order for Monday. The ones who had turned up for the morning practice were reluctant to go back on the field, we were already down and dusted with just 1 hour of practice.
So reluctantly we were on the ground in the evening, and post our practice the batting order was decided. CP and NA would open the batting and JT would go 1 down, and the bowling responsibilities would fall on CC, NA, CP and TT. We decided that the best we could do was win our 1st match, which was against 'Team Two'. The goal being set of winning the 1st match; in the previous two editions we used to bow down in the 1st match itself. Keeping that in mind this was truly a lofty ambition. We never used to discuss this goal openly so that we wouldn't jinx it.
Had to get up at 6 am to reach the ground at Kandivli by 8.30 am, reporting time for our match was 9.30 am. CC usually on time was late today and in his absence TT had to go for the toss. TT lost and toss and the opposing team put us to bat. So firstly we lost the toss and our strategy was to chase. While all this was happening, H came in with a new player Unknown Element (UE), on his recommendation we got him into the team and put him one down. This was a big risk but we had nothing to lose. So our team comprised of the following playing eleven (in batting order)...
1) Chulbul Pandey (CP)
2) Mr. N from Admin (NA)
3) Unknown Element (UE)
4) Juvenile Thakoor (JT)
5) Hanu (H)
6) Captain on Call (CC)
7) Risky Risk (RR)
8) Another Mr.R from Admin (AR)
9) Two overs on the Trot (TT)
10) CorpFirz (CF)
11) Didi from the South (SD)
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