The first match of the MCL featuring the men from Kachnar V the Marlboro men from Year-1 was just one such match.
If Rahul Dravid could gift a cookie to a batsman who could play the way he does while in whites, he would have to buy up most of Reliance, Iskon to be able to honor the way the match panned out on Friday morning. 4 down for only 12 on the board, the Marlboro men seemed to be having the sort of a day that would put the a team of 11 Venkatesh Prasads to shame.
If anatomical appearances could really depict the potential of the impact a guy on the field could have on the outcome of the game, Pratik Pillai did more than a handsome job of burning the stereotype with a champion all round performance.
Pushed to the wall and bent over backwards with the elbows tied behind the back, Suhail started the repair work with some brilliant counter attack with two huge heaves and a snorter through the covers, in between steady singles and twos.Without his 24 made at an astonishing S/R of 160, the top 5 batsmen amongst themselves managed to score a paltry 6 runs.
Brick by brick,a target was constructed by Suhail who was ably supported by Karan C who managed a composed 13 at just slightly less than 3/4ths of a run a ball, as the pair managed to steer the team with a partnership of 24 between them that helped them turn the on goings into a position that from where the tail could cajole up 55 runs off the last 6 batsmen saving them from bundling up as a picture of utter humiliation to a respectable 102.The pick of the bowlers for the triple Cs was Ravi Kant for his excellent figures of 3-28 off 3.4.
Taking off from exactly where he left the field with the bat, Pillai got the guys with the all white smokes to a rampaging start getting both openers out cheaply.Things started looking pretty rosy for "photoshop boys" till around the time they got to the mid 40s where things just suddenly went from mild common cold to 'all hells gone wild' cardiac arrest with the team teetering at 45/ 6 requiring a mammoth 58 to win in way less than half the innings to go.
Suhail Kapoor was in the thick of the action while fielding too, effecting a run out, a catch and getting Tanupam out on the first ball.
As the team folded one by one like an entire refugee camp with bloody diarrhea, Aarish was left standing in the middle of the crease for a hard fought 23 at number 5 for another "Dravidesque" effort.The guys with the magic 'art wands' nose dived from there on to crash on mount 'all out' for a well fought 92.
The next match features the Lucky Strikers V India kings.With an afternoon start, this one will have photo features in them and detailed match analysis.Well not really detailed, but it's more fun when you could see someone being bowled while being told so at the same time!
-Vasant Iyer, official blogger for SCAM
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