Recently there have been a number of matches between ICE and CSE and to be frank, till now CS has always had the upper hand. In our last two matches against CSE dated on 28th dec 2007 we lost the first match despite of my good performance in batting(got two lives thats why) we could only post a target of 84 against CS, which they conveniently managed in 5 overs or so(their openers did a really god job) and the match ended with Mani leaving in the end(boy he was always hot tempered). In the second match we chose to chase(quiet a wise decision you see) the opening bowlers mica and vinod did a decent job(around seven a over) but however the things got out of control with Samba Shiva in the crease, he was looking dangerous. By the end of 11th over they were 108 but then hari(one of our finest all rounder) proved to be an eye opener, he gave only 3 runs in the last over and once again there was a tiniest ray of hope for victory, nevertheless it was still a daunting task. Our openers oi(came as a replacement for mani) and saranraj built a strong platform for us to start on with and both of them showed some fireworks(two overs 31 runs) which ended with oi nicking one to the keeper's (Sambashiva's) hand. However once again we were under pressure when i came in and saranraj was run out (coz of me). Then Karthick Kannan came in and i was run out(coz of KK as a matter of fact)
,then mica came for batting. KK was out shortly and vinod came for batting, by this time things were really looking serious for us but the way mica and vinod played our fears seemed to be baseless. The CS bowlers were made a laughing stock with av and mica in crease and when mica got out in 10th over we still needed 14 off 12 balls, however we still had av, and hari knew his game well and in the end we won still 3 balls to spare. Phew what a day it was !
