Our youth team has started the season as well, with an unlucky defeat at the hands of Goldy's Eagles. Goldy's Eagles won by 4 wickets. We started with batting, and Usama Ali lost his wicket by 0.2. Our batters performed well after that, reaching 105/1 by the 20th over break. Guys were confident, Androo departed only i n the 21st over. Our innings ended with 216/6, which seemed to be good enough on a Crumbling pitch. Goldy's Eagles reached 97/2 by the break, game looked still manageable for our team.Chandrasena and Kumble took 2 more wickets early, by the 25th over they were at 126/4. Kumble bowled very well, after the 30th over they still needed 60 runs from 10 overs. Things continued awfully from there though, Goldy's scored a lot of boundaries, and in the last over they needed only one run to win the game, which they just did.
This was a very even contest, both teams played well, Goldy's got lucky and their batters performed just a little bit better, while our bowlers failed to take enough wickets. This is an unfortunate lost for our team, hopefully they can step up and win the upcoming match against North Star. For the individual performances, i can say we can be satisfied with the batting, Shankar and Androo both scored a half century, while Decker got to 40 runs from 44 balls. On the bowling side situation is worse than expected, Androo being our best with 4.00 ER and 2 taken wickets. Kumble bowled well in his first spell, but failed miserably in the second.
I'm a bit surprised by the performance in overall, i expected our bowlers to be better, and our batsmen to perform worse. Well, that's cricket:)
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