Cloudy weather made the ground half-occupied !!

What a weather !!!

If you had a look outside your window from your bed and 'assumed' - no match today due to rain, then you were wrong. The reality was something else - The ground was absolutely dry. But the problem was many of EPL members thought like this and didn't turn up at the ground.

Match 1:

Manish & Ishan Vs. Pranav & Shubhojit - Mukesh being the player common to both the teams

Only the 'off' side of the ground was used for valid runs. Any shot on the 'leg' side resulted in a penalty of -1 or -4 (yeah...I wrote MINUS 1 and 4). The matches were of 4 overs.

Pranav and Shubhojit won the toss and scored 10 runs. The target of 11 runs proved to be too much for Manish (previous weeks STAR performer) and Ishan and they lost the match.

Match 2:

Manish-Ishan-Ajit (MIA) Vs. Pranav-Shubhojit-Mukesh (PSM)

With Ajit's arrival, it was 3-a side match. PSM batted first and put a target of 20 runs for MIA. MIA again failed to perfom and lost the match. Ajit looked lost in dreams ;)

Match 3:

Manish-Ishan-Ajit (MIA) Vs. Pranav-Shubhojit-Pavan (PSP) with Mukesh being again the common player

The ground restriction was removed and full ground was utilized (except the runs behind wickets). This made MIA to stretch themselves. They played really well in their inning of 44 runs which was well supported by entertaining shots from Ishan and Ajit. Even Mukesh could hit a boundary. PSP was not able to bear the shock and lost the match in an unsuccessful chase :)

Match 4 & 5:

Team: Same as in Match 3

These matches were again hi-scoring games simply due to less fielders on the ground ;). Match 4 was won by PSP while MIA had the last laught winning the match 5.

Player(s) of the day:

* Everyone played well - batted well, bowled well and fielded well. Mukesh gets additional credit for good keeping :)