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Monday, August 14, 2006

BA Vs NHS


I am becoming lazier day by day.
Here some news that i felt can be posted(and make this blog site long enough).
The last 5 summer weekends have been quite a busy schedule for me ,completely occupied by crickets matches and nets for the tournaments that has been happening.Its the TCS London cricket tournament,conducted by the TCS London HR which is participated by around 12 TCS accounts in London.We reached the finals after defeating 3 teams in the knock out round.
We(British Airways account) won the Finals last saturday.



It was a rainy saturday morning with the gray clouds refusing to uncover the face of the sun, or atleast give way for the rays.
It was definitely not a good day for cricket.
The captains of either team called off the match due to interminnent rain and the pitch(as well as the outfield) being slippery.
The opponent team(NHS account) left the ground.We were almost at the exit,it was then the organisers actually called us to have the sandwiches,drinks and fruits which they had bought to be served during the play.We(BA) team went back to have the sandwiches and slowly the sun started showing its face.The organiser reconsidered the decision , called back the opponent team to have the cricket match and decided that if it rains during the course of the play then we would then call it off.
NHS won the toss and elected to field.We had to play in the perfect english conditions.The earlier matches that I played were under the hot sun.
We had a bad start and eventually started praying that rain would pour down and spoil the game.However we went on to a decent score of 167 in 25 overs.
There was pressure on both the players of the teams and even on the umpires when there was a heated argument on a controversial catch taken by one of my team mates on the boundary,which was the key wicket for us. Finally we went on to win by a margin of 27 runs.
We were awarded with the rolling trophy and a medal for each of the team members.We had a nice team dinner at a south Indian restaurant sponsored by the HR.
Way to GO......................

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