We beat Zhakaas I would say pretty comfortably at the end.
Zhakaas won the toss and batted first, they made 85, I would say we gave away 10-15 runs extra at the end, we gave away over 20 runs in the last two overs - thanks to some lusty hitting in the end from Abinav.
We started off badly chasing 86 runs for victory, we were 2/2 with Mushtaq and I gone, I was given out runout - Nazeer played one back to the bowler Rohit which he misfielded, Nazeer called and there was a run and I ran and I thought I made it comfortably at the keeper's end but the leg umpire thought otherwise, she raised her hand right away, I stood their stunned at her decision, she was in a good position to judge and she probably thought I didn't ground my bat, but I always do and I infact yell at my other team members if they don't when they bat/run so why wouldn't I, even if it was a close call the benefit of doubt would need to go to the batsmen, whatever might be the case the bottomline was I failed to deliver in the finals and it was really disappointing.
Nazeer and Faheed made sure that we didn't lose any more wickets, they batted beautifully, sensibly, aggresively when needed and brought us close to victory, it was probably Faheed's best effort that I've seen so far, he went onto make 48 runs, he played straight in the V, pulled the short ones and also ran the quick singles when needed, Nazeer played a Captain's knock and carried his bat all the way through, what an effort! Hats off to him, he shined in all departments in the tournament, be it bowling, batting, fielding and ofcourse captaining, he brought the team together and brought out the best in each one of us. Thanks Nazeer - You Rock!
Celebration time guys!
Looking forward to the next season, Div E ofcourse - Summer 2009.
Go SARFAROSH!
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