One helluva Final, I should say

The much anticipated Final Cricket duel in Wickets'11 happened today in front of entire BIM crowd.It's a match between the 2nd year Marines vs 1st year Galacticos.Galacticos had an upper hand considering the fact they were the winners of the last semester volleyball Tournament.

Now getting to the Finals - It's one cracker of the contest - At the beginning, Galacticos scrambled to get the going - they couldn't score .The opener Kaushik prasanna gave a decent start and got out and the Galacticos' other opener, the star batsman, Kaarthik J was finding hard to get his rhythm and Galacticos were fizzling down at a score of 35 for 7 overs. And that's where the Playmaker Sakthi kamal stepped in, and started carting the ball around and took the score to 90 with his brilliant innings.Thanks to timely contribution of Prem Karthick, the score reached 108 at the end of first innings. If you thought that's the safe target to win a match,stop,think again - That's where the match started !

With almost the entire crowd of BIM including Velociraptors, cheering for Marines,they started their innings with PC & Suraj.After PC's dismissal,Not-in-form Suraj & Giri took control of the game and with Suraj's devastating play the Marines gained an upper hand with 64/1 for 7 overs.Pressure mounting up , Galacticos messed-up the bowling and they found it pretty difficult to come back in the game.And then it happened - Suraj got dismissed.And Rajaram , the captain of Marines ,who carried the entire crowd's(as well as team's) hopes on his shoulders stepped in -As the Marines already got an upper hand hitherto,the arrival of Rajaram has was an harbinger ; but the unexpected happened there too - Rajaram got dismissed for duck and that's where Galacticos made their real-entry in the game.With the wonderful bowling attack lead by Parthiban,the Galacticos captain, they dismissed the successive batsmen for paltry scores. Marines were slightly losing their hope with wickets tumbling and the crowd goes to graveyard-silence.Then came Bharatram of Marines and hit 2 sixes of 2 balls and made sure that Marines were back in the match.As Galacticos and Marines were snatching the game from each other in a round-robin fashion, the audience were kept glued to their seats.Now Prem Karthick bowled and took 2 wickets in a single over and that put the Marines in precarious situation and successive wickets fall dashes the hope of Marines .

Now Marines had to hit 10 runs from the final over.Finny Manigandan and injured Rajagobal were the batsmen and Kaushik was the bowler.This pair managed to get 5 runs off 4 balls and Finny was facing the 5th ball off Kaushik.Kaushik bowled a full-toss and the lean Finny smashed it and the ball crossed the boundary.The entire crowd became delirious and started running towards the middle of the ground and fire-crackers were burnt all over the ground and the players were celebrating the victory.Stop ! - The umpire announced that it's just a Four not a Six ! With 1 ball left and scores at tie,Galacticos wanted to tie the match at least.They kept all fielders inside the 30 yards circle to stop that single off the last ball but Finny flicked it to leg side and sealed the Victory for Marines ! And that brought Glory to Marines !

It's out and out entertainment for the entire BIM - Both Galacticos and Marines had showed their best and regaled the audience - What more can you expect from a Match of Wickets'11 - One helluva Final ,I should say!

-- MARINES --

-- GALACTICOS --

Thank you Guys for the Wonderful Memories !!