I consider myselves to be an allrounder. Batting was what I considered my primary strenght was but some people think other way around. I come 2 down most of the times to bat and depending on what I need to bowl, I can open up the bowling with pace or bowl offies in the middle of the innings.
Well I used to play cricket without any learning, I have never ever given thaught of what kind of shots needs to be played for what kind of balls, till the day we organised a districtlevel cricket tournament, I had an oppurtunity to do umpiring and in close quarters see how good batsman make runs, but a trigger came when Chandu was hitting in the gaps and Idris was talking with Vijju that he is putting the balls in gaps and is an excellent player. It sounds odd that I have played and watched Cric for more than 10 years without basic knowledge of where the fielder is and what kind of shot should be played and most importantly everybody knows it ;).
Best Innings --
65 odd runs against Agami - Agami solutions is a networking company which has MoM with our department, their director teaches Networks to my juniors, who intiated a match between Agami and M.Techs. They are decent team, with some of my seniors who got rectruited in Agami coming to play against us, one of them is M.Techs strike bowler Ravi. We won the toss and choose to bat, Pramodh, Bakshi and a one down batsman got out by the time and it was 5 / 3 in our 4th over when I got to bat. I take my bat at 2 down. When I came in keeper was saying we were thinking that we will loose so easily but it looks like we are far better than you. I can remember till date that the first ball I played was a cover drive for 2, they changed the field and now had an off side field. This was good for me as I make most of my runs on Leg side. From then on every over I was hiting atleast 1-2 fours, meanwhile Satish got out, we were somewhere 26/4, when Amar joined the party, after that we never loosed a wicket and got 105 runs in 16 overs, the stratergy was Amar was to hold on and give back strike to me while I had to go for runs. It was a competetive total, I was exhausted after that my face became red I did not run so much ever for the runs, I sat back for 2 overs during their innings, the director himself was the opener, the openers were making merry, it was 64 /0 for 8 overs, things needs to happen now. I took the bowling, depending on the need I can bowl off spin, or medium pace. I choose to bowl spin as medium pace was not woking out, the same over got both the openers out and it was 65/2 in 9. And after that there was no batting left, we got them allout to 85 odd runs. We emerged winners. I made my mark with 65 runs and 3 wickets.
