Congrats Team GBO!!!
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What was a very exciting match (though turned, sorta, one sided midway the second innings) Team GBO showed a dedicated and professional behaviour on field. Let me capture the moments for the people who missed the match.
After the toss, Team GBO’s captain Sir Shree Lalit Gupta chose to bat first. The right tone for the whole match was set by the GBO openers – Lalit Gupta and Karan Sharma, who played a brilliant knock and built a strong opening partnership of about 124 runs in 13 overs. Lalit was the first wicket to fall with an individual score of 49 (rather unfortunate to miss out a half century) including 2 sixes and about 7-8 boundaries. The opening partnership was filled with a barrage of boundaries and sixes by both Lalit and Karan who were joyfully hugged by our dear Gupta ji after every shot (somehow the security guards were amiss
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The next to follow was Karan Sharma who hit a brilliant knock of 70 runs (1×6s, abt 11×4s). With only three overs to go the following batsmen went for pinch hitting with Varun Paaji, Nitin ji, Gupta ji and our best bowler Sandeep.
With a total of 154 in 16 overs, Team GBO set a formidable score for their opponents. The target was high but not unattainable.
With the beginning of the second innings, two of the opposition’s good batsmen came to bat one of which was a famous Kushal, famous for hitting centuries in such inter/intra – college matches. The first over by Sandeep (famous as GBO’s Goli Bowler throughout SRCC, for his fast paced, tight bowling) conceded only 4 runs and brought the opposition to the reality of what Team GBO really is. The next over by our dearest Negi Sir destroyed the very foundations of our opponents by his tight bowling. The famous Kushal was caught out by Sandeep on one of Negi ji’s beautiful delivery for a lowly single digit score. Sandeep continued to pound the opposition batsmen with the bowling he is famous for. It was Negi ji who struck again, bowling out the next batsmen, again on a single digit score. Fear was only one emotion the opposition felt.
The new batsmen Karthik was again a famed SRCC cricket player, who held the reins of the opposition batting. Together for the third wicket they scored a parternship of about 50 runs and the total score was about 80 when our Gupta ji struck with vengeance and our dear Doga Paaji (aka Varun) caught a splendid catch on the mid-wicket with sharp reflexes. In between we saw some really nice fielding from our youthful and agile Negiji and Raghu.. (Come on, Raghu! )..
After that the opposition innings crumpled. The next batsmen was run out by Lalit through a timely pass by Karan Gupta in an Abhish Negi over. All in all the opposition needed to score 54 runs from 3 overs to win all due to some dedicated bowling by Sandeep, Abhish, Karan Sharma, Gupta, Manish and Nitin. Then our Nitin bhai and Doga Paaji bowled two good overs and the opposition needed to score another 38 overs from a single over. Already having won the match the over was shared by two budding , talented bowlers – Monish Paaji and Myself. After scoring a boundary of my ball, the match ended on cue with Team GBO registering a thrilling win over their rivals with them falling short by 34 runs.
What followed was a scene of euphoric celebration where Team GBO huddled and bounced, pranced around, screamed and yelled, showered Coca Cola (desi champagne ) on each other.
All Hail The Champs!
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(from left-to-right, back-to-front)
Karan Gupta (White Overalls), Lalit Gupta, Varun Jaisia (Black Jersey), Sandeep Kharab,
Kinshuk Sunil (Myself with Stump in hand), Nitin Gautam (White/Blue T Shirt), Raghunandan Saraf (Orange Tee), Abhish Negi (Green Tee), Manish Kumar (White Overalls),
Mohnish (Sprawled), Karan Sharma (Team India Tee)
November 30th, 2007 
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