However the last couple of matches was a QED in terms of what the B-schools teach you about teamwork.
Had a couple of brilliant individual performances in the first match ...but we lost out. In the second match everybody played in bits & pieces but a co-ordinated effort saw the team through.
The matches from Arbitmind's perspective:
Match 1 (27th December) : against United Software Associates
Matting wickets always scared Arbitmind. The prospect of the ball skidding through is never a very comforting thought for a batsman. However what constitutes a comforting thought is that our captain Sanjoy has this persistent knack of winning the toss(to the point where some guyz think that he might just be practising the toss discreetly; the guy has not lost a single toss in the last 1 year. Harvey Dent (of Batman fame) would do good to reconsider his belief regarding tossing coins before killing his victims. I bet he would not like to take on Sanjoy with a coin)
The toss was 'Sanjoy-ed' & our openers walked out. A couple of balls later one of them walked back in-the timber was disturbed-u see. In walked Arbitmind...& it seemed the bowlers had made up their minds that they would bowl short & wide to this bespectacled guy who was taking a leg stump guard & was adjusting his "recently straightened" hair- at the same time.
Barring that one ball which hit him straight under the jaw, Arbitmind had a rocking time out there-clubbing 63 runs out of a total of 90 in the stipulated 12 overs. We had a 'decent' total in place!!!!
From then on it was all downhill. :-( Ashish was the saving grace- took 4 wickets in his 3 overs & rattled the opposition batsmen but rest of the bowlers got clobbered all around the park. United Software Associates got home with a good one over to spare.
All in all two great individual performances but the team ended up on the losing side & that's just the first part of the lesson.
Brief Scores:
Talentica: 90/4 in 12 overs
USA : 92/6 in 11 overs
Match 2 (04th January) : against Extentia
The toss was 'Sanjoy-ed' again(this is becoming some sort of a cliche)
The openers made sure that the sacrosanct tradition of our team- an opener trudging back in the very first over continued & in walked Arbitmind- brimming with confidence. Pundits say that cricket is a strange game- cruel sometimes. Poor little Arbitmind would soon find out why!!! After scratching around for 6 balls Arbitmind walks off without troubling the scorers.( So much so for being the team hero in the last match.)
Bhola(27) , Sheru(12)& Sanjoy(10) saved the blushes & we scraped through to 67 runs, thoroughly insufficient for a 12 over match against any sort of opposition. Unless there was a miracle - (the perfect setting for Arbitmind to exercise his mystical powers & get the game abandoned due to rain...Alas!! Arbitmind's powers have weekends too)
The bowlers took it on themselves. Ashish got going , so did Shashi & Pandharinathan, together they made sure that this meagre total of 67 was defended with gusto. The ground fielding was superb, so was the catching. Choked up the runs & in the end restricted Extentia to 62 runs in 12 overs.
The first win the tournament & an eye opener.
There is no substitute for teamwork(As long as it is not Team India:-) QED
Brief Scores:
Talentica: 67/6 in 12 overs
Extentia : 62/8 in 12 overs
***^^^ ^^^^ **** ***** ^^^^^ ^^^^ *****
That brings me to the quote of the week
PS: While walking out to bat against Extentia..one guy actually asked Arbitmind "Which company?". Till date Arbitmind is not sure whether that was an attempted sledge to throw the new batsman off-guard or it was a genuine question. A trick question maybe.......
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