A quarter final match against Accenture at BEL grounds, 12:30. They batted first, managed a decent 170/8 in 25 overs. Sumanth and Arun bowled very well. the backup bowlers did a decent job,though i felt we should be pegged them back a little during middle overs. it didnt help that Ajay and others bowled on both sides of the wicket and gave away easy runs. nevertheless 170 is chase-able score. Mahesh and i opened, and we were off to a decent start, but i was ranout first ball of 2nd over. Mahesh was in ominous touch,carved a huge six over covers in the 2nd over but he was left at the non-strikers end for so long that he holed out to short covers very soon. from then on, the chase was insipid and cisco batters were well below par, bowling was very ordinary, but they managed to take regular wickets, almost with every over a wicket went down. in the end we lost by a huge margin to an ordinary bowling attack, but our batters could not put bat to ball to their slow bowlers and it did us in. there are 3 more tournaments coming up this year and hopefully we should see better performances.
Saturday nite, heavy rains, wiper hustling and rumbling like a hungry lion, the scene was set for a Mani Ratnam's night shot. Me and R reached the cantonment station 90 mts before the scheduled arrival of the express. it was really cold, both were very drowsy and i slept on the platform like a beggar! She being a girl, didnt. Qualis awaited us at the chennai central and we had typical madras filter coffee at the kalyana mandapam in KK Nagar, thanks to Karthik's marriage. Home,family, the usual, i dropped R at another marriage hall, returned home,in full sweat, chennai was not very hot, but humidity has always been a botheration. had a good sleep, evening dressed up and went for Lalli's reception.Met many of her relatives,had a grand dinner and returned home,settled in a comfortable AC room. B'day wish came 2 hrs before the scheduled time, from my wife. And by the time i woke up, she was gone, to marriage hall. it didnt help that there were 2 marriages on the same day, total chaos with frequent trips to and fro.Mom,sis and dad wished me, sis gave a pen, mom a light blue kurta. Again to Karthik's mandapam, the sacred "thaali" took some knots and i took an auto straight to Greams Road,MRF. Picked up a sexy bat for Shashi. nice wood, thick meat and big edges, straight grains, one cant ask for more. it was a nice piece of wood one would admit. retured to the mandap, usual haggles with auto wala happened, lunch and then off to Central. LalBagh was waiting for us. Trip was quite boring, there were scores of people around, all unreserved assholes were inside. It didnt help that train ran slower than it normally does and we reached late, there were no autos in prepaid counter !! Somehow managed one and reached home by 11:00 or so. Felt very sick,both of us the next day. Fever,cold,sore throat. Went late to office, we had a meeting and i returned home after that.Could not sit there anymore. Ganesh Chathurthi was a blessing in disguise, we had good rest. Had "mullangi" sambar and beans curry. Met Subbu in the afternoon, watched "Mahakavi Kaalidaas" on Vijay TV. Wife was deep asleep. Went to meet Shashi around 5:30, spent about 2 hrs with him, gopi joined in late. Met Guha in Barista. Good luck mate :-) So one more likely to tie the knot. Watched "Run" at home,villain was very handsome. Herione,Jasmine or whatever looked very pretty. Slept off and yo in office again. Got shit loads to do. Am off to sringeri this weekend with family. So might not update for a few days, bear with me.
