As the head of the committee managing the Employee Engagement activities of my department in Chennai, I am organising a cricket tournament. We were able to form 3 teams and Friday the 13th (duh!) was the last match in the league phase.
There was a lot hanging in balance in that match. I was also playing for one of the teams. And if my team had lost that day, we were out of the tournament. But if we won, we had to bring out our calculators to find out who amongst the 3 teams would have qualified for the finals. Based on Net Run Rate of course.
The match started and we bowled first. Within the first 4 overs, our opponents had lost all their key wickets. In fact, our captain bowled a great over where he scalped 3 wickets in 4 or 5 balls.
Anyways, after the end of the allotted 8 overs, they had scored 30 runs. We had to reach the target of 31 as early as possible to qualify on basis of NRR. We managed to do that in 5.5 overs with your truly contributing a defiant 7. May not sound like a big number, but when I went in at the fall of the 3rd wicket, we had to 12 runs left for victory.
Fate did play an ugly hand by having my captain call me for a quick single to finish off the match. In my vanity to be remembered for scoring the winning runs, I too took off, but was well short of the crease.
Anyways, no regrets. My team won and I had some contribution too. :D
The finals are on the 20th. We are trying to get hold of T-Shirts for the finalists and make it look like more professional!!!
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