With no match for almost six weeks the best we could do to stay in touch with cricket was to have some practice games. Had a joint practice session with the Apollos team today. This mix and match seems to be a really innovative idea. Its hard to get 11 guys in place on a game day, ever so harder for a practice match. And when you are practicing with only your team you actually need more so we can split and have a decent match. In the past this lack of players forced us to play shorter practice games(6 or 10 overs a side) which forced the batsmen to go all out from ball one -an approach which was the reason for our fall in the league games. With truncated overs, non-regular bowlers bowling and less than 11 fielders, it never matched an actual match scenario. Also the problem of practising within ourselves was that we had got used to each other - to each others strengths and weaknesses. Practice sessions amongst ourselves wasnt actually helping us - the actual match scenario was always a new one coz it was totally different from the practise games and players often had no clue, so we had to learn it the hard way - from the actual league games itself.
We found a solution to all this when we got a proposal from the Apollo guys for a joint practice session. They it seemed faced the same of our problems above. It was nice to play against a new set of batsmen and bowlers. It was also nice to see us win- the feeling is good- even though we know its just a practise match!!!
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