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ACA 2017/18: Falcons v/s Tuscon Super Kings

Game 11 of the 2017/18 season for the Falcons, was a crucial crossing point in their path towards graduating from division elite to prestige in the next season, as they faced Tuscon Superkings who were in contention for a spot in division prestige alongside the Titans. The Falcons won the toss on a pleasant morning, and elected to bat at Sandpiper, only to reach a sub-par score of 176, failing to put partnerships together. However, the bowling attack pulled off an enormous feat to wind up the TSK innings in quick time. 

The Falcons, opened their innings with their regular opening opening pair, in C. Dhekne and A. Londhe. C. Dhekne was striking the ball well early on, before he got one that stayed extremely low, rattling his stumps as the Falcons found themselves at 1/30 after 4.4 overs after which S. Murali fell in quick succession leaving the Falcons to build a partnership at 2/35. A. Londhe and J. Patel, then put together a good partnership re-building the innings, helping them come up to a stable score of 2/85 off 14 overs. But, it wasn't a day of partnerships, as A. Londhe succumbed to rash shot off of B. Jagadish and A Patel getting bowled soon after with not much foot movement. The Falcons found themselves in a tricky spot at 4/107 during the mid-innings break, while J. Patel was going strong at 22*(39) at the time who was joined in by M. Rohit 1*(9) fresh at the crease. The innings never gained any momentum from then, as the Falcons kept losing wickets at regular intervals winding up with a sub-par score of 176. J. Patel fought it out till the end, getting a gutsy 49(70), but in the end succumbed to farming the strike alongside the tail. 

Even having put up a sub-par score, the Falcons went in to bowl in a positive frame of mind especially given how the Sandpiper wicket serves up uneven bounce on several occasions. The TSK openers, B. Jagadish and P. Patel seemed to have it under control, as they played out the opening bowlers, A. Tummala and R. Mehta in a quiet period of 5 overs. Given that there were 2 maidens bowled in succession bowled at this point, when A. Tummala came in to bowl his 3rd over, the pressure was building and it showed, as P. Patel was out bowled and R. Sundaram out lbw in the same over. From here on, quiet periods seemed very minimal as A. Tummala picked up another one to reduce TSK rid of their top 3 batsman at 3/23. The evidence for the train coming off its rails started becoming apparent when H. Mistry picked up in-form batsman, S. Raghavan reducing the TSK to 4/28 off of 11 overs. From this point, A. Londhe and H. Mistry picked up 5 more wickets between them in the next 4 overs reducing TSK to 9/44 off of 15 overs. The last wicket put up a 20 run partnership, but was never going to be able to do as much work to take them close to victory. H. Mistry, picked up the last wicket making it 5 in the innings giving away a meagre 8 runs in his 4.2 overs, bringing the Falcons back to winning form in the season. 
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