The beautiful but threatening weather on Saturday cocooned into a balmy sunny Sunday thanks to the prayers of Rotarians from 4 city clubs…. Chennai Towers, North, Galaxy and Meenambakkam. Perfect setting for a game of cricket at KRMM grounds. As usual RCCTians were on time and in full strength… planned their strategy and practiced enough before the other Clubs ambled in at 10 am. Thanks to the last minute preparations were the winners in game 1…thanks to the efforts of PP.Rtn. Sriram Raju. We won against Meenambakkam comfortably. Thought the man of the match went to Meenambakkam we played well as a team. Great camaraderie on and off the ground followed.

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The next match was between Galaxy and North which witnessed great batting and fireworks on the ground !! 48 runs in 6 overs was the score by North…. The people in the gallery almost wrote of Galaxy….surprise surprise Galaxy won comfortably helped by North’s mediocre bowling and fielding at the time after much drama. Apparently Galaxy is made up of many cricketers of yester years. We had only President Rajie and Spouse Vijayasarathy as ex-cricketers in our team and hence we decided to use the Australian pressure tactics and let Eashwar loose on them …..Much of the psychic pressure was coming from behind the stumps thanks to Eashwar and his encouraging words we know how good they can work on new comers !!

So the finals were cast in stone…RCCT vs RCCG…. Great beginning by Raaj and Vijay….excellent 50 partnership….well almost !! splendid innings by Sriram who literally got carried away running when there were no runs to run for….we amassed 84 in 10 overs…..decent score to defend given that Galaxy were just coming into the second match immediately after their game. It went to the wire…last over 18 runs to win…last ball 3 runs to win and the better team of the day won…..RCCG walked away with the trophy.

It was 1 O clock…we were all fried by the sun by now and needed to get our palms around that cool cool beer and the delicious biriyani. All teams assembled at the Gandhi Nagar Club….great air conditioning and fantastic fellowship. Overall and super Sunday – could have only been better had we won!

But here is to Eashwar, Raaj, Gita, Prithvi, Sabu, Arjun Vijay and everyone else who were a part of this BBC for having given us a great time and kept track and tab of the proceedings so much so that the other Clubs are planning to emulate us with BBC Season 2….and I was like … yeah right !! Emulate RCCT …. Dream on buddy.