Rattlers won the TCC Spring 2011 Taped Ball Cricket T20 Tournament. Rattlers beat Panthers by 8 wickets with 2 overs remaining in a high scoring match. Rattlers won the deserving championship in the well fought out tournament that had 14 participant teams.
Panthers won the toss and elected to bat first on a sunny day. They got off to an explosive start scoring 40 runs in the first 5 overs due to aggressive batting from Sreenivas (26 runs). Rattlers struck with Adithya getting the wicket of Sreenivas. The score at the end of 10 overs was 64/4. Panthers raced to a score of 90 in 13 overs due to lusty hitting from Bijeesh (26 runs). He got out to Karthik and Rattlers seemed to have controlled the scoring rate when Vamsee played a blinder of an innings to score 31 runs in quick time. At the end of 20 overs, it was an impressive score of 147/8. Sarang was the pick of the bowlers with 3/34 supported by Ram, Adithya, Karthik and Mahesh for crucial breakthroughs. Each of them picked up one wicket.
Rattlers got off to their best start of the tournament thru Vinod (57 runs) and Satish (61 runs). They scored at 9 runs per over in the first 5 overs. At the end of 10 overs, the score was 83 for no loss. The opening partnership was broken only after 117 runs were scored. Panthers tried every trick but Satish and Vinod treated the bowling with aggression laced with sweetly timed shots in the gaps and sent the ball to all parts of the ground with great ease and they complimented each other with aggression and caution alternately. By the time both the openers got out, the match was almost but won. Mahesh settled any nerves with a huge six to bring Rattlers close to victory. The game had high quality great umpiring from two neutral umpires Natraj and Jagan.
The game was followed by a well organized prize distribution ceremony arranged by TCC. The presentation party had Nanda Kumar president of TCC and HCL, members of TCC EC (Roshan, Krishna and Sreenivas) and chief guest was Mr. Yogesh Patel, President of the South Texas Youth Cricket Association and former president of HCL. Mr. Yogesh Patel was honored with a memento by TCC. Jagadish Biradar, organizer for TCC Taped Ball tournament coordinated the presentation ceremony.