History

Ganesh and Sachin – the captain and vice-captain of the MCC team – made themselves unavailable for the big match vs. Grafton Cricket Club. Priyank expressed desire to lead the MCC team vs GCC, and found favor with Raghuvir, aka the manager & vice-captain. The rest of the team also supported him wholeheartedly.

Ganesh aka ’Captain G’ challenged Priyank aka ’Captain P’ on August 26th 2009, to determine what works better – experience or enthusiasm! The first match was tied, but Captain P pulled out a spectacular win in the second match to lead his team front. Captain P continued his winning ways, by showing off his ’Midas touch’ against Grafton – his team winning it by 7 wickets.

Unable to take this hit, Captain G arranged for another show-off with Captain P, leading to the birth of the ’PG Wars’. Thus, every Wednesday, the two stalwarts lead their formidable teams to battle to show-off their skills and to gain bragging rights.

The battle for equality

While Captain P was looking to further improve his perfect record, Captain G managed to run those plans aground – he leveled the scores on Wednesday 09-02-09, winning by 15 runs in a match with a lot of drama. It must be noted that many players from Captain G’s team did not show up – were they intimidated by Captain P? – forcing Captain G to pressure (all inning long) an injured Adai to play – who eventually batted with a runner and did not field after that; was he concerned about a reprisal against him? – and borrow players from Captain P’s team – did he have a plan to break up a winning team and destroy team morale? Is this also a new chapter on ’sledging’?

Measuring scale 

Captain G has a record of 1 win and 3 loses against Grafton. Captain P has a perfect record against Grafton – 1 win and 0 losses!

So who’s better? Stay tuned till the next battle in the ’PG Wars’ unfolds.

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