Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Double Duty beat Amaravagali in a cliffhanger

In one of the most remarkable comebacks witnessed in FPL history, Double duty came back from trailing 9-28 to winning the game 29-28 against Amaravagali. The game started off with Amaravagali winning the first board by 9 points. However,Double Duty came back immediately winning the next board with 6 points. At this point, Amaravagali started pocketing coins with ease and galloped away to a score of 28-9 within no time.

Then, an incredible fightback was witnessed by the sparse crowd as Snake Fufy directed HeavyDuty Fufy to some delicate cuts, which were executed to absolute perfection by the latter. Snake Fufy's strategy of not opening the opposition's coins worked brilliantly and totally frustrated Amaravagali. This was evident when Middle-Age Fufy started screaming in the middle of a board for apparently no reason whatsoever. An hour later, the game score had become 22-28 as Amaravagali had now become very nervous with Dull FuFy not being able to pocket any coins due to extreme pressure. HeavyDuty Fufy played some delightful shots in the next board to make the score 28-28.

With shivering hands, all the FuFys started playing the ultimate board, with a mission to win the board, and thus the match. And aptly, the board had to end with a single white,black and queen coin remaining. Middle-Age Fufy missed a couple of chances to finish the game and SnakeFuFy took advantage of this mistake as he completed the most memorable fightback giving DoubleDuty a very hard-earned 3 points.

This win puts Double Duty at the top of Pool A and leaves Amaravagali languishing at the bottom.

MoM: SnakeFufy for playing intelligently, sledging slightly when required and playing delicate shots precisely under pressure while guiding his team-mate superbly throughout the game.

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