Not to upset Trinity’s winning streak , RB2 secured 7-6 games against Lutterworth 2 last Tuesday nearly missed the win resulted as a draw with 3-3 rubbers for each team. RB2 went with good pairing Sam & Ben as first pair and injury returned Darren & Kiranam as second pair. Lutterworth has new faces has top notch first pair and somewhat weaker second pair.
Sam & Ben started dominating Lutterworth first pair with couple of long rallies towards the tram lines and good drop shots given tough fight nearly got us the first game until 17, but the opponents played tactically with good command over the net. Loosing the game hasn’t dropped the confidence of our first pair rather Sam & Ben fought hard in the second game crushing the opponent to 14. Third game is the decider for this rubber but Lutterworth has played more attacking over the net, which displaced our pair losing the third game.
While this all was on going, our second pair Darren & Kiranam has showed a solid start to the math winning the two games showing top performance. Opponents 2nd pair couldn’t reach to 17 adding scores from both the games. To be frank captain was just watching leaving the court to Darren going with long serves & smashes is an easy game for RB2 and the rubber gained in record ~10 min( captain hasn’t took the jumper off at this point😉 ).
At this stage match tied 1-1 games going into the second phase. Our first pair brought an easy win against their second pair and Darren & Kiranam struggled against Lutterworth first pair. Again the match tied after the second stage went into the splits where Darren & Ben brought a good easy win. Sam & Kiranam gave tough fight playing their best split nearly lost the two games resulting a draw. Captain is new to Rugby league could have twisted the pairing may have given us a better result, which is key takeaway learnings from this first match after a lengthy Covid break. Thanks to all the team and mainly Darren joining us back from injury. Well done team 👏
RM2 Captain Kiranam
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