Group C — Under-16 Standings (Bangalore Inter-School Championship)
Group C Teams
NITK English Medium School (Bangalore Branch)
SVB Public School
St. Joseph's High School
JNV (Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya)
Group C Points TableSchoolMatchesWinsLossesPointsNet Run RateSt. Joseph's High School3306+1.42NITK English Medium School3214+0.18SVB Public School3122-0.64JNV3030-0.96
Qualified for Knockouts:
1️⃣ St. Joseph's High School
2️⃣ NITK English Medium School
The Last Group Match — NITK vs St. Joseph's
It was the final group-stage match.
NITK had already secured two wins, but this game would decide top position. More importantly, it was the strongest opposition they had faced so far.
St. Joseph's won the toss and chose to bowl.
The pitch was slower than expected.
Early wickets fell.
One.
Three.
Five.
By the time Rudra walked in, the scoreboard read:
NITK: 72 / 7
The required run rate had climbed sharply. The crowd noise thinned, replaced by quiet calculation.
Rudra took guard.
No hesitation.
No panic.
He played like someone with nothing to protect.
Short ball—pulled.
Full ball—driven.
Anything loose—punished.
Runs came fast.
Too fast to be safe.
Batting Timing
Lv 01 (38 / 100 EXP) → (52 / 100 EXP)
Shot Selection
Lv 01 (11 / 100 EXP) → (24 / 100 EXP)
The scoreboard moved again.
10 off 5.
18 off 8.
28 off 12.
A rapid knock.
Clean.
Fearless.
Precise.
But cricket did not care about beauty.
With only a few balls remaining, the ninth wicket fell.
Rudra stood at the non-striker's end, bat grounded, eyes fixed on the pitch.
Match lost.
Not because of effort.
Because of timing.
Emotional Control
Lv 05 (88 / 100 EXP) → (91 / 100 EXP)
There was no outburst. No bat thrown. No words wasted.
He walked back quietly when it ended.
A loss.
No EXP for result.
But the system did not ignore reality.
Match Pressure Exposure — Recorded
Focus Lv 06 (43 / 100 EXP) → (47 / 100 EXP)
St. Joseph's finished unbeaten.
NITK finished second.
And Rudra learned something more valuable than a win:
Even the perfect knock means nothing
if it arrives
too late in the order.
The numbers had moved.
The lesson had settled.
And the tournament was not over yet.