cricket

Today morning was just a usual morning but unlike any other morning today we had some different plans. We decided to play cricket. I was going to play this game after many many days. I even dont remember the last time i played cricket. When i was a kid, we used to play cricket every day. That time life was simple. We had plenty of time. But it was long back. Today we decided that nothing was going to stop us from playing cricket.

Although, we decided to reach on ground at 6 am. but it was 6:30 by the time we reached there. In all we were 20 students and majority of us were fifthies. So we decided to play fifth-yearites Vs rest. We won the toss and elected to bat first. There was lot of moisture on pitch and slow out-field, because of dew on grass. Still, we elected to bat first.

So, finally all formalities done and match started. On the very first ball of inning we lost our star batsman. After that, responsibility was on the shoulders of Ashok, who played considerably well. He played some fantastic shots and our score was rising. Soon we lost another wicket and it was the time when i stepped in to bat. I played a decent inning. Scored a boundary. Played few nice shots. Everything was going fine. I was enjoying it. But then something happened. Something very unfortunate. I was expecting that ball to bounce but it didnt. And i was out. I was clean bowled. At the end, we reached a score of 54 in 15 overs.

Then it was time for other team to bat. We didn't had a good bowling line-up and as sun was rising in the east, pitch was dry by this time. So, other team had natural advantage and they utilised it fully. We lost the match in 10th over. As far fielding is concerned, i did it well. Although i dropped a catch but hey, so what?? Even Jonty drops catch sometimes.

All-in-all, it was a great game. We didn't had our cricketing career at the stake of this match. We didn't had girls among audiance to impress. All we had was lots and lots of fun. And thats why we were there!!