About a month ago, we moved to a newly built apartment-kind-of house (The previous one was a godown!). It was new to-be finished with almost 90% complete. And in that street there were lots of kids with a passion for gully (and not this) cricket, like all of us had. On a Sunday when I was up at the terrace washing clothes, I chanced upon eyeing the game they were playing. The whole preparation and executing reminded me of my school cricket days!
Preparation:
One of the hunks goes from house to house, in a cycle, pulling out each kid. At one such instance, one of the kids emerged from the balcony and mimed that he'll not be able to make it (Remember those days when we used to say the same thing, with our mom/dad at our back and seeing whether we'd completed our homework(s) before we ventured onto the streets with a bat?!). He was miming that (It is a disadvantage/pity that I could not show the whole process. Hope you can run an imaginary video in your head or reminiscence of a similar incident) his mom is inside and he cannot step out today. To which the hunk returned miming "Why don't you sneak out?" The kid on the balcony replies back that it is next to impossible and will join the next day's game! The hunk leaves disappointed!
The game:
With everyone around, the teams made and the game begins. For sometime it went on well before the usual happened: One hits the ball into the forbidden house! At once, everyone huddles together (like the Indian team, BTW what do you think of Ganguly's dismissal in the Chennai test match? Does he have a chance? There's a general feeling the even Sachin must be dropped! Back to the topic.) As always, a unanimous decision is taken at the huddle "Dai, nee than antha balla veetukkulla adicha, athu nala neeye poi kelu!" (You hit the ball, so it is you who has to get it back!). Batsman keeps the bat down and goes to the house and asks for the ball from the aunty who is at the gate who is refusing to give it back, and complains to the neighbour "Eppothum ippadi thanga en veetukkalaye adikaranaga!" (These kids always hits the ball into my house!), to which the neighbour nods and says the same thing!
Good ol' school days!
I still remember the good old school days (Not with the teachers, but with the Cricket we played!) Adi running away with the stumps when he was pissed off, and the next one when Dilip hit a six of Karthik's delivery and shouted "Fetch it!" To which furious Karthik says, showing the middle finger "Dilip, F***er, don't you ever come here again for playing!" And what happens, next week all of us play the next game!
What a wonderful life we had! There used to be Street Cricket, Terrace Cricket. We have played everything!!! I still will not forget Jayanth's answer, when he hit a ball, straight off the bat, to outside the terrace, which went all the way down and he was declraed OUT!, "Machi, pitchu da!" That was ultimate! Too good! Also couple of times when I was hit striaght on my D*** by Dilip (What the hell? Do not laugh, it was painful!). Also when Adi, while playing a knock-out (Or Nakku-outu as Shri Hari used to call it!) Volley Ball shouted (at the same time caught his stuff below the abdomen) "Machan! Something fell da!" And left the ball (but caught his! Afraid that it fell!) ROFLOL!!!
We had nice time, no question about that!
Preparation:
One of the hunks goes from house to house, in a cycle, pulling out each kid. At one such instance, one of the kids emerged from the balcony and mimed that he'll not be able to make it (Remember those days when we used to say the same thing, with our mom/dad at our back and seeing whether we'd completed our homework(s) before we ventured onto the streets with a bat?!). He was miming that (It is a disadvantage/pity that I could not show the whole process. Hope you can run an imaginary video in your head or reminiscence of a similar incident) his mom is inside and he cannot step out today. To which the hunk returned miming "Why don't you sneak out?" The kid on the balcony replies back that it is next to impossible and will join the next day's game! The hunk leaves disappointed!
The game:
With everyone around, the teams made and the game begins. For sometime it went on well before the usual happened: One hits the ball into the forbidden house! At once, everyone huddles together (like the Indian team, BTW what do you think of Ganguly's dismissal in the Chennai test match? Does he have a chance? There's a general feeling the even Sachin must be dropped! Back to the topic.) As always, a unanimous decision is taken at the huddle "Dai, nee than antha balla veetukkulla adicha, athu nala neeye poi kelu!" (You hit the ball, so it is you who has to get it back!). Batsman keeps the bat down and goes to the house and asks for the ball from the aunty who is at the gate who is refusing to give it back, and complains to the neighbour "Eppothum ippadi thanga en veetukkalaye adikaranaga!" (These kids always hits the ball into my house!), to which the neighbour nods and says the same thing!
Good ol' school days!
I still remember the good old school days (Not with the teachers, but with the Cricket we played!) Adi running away with the stumps when he was pissed off, and the next one when Dilip hit a six of Karthik's delivery and shouted "Fetch it!" To which furious Karthik says, showing the middle finger "Dilip, F***er, don't you ever come here again for playing!" And what happens, next week all of us play the next game!
What a wonderful life we had! There used to be Street Cricket, Terrace Cricket. We have played everything!!! I still will not forget Jayanth's answer, when he hit a ball, straight off the bat, to outside the terrace, which went all the way down and he was declraed OUT!, "Machi, pitchu da!" That was ultimate! Too good! Also couple of times when I was hit striaght on my D*** by Dilip (What the hell? Do not laugh, it was painful!). Also when Adi, while playing a knock-out (Or Nakku-outu as Shri Hari used to call it!) Volley Ball shouted (at the same time caught his stuff below the abdomen) "Machan! Something fell da!" And left the ball (but caught his! Afraid that it fell!) ROFLOL!!!
We had nice time, no question about that!
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Well, those come under school education, I have talked only on the games part, still more to go!