Managed to get to Crossword in the middle of answering an SOS to my sis over what I would term an eventful weekend . It began with a game of cricket on Saturday what folks would call an intra company match to help unearth new talent in our organization to play cricket ... Yours truly was the first person to appear on the ground at 7:30 a.m. which left our captain K rather impressed considering the fact that he's usually had to give me some 30 wake up calls after reaching the ground on a couple of previous occassions.
Inspecting the pitch showed that it was a beauty with the length of the crease so much that some one would be hard pressed to bowl a no ball. I must say I came very close to overstepping but then pulled out of that delivery at the last moment. The moral of the story was that we lost thanks to a typical collapse after a fantastic start . 59 for none after 9 overs became 67 / 4 ... 2 spectacular catches by my particular nemesis P who usually plays a game with a hangover with either a build the previous night with some P0,P1 blocker critical bugs fixed or with sufficient quantities of suspicious liquid jostling in his innards. One of the catches was to get me out , still cannot believe that he managed to take a catch while falling backwards and still managed to pull that one out centimetres above the ground. What hurt me more was losing a bet to one of my friends who still thinks that I can't bat for nuts.
After this we had a few interesting innings from folks who tried running with Ph (Now I have P so I should refer to Ph as Ph. ) involving an interesting sequence where many a time one would find Ph at the same end as the other batsmen... Thanks to our democratic practices we allowed all our players to get a hit but this noble approach enabled us to score just 115 in the allotted 20 overs.
After a short break where we bemoaned global warming and how heated Pune was becoming before we started on the second innings. We had few brief hopes of winning but all that was dashed once the other batsmen batted through. If only we had held on to a couple of catches, 2 tough c&b's off my own bowling and a skier at long on , there was a chance that we might have done something different. However the dudes of the day were Pr and KP (not Kevin Pietersen but another guy who shares a similar outlook to batting) .. Pr was batting well in the 18th over and suddenly went for an ugly reverse hoick which resembled a cross between a pull and a slash .. I was umpiring then and as Pr walked off I couldn't resist questioning the reasoning behind the shot - (we were not too greatly placed ) to which he replied as an excuse that this was the last over. It turned out that he'd been done in by a smart piece of work by the keeper ( a smart alec) and KP who insisted this was the last over despite feeble hints from the square leg umpire. However this makes Pr the dude of the week and pushes him close to the hall of fame which KP currently occupies...
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