Cricket is Obsession

Cricket is obsession in India. If somebody has to play some game in India with few people then the first choice would be cricket. These days we are playing cricket every Saturday. It is a initiative taken by few of the members of the JAVA team. Our office is situated in Faridabad and lots of employees reside near by. There are very good residential places near by our office and due to hectic office schedule sometime people prefer to stay nearby. I was in Delhi and shifted in Faridabad few months back. You have crunch of space in Delhi and all colonies are short of space. Residential places in FBD have ample space to move. We have a big playground in sector-31.Cold was on its decline when we decided to burn our calories in playground. It was a nice move.Chetan, Pankaj, Vikas were initiator. They asked me and I said an obvious yes to them. I play TT whenever I get a chance. But for Cricket we were not having any time. I have won few championships in TT but for me Cricket is my passion. We are so much into cricket that we just need a trigger and rest everybody can see. We tend to involve into cricket more than our religion. When it comes to spirituality and religion we follow our heart for some social belongings. But our X-factor comes into play when we are into the skin of this English game. Cricket is a game of passion abided by rules.

We play on few Saturdays by dividing team among ourselves. Initially only member of JAVA team were willing to play as they have played it on few occasions earlier. Later few members of testing team got involved and then players of Microsoft team also joined us. We decided to play a so called official match between MS and JAVA teams. Though Java team members were very few in numbers. Hardly 6-7 people were in JAVA team. Sunil and I were included in JAVA team. Sunil Bainsla was much excited and actually he is very emotional about the game. He was busy in framing mails for inviting MS team to play a match. He was thinking 24*7 about the game. Sometime we have to stop him discussing about cricket. He is crazy stuff. Finally he gave me a call on Saturday morning at 6 AM for reaching in playground. Though it was painful but it was our passion which drawn me to the field. We played two matches against MS team and won both of them.Chetan and Bhati bowled very well.Pankaj got few wickets. In first match Vikas Goyat didn’t bowled as per expectations.But he bowled well in second match. We borrowed two players from MS team. I played a satisfactory knock. I have a unique paradox that I go for opening and take the strike. If my team doesn’t provide me this facility they cannot extract 100% from my batting. It is psychological more than technical. I feel comfortable going for opening. MS team fought hard in first game but surrenders in second.Anyways my team won both matches. In second weekend MS and JAVA both won one match each. I have learnt few new words Sunil Bhati thet movement can be alternative of start. He was fond of the phrase “Thoda movement rakh” when he was bowling.

There were some cheating and unfair play.But Itna chalta hai . Kunal bagged limelight by his fielding standards. He was actually fielding for us.

The crowd was expecting some cheerleaders. One of the MS bowler Rakesh alias RAKA

was taking long run up to frighten the batsman.But,it was a flop show. Though he manage to take some wickets. But he did not gained reputation among batsmans.

Overall it was a nice experience for me to play for JAVA team. I hope to regain my form and play a good knock for winning cause of my team.