It's been so long...

It's been so long that I haven't played cricket. Atlast it happened today after almost an year. Thanks for the ppl whom i knew got relocated to Ipswich from London. We gotta gang now, to hang around. Sorry I gotta gang now to hang with. 

The hunt for cricket kits began by late noon, there aren't much options for cricket kits in SportsDirect, but still got a bat to play.  Young and energetic team was all set with the new bat and were heading towards bibbway ground. 

To our pleasant surprise, few Indians were already showing off their cricketting skills in the ground.  Every one was thinking of a match with them, we knew we were not good not even ok, but still wanted to. The offer came from the other end and we readily accepted it. We knew the results would be bad, but we never knew it will be worse :).

It started with a loss in the toss.  And we never recovered from the loss. They were thrashing boundaries, making huge partnerships which they haven't made in the past 4 months since then they were playing there. The real pity was when we started to bat :).  It was a gettable 75 from 10 overs. 

Brisk run chase was all set and I as well opened the innings in the runner side. My fellow partner was not able to face more than 2 balls, and the score was still zero. I scored a run more than him and happily joined him in the bench, where our team was cheering for each and every run. Yup it was just one run @ that point of time. Mean while.. ah one more duck. Are we in trouble ? 

We were seriously thinking of double digit would be a much decent target. But one of our fellow men (can speak 6 languages) was chasing his dream. Soon the bench was filled by the team members, but he was trying his level best there in the middle. Ah we crossed 25 runs.. but he was also gone by that time. Now it is just our mighty captain (who lost the toss) to save us. To our surprise, he was getting few runs with the newly bought bat.  Rather than runs, we were feeling the frustration of opponents, probably we would be one of their worst opponents against whom they would have played.

Atlast the captain's knock came to an end @ 38. Oh dear, we have just managed to cross half of their score. There were no celebrations in the opponents camp, rather it was filled with fun in ours. To our surprise, they were happy to play again with us for a reduced 6 overs. History repeats. We lost the toss and obviously the match. It's been so long... Yup it's been so long since we won a cricket match.