... And he broke it!!!

Those were the best days of my life.... Yes I can say this to refer to those days, when we used to play cricket in NGV Bangalore, two years ago. That time we were around 7-8 people staying in 3BHK flat in NGV. For software engineers there is an advantage, you get 2 days break in each week.... I just love it...

So during those days, every saturday & sunday - mornings and evenings, our mission used to be playing cricket. When I am on batting side, my team mates will not allow me to bat..and when I am on balling side everybody from opposite team want me to ball. So you can understand how good my cricket skills are. But still I used to enjoy cricket a lot.. and thats because other things that used to happen on the cricket ground.

We were around 8 people used to play cricket. So we used to divide us into two teams of 4 players each. There was a guy in our opposite team... I like to call him - Angry Young Man!!!(AYM). If somebody cheats in a match, he used to get angry. But whats cricket without cheating :)

In my team whenever somebody hits boundary, we used to come at the centre of creeze and dance. Same case when somebody from our team takes a catch or takes a wicket while fielding. And the AYMs reaction to this was unbelivable. He would be red with anger... And seeing his red face, we used to enjoy more...

One day after our cricket match, this was our conversation -
AYM - I don't want to play.
Some other friend - Okie... (seeing towards other players) we will play.
AYM - No, I will not allow you to play.
Some other friend - Why?
AYM - I don't want these four people in single team(pointing to our team).

That was funny... We used to discuss in the evening about all that happened in the match...and laugh like anything.

One day in one of our match, it was last over. It was my over and the AYM was going to face it. They just needed 2-3 runs to win the match. Now as I already told you about my balling skills, everybody knew that we are going to loose beacuse of my balling. The AYM was quite happy, as it was my balling. But to everybody surprise, I took his wicket.. It was bowled!!! Everybody was looking at me and AYM with 'ohh..' on their face. Seeing this AYM was very very angry on me.....and he hit the bat on ground and broke it..... Thanks god, he didn't hit it on my head.

I really wish that some day in future I will play cricket with my AYG best friend, with the teams divided like it was before...