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Cricket in Village
If you are reading my earlier
posts, this is in continuation
with my memories of village. In village, we were having buffalos for milking. Sometimes
I used to take them for grazing with other friends in the morning and again in
the
evening. We were out for three to four hours, enjoying and playing some
games in-group, climbing on trees. We carry the meal rapped in a cloth. One
thing I noted was we enjoyed the meal much more on field rather than at home.
The taste of meal at field was really different. Don’t know why?? May be after
hard work the meal tastes better or the
environment makes it tasty. But it was
really great feeling having meal out of home on the field.
While returning in the evening with cattle, you might have
read in books the evening scene, how the sun looks like at that time which is
called “godhully” in Hindi. It was marvelous scene, which I have seen and
was a part of that.
In the evening,
we used to play cricket. The Bat was made of plain patta or the wood with which we wash cloths. The ball was
made of by tearing cloth and then making the tear cloths rolled over and then
stitches it with needle. It was hard one. The wickets were sticks of a neem tree or other
tree putting them in the ground with the help of sand. The teams were made
depending on the number of players available.
We used to play cricket sometimes in field or in galli or inside house. The courage was so high that sometimes only
my brother and me play cricket and it continued for hours in hot. And sometimes
I played with small children. Even if no one was at home, I used to hit the
ball on the wall (my son does the same
at home now and his mamma will say “apne
baap par gaya hai”) when it rebounds back I hit it with bat trying to make
different shots or was making bowling practice at home trying to swing or spin
the ball.
Tournaments were being organized amongst different
villages teams. The matches are mostly of 16 overs.
We took part in those tournaments. After taking part in one or two tournaments,
I became a prominent member of my village team. We participated in big
tournaments by making team of combining good players of nearby villages. One
thing I noted was they all respect me and called me in all the tournaments and
soon I became a very known, familiar player around the villages. The most
important point was my batting, bowling and fielding i.e. I was all a rounder.
It was always difficult for the opponents to out me and when I bowl they fear
of my bowling. Though I was not a very fast bowler.
We won many matches. I remember one incident, after
joining my service I was out of village, my friend were playing in some
tournament… 50 kms away from village. When I reached village in the night, they
came at my home around 10 PM and requested me to play the semifinal match
tomorrow. Even at that time my parents could not deny me and in the morning I
went with them, and we won that match…..
At that time, for cricket, I could be anywhere;
sometimes I have to face parent’s anger. But gone are the days now…..woh deen….