A letter to a friend about a cricket match.
8C, Sonia Apartments,
Mango colony,
M.G. Road,
Dharavi,
Mumbai - 400 016.
13th February, 2014
Mango colony,
M.G. Road,
Dharavi,
Mumbai - 400 016.
13th February, 2014
MY dear Friend,
It is some time I heard from you. The hot days have already begun
here, though the nights are yet cool.
To such an
enthusiastic cricketer as you, I cannot but describe the very exciting match we
had last Saturday with The General English High School
Eleven. And I am happy to state we won after
a very acute struggle.
As usual, the play
began at 11 a.m., and as we won the toss, we elected to field. As you know our
team is usually said to be weak in fielding, though there are often brilliant
batsmen amongst us including me (don't laugh). We have had special training,
and we prided ourselves as being very good at fielding. We, therefore, elected
to field, and really gave a good account of ourselves at that. Our bowlers were
so deadly that there were many maiden overs.
After
an hour's play they had hardly made 125 runs for a loss of six wickets. They
tried to pull up and sent in their best players. These played a steady game;
and before three more were dismissed, they had gone up to 190 runs. Our bowlers
were put on their mettle and they dismissed the remaining players conceding
only three more runs. Thus, they made 193 runs overall.
It was now 1-30
p.m., and we went in to bat. We sent our best blockers first so as to terrify their
bowlers; and by'3 o'clock only two were out though they had made only 120 runs.
Then we sent in XYZ, one of our best batsmen, and then a blocker for a variety.
They both played a steady game and before XYZ was out, they had made 25 runs
between them. I was then sent in. I am rather a free-lance and as luck would
have it, I made that day 15 runs before I was out for a catch and my partner 5.
We had now made 160 runs with
only four out. We were delighted, but rest of us did not play so well. So our
innings came to a close for a total of 194. Since it was a One-innings Match, we
won by a complete margin of 1 runs. A brilliant victory, is it not?
Hoping
that this finds you in excellent health,
yours
affectionately,
a
b c
