As i started writing this blog...I needed to give a heading(as usual)...so I thought a bit on what to write and came up with this word "HOPE!!"
But as i started typing the word in the title column..."H"...the pop out option came out and it said: "Hybridisation doubts..!!"...i chuckled to myself! how appropriate an incident with respect to what i am going to describe!!
Hybridisation doubts...Chemistry eh!!
I wonder in the past few years (four to be accurate) how much i have got involved in this world of studies that even my lappy recognises educational topics with every single alphabet i type in the title box...GODDDD!!! I had studied so much in these years...
But things were not so even four years ago...i remember the bubbling desire in me to become a cricketer...as days would pass the size of the bubble would grow larger and larger...but too much big a bubble must obviously burst off at a certain moment of time...um that is what happened and here i am as nerd as world perceives me today...bt much changed as the world knew me!!!!!!!!
I still remember the last cricket match i ever played!
It was 2009...sometime in may-june.
A 5 hour match...i remember how much less i used to get tired...how much practice i had...how much more physically fit i used to be!! Run around the field( so huge sometimes ) ninety-nine times yet ready for another ninety-nine rounds...and now i guess i wont even be able to do one! :P Poor me! :D
Yeah! the last match...one of the most eventful match....as usual our bowling side was as weak as our batting side was strong...when i started playing the match...least did i know that it would be the last professional match that i would play at least in the next four years!!
Yea I "WAS" a professional cricketer...captained one of the finest team in under-15 cricket that history has ever seen (i feel so!!)...but no more...:P...it all ended that day!!
We were facing a team that was rated better than all others at that time for the first time...(well as always it was according to me the second-best...WE WERE THE BEST MANNN!!!)...but ya still there was obvious tension given our bowling side was "TOOOO"good! ;)
So I went to the middle with the other captain and the referee and head umpire! (how distinctly I remember it still!)...he tossed the coin i said..."Tails!" [not the usual call that I used to give...but dont know why I called tails that day! Everything was so special! ;)]
um i lost the toss...rarely that happened...but happened nonetheless!! :P They selected to bat first..!
So match started!!
20 overs match...!! 180 would be more than unachievable given the opener "Jahangir" wasn't playing...he was awesome man!! Rarely got out...and whenever he did...entire team would start biting nails! ;)..but never mind match started!!!
At my usual position behind the stumps...I started with full enthusiasm...10 overs rolled away...eventful for their side and frustrating for us!! already 120 without loss!!!!! Jahangir we need you man!!!
15 overs rumbled by...we were successful in getting one of the openers bowled...an exceptional technique by Rajesh but the new batsman turned out to be more aweful for us! (i should have used the word awesome instead..but in my attempt of keeping alive mine tradition of never pressing the backspace..i wont edit it! :P)
Well ya..15 overs rumbled by...190 runs for 1 wicket...
I was angry...frustrated...depressed...at wits end....every trick failed...every plan mutilated.!!!!!
We needed something new to try! :P
Suddenly this idea struck me...we had nothing more to lose..:P...so i decided to gamble...i gave up the keeper's gloves to Suprakash and asked Sid ( the other opener..who was then standing in the slips..to come to long on..! the regular bowlers in long on and off were promoted to slips and third man!! the long off was kept uncovered...MAN I WAS SIMPLY GAMBLING!!!)
Team members didnt like the idea when they saw this sudden unexpected change...i was half past caring now that i was dripping with frustration...they were even more shocked to see the new bowler...they expected me to goto the long off and give the ball to someone else but their blizzard faces showed their utter shock when i walked down the pitch to take a long run down for bowling....!! The only other time I had bowled was when i was hit six fours in six consequetive balls....i dont know why took that desicion then!!!!!!
Anyways after a long Shoaib Akhter like run i delivered a very very very slow delivery...this puzzled the batsman and whoosh....unfortunately the keeper missed the catch!!!!!! :( :( :(
Whatever...the next delivery was...god knows what!! it was a dot ball whatsoever!
Third ball went for a boundary...and obvious utterings from every other players...(they were expecting history to repeat itself ;)!!)
Unexpectedly...the fourth ball which was a misthrow...pulled the ball so high that Sid was able to position himself safely under the ball and there was a catch out!!! The rest balls yeilded one more run...
Next over was bowled by Sid..who had no ABSOLUTELY NO bowling experience in matches...but then luck was WITH us! :P yeilded just 2 runs! DUDE WE WERE PROVING EXPENSIVE FOR the OtheR SIDES!!!
Anyways the last four overs just gave 15 runs and took 3 wickets and final score was 205 for 4! ! !
VERY UNACHIEVABLE!!!!!!!!
As pre determined...our openers were the usual SID and the unusual SUBHOMOY BAKSHI A.K.A ATGS!! That was me! :P
Well somewhere down my logic i know we are gonna lose but my heart still said WE ARE THE BEST! :D
OH MY GOD WHAT A MATCH IT WAS!!!!
THEY DID NOT SUCCEED TO TAKE EVEN ONE WICKET!!!!!!
SID WAS AWESOME...SO WAS I!! :P :P :P (Sorry for lack of Modesty! ;) )
well we had a great innings but the score was thus that we still needed 46 runs in the last two overs!!!!!
It was the time the real drama started!!!! :P
It was Sid facing the ball!! and me oh the other side quite confident that we are gonna lose not caring much now ( but the heart still expected!!! It never gav up hope! :P)
first ball went as a four...second ball another four!!!!....third ball....HATTRICK!!!! :D my heart was RACING!!! somehow we will do it!!!!fourth ball ...... <<<>>> hawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
Fifth ball.....!!! we took a single...and on the way back....for the double Sid got run out!!!! SHIT MAN!!!
Last ball of the over...the first ball that i was facing of the over...(I was very tired!)..we barely took 2 runs!!
The new batsman started the lastover! 31 runs needed!!!
First ball..he just touched the bat on the ball...and somehow managed a single!! F**K MAN!!
Last five balls 30runs needed!!!! I was to face all..and somehow needed to convert them all into SIXES!!! riddiculously unbelievable...!! we needed some miracle...also i was exhausted!!!!
A cricketer couldnt possible do it! At least not in a match...with that lot of tension around! At least I couldn't...
So I closed my eyes...ready to face the blame! Ready to LOSE!! Ready to face the first ball of the last crucial FIVE!!!
FIRST BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was expecting a no ball! or a wide! ;)
but the bowler's confidence showed neither would occur....somehow i had to connect the bat to the ball with all might!!!!!!
I closed my eyes..the bowler was running...i opened my eyes! The ball was thrown...as if under a charm I moved the bat...thud!!! I EXPECTED A ZERO!!! but in the next second found the ball flying to the boundary...!!!! SIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!
Phew!!!
Ball number 2...i was playful now...confidence regaining...and tension building up too...i had to do it! :D
Ball came and like a baseball player i lifted my leg and with all might forced the ball to the leg side!! SIX!!
Three more to go!!!!!!
I cant describe them....they were overwhelming...but whatever i did went for a SIX nothing less....i was not joyed...i was not sad...i was something i could never describe!!!!!!! I can never describe!!!!
Until the last ball....
It was crucial...but i did not care if we lost...I had done my job...proved my caliber...i ws thanking God already...now was the last one!
The bowler would give his best...so will I.......It would be a man to man combat..this last ball...it would be a six to win or no six to lose...mathematically it was more probable that the bowler will win....but my heart still said...NO IT IS WE!! WE ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!
he ran ..... the run up seemed slowed down...slow motioned!!!
his hand swooshed and ball was delivered......my shoulders instinctive by practice positioned for a SIX...by legs strong again moving front wise......my eyes unnaturally squeezed...my eyes only looking towards the slow motioned ball!!! my hand in full comand over the will piece...there was no chance of mistake...
It was time...the hands gave a quick swish the ball was hit..and the slow motioned world again became normal!!!
GUESS WHAT!! It was not a six..
..
..
It was the highest SIXER i had ever made...it was a SUPER SIX!!!!
And We had won the match!!!
throughout the match i had seen varied feeling...hope and despair....happiness and frustration....expectations and anguish...but at the end...it was my day..it was our day!!!
WE HAD MADE IT POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But as i started typing the word in the title column..."H"...the pop out option came out and it said: "Hybridisation doubts..!!"...i chuckled to myself! how appropriate an incident with respect to what i am going to describe!!
Hybridisation doubts...Chemistry eh!!
I wonder in the past few years (four to be accurate) how much i have got involved in this world of studies that even my lappy recognises educational topics with every single alphabet i type in the title box...GODDDD!!! I had studied so much in these years...
But things were not so even four years ago...i remember the bubbling desire in me to become a cricketer...as days would pass the size of the bubble would grow larger and larger...but too much big a bubble must obviously burst off at a certain moment of time...um that is what happened and here i am as nerd as world perceives me today...bt much changed as the world knew me!!!!!!!!
I still remember the last cricket match i ever played!
It was 2009...sometime in may-june.
A 5 hour match...i remember how much less i used to get tired...how much practice i had...how much more physically fit i used to be!! Run around the field( so huge sometimes ) ninety-nine times yet ready for another ninety-nine rounds...and now i guess i wont even be able to do one! :P Poor me! :D
Yeah! the last match...one of the most eventful match....as usual our bowling side was as weak as our batting side was strong...when i started playing the match...least did i know that it would be the last professional match that i would play at least in the next four years!!
Yea I "WAS" a professional cricketer...captained one of the finest team in under-15 cricket that history has ever seen (i feel so!!)...but no more...:P...it all ended that day!!
We were facing a team that was rated better than all others at that time for the first time...(well as always it was according to me the second-best...WE WERE THE BEST MANNN!!!)...but ya still there was obvious tension given our bowling side was "TOOOO"good! ;)
So I went to the middle with the other captain and the referee and head umpire! (how distinctly I remember it still!)...he tossed the coin i said..."Tails!" [not the usual call that I used to give...but dont know why I called tails that day! Everything was so special! ;)]
um i lost the toss...rarely that happened...but happened nonetheless!! :P They selected to bat first..!
So match started!!
20 overs match...!! 180 would be more than unachievable given the opener "Jahangir" wasn't playing...he was awesome man!! Rarely got out...and whenever he did...entire team would start biting nails! ;)..but never mind match started!!!
At my usual position behind the stumps...I started with full enthusiasm...10 overs rolled away...eventful for their side and frustrating for us!! already 120 without loss!!!!! Jahangir we need you man!!!
15 overs rumbled by...we were successful in getting one of the openers bowled...an exceptional technique by Rajesh but the new batsman turned out to be more aweful for us! (i should have used the word awesome instead..but in my attempt of keeping alive mine tradition of never pressing the backspace..i wont edit it! :P)
Well ya..15 overs rumbled by...190 runs for 1 wicket...
I was angry...frustrated...depressed...at wits end....every trick failed...every plan mutilated.!!!!!
We needed something new to try! :P
Suddenly this idea struck me...we had nothing more to lose..:P...so i decided to gamble...i gave up the keeper's gloves to Suprakash and asked Sid ( the other opener..who was then standing in the slips..to come to long on..! the regular bowlers in long on and off were promoted to slips and third man!! the long off was kept uncovered...MAN I WAS SIMPLY GAMBLING!!!)
Team members didnt like the idea when they saw this sudden unexpected change...i was half past caring now that i was dripping with frustration...they were even more shocked to see the new bowler...they expected me to goto the long off and give the ball to someone else but their blizzard faces showed their utter shock when i walked down the pitch to take a long run down for bowling....!! The only other time I had bowled was when i was hit six fours in six consequetive balls....i dont know why took that desicion then!!!!!!
Anyways after a long Shoaib Akhter like run i delivered a very very very slow delivery...this puzzled the batsman and whoosh....unfortunately the keeper missed the catch!!!!!! :( :( :(
Whatever...the next delivery was...god knows what!! it was a dot ball whatsoever!
Third ball went for a boundary...and obvious utterings from every other players...(they were expecting history to repeat itself ;)!!)
Unexpectedly...the fourth ball which was a misthrow...pulled the ball so high that Sid was able to position himself safely under the ball and there was a catch out!!! The rest balls yeilded one more run...
Next over was bowled by Sid..who had no ABSOLUTELY NO bowling experience in matches...but then luck was WITH us! :P yeilded just 2 runs! DUDE WE WERE PROVING EXPENSIVE FOR the OtheR SIDES!!!
Anyways the last four overs just gave 15 runs and took 3 wickets and final score was 205 for 4! ! !
VERY UNACHIEVABLE!!!!!!!!
As pre determined...our openers were the usual SID and the unusual SUBHOMOY BAKSHI A.K.A ATGS!! That was me! :P
Well somewhere down my logic i know we are gonna lose but my heart still said WE ARE THE BEST! :D
OH MY GOD WHAT A MATCH IT WAS!!!!
THEY DID NOT SUCCEED TO TAKE EVEN ONE WICKET!!!!!!
SID WAS AWESOME...SO WAS I!! :P :P :P (Sorry for lack of Modesty! ;) )
well we had a great innings but the score was thus that we still needed 46 runs in the last two overs!!!!!
It was the time the real drama started!!!! :P
It was Sid facing the ball!! and me oh the other side quite confident that we are gonna lose not caring much now ( but the heart still expected!!! It never gav up hope! :P)
first ball went as a four...second ball another four!!!!....third ball....HATTRICK!!!! :D my heart was RACING!!! somehow we will do it!!!!fourth ball ...... <<<
Fifth ball.....!!! we took a single...and on the way back....for the double Sid got run out!!!! SHIT MAN!!!
Last ball of the over...the first ball that i was facing of the over...(I was very tired!)..we barely took 2 runs!!
The new batsman started the lastover! 31 runs needed!!!
First ball..he just touched the bat on the ball...and somehow managed a single!! F**K MAN!!
Last five balls 30runs needed!!!! I was to face all..and somehow needed to convert them all into SIXES!!! riddiculously unbelievable...!! we needed some miracle...also i was exhausted!!!!
A cricketer couldnt possible do it! At least not in a match...with that lot of tension around! At least I couldn't...
So I closed my eyes...ready to face the blame! Ready to LOSE!! Ready to face the first ball of the last crucial FIVE!!!
FIRST BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was expecting a no ball! or a wide! ;)
but the bowler's confidence showed neither would occur....somehow i had to connect the bat to the ball with all might!!!!!!
I closed my eyes..the bowler was running...i opened my eyes! The ball was thrown...as if under a charm I moved the bat...thud!!! I EXPECTED A ZERO!!! but in the next second found the ball flying to the boundary...!!!! SIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!
Phew!!!
Ball number 2...i was playful now...confidence regaining...and tension building up too...i had to do it! :D
Ball came and like a baseball player i lifted my leg and with all might forced the ball to the leg side!! SIX!!
Three more to go!!!!!!
I cant describe them....they were overwhelming...but whatever i did went for a SIX nothing less....i was not joyed...i was not sad...i was something i could never describe!!!!!!! I can never describe!!!!
Until the last ball....
It was crucial...but i did not care if we lost...I had done my job...proved my caliber...i ws thanking God already...now was the last one!
The bowler would give his best...so will I.......It would be a man to man combat..this last ball...it would be a six to win or no six to lose...mathematically it was more probable that the bowler will win....but my heart still said...NO IT IS WE!! WE ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!
he ran ..... the run up seemed slowed down...slow motioned!!!
his hand swooshed and ball was delivered......my shoulders instinctive by practice positioned for a SIX...by legs strong again moving front wise......my eyes unnaturally squeezed...my eyes only looking towards the slow motioned ball!!! my hand in full comand over the will piece...there was no chance of mistake...
It was time...the hands gave a quick swish the ball was hit..and the slow motioned world again became normal!!!
GUESS WHAT!! It was not a six..
..
..
It was the highest SIXER i had ever made...it was a SUPER SIX!!!!
And We had won the match!!!
throughout the match i had seen varied feeling...hope and despair....happiness and frustration....expectations and anguish...but at the end...it was my day..it was our day!!!
WE HAD MADE IT POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow !!!
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