"THINGS HAVE JUST STARTED"

Saturday , the day i was so excited about on Friday. This was the excitement for the start of my cricket season. It was just a practice match but it was important for me to play well as i had to make a mark and prove a point to the captain of the previous team "YMCC" for which i played two seasons in the 5th division....... Now i play for "SRIDHAR CC" and its a 3rd division team......

"FRIDAY : Preparing for the match"

The excitement was killing me as my team's captain called me up and said that there was a practice match on Saturday ........ It was just a practice match and there was no pressure on me or my team ........ we just had to go out there and give it our best and for me it was a test....... I have always had thoughts whether I am fit to play in the 3rd division and many people have told me to think positive and go out there and play your natural game but when you need to prove a point to others and make a mark there is always pressure and this pressure can surely destroy your career. As i was preparing for the next day's match, thoughts kept on ringing ,some good and as always some bad....... these thoughts were increasing the blood rush and the excitement and the anticipation on the other hand were battling it out with those thoughts...... I know i play good and i have always admired my way of playing but when it comes to proving that, things i know become unknown and this happens all the time.........

"kits packed and all set for the match"

Excitement woke me up at 6 in the morning and i freshened up and kept on looking at the watch and waited for it to show 7.30....... I prayed god and left for the ground and i reached the ground by 8......

1st INNINGS
our team won the toss and chose to field first and i was all geared up and pumped up for the match to begin........ I was standing at POINT and the first ball was hit towards me and it was hit hard , I never wanted that to happen .... i stopped the ball threw it to the KEEPER ...... then the next over again the ball was hit towards me and this time i was confident enough to stop it but suddenly they started running and for a second i stopped thinking , I picked the ball and threw it directly at the stumps and got the batsman out searching for the crease with a direct hit...... Ya a direct hit and i was stunned too....... i never thought the day would start on such a good note ....... then came the time where my captain asked me to bowl and i bowl well and was really ready to make an good impression on my captain...... i did well by getting a WICKET for 10 runs....... the rest of the innings i fielded well and my captain was happy with the performance.....the opposition got out for 234 in 30 overs........

2nd INNINGS
It was our turn to bat next and we had some good batsmen in our team..... the openers went on to give us a good start and my captain looked at me and asked to get ready as i was going in next....... i got ready thinking all the time about how i will perform and suddenly a batsman got out and i had to go in...... i prayed again and went in , i took sometime to look at the field , my mind full of thoughts and the pressure building up in me ...... I had to perform to make sure i play all the matches in the season ....... there was a spinner bowling at me ... i took a single of the first ball and got to the non striker end...... the over got over and i had to face the music again and this time it was a medium pacer ...... I always enjoyed playing medium pacers but unfortunately i always got out to the same type of bowlers......
i played the first ball with a bit of tentativeness and without any foot work and i edged the ball to the KEEPER...... God i hate KEEPERS.. they rarely drop a catch..... everything was over , all the pressure all the excitement got over and i sat down thinking what went wrong ....... tentativeness that's what got me out.... The hesitation got me out and all the positive thinking is killed by hesitation and tentativeness.........
PLEASE PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK POSITIVE AND PRACTICE HARD ON YOURS SKILLS ....... LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE WASTED AND YOU ARE BORN TO PROVE SOMETHING TO THE WORLD , DON'T JUST BE A SPECTATOR , GET DOWN IN THE BATTLEFIELD AND PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO...............
my CAREER is not over yet , i have more matches coming up and this time there will be NO PRESSURE , NO TENTATIVENESS AND NO HESITATION.......

Disastrous day (20/6/2209)

DAY: saturday ;TIME: 7.00 am
hey people..... i m talking about 20/6/09 ... this was the most embarrassing day in my whole life .....

The cricket tournament started and our team had to play the first match in the tournament....there were tough teams and there were some not so tough teams ....the name of our team is "BLUE SKY FRIENDS" and the opponent "DARK KNIGHTS" , ya i know the names are kinda funny but who cares about the names, we just wanted to play cricket and thats the whole idea. Everyone in our team knows how to play the sport but they are so over confident that they think they can beat even "Australia", ya i know that Australia can be beaten but for god sake not by us...lolz.... this is where the whole thing starts and this is where the downfall of every good team begins.....

"DARK KNIGHTS" were a good team to play with and they had a confident side , not over confident as our team... our team starts planning for the next match before it passes the first obstacle.... 7.00 am we reached the ground and we had plans to win the tournament, but first the fixtures did not say that we had to play with the " DARK KNIGHTS" , we had to play an even more tougher team called the "PHOENIX"..... but somehow the team didnt manage to come to the ground on time , these people the so called "ORGANIZERS " of the tournament changed the fixtures and i think this is where our fate begin to change....

BLUE SKY FRIENDS V/S DARK KNIGHTS

"LET THE GAMES BEGIN"

"DARK KNIGHTS" won the toss and elected to bowl first and it was a eight over match and our openers gave us a good start and we were 30 for no loss till the 4th over ... the openers got out and our team failed to capitalize on the start given by the openers....we scored 58 in 8 overs and we had to defend the total in order to make it to the next round.....we started off well but they had good players to conquer us and they did conquer us and that too comprehensively....... they finished off the match in just 6 overs .... we were one of the tough teams around and we were simply outplayed in every aspect of the game.....our team never thought that this would happen but somewhere at the beginning of the match i had this gut feeling that there is an upset on the way.....we people were embarrassed and this upset was not caused by anyone else but my own friends playing in the "DARK KNIGHTS" team... the DARK KNIGHTS proved that they were the only KNIGHTS who had nothing to lose and our team lost everything.....

"ALWAYS BE CONFIDENT, OVER CONFIDENCE CHANGES FATE"

first blog

hey people..... I m not too good at writing stuff, i m doin it becoz of my very good friend.He is too good at bloggin. He lives in his own world and is the best at wat he does. To write people need hell lot of imagination power and this guy has a whole universe full of imaginatively made up stuff.I had to start my first bloggin experience by writing something....... so this is it....i play cricket for the "tamil nadu cricket association" and life was not that well directed as it is now. I lived in delhi for 10 yrs and came to chennai in the year 2005. Living in chennai for the past 4yrs has changed my life drastically.....i was not that much into studies and all when i lived in delhi as i am now.....i m able to balance every aspect of my life equally. My mom as every other mother wanted me to concentrate on my studies and i do concentrate unless and otherwise there are distractions as every person in the world has.... my distractions are my friends and my cricket .......these were the good distractions that happened........ i always wanted to be a cricketer and this story started when my father first took me to an academy where every beginner embraces his talent through a proper medium.....every person cannot become a cricketer unless otherwise he has the natural instincts of becoming one....
cricket has been my life till now and every now and then i touch books for my mother lolz........there are a hell lot of things that i need to share and everythin cannot be just posted in my first blog........so this is it "MY FIRST BLOG"......