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One yearns to be playing cricket like this. But regardless of disappointments at not being a part of similar groups, one’s day brightens even upon reading about things like this.

If you ask me who I’d identify myself with the most among all the Saturday Game ballers, it would have to be the Commish. I am obsessed with playing right whether it is practice or the game or when I am in the sidelines cheering (happened a lot during my undergrad and grad years). I am not a very good player, but I hate to play with people who act goofy or don’t give 100 percent when the rest are playing seriously.

So now, I am hunting for the right group to play with. The group is more than important for me to sustain interest, to help me get out of bed in the morning like I used to during the summer holidays in the 80’s and the first half of the 90’s and run at 6:30 in the morning to the Hensman Road ground. But I know now that playing cricket like that here is almost impossible. And it is in times like this when I wish I was really in and around South Florida where the beautiful weather permits one group that I know who play regularly.

Maybe tennis is the answer, but the combination of factors like the lack of equally (non) talented hitting partners and ankle-biters hogging the pair of tennis courts in the apartment complex every evening has been the dampener these past few weeks.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2006 at 11:10 am and is filed under Personal.

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14 Responses to “Basketball diaries”

  1. Anonymous

    May 15th, 2006 at 11:58 am

    so what dya list me as…. talented or not. Further particpation in tennis events depends on ur answer…
    -shashi

  2. anantha http://www.blogger.com/profile/1193476

    May 15th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

    Dude, if you were around to play with me (as opposed to being “busy”), why would I even have to post this? Does that answer your question? And btw, I mentioned that I was (non)talented.

  3. Shashi Rajasekaran http://www.blogger.com/profile/7197464

    May 15th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    who is this other shashi..

    hmm.. since when this suddent interest to come down from the stands..

  4. anantha http://www.blogger.com/profile/1193476

    May 15th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    Shashi: The other shashi is a friend from grad school. And while we have never been a playah’, we have always been a player.

  5. sudha http://www.blogger.com/profile/15190015

    May 16th, 2006 at 2:05 am

    denver also has a regular cricket club and supportive weather. and cute cricketers who also played well, until atleast a year ago.. :)

  6. anantha http://www.blogger.com/profile/1193476

    May 16th, 2006 at 1:56 pm

    Sudha: What do you mean “supportive weather”? Just because a rag-tag team of mad Englishmen regularly play at the Northpole in “supportive weather”, doesn’t mean I can do so :p
    According to the wiki page on Florida, the state averages 300 days of full sunshine a year, which is regular cricket weather. But Denver??? LOL…

  7. Shashi Rajasekaran http://www.blogger.com/profile/7197464

    May 16th, 2006 at 3:29 pm

    bFkaA u are tagged

  8. sudha http://www.blogger.com/profile/15190015

    May 16th, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    hey i stuck around in upper peninsula, michigan for a little more than two years. we played indoor cricket regularly. and you knew the 24 odd people and their game in a week. but denver and col. springs were different. you never knew who would turn up and can never guess a player. and the quality was simply awesome. hmmm i wasnt arnd for the winter but after MI, all other winters .. baah! so wat if they have a blizzard, the snow melts the next day..

    anyways, jus getting nostalgic :)

  9. gvenum http://www.blogger.com/profile/2904670

    May 17th, 2006 at 12:09 am

    Dude , move to Dallas. The NTCA(North Texas Cricket association ) here has 3 leagues with well over 35 teams in all. They play 10 months of serious cricket including a winter cup. My club is looking for people too. The only difference from what Sudha mentioned is once the season is over none of them look cute with all the sun burn and the tan.

  10. anantha http://www.blogger.com/profile/1193476

    May 17th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    Gvenum: I know about Dallas. One of my buddies who plays in Sarasota used to be in UTD and used to play in one of those leagues. As for sun burn and such, it don’t matter for the “mirror cracking” types anyways.

    Sudha: Indoor cricket huh? We tried to do that in Ohio, but the facilities people had a tough time understand what we were asking and wouldnt let us. Finally when we really needed a pitch they helped us lay down a concrete pitch after seeing the effort we were putting in getting one done ourselves.

  11. Me http://www.blogger.com/profile/5896188

    May 17th, 2006 at 6:38 pm

    pora poka paatha neenga book cricket dhan aadanam nu nenaikaran….:p

  12. shub http://www.blogger.com/profile/3933019

    May 20th, 2006 at 12:38 pm

    wow..thanks for that link…awesome :)all this talk reminds me of my Dad…and i’m missing being around my him when the West Indies series is happening :’(

  13. Hathir http://hathirpithi.blogspot.com

    May 20th, 2006 at 10:40 pm

    Just watch West Indies thram India.Maybe that will alleviate the blues. Cheers!

  14. anantha http://www.blogger.com/profile/1193476

    May 21st, 2006 at 7:25 pm

    hathirpithi: Too much re.. too much! :p

    Shub: Pleasure is all mine. And I am sure your people are just a phone call away!