Tit-Bits from my cricket team:
Quotable Quotes:
"Yaar, match jaldi khatam karo, khana khatam ho jayega" - Suri, invariably in all the matches.
"Yaar, meri ball middle stump pe daalu toh in-swing hoti hai... off-stump pe dalu toh swing hi nahi hoti" - Laddoo, since his first year.
"Bikash spoke abouse words" The (Bengali) umpire in the IITM vs IITG cricket match jotting down in his diary after Lays ( Vikas) cudnt hold back the joy of getting a batsman bowled.
"IITM cricket team is the most disciplined team" Umpires.
Day 3: 6.30 am. Gigolo: " Naib get up, aaj FOG ( more like 'FOAG') nahi hai..practice time pe shuru jar sakte hain"
Naib: " Shit Man!!! !@#!@"
"I am sorry, very sorry. I dont like to hurt anybody" DB, after hitting Naresh on his toe in practice.
"You bowl so wide down the leg side, the square leg ( not even fine-leg) fielder has to run to field the ball." - Karthik Naib.
"If team needs" - -Ayush, hiding all his joy after he was asked by the coach if he could open the innings for IITM. He still claims that he was all serious.
"Our real batting starts after nine-down"
-common joke/reality during inter-IIT, as the last wicket partnership was the largest in the first two matches against KGP and Bombay.
"Haven't you all had... what do you call it in hindi - 'maa ka doodh' ... " - Karthik Naib, giving an inspiring speech to players in the team meeting after the loss against KGP in the first match.
"It was a clean strategy... you should save experience for the end" - Laddoo, trying to justify the decision to send Dharik (one of the main batsmen) 9 down. Dharik and Teju ended up winning the do-or-die match against Bombay for Madras by scoring 26 in 2 overs with just one wicket left.
"Machcha, Saarang choreo nite in jan da... practicing" -Sudheer Raj (member of saarang choreo team too), explaining the bemused captain of why he was doing strange things standing at deep mid-wicket.
"When is the next train back home?"
- The most common answer when the team members were asked what they were thinking at 65/9 (chasing 103) against bombay?
"When is the next train back home?"
- The most common answer when the team members were asked what they were thinking at 65/9 (chasing 103) against bombay?
QUOTABLE JEERING QUOTES:
"Laddoo piss gaya" - IITG chap when laddoo got hit for a four.
"He is Lays?? where is Kurkure?" PJ by opposite captain during a Practice match.
"Beta don't get bored out there!"
-the all so over-confident Delhi coach to the two batsmen after Delhi was 50/0 in 7 overs in the semis.
They ended up getting all out for 103.
"I was unlucky to get bowled" Delhi batsman.( As if we are all lucky to get bowled)
"Tailender batting pe aa gaya" Aimed at one of our top batsmen after looking at his batting by KGP guys.
"Khushu Sir, Aaram aaram se khelenge" Delhi spectators.
HILARIOUS INCIDENTS:
IITM bowling first. Four overs up. Bowler at fine leg asks for Water. The 12th man by now is pretty experienced, so he takes 2 bottles of water, 3 packets of glucose and 2 bottles of pain-relief (??!!) spray. The whole of the team converges in on the sprays.. and any fielder who has even touched the ball once is complaining of pain.
At the other end of the ground, the team's premier fast bowler has lowered ( yes, he has) his pants and the whole team is watching in disbelief the sight of the 12th man kneeling on the ground and spraying at the bowler's what-we-would-call 'Groin' for sake of decency.
The names of the bowler and the 12th man withheld on request....
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Ayush, batting against Delhi. The situation is tense. We need to hold our wickets. The Delhi fielders are trying to intimidate Ayush and Laddoo, the two batsmen in the middle by sledging.
Ayush plays a ball to a fielder and wanders out of his crease. The fielder warns " Saale, crease ke andar aaja varna maar dunga". This happens twice. Third time Ayush says, " Bhainchod, kya bolta rehta hai, maarta toh hai nahi".
Oops... Then the fielder catches hold of Ayush's collar on the field. And our man, Ayush is unnerved. Ayush still maintains he was not afraid of that chap...
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Practice Match, Chemplast. Dharik is wicket keeping in place of Naib. Lays is the bowler. Lays calls out dharik by his name ( which any sane keeper wud understand to be a signal that next ball is a slower ball.)
Dharik replies loudly: " Haan haan, samajh gaya". Batsman seemed to be amused. The next ball ( slower ball) was hit for a four.
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First match at Inter-IIT v/s KGP. Ayush is full enthu, he brings his Digicam to the field hoping to take pictures after the match. We lose pretty miserably. The team management blames it squarely on the presence of the cam and the bad-luck it brought. (Non-performing) cricketers are superstitious, you see. As a result of this, there was no cam in any of the matches ( all of which we subsequently won). So we end up with no photos of the matches. Btw, Just when we were almost ( almost) sure to win the finals, we sent our poor freshie, the Sardar to get the cam all the way from the hostel. So, we have something to cherish.
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In Shillong, Durgesh, the team's left arm spinner fell down into a Drainage ( while pissing) ... LOL!!! He came back stinking and wearing borrowed clothes.
*** Compiled with special inputs from Laddoo, the captain.
