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Happy Teachers' Day - Lessons from gully cricket!

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By Ankit Poddar

As kids, perhaps, we had all dreamt of being a cricketer - and that led to my introduction and affection for gully cricket.

And there has been no better teacher than gully cricket.

Lesson 1 - There is no better way to fight a bunch of egoistic and arrogant kids than to hit some quick runs against them and help your team win.

Lesson 2 - There is nothing more strategic than making a not-so-good bowler bowl against "their" best batsman, and the look on his face after the six he hits, then a four and then clean-bowled.

Lesson 3 - and the most important at that - There is no sport that teaches you taking defeat so sportingly than gully cricket, because, in gully cricket, you always know, tomorrow will see the start of a new match.

And there are some more, but then i am not sure, if everyone has gone through the same brand of gully cricket as I have.

I thought this is the best place to share my views on gully cricket, come forward and reply with what your teacher taught you.

13 comments:

Gaurav Sethi said...

ankit - dig lesson 2. as would zim, bangladesh and ireland.
lesson 4: use the no no ball effectively.

Anil Singh said...

...and like celebrating Teacher's day four days before, so that time is left for playing gully cricket :)

Gaurav Sethi said...

AB - could you pls mail me at bcciwrites@gmail.com
will mail you back re bcci

Viswanathan said...

Lesson 4.

The boy who owns the bat/ball/stumps is as powerful as the BCCI.

straight point said...

lesson...5

if you know how to hit ball or wicket you don't have to own a bat or ball...you are STAR...

BTW, welcome on bored...ankit :)

Gaurav Sethi said...

lesson 6.5 - leg it when u can't bat it. no lbw in my gully cricket.
btw anybody played galli cricket?
otti, sp - hilarious!

straight point said...

yes...gaurav very much...to over come deliberate leg play we all formed a rule that if ball hit leg 3 times then you are out...

i still remember how we used to ball at legs and how batsmen would avoid it specially if he is on 3rd count... :))

but one thing which helped me later when i played more competitive cricket (as opener) was straight drive...and leg glance...just missing keeper...coz of narrow lanes on which we used to play gully cricket on...

straight point said...

...oho...i have hit upon an idea of my next post for bcci...watcha for space...

Gaurav Sethi said...

just wanted to get everything on the half volley, kp kinda batsman. luckily i had spare ribs!

Scorpicity said...

You forgot one important lesson... the one with the bat gets to play irrespective of being a talentless dodo...lol.

lesson 2 brings back fond memories, especially choosing the most fruitiest of bowlers, who are painfully slow, tosses the ball, high in the air and extremely short in length! it always gets them!... I think ramesh powar evolved from this lesson.

Scorpicity said...

lesson: if you get out cheaply, hit the makeshift stumps in frustration... you will gain 15 minutes in assembling it back again and it could go dark by then. You can go home with full "gaaji" without bowling a ball to your opponent.

Ankit Poddar said...

Ott, Scorpicity, SP and NC,

some great lessons there..

SP,

thanks, we had a similar for wides in an innings by a bowler, helped me improve at least.

Scorpicity,

lol, why only pawar, bhajji too evolved from the same space, he also has the attitude of gully cricket.

Gaurav Sethi said...

scorpi - that ball, if you can call it that, hoodwinked many a good batsman.
still works vs all age groups. It's a bitch of a ball. Lures with the promise of batting eden, and then...