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KKR playing DC
Just as when Sharukh Khan was thinking of calling his travel agent to book his ticket to South Africa, Mashrafe Mortaza decided to save some cost for the team.
A day when the adage "Every dog has its day" was coming close to reality for the KKR pack, when one saw Ajit Agarkar defy his usual self and bowl a brilliant 19th, McCullum smile on field, Kartik bowling a good spell of 4 tight overs. When one started feeling that KKR are ducking the trend to win one, Mashrafe thought otherwise.
I would ask the KKR team to may be try their luck with book cricket first. And when they do that, I would recommend that they borrow a book from Scorpicity. That seems to be the only way KKR can win one.
Showing posts with label Book cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book cricket. Show all posts
B the moment of the match
CT (New Abridged Version)
Hoola! The CT dates are out for next year, Sept. Looks like we’re in for yet another remake of that old classic, Charade. Meanwhile, they’ve sliced it from 17 to 12 days. Confused?
While they’re at it, why not play the finals in the Swiss Alps. It’ll look good on paper. One last suggestion, can’t the entire CT be played on paper too? Remember Book Cricket? No way Oz – can back out then!
Match fixing in book cricket
By Scorpicity
After VM's take on paper ball cricket and Ankit's guidelines on gully cricket, I decided to let out the last version of cricket which I played, thus completing all the nostalgic action on cricket from my childhood days.
Ta.da... Presenting the unassailable book cricket!
It all goes back to my childhood studying in the 6th grade where boring math classes forced us to indulge in our favourite pastime. Our math teacher was a good teacher, however she was very fast in her didactical progress and therefore I often got lost to a point where I gave up listening to her. She assumed that since the brighter lads had it figured out, the rest of the class also did. My maths teacher could have been a great cricket player for one valid reason. She could wield the cane with deft precision and power. There are many teachers who often miss with the extended hands (ball) of some students being whisked away on time anticipating the pain but oh no, not this one! Her backlift could put Brian Lara to shame and when it came crashing down, there was never a miss nor an edge... sweetly timed onto the meat of your palm.... reverse swing, inswing, whichever damm way someone tries to move his hand (ball) away, she always watched it like a hawk.
So now that leaves us with the thickest textbook available at that point in school... the dreaded maths book. I don't think there is any need to explain book cricket in detail. In short, it worked on probability and the player has to randomly open the pages of the book. The last digit of the page numbers were considered the scoring runs with numbers like 5, 7.8 and 9 being 'no runs' and with 0 being the dreaded ball where you are out. This game was a rage in school and the first corrupt seeds of match fixing prevailed on me at an early age, where soon I became the undisputed champion of book cricket.
How I fixed it was simple... after the first 50 odd pages, I tore away all the pages with 0 in it and that gave me the leverage of playing extremely well because of the knowledge of the conditions. It got my classmates pissed off because they could never figure out how I kept winning all the time and they never would have imagined anyone tearing off key pages of a textbook! So I lived to become a book cricket legend!
Phew... now that's a whole lot out of my chest!
I never got caught playing this game during the maths class and I closest I got was when one day while she was correcting the submitted homeworks, she caught me rapidly opening my math text book and scribbling something on my notebook. So she came to be and said
Teacher: “What do you think you are doing”
Me: (no response) (gulp!)
She examines my notebook and see it filled with different scores, numbers all over.
Teacher: Are you taking a random problem from your book and solving it? Rapid maths practice?
Me: yes ma'am.
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