THE BEST MATCH OF MY LIFE

 THE GREATEST PARTNERSHIP RECORDED IN MY MIND

It was a Sunday. For that reason our teacher organized a match in Uttarpara Government Cricket Academy. The match was between The Juniors facing off The Seniors. We were overconfident and easy-going. Our captain Chris Singh won the toss and opted to bat. Golokenda Das was the name of the opposing captain. But our prediction proved to be a great mistake.

The first over Surjo, their expected main bowler and a genuine fast bowler bowled a maiden against our captain, Chris. He got frustrated as was not getting to connect the ball with his bat. Second over, came Soham, a medium slow bowler and not very effective. But to all our surprise he proved cheap, conceded only a wide and took the wicket of Sayon. The score was now 1-2 (2). The lights were now on Chris as what he would do when he faces against Ayush who is the fastest bowler in our U-12 group.  Lo and Behold! The first ball was a dot. Next 3 balls saw the fall of the 3 said main batsman of the Senior Team- Chris, Arjun and Piyush. Ayush and the others were overjoyed as he got a hat-trick and moreover the score was now 1-4(2.4).

I was at 6^th down as there was a personal war against me and Chris as I had defeated him 12 times out of 13. That’s why out of his jealousy and his anger against me was the main cause of mine batting at 6^th down and my best friend on 9^th.

But who thought that there would be some more wickets falling off. The score was at present    9-7(4) Aryan, Debangshu and Vabhia got to the pavilion cheaply. Now Chris and others had almost lost hope. But they forgot that I and Shashwat, my 2^nd best friend are still on the crease. When he had hit some big hits they understood their mistake. Chris, who is usually a regular opponent of mine now started supporting us.

We didn’t upset our team. When I got out only by a single moment of diverted concentration, my run was 52 and Shashwat’s 32*. We have built a strong partnership of 81 runs and when I was in pavilion our score was 93-8(14). Our total score was 98 all out and Shashwat was 37*. All congratulated us. I just can’t believe now also as how The Juniors could do such a disaster to our batting line up.

Now our expected things started to happen. The Juniors got out only in 53 runs. Chris got 1 wkt, Vabhia got none. I got 3-6(3) and Shashwat 2-9(1). Expectedly I was the Man Of The Match. That historical match still refreshes my mind.