Cricket is back again...

This is my first post. And I wanted to have a look at how do I feel after writing my maiden post on my brand new blog. This was what I intended to do a lot before but never had the great feeling to have my own space. But as you can see there’re so many people today who are keeping pace with world through this new medium, particularly celebrities, politicians, tech-savvies. They find a way to express out their mind, their thoughts. Great, technologies applied nicely. Some does it for fun. Again not bad, collect the joys from wherever you can. But I thought some days back, that one of my idols is doing this religiously since more than a year. He is spreading his feelings, views to his fans. He is nothing but most adorable Indian Icon Big B. So this is just my try to do something like he does or something for expressing my views/thoughts? or for the sake of enjoyment. Am I confused? Ok, here I am…
To inaugurate with, I find rarely any topic other than cricket. Like millions of Indians, I am also a big fan of cricket. But hold on, I won’t be expressing my views on international cricket or anything about cricket stalwarts. Rather my topic is about my freshly started journey into a cricket tournament.
My company cricket team has enrolled into a tennis ball cricket tournament. Couple of years ago, few of my die hard cricket loving colleagues formed a team. We bought kit and started playing on weekends. Since then we are enjoying about it. Many colleagues joined us, many left us but still we are moving. The love for cricket has kept us going.
Last year also, we enrolled in a tournament. But we failed to win any of the eight league matches that we played. Earlier we used to play amongst ourselves and had not known to real matches in recent past. Many of us were playing a tournament after a good gap of decade, the last being played in school days. And many were there debuting in a tournament. We used to practice a lot before tournaments. The frequency increased to 3 times a week. We used to attend office after playing in the morning. There was absolutely no pressure on work due to this practice as we all loved doing it profoundly and religiously. Childhood was back again in our lives.
The atmosphere was fascinating. Those were the days, our team was shaping up. We used to discuss a lot before and after the practice about the improvements, game plans and strategies. Everything was magical. Cricket was the only topic discussed during lunch, tea breaks in those days. We entered the tournament and existed after consecutive 8 losses. We were heart wrenched but also enjoyed our tournament.
Again the days are back, this year. We are enrolled in a tournament. Some of our old team mates are not with us. But we have new bunch of colleagues who are practicing with us since more than a year. We are a team now. I’ll be commenting on our journey. Wish my team. Cricket is back again.