Cricket...

...not the insect...am talking about the game...which is no less than a religion in India. We Indians have an amazing talent of playing cricket anywhere - on the ground, roads, gully, hostel lobby, roof, staircase - you name it and we can do it. As kids, I used to play cricket with my brother on our bed...used a crumpled paper ball and a notebook for the bat...

there's another interesting story related to cricket...till a few years ago, whenever I was passing from somewhere, where there's a cricket game going on in the vicinity and if I look at it (the game), the batsman used to get out...immediately :D :D...I dont remember when this crazy thing started but I can trace it back to my high-school days...once it so happened that the batsman hit the ball up in the air and it was an easy catch but the fielder missed it...I thought okay, probably not this time...but volla...he gets run-out at the other end...I had a good laugh!!!

again this didn't happen each and every time but it was often enough for me to sit up and take notice...I used find it very amusing...and funny...if I was with a friend and a game was going on, I would tell him "you want to see magic - look he will be out now"...and...tada!!!! most of the time, the "magic" worked.

Crazy things happen in this world...I have shared this story with only a few close friends of mine...but thought will make it public here... :-)