Had a wonderful chat yesterday with a friend. I have not met him even once for the past 6 years so the chat was a nice way to remember the school days.We shared a special friendship .Mostly because of CRICKET.
I was a pretty good player in school and used to play backyard cricket with him.His father was a IAS officer and they had a quarter with a big backyard. Only the two of us mostly used to play but we used to put in hours together. We had an unusual competition amongst ourselves with the following rules:
1. 3 overs a side. Plastic ball match. If someone hits in the neighbour’s backyard he is declared out.Rest was normal cricket.
A special rule for me: Don’t ball a bouncer to me. 
2. Every match is a part of a series of 5 matches each.
3. Every such series in turn is a part of a grand series (series of series) of 3. Initially we had decided to have 3 but later on increased to 5, 7 and finally 11.So if i count correctly, we played close to 50 matches amongst ourselves. And used to play only about a couple of matches every week so that we keep the suspense going for a long time.This must have taken us a year to complete.Phew!
Proud to say I won all of them. As far as I remember I had won it fair and square as 5-4 with one drawn series. We only played 10 .Since I was pretty much sure I would not loose even in the case he won. We increased the limit from 3 to 5 to 7 to 11 because I won them successively each time.
Poor Tausif(Yeah..That’s his name).
Whenever anyone of us won a series we had our own way of celebrating.
Tausif, If i remember correctly, used to take a ride on his bicycle and instigate me by shouting “JUST BRING IT” imitating his favourite WWE superstar THE ROCK. 
When I won , which I did a plenty of times , I used to draw a heart on the ground and sleep on it, just like Gustavo Kuerton did when he won the French Open three times, praising myself as a worthy winner.That really used to put him off. 
Our celebrations used to be so wild that the looser always used to get incensed. I liked it even more If I could put Tossy (I used to call him that sometimes) on the mat and harass him with my sarcastic comments every time he lost.
In between we played a few test matches . I guess he won most of them. Some triangular series with a common friend. I never let him win that though. Besides Cricket we played a bit of Soccer , some computer games, hide and seek (probably…don’t quite remember).
Ah…those were really the most beautiful days from school. It was fun. No responsibilities, nobody holding our head forcing us to study. All we cared about was to play and talk. Everyday.The entire day. Wish they never ended. Sadly they have but their sweet memories still remain. 
cheers
X
Sandy
Well sandy is talking about me, I really cherish those days of my life, most of what sandy has written is true, the heart and joy while playing together was so wonderful, But i guess some of the statistics given by sandy are wrong
, I won more than what you have written, yes sandy i shared a really special friendship with you or should i say rivalry with you( strictly in terms of sports OK, cuz in studies he was way ahead of my) He never could beat me in an 100 meters sprint 
of what i remember our special friendship just dint restrict to cricket but some thing else too, If you remember i use to collect some articles about the great people of this century which use to be really inspiring reading those i use to ask sandy weird questions like what is the full form of BPL and who is the founder of Apple Computers in counter he use to ask me even weirder questions like what does L.K stand for in L K Advani hahaha….!!
I really miss those days, It is really hard to put all the memories shared in this one comment
I am sure soon we will reunite and share some of our weird passions together so get ready sandy for some cricket and some interesting facts about this world haha
@ Tossy
Thanks for commenting.
True.We shared a great friendship.Ironically we always used to call us together as “best rivals”.
Yeah, I remember the weirder questions and trivia.That was fun.Talking together on our way back home from school on our bicycles
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And Yes.I could never beat you in 100 meters sprint.I think no one in school could
Its hard for me to sum up all in that one blog entry too.You and I were together for close to 3 years and I just loved to compete with you.Amazing time.
PS: My statistics are not wrong.I did beat you fair and square.Sure we will reunite, for I can’t wait to beat you again
;-D .
PPS: Also keep visiting my blog.I keep writing even more weirder stuff in my posts.
Some nice description of the good old days you have had..
Nice to read this nostalgic stuff….
Thanks