Of Carpet Pitches and "Rocky" Playing Fields

After hours of catch, batting and bowling practice, Woodstock's cricket team has finally been formed and they are ready to hit out from the first ball. In a surprising move, Siddarth Datla has been named captain after predicted captain Aditya Todi decided that he had to much on his plate to deal with. The team had a record turnout for tryouts as no less the 50 students showed up. The signs were definitely encouraging. Anant Poddar and I decided to go for the tryouts just for kicks and were quite simply blown away. It started it off with catch practice. The catching with a leather ball was a lot more difficult than either of us had imagined. It was so difficult that when we were instructed to call out our names before taking a catch, Anant accidentally shouted out ANOOP instead of his name. When it came to batting, The very first ball saw me clean bowled. It was so weird wearing all the padding that I was actually unable to even get close to playing my usual style. Well I did learn something from all of this though, there is no such thing as an easy sport (Except Curling of course!).