Monday, May 15, 2006

Basketball diaries

One yearns to be playing cricket like this. But regardless of disappointments at not being a part of similar groups, one's day brightens even upon reading about things like this.

If you ask me who I'd identify myself with the most among all the Saturday Game ballers, it would have to be the Commish. I am obsessed with playing right whether it is practice or the game or when I am in the sidelines cheering (happened a lot during my undergrad and grad years). I am not a very good player, but I hate to play with people who act goofy or don't give 100 percent when the rest are playing seriously.

So now, I am hunting for the right group to play with. The group is more than important for me to sustain interest, to help me get out of bed in the morning like I used to during the summer holidays in the 80's and the first half of the 90's and run at 6:30 in the morning to the Hensman Road ground. But I know now that playing cricket like that here is almost impossible. And it is in times like this when I wish I was really in and around South Florida where the beautiful weather permits one group that I know who play regularly.

Maybe tennis is the answer, but the combination of factors like the lack of equally (non) talented hitting partners and ankle-biters hogging the pair of tennis courts in the apartment complex every evening has been the dampener these past few weeks.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

so what dya list me as.... talented or not. Further particpation in tennis events depends on ur answer...
-shashi

anantha said...

Dude, if you were around to play with me (as opposed to being "busy"), why would I even have to post this? Does that answer your question? And btw, I mentioned that I was (non)talented.

passer by said...

who is this other shashi..

hmm.. since when this suddent interest to come down from the stands..

anantha said...

Shashi: The other shashi is a friend from grad school. And while we have never been a playah', we have always been a player.

anantha said...

Sudha: What do you mean "supportive weather"? Just because a rag-tag team of mad Englishmen regularly play at the Northpole in "supportive weather", doesn't mean I can do so :p
According to the wiki page on Florida, the state averages 300 days of full sunshine a year, which is regular cricket weather. But Denver??? LOL...

passer by said...

bFkaA u are tagged

gvenum said...

Dude , move to Dallas. The NTCA(North Texas Cricket association ) here has 3 leagues with well over 35 teams in all. They play 10 months of serious cricket including a winter cup. My club is looking for people too. The only difference from what Sudha mentioned is once the season is over none of them look cute with all the sun burn and the tan.

anantha said...

Gvenum: I know about Dallas. One of my buddies who plays in Sarasota used to be in UTD and used to play in one of those leagues. As for sun burn and such, it don't matter for the "mirror cracking" types anyways.

Sudha: Indoor cricket huh? We tried to do that in Ohio, but the facilities people had a tough time understand what we were asking and wouldnt let us. Finally when we really needed a pitch they helped us lay down a concrete pitch after seeing the effort we were putting in getting one done ourselves.

Me said...

pora poka paatha neenga book cricket dhan aadanam nu nenaikaran....:p

shub said...

wow..thanks for that link...awesome :)all this talk reminds me of my Dad...and i'm missing being around my him when the West Indies series is happening :'(

Anonymous said...

Just watch West Indies thram India.Maybe that will alleviate the blues. Cheers!

anantha said...

hathirpithi: Too much re.. too much! :p

Shub: Pleasure is all mine. And I am sure your people are just a phone call away!

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