Thank you all for your time for reading the previous blog (crap?)
As i said before, I am primarily writing blogs to look back at my life pre-2004, to rediscover myself.
Part - I
Oh my god, I was talking cricket, watching cricket and of course playing cricket all the time. Well, not the technically sound cricket at coaching nets, but "verithanamana" street cricket or gully cricket as you would call it, no doubt that "Chennai - 600028" was such a run away hit in chennai, cos most of them would easily identify them with the characters of the movie. But this is not Chennai - 600028 rather it is "Chennai - 600033" !!
Early days then, 96 world cup time I was not old enough to play in grounds, but we used to play in Patel Street, in West Mamabalam, my paati's hse was there, it was a very narrow street but long enough, with traffic almost non-existent. Raajkamal, Suresh, Naga(Murugan) , mani, vasanth, kumar, cheena, raja, vishnu, myself and few others divided ourself into team and played "maanga throw" cricket or overarms. The rules will be quite interesting, anga oru veedu irukum, andha veetla ball pona tharamaatanga, so andha veetukulla pona out.
When the older guys like guru, sriram, surendar anna joined us, we wud play bowling with stumps( no hifi stumps rendu kallu dhan :) ) 1 bat or 1.5 bats wide, with no runs, the primary aim is to survive the bowling. You should not play the ball with body more than twice and you cannot hit it into any house and especially that particular hse. Kandipa ball tholanju poidum, adhuku appuram andha ball owner poi avanga appa illa amma va kootindu varuvan, adhukulla naanga ellam escape! adutha nalaiku ellarum paisa potu oru ball vaangi avanuku kuduthuruvom.
My house was in Kavitha flats, Lakeview road, anga engala cricket bat ooda paarthale terror aiduvaanga, we have broken enuf no of glasses, lampshades in both my flat and adjoining coral glade with nishanth and bharadwaj. Then we shifted base to Mahalakshmi flats, angeyum oru kannadi odanjudhukappuram all escape !
Seri ennadhan panradhunu theriyama irundhapo dhan.. neighbouring susil flats construction got over and new guys sriram, kiran and one more guy (forgot his name) came to the rescue. Shifted our base to susil flats, everything was going smooth, one fine day.. kiran edho vithyasama try panna(in underarms only), sriram adha "palar" nu adika, "dabal" nu oru satham, ennadu nu paarhta putham pudhu lamp shade govinda !! Watchman ramaswamy ooda ooda veratitar adhoda yen "flat cricket" sahaptham mudinju poachu atleast in mambalam!! To add about kiran, appo enaku avan "dei kiran" dhan, ippo "ivur, avar aiytaru" cos I never knew he will be my senior at PSG Tech, after 9th std (he was in 11th) i shifted to K K Nagar and lost touch with him and never imagined he would be the Student's Union Chairman(05-06) and to others who are wondering who is this kiran, he is none other than our own Viswanath!!
Then we narayana mission guys decided to shift our home ground to, bhaktavatchalam street ground(better known as _______ !), so finally a promotion from "flat and street" cricket to ground cricket!! Will play about that in the part 2 soon !!!
As i said before, I am primarily writing blogs to look back at my life pre-2004, to rediscover myself.
Part - I
Oh my god, I was talking cricket, watching cricket and of course playing cricket all the time. Well, not the technically sound cricket at coaching nets, but "verithanamana" street cricket or gully cricket as you would call it, no doubt that "Chennai - 600028" was such a run away hit in chennai, cos most of them would easily identify them with the characters of the movie. But this is not Chennai - 600028 rather it is "Chennai - 600033" !!
Early days then, 96 world cup time I was not old enough to play in grounds, but we used to play in Patel Street, in West Mamabalam, my paati's hse was there, it was a very narrow street but long enough, with traffic almost non-existent. Raajkamal, Suresh, Naga(Murugan) , mani, vasanth, kumar, cheena, raja, vishnu, myself and few others divided ourself into team and played "maanga throw" cricket or overarms. The rules will be quite interesting, anga oru veedu irukum, andha veetla ball pona tharamaatanga, so andha veetukulla pona out.
When the older guys like guru, sriram, surendar anna joined us, we wud play bowling with stumps( no hifi stumps rendu kallu dhan :) ) 1 bat or 1.5 bats wide, with no runs, the primary aim is to survive the bowling. You should not play the ball with body more than twice and you cannot hit it into any house and especially that particular hse. Kandipa ball tholanju poidum, adhuku appuram andha ball owner poi avanga appa illa amma va kootindu varuvan, adhukulla naanga ellam escape! adutha nalaiku ellarum paisa potu oru ball vaangi avanuku kuduthuruvom.
My house was in Kavitha flats, Lakeview road, anga engala cricket bat ooda paarthale terror aiduvaanga, we have broken enuf no of glasses, lampshades in both my flat and adjoining coral glade with nishanth and bharadwaj. Then we shifted base to Mahalakshmi flats, angeyum oru kannadi odanjudhukappuram all escape !
Seri ennadhan panradhunu theriyama irundhapo dhan.. neighbouring susil flats construction got over and new guys sriram, kiran and one more guy (forgot his name) came to the rescue. Shifted our base to susil flats, everything was going smooth, one fine day.. kiran edho vithyasama try panna(in underarms only), sriram adha "palar" nu adika, "dabal" nu oru satham, ennadu nu paarhta putham pudhu lamp shade govinda !! Watchman ramaswamy ooda ooda veratitar adhoda yen "flat cricket" sahaptham mudinju poachu atleast in mambalam!! To add about kiran, appo enaku avan "dei kiran" dhan, ippo "ivur, avar aiytaru" cos I never knew he will be my senior at PSG Tech, after 9th std (he was in 11th) i shifted to K K Nagar and lost touch with him and never imagined he would be the Student's Union Chairman(05-06) and to others who are wondering who is this kiran, he is none other than our own Viswanath!!
Then we narayana mission guys decided to shift our home ground to, bhaktavatchalam street ground(better known as _______ !), so finally a promotion from "flat and street" cricket to ground cricket!! Will play about that in the part 2 soon !!!
Childhood never complete without street cricket.
ReplyDeleteStreet cricket never complete without broken window panes.
Well captured in the post da.
Adutha postla ball romba keela vandha kuniya mudiyama bowled ayiduvaye adha pathiyum eludhu ;)
Dei neenga chinna bat kuduthutu enna vilayada sonna epdi da!! kuyila pudichu koondil adachi pada sollugira ulagam :-)
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