Book Cricket

when i was kid, one thing that made my world was playing. And my parents rightly gave me all the freedom. I was also good in studies also as my sweet sister would motivate me (she was some kind of rare brains. always a topper). I used to think all the time about playing. And at 5 pm in the evening we friends use to gather in the ground near by. I was lucky enough to have 1o of my classmates in the same colony and also lucky enough to have the school very near my house (about 10 min walk) and also lucky enough to have a huge ground near by. I remember my mom praying as to when will i loose interest in sports whenever there was exams :).

My mom and dad used to not allow me to play and so did parents of my friend during exams. But as my smart from my childhood days, i used to find innovative ideas to play. This is one among them. The book cricket.

Rules:
Take a book with lots of pages.
Act as if you are reading the book :)
Now have a book and pen down the team members name.
As usual have a toss so decide who has to bat
Now open the book.
The page number of the page on right side decides on what the status of the ball is.
Every open of the book is a ball bowled.
The right side of the page always as an even page number 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 etc
2, 4, 6 and 8 are the runs. 8 is 1 run
0 means OUT
for page number 12, 112 etc consider only the last number (here 2)

rest of the rules are same as rules of cricket example: when 1 run is taken the other batsman gets to bat. when 6 balls are over, the next bowler can be considered etc

So this is another form of cricket which i used to enjoy, get addicted to and freek
entire book used to get over. tournaments would be played. world cup cricket would be played etc.

I used to always have my favorite player score some runs....How is that...Guess
Then my favorite player used to be Dean Jones. Simply because he was cool and one of the nest players of one day and a front foot player

Hope i am not spoiling others who read at work place

French Cricket

French Cricket is one of types of cricket we used to play when I was in grade 4th to 8th. We used to play during our lunch time. The reason :) we used to not get the bat, ball and wicket from our PT teachers.
So do we make the bat.....we used to have a broken bench wooden bat like piece. We used to keep this safe and hidden from the teachers so that they do not put it back to the store, So this was our bat. Then we used either bring the tennis ball in the pocket or make a paper ball. So we had all that we wanted.


OK....here is the rule of cricket.

• Have a bat , a ball, a team with few players :), and a small place
  
• Now mark a circle (1 ft: as much as one can stand)
• Now a person from the batting team comes and then stands within the circle
• All the members of fielding team are bowlers here. To start with one person can start from a certain point that we decide to throw the ball. (say from about a distance of 6-7 ft)
• The bowler need to do an under arm bowling
• And a batsman is considered to be OUT, if the ball touches the leg below the knee or a one pitch catch (for ball that pitches) or by any chance if he goes outside the circle
  
• The batsman is suppose to guard his knee and make runs
• Oh....i forgot how to make runs....Once the batsman hits the ball he needs to rotate the bat around him. completion of one round is a RUN, Batsman can rotate till the fielder completes the throw action
• Fielder who throws is the current bowler
• So what if the batsman forever guards his legs....(we used to have some time span for a team). if the ball gets lost or any delay is tracked. This is normally the area where we used to have fights
  

Tips and Tricks.
Place a bowler just behind the batsman, make the bowler throw in such a way that the
batsman misses and the batsman is exposed in danger.

This was a really nice cute title game. Wish we could still play in the company :)