PARTICIPATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING

NIT VS XLRI (@ LORDS - 26.01.10)

On the auspicious occasion of the REPUBLIC DAY the cricket match was being 

organized between the technocrats from NIT & the budding managers from XLRI. The match was being scheduled from 10.00 am.

The stalwart managers arrive at the LORDS. Player’s mean of transport was an auto-rickshaw. What? Surely, they could have afforded to keep up the reputation of hefty pay packages offered. However our star of the day VKG comes riding his black Apache. The teams practice in the meantime untill the inauguration ceremony. The total number of team members  that the visiting team could congregate was 11. Just enough to complete the squad. Among them few seemed to be so lethargic as if they were paid to be the member of the squad.

The inauguration ceremony occurs and the director is back again in action (speech) after his flag hoisting speech. Acting smartly he keeps it short. Finally after a long wait the captains go for the toss. The toss being won by home team, the captain decides to bat. XL team take the field with cheers all around. We take our position in the pavilion straight behind the wicketkeeper. As other places were pre-occupied with throng that was forcefully brought from UPs hostel. It seemed that the opposite sex was not even interested in cricket.

Only FEW had gathered there.

(YAAR GLAMOUR HI NAHI THA 20 -20 MEIN)

The batsmen take their crease. First few over were well bowled by the XL. Our batsman looked placid giving respect to the bowlers. After the span of 4 over they slowly accelerated the innings. However the regular fall of wickets was a cause of concern for the home team. Players like V. GAUTAM, MR.K, G.SINGH  etc. made a great contribution in the team total. It was because of them the team made a challengeable target. However they were really capable of scoring better than this score of 156.

Our star batsman was Santa who faced 3 balls for scoring a duck.

He was an epitome of DHAMM enterprise after he came back from the crease. ( DHAMM to be understood by only MECH people) So, the scoreboard read 156/9 in 20 overs for the home team.

After an interval of about 30 minutes the next innings began.

Team XL batsmen at the crease. They really looked underprepared while batting. As every delivery seemed unplayable to them. They were not even eager to play with the bat and were busy protecting themselves. In the first 4 overs the scoreboard read just 11 runs with no fall of wicket. First wicket fell in the 5^th over, a moment of respite for the home team. This was accompanied by 2 successive run-outs at the bowlers end. Both occurred in the same fashion. The over smart XL captain was also among the run outs.

Mr.K and V.G bowled some excellent deliveries. Their line, length was impeccable. Our fielders were showing their exuberance of youth in the field unlike those of XL. In the process they injured a XL player. The visiting team looked miserable at the crease. At one point of time it seemed they couldn’t even reach 50. However the cameo of the inning came from one batsman who played smartly utilizing the balls speed. ( didn’t remember the name)Instead of hard hitting he concentrated on placing the ball for boundaries. The wickets kept on falling at regular intervals and the whole team made meagre 68. Our star player from XL also didn’t contribute to provide some respite to the agony of XL team. They couldn’t even play the whole 20 overs.

The final result was loss of XL team by huge margin of 88 runs. An UNDERPREPEARED team. This clearly showed 

HOW CRUEL THE LIFE IS AT MANAGEMENT COLLEGES.

The pressure on them throughout their academic period to perform. They didn’t played to their potential. Otherwise few match winners of the visiting team could have gave the home team a run for their money. However cheers for the XL team who could manage to play the match on that day.

THANK U ALL FOR PARTICIPATING.

Remember 

PARTICIPATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING