I am a big cricket fan. I used to even skip meals to watch cricket
matches when I was a kid with no mobile and television in my room. My mom used
to keep calling me for Lunch/Dinner and I used to sit and watch match as if I
am a statue. Every, year the saddest moment in my cricket watching craziness
was my exams. It was very difficult to choose between my exams and cricket
match. It used to be a very difficult situation watching cricket match all day
would take me to a big zero in my exams and not watching the match would not
let me concentrate on my studies. I sometimes started listening to music and tried not to watch the cricket match, but I could not.
So by now you must be thinking what did I used to do to watch or get an update
when I had no mobile and television in my room, poor me. So what my craziness
for cricket made me do was, I had a cousin brother Ravi who
was older to me and was very intelligent and had a TV in his room. At, that
time there used to be only landline phones I used to tell him to give me
updates on my landline. First, he said no that I will not tell you the updates
if your mother will come to know she will scold me for this. I somehow
convinced him and he agreed.
What I used to do was after very half an hour I used to call him and ask him
the score and whenever a wicket used to fall he used to call me up so this way
I used to get an update. When my mother used to ask me that why he and you are
calling so frequent I used to tell her that I am asking Ravi my
doubts for tomorrow’s exam. This calling and updates used to keep on till the
end of the match.
One day, after asking my cousin when I disconnected the phone and turned back
my mother was behind me. My mouth remained opened for a while and I
started to imagine my mother beating me with a big wooden stick. But what she
said was the craziest think I could have ever imagined.
You must be thinking what did she said. What she said really made me feel that we
Indians love cricket very much. She said that beta 'What’s the score?' I
told her the score and she then said from now you will study and I will pick up
the phone and will give you the update you go and study. I silently went to my
room and started studying.
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