missed a few crores all because of.....

hello


The matches were always aamir khan style On the streets Out in the open ground with wood cut into bats And quite often a battered ball. My brother always had a leg for cricket. He just loved it and would have loved to take it as a profession. But my father was not for it. He kept yelling at my brother whenever he went out with a bat. Oh no not that mattai again. How will you keep up with studies. And what about the scorching sun. who will pay the doc for all the summer boils as you play in the sun. all the same my brother always found a way to run to the playground whenever my father was busy with something or other.
My brother was an all rounder. He still is playing cricket all of his fifty years. Ya he is fifty but the way he used to play he must have been playing it right from his crib days.
He did bat every single ball that were bowled by his friends for a six. This sure was applauded (??????) by our neighbours when they shut their windows shut, changed window panes often. Stayed away from windows lest the ball break their nut. Or started yelling on top of their voices that had little effect on the boys playing on the road. Ultimately the neighborhood took a common decision to change the glass window panes to wood and keep the window shut at least during daytime.
His catch sure came with style. If you want an example of his best catches you must watch the way he used to catch the mangoes that we plucked from the tall tree in our house. He still does help at home with his famous catches that let to year long mango avakkai pickes. He never missed any just like the balls in cricket. Players missing catches would do well to get trained by my dear brother..!!
Captain kannan he sure was whenever he played cricket. He wouldn’t let another boy plot the road shows …I mean the roadside cricket.
With the cricket players going around crores in full swing this season.. think my brother missed a few crores all because of my dear (late)father? Mmmhmm… I wonder..

sathya

Originally Posted by sathya

hello


The matches were always aamir khan style On the streets Out in the open ground with wood cut into bats And quite often a battered ball. My brother always had a leg for cricket. He just loved it and would have loved to take it as a profession. But my father was not for it. He kept yelling at my brother whenever he went out with a bat. Oh no not that mattai again. How will you keep up with studies. And what about the scorching sun. who will pay the doc for all the summer boils as you play in the sun. all the same my brother always found a way to run to the playground whenever my father was busy with something or other.
My brother was an all rounder. He still is playing cricket all of his fifty years. Ya he is fifty but the way he used to play he must have been playing it right from his crib days.
He did bat every single ball that were bowled by his friends for a six. This sure was applauded (??????) by our neighbours when they shut their windows shut, changed window panes often. Stayed away from windows lest the ball break their nut. Or started yelling on top of their voices that had little effect on the boys playing on the road. Ultimately the neighborhood took a common decision to change the glass window panes to wood and keep the window shut at least during daytime.
His catch sure came with style. If you want an example of his best catches you must watch the way he used to catch the mangoes that we plucked from the tall tree in our house. He still does help at home with his famous catches that let to year long mango avakkai pickes. He never missed any just like the balls in cricket. Players missing catches would do well to get trained by my dear brother..!!
Captain kannan he sure was whenever he played cricket. He wouldn’t let another boy plot the road shows …I mean the roadside cricket.
With the cricket players going around crores in full swing this season.. think my brother missed a few crores all because of my dear (late)father? Mmmhmm… I wonder..

sathya

YES the parents do have a role in making or marring but then they were not paying crores then you see, so he i should say just came to terms but his binge for the game is still on, come sunday he and his son vanish from the scene at home they are on some play ground beating the daylights out of someone there...akka

hi sathya,

Your brother is ..fifty and still playing cricket..not bad at all....yes he really missed out on these crores ..who knows with the right encouragement and training where he would have been today..but of course in our younger days only that much importance was given to sports atleast in middleclass homes like ours...

mindi

hello akka

you may be right there...
about crores
called kodi in tamil
it was just kodi
and still is kodi
for a lot many of us...
but all the same
appa would have
got a few guffaws
with my write up....

sathya

hello mindi

you are right
the middle class homes
never thought sports as profession
even today it is difficult
to sport a sport...
all the same
my brother keeps at it...
and it beating the cricket balls
to oblivion...
thanks for stepping in to crores...

sathya

Sathya,
Even now people don't give importance to sports...only some do...education is important at any time isn't it...
Feel sorry for your brother....he could have partcipated in 'Kohn karaega crorepathi' and got that 'crores' he had missed....just kidding...

sriniketan

hello srinik

pona porthu
ippa apply panna sollu
chance irukkunnu solvenu paartha...
kaun banega crorepathi
is more my dh style...
but applying is not his style...
ahaha

sathya