Cricket fight: True story from our childhood
Few years after 1983 world cup win of Indian cricket team, cricket was becoming
popular in villages. On their demand, Father bought a cricket bat for Pappu, Sanju
Bholu in Jakholi block of then Tehri district of Uttarakhand.
In summer evenings, they used to play cricket in the small playground in-front
of the office building. They were joined by some five-six children from the
village. They used to melt plastic on fire and make ball out of it at home. Everyone
used to get one over to bowl and one over to bat without any counting of runs.
One day a smartly dressed kid came along with the village children. They
said he came there temporary from a big city of Dehradun. He taught the rules
of game to children. Everyone liked his style of play. It was almost impossible
for anyone to clean bold him. He used to hit every ball when batting and took minimum
one wicket in every over when bowling. He was a perfect all-rounder. Someone
said he used to go for cricket coaching in Dehradun.
He made two teams, two captains and an umpire. He collected one Rupee
from each child for cricket ball and brought some good quality balls. Evening
play started becoming regular and kids started learning cricket at a faster rate
than earlier. After a month, he suddenly stopped coming. Village children said
that he went back to city and will now come next year.
Even without that kid, cricket went on every evening. Kids had already
learned many things from him. They promised to each other that they will
continue to play in the same fashion and the enthusiasm.
One day Pappu was batting and a village kid Monu was umpire, he was
little elder than Pappu. Pappu hit the ball and ran on the pitch for runs. Fielder
caught the ball threw the ball to the wickets. Wickets fell but Pappu claimed
that he had already reached the crease. But Monu said otherwise and declared Pappu
run out.
Both of them started giving opinions in their own favour. They suddenly
started becoming aggressive. Their passionate discussion turned into a heated
argument and in no-time they had a physical scuffle. Bat fell down from Pappu
hand as Monu over powered him. Bholu went in to help Pappu while some village kids
helped Monu. Some Kids from village and Sanju tried to pacify them but in vain.
There was a free for all brawl between village kids and Pappu, Bholu.
Sanju watched things going out of hand quietly as he saw number of kids
from village were certainly higher and all of them were well built. He couldn’t
resist more. He went toward the bat, lifted it and struck Monu’s head with all
of his might.
Monu’s hands went up, he covered his head with his palms and sat on field
screaming in pain.
Fight stopped.
Everyone ran to check on Monu. One old man who were walking there also
came in and scolded everyone.
Pappus started toward home.
Monu had a big bump on his head. With acute discomfort, he walked toward
his village with the help of others.
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