Ø Points: Cricket is an interesting
out door game – the match – First innings for the colleges eleven – Innings of
the University Eleven – and the end of the match.
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Cricket is very interesting outdoor game. I am very fond of
playing cricket, and I am a member of our school eleven. I am equally fond of
watching a really good match. The other day I went to see a very fine match
between the India and Pakistan.
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It was a fine day. A large number of people had gathered to
witness the cricket match in the National Stadium. The captain of the Pakistan
team won the toss and elected to bat, and the Indian team took the field.
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The two batsmen who went in first were quite good players. One was
a good hitter, and punished the ball and all over the field whenever he got it.
The other was very careful, and most of the time simply blocked. He did not
care for the runs. The bowling was strong, and the boy who played a steady game
was not able to score at single run for the first fifteen minutes, but the
other was securing them rapidly. But he soon paid for it; he was caught out
smartly at mid off.
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The next four players were dismissed very quickly two bowled, one caught
out and one out leg-before wickets. All of us thought that the Pakistan team
would soon be all out. The score stood at fifty. However, the captain made a
stand and, with the help of the steady boy who kept in with his blocking, was
able to pull up the score to a hundred. The captain played very cautiously but
before he could make some more runs, he was run out. The whole eleven were out
for 150 runs.
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We felt that the Pakistani team would lose the match, but Indian
team did not have such an easy time as we expected. The Pakistani team had two
very good bowlers one very fast, and the other spinner; and they gave their
opponents a very tough time.
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The Indian team made rather a poor start. Their first wicket fell in
about ten minutes when the score was only ten. However, their captain cheered
them up and made a great stand when he was caught out at 70. Then their wickets
began to fall quickly. The game seemed to point to a defeat for the Indian
team. But when their ninth and tenth player came to bat, their hopes revived,
they hit and drove one of the fast scores reached a hundred. At last one fine
catch sent one of the fast scores off the field. But the last man was a daring
batsman whose two hits won applause from the crowd. They had now only thirteen
runs to make a win the match. They struggle for runs, and great was the joy of
the Indian team when the score stood at 115. But as ill luck would have it, one
slow ball tempted the player to hit a six but he was clean bowled. The Indian
team loss the match by five runs only.
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It has been agreed that it should be a one innings match, so this
meant victory for the Pakistani team. But though the Indian team lost the match
they gave an exhibition of some fine cricket.
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