All Rounder???

Now back home after a fortnight playing cricket in the sub continent. We played eleven games altogether which was an amazing testament to our endurance at our age! We played against significantly younger teams and we managed 4 wins which was encouraging. The last game was at Shivaji Park in Mumbai which is an amazing experience there is always 5 or 6 games going on plus all sorts of everyday life! The boundaries overlap so the fielders are all mixed up!  Dogs, bikes vendors drift across where you are playing. Nobody is surprised by this! It is the biggest open space in the great conurbation of Mumbai (22 million plus people live in the city). The picture below i found on the internet. We won the game and guess who had his first bowl in India (after three years) and got a wicket with his first ball? Another followed in the same over!  I also batted for a while so the body was wreck at the end- the temperature was about 36 degrees! My legs are very swollen still as a result of the heat and the toil! So I now want to be classified as an allrounder!

 

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Bill Church is the story traveller, a former Headteacher who has a passion for sharing stories with people from 3 years up to 103 years of age. Bill loves stories; finding them (and the story’s story!), telling them and writing them! He is passionate in believing that everybody can tell stories and is keen to help people whatever their age do this. His blog ranges from his Story telling experiences to his obsessions sport, bird watching and cycling!

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