WNC Tournament : NCS Clash - I

Too Bad I can't devote so much time to describe each and every detail of the Cricket matches of the WNC tournament...I'll still try to describe everything that happened in the best possible way.

MATCH - 1
24 May 2005
NCS v/s K.V - 1

We were supposed to report at Kohli stadium at 0730 hrs and the entire NCS team was punctual on that day. The WNC Tournament representatives arrive on the School Grounds an hour later after testing our patience and this is how the intial conversation went:

Representative : "Itne saare log yahaan kyoon aaye hai? Summer Camp ke to nahi Lagte..."
Just then a KV Student tells him about the match.
Representative : "Accha...Match Aaj Hai??? Hame to kisine bataya hi nahi....Hum abhi aate hain."
He comes back 15 minutes later: "Pehla Match NCS v/s K.V 1"

And yes...Our Principal had visited Kohli Stadium at around 8 am and was surprised how the representatives hadn't arrived. Thanks to her those people at least came on the ground.

Finally at 11:00 am two umpires arrive...tell us to shift to Kohli Stadium and then here's how it goes.
{U - Umpire 1}

U - Aap ke vajah se hum sab late ho gaye...Isliye match sirf 15 overs ka hoga. Show me the Ball.

We give him our Season Ball. Then...

U - What??? Aap log leather ball se khelenge? Aap ko buri tarah se lag sakti hai. Chalo ek Cosco Ball le aao. Kise ke pass Helmet bhi nahi hai. [incidently, we had helmets]

{ An angry KV Student then brings a Hard Tennis Ball}

U - Nahi...Yeh bhi bahut hard hai. Theek hai..Hum ek kaam karte hain. 4 Steps Run-up restriction ke saath khelenge.

{ Everyone was shocked/surprised/angry...probably a hybrid}

Me : Sir...Agar mat or Pitch ki problem hai to hum match postpone kar sakten hai. But let us play the same properly.

U - Mein 21 Saalon se Cricket Khel raha hoon. Hum Dekh lenge.

And so the match begins.

KV Batted first...NCS bowled beautifully and we thought we put up a good fight. But then they revealed their score: 88!!! No Comments from the umpire...Why? Because a student from a neutral side (KV2...Name hidden to protect identity) was scoring for them and evidently wanted NCS to lose.

NCS bats then. Stupid decisions from the umpires took place like periodic events. Once an over...or perhaps even more.
Scores again were modified by the neutral KV2 score keeper and no-one seemed to have questioned him.
NCS beat 88 but thanks to the KV2 student...the umpires thought that we need 20 runs to win. 2 Overs later they tell us that we need 26 runs more.

What can we do? We give up. We can't file a written complaint because we didnt tally the score on paper. So according to rules, we had no evidence of being right.

What's worse...Our Principal thinks that we lost because of Over-confidence. I can't blame her because she doesn't know what happened "Behind the Scenes" and we decided to forget about it. Honestly...we were underconfident. We doubted our victory but we practised hard. And even though we won...we were denied our victory.

What we did promise is that the next match we'll tally each run scored and then prove our point if the umpires give us an opportunity.

That was the 1st Match...We lost even though we won against KV1 thanks to our hidden neutral so-called trust-worthy score keeper.**

**[
People say that that Mr.X couldn't bear the loss of KV2 when NCS had badly beaten them in the Basketball tournament. This seemed like his opportunity to take his revenge...
]**