Our school Cricket team was very frail in playing Cricket . I was one of them . While the captain could play good but the rest of the players were worst including me . We never won a match and were badly defeated every time . It all began when a school team had a match with us . I was least bothered about the match becauze I knew our team would lose . But the captain of the team made us exercise and spend more time on cricket. I loved to study , but the captain's pressure took most of my time in cricket. I hated cricket but unfortunately I was selected in the team . I was bored with this game where we only move bat, throw the ball and catch or stop the ball. The day of the match came soon. All of the players headed to the big feil of tobemal stadium , it was the biggest stadium near our school. Although the stadium was no so big to play cricket but somehow we managed to play there . "Today we are here to ....." began the boring speech of the captain . I was about to be asleep when one of the players of the team woke me up. The match began and our team was to bat first and unfortunately I was one of the opener. The bowler looked scary as if he would bowl as fast as lightning. The first ball came to me with a great pace and I moved my bat to stop it. The bat hit the ball and I took a sigh of relief . The second was smashed by me to the boundary and raised my hopes . The third one was the end of me as when I lofted the short a fielder caught it and I was out. The umpire happily raised his finger to show out as if he was supporting the opponents. Then came in the captain who did a good job and made half century while I fell asleep in the pavilion . But our happiness was soon destroyed when the bowlers of the opposition took back to back wickets and our score ended up to 78 - 9 . Our condition became more worse when the opponent team scored 62 -0 . I was a really bad fielder and was pretty scared from the ball. And slowly the opponent team scored 72 - 0 . And it was the last ball 2 balls and 6 runs were needed , the opponent team smacked a four and it was last ball 2 runs . The last ball was highly lofted I was beneath the ball ,the opponent took two and were laughing with joy while I was still trying to catch the ball that was coming towards me, suddenly I felt a great pain and something ended up in my hand when I looked at it I saw it was the ball . The umpire sadly signaled out and for the first time we won . I was the man of the match .........


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