#3's tour of Kodai - Prologue
Let me begin by apologizing for the neglect of this blog over the past couple of weeks - I had actually taken my computer along to Kodi with grand plans of live blogging etc. but it ended up functioning mostly as an oversized mp3 player. Having finally gotten around to it, I'll report on the tour in the form of a 4 part diary, and put up installments as and when I can. So here we go with part 1.
Anticipation was at fever pitch as we made final preparations including lightening the kit down to one bag. At a team meeting the previous day we had identified ways of selecting the XI for each game from the existing squad of 14 - disucssions that were to ultimately prove unnecessary. As the evening wore on, we suffered our first setbacks - Venkat dropped out and Anand had sudden work pressures which meant that he could only try and join us on Sunday morning for the second game. Certainly solved some of our selection problems, but created worse ones by weakening the batting considerably. Nevertheless, the spirit was high, cutting was procured and we met at the station amidst droves of white shirt - white dhoti types, another factor that was to impact some aspects of our tour. Who would've thought?
The train ride was incident free ( Kodai veterans will know exactly what i mean ;-) ) and was livened up by the distribution of #3 T-shirts to all players and fans. Aziz, cutting and general camaraderie prevailed, only slightly tempered by the knowledge that we had a match the following morning. Some new nicknames were established, including 'Lex' for Rajesh who some felt looks like the young Luthor in the 'Smallville' TV show. We settled down for the night, knowing that whatever the next few days had in store, we were going to have a blast.
Anticipation was at fever pitch as we made final preparations including lightening the kit down to one bag. At a team meeting the previous day we had identified ways of selecting the XI for each game from the existing squad of 14 - disucssions that were to ultimately prove unnecessary. As the evening wore on, we suffered our first setbacks - Venkat dropped out and Anand had sudden work pressures which meant that he could only try and join us on Sunday morning for the second game. Certainly solved some of our selection problems, but created worse ones by weakening the batting considerably. Nevertheless, the spirit was high, cutting was procured and we met at the station amidst droves of white shirt - white dhoti types, another factor that was to impact some aspects of our tour. Who would've thought?
The train ride was incident free ( Kodai veterans will know exactly what i mean ;-) ) and was livened up by the distribution of #3 T-shirts to all players and fans. Aziz, cutting and general camaraderie prevailed, only slightly tempered by the knowledge that we had a match the following morning. Some new nicknames were established, including 'Lex' for Rajesh who some felt looks like the young Luthor in the 'Smallville' TV show. We settled down for the night, knowing that whatever the next few days had in store, we were going to have a blast.
posted by koidy at 10:34 PM
3 Comments:
good boy koidy
incident free train rides to kodi is a rare and must be mentioned
this post should have been longer, since you took such deep rest after the tour
what about photos, i say these overseas bikes are a demanding lot, all i know is chennai rocks, bikang rocks, kodi rocks, cutting rocks, aziz rocks, tuff match rocks, everything else sucks.
ha ha, well done boys.. well risen to the occasion.
perhaps we can call you inisident.
uiuiuiuiuiui@inis.com
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