Sunday, September 04, 2005

Cricket in Japan


Mr Stamina, Deepu with eyes on the ball.

I was never good at it, nor nostalgic about the Indian national obsession "Cricket", but I just loved watching the sport through my childhood and teens. Lack of physical activity and the mudane lifestyle , resulted in me prodding Sajithi to get the basic cricket kit on way back from India.

So finally from last weekend we started playing cricket. Its been around 5 years for most of them since they played some decent cricket, which resulted in some limping the whole of next week.


Sanjay playing Mahesh

Oshige-san and Imai Hiroki-san started joining us for every weekend. It will be a while for them to give up their baseball style of cricket. Over all its a healthy number who are turning up every weekend. Unlike in India were we can barge into any open field to play the sport, here we need to book the ground and ofcourse a token amount of 2000Yen per session.


Sanjay monkeying with the bat.

Info bits : Japan has a Cricket Associate, JCA recognised by the ICC., which comprises of players from all cricket playing nations.

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