THE DARK HORSES.......

Heyyyy Friends....this is something that I had to post long back but wasn't able...Anyways,This was when we won 2nd place in the most elite KAWRE Inter Engineering Collegiate Cricket Tournament(Much deserved win...!!!!!!!!!!)

Friends,being in the final year of our Engg,we all were so hell-bent doing some real hardwork on the field...and seriously it was fruitful.....

As we don't have a proper ground to practice(the empty patch where the temporary parking

resides,VIIT LORDS as we call it, would shame any International ground tho'...hehe...cuz' there is more possibility of injuries than proper cricket practice...),still we were fortunate enough to get Shinde college's nets for practicing,duration-2 hrs,money-7 thousands/month(luckily we got it for a month.thnxxx to our College)....

I still vividly remember,earlier only five to six team members turned up....everyone was so very frustrated....it kept on happening for some days....and then ADI(Super Adi),one of my teammates(needless to say a very good player),penned down a beautiful poem,that had loads of sarcasm in it...thoughtful poem it was !!!!

It really helped wake our conscience,I swear ..!!!!!(Facebook helped...) And then it was PARRY

(parikshit),the another fabulous player of our team,who slaughtered us like hell(everyone deserved it...no complaints)...I am very thankful that he scolded us that very moment..Had it not been for him,we would have been somewhere else(at least I would have been!!!!!).....

Thereafter,everyone was back,with full zeal,enthusiasm and a passion for the very trophy(Kawre trophy was our College team's dream..n ths was d 8th year...)...Mistakes were realised...we really put in our heart and soul for this trophy....injured shins,cramped legs,blue-black swollen fingers, didn't really affect us...(plenty of relisprays and doctor's tapes helped....)We were determined for that one trophy(we had a dream in our minds that we kept watching with open eyes)...We even practiced at Government Polytechnic College Pune for some days(afternoon 2pm to 5.30pm...scorching sun's heat couldn't fade away our enthusiasm...400 Rs per day,we all contributed...very few know this....)

'THE DARK HORSES' we were..!!!!! 'It was all posssible due to a good team effort...and we seriously stole the Runner up trophy from others....!!!!!!!

I won't say we lost the finals...cuz' we actually won a trophy for VIIT(dream came true 4 all of

us...)...thanxxxx to the effort of my team,VIIT CRICKET TEAM.....!!!!!!!!!

Love you all guys,......we did it..!!!!!!!!!

Individual Awards...

Gourav Baraskar,Captain VIIT -Man Of the Match(MoM),league match...

Aditya Singh- MoM,league match...

Myself- MoM for the Quarters and Semis(for my 5 wickets haul in both)..

-And 'BEST BOWLER of the Touranament...'