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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:59
Infosys" InStep Coordinators recently held a workshop for us interns to know more about India"s "national" sport: Cricket.

I say "national" because, officially, hockey is India"s national sport but because of the number of people who play cricket and the amount of coverage it gets in the news (I"d say one-third of newspapers" contents is cricket), the sports has become the nation"s de facto national sport.

The InStep coordinators were kind enough to have Infosys" very own cricket team to give us the basics of the game: from batting, to bowling and catching the ball. We used the leather ball used in official games to play with and used the proper bat as well. Good thing Infosys has its own cricket field in the sprawling campus so we were able to run around freely, bat the ball and bowl anywhere (although we obviously looked like beginners).

I"ve never played cricket in my life prior to playing here and most of the interns are in the same boat, but thanks to the team"s tutoring, we had some semblance of a game and every had some coaching on how to bat and bowl. I seem to prefer bowling, which I found to be more artful. (or because I had a hard time hitting the darned ball)

Here are the pics:



Let"s see if I could play cricket with the AIM guys back home. :)

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