Back on the field!!!

After at least two years since I have played any sport, I finally got a chance to get back to sports and games at my company's sports and arts fest. We managed to find people ... make teams ... play throw-ball, cricket, shuttle badminton and also take part in various sports as part of the floor decor competition.

The throw-ball was lots of fun, though we lost pretty badly the first match, having had no practice and being totally out of touch, it wasn't so bad. We had fun. And we soon picked up the game and won the second- and the opponents being not so great helped ... ;). Then we again lost the next match, but all in all it was loads of fun, and felt great to be out there, feeling the rush and the spirit of the game, cheering each other up ...

Then there was the cricket match for which I bribed my room mate promising her a bar of diarymilk chocolate to be present for the game - and played something I haven't played since 6th standard. It was fun ... though I went out duck, and gave a lot of runs in the one over I bowled (er throwed ... he he). And I need not say the result, we came up as runners up (out of two teams ... :D). Well its not to say we played all that bad - I could have been one of the worst, since we scored 41 runs in 10 overs and took 1 wicket in the second ball of the first over, after which we fielded so bad they won in 6 overs or so. All in all it was lots of fun :).

Then the shuttle badminton matches were really wonderful and though I did miserably in the first match, I had a wonderful partner and my game improved dramatically after a bit of practice, So we managed to bag the gold for badminton womens' doubles.

The floor decor was again a lot of work, late night decorations, and then getting the people to participate, and all in all it was lot of work, and we did have fun, but then again it didn't come out as big as we wanted it to, but that was the best we could do with the limited volunteers ...
It looked nice and we did manage a good show :).

So we had lots of fun and exercise, aches and pains and finally we had the great happiness of our house taking the cup :) ... It was quite fun, taking me back to the good fun I ad in school and college.