Beyond “Boundaries”

This Saturday,Our batch( training at Cts) once again provided clinching evidence as to why it rocks big time.After weeks of discussion and speculation,we finally arrived at a consensus and chose THE BLUE LAGOON resort to spend some time together.We hired a van and started from Vadapalani at around 8:45 a.m.The van continued its smooth journey, with the members hopping in enroute.A group of 17 reached the resort at around 9:45 and were greeted by some chirpy school children who were having a fabulous time dancing to the tunes of SIVAJI.After some careful deliberations on the menu,we were all set to get into action.To begin with,we started with tennikoit, framing our own set of rules,where the teams were divided into groups of 9 and 8 each.At a time, only 5 players were to be present inside the playing field,with any member who dropped a catch being replaced by a member from his own team.A team won a point each time it made the opposing team drop a catch.A hard fought match ended up with the scoreline 14-16.The next activity was KRIKET( yes, the change of spelling is intentional because the purists who loved the traditional game would faint if they saw what was actually played there).The teams were lead by Kavya (Aravindhan,Chandrasekhar,Kavya,Praveen,Saipriya,Sanjeev,Siddharth,Swathi,Venkatesh) and Niroopa (Madhura,Manoj,Niroopa,Premnath,Sandhya,Vasanth,Veera,Vijay) respectively.Again the rules were bent according to convenience.Each team got ten overs to bat, all the players had to bowl atleast one over and runs were to be scored only on the on side when a right hander took stance( Lefties like me were at a disadvantage straight away).The girls were allowed to bat twice.Niroopa won the toss and chose to bat and captains were busy with their own strategies even before a ball was bowled.
Niroopa to Manoj:Bat la adicha evalo point..??.(ENNA KODUMMA SIR IDHU..??!!!)
Kavya to Sanjeev: nee wicket keeping panriya ?? appo come near the umpire..(ENNA KODUMMA SIR IDHU..??!!!)
The batting team were given a brisk start by its one drop batswoman Madhura Jagatjivanram Kuppal(ENNA KODUMMA SIR IDHU..??!!!) before the fielding team captain Kavya applied the brakes on the scoring by claiming 3 wickets in a single over(ENNA KODUMMA SIR IDHU..??!!!).Some late hitting propelled the batting side to 70 of ten overs.Sai Priya led the run chase but the team batting second was behind the required rate all the time and found the fieding cordon of Sandhya,Niroopa and Madhura difficult to breach(ENNA KODUMMA SIR IDHU..??!!!).The team chasing lost the match by 13 runs.The scorching heat left most of us skin-tanned and gasping for water and it was time to rush indoors for lunch.At around 2 in the noon,we mustered up energy for another round of badminton and volley ball.Then it was time for some fun in the waters,with most of them getting drenched in the salty beach water.After taking a few cool snaps and gulping down hot coffee and tea, it was time to start our journey back.We reflected upon the day’s activities during the ride back home and it had been a wonderful and refreshing experience, as our batch had jelled admirably in a very short span of time.