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One of my closest friends is from Delhi, but the country closest to my heart is Pakistan, therefore when it comes to the game of cricket, I want that the Cricket World Cup be lifted by nobody else but by Boom Boom Man. Sorry dost, I do not mean to imply like Brutus to Caesar ‘it’s not that I love you less, but I love Rome more’, but simply that I would prefer that you stay away from the world cup, Ms. Tripathi
If there is only one thing Gora Sahib did correctly, it has to be the game of cricket. It is popularly believed that cricket evolved from a sport that was played by the house of King Edward I in the 1300s. It was played on low sheep pastures and the batsman’s job was to defend the sheep fence gate. Hence, I assume, the shape of the wicket and the bales that need to be defended in the modern day game.
The game has managed to survive for more than half-a-millennium, but then so has the English monarchy, making it one of the older games in the sports arena. My research lead me to believe that baseball brings its seeds from an, ‘old English game of rounder’s and its cousin, the more formal and genteel game of cricket.’ Ah, cricket is a formal game, no wonder high tea with biscuits and cucumber sandwiches partners well with it.
Come this world cup I decided to watch a match with Ritu over a cup of tea and some homemade French biscuits, ‘hey, I think we‘ve come to a point in our dosti where we can watch a cricket match together, say what?’
‘Maybe, which country yours or mine?’ she asked.
‘You tell me?’
‘I’m thinking India, maybe Pakistan, nahi yaar, neither. What do you think?’
I thought for a moment, and out came, ‘let’s watch India play South Africa,’ or ‘maybe not’ said the righteous little lady sitting on my right shoulder, ‘what if it compromises your friendship,’. I looked sharply to my right no one there, and then came a familiar voice from the left, ‘duplicity, the art of true friendship, learn it and exploit it, it’ll do you good. You must watch it together because India will lose giving you the opportunity to do splits in your head with a forlorn expression.’

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