Blame it on Tennis balls

Our office has organised cricket match for employees on 24 th december and 31 december i was not suppose to play any match on 24 th, my original team would be playing on decmber 31 . However due to shortage of people I did jump into the match as substitute . Played almost all the three matches .

First match i did part of substituing till the original player came to field for half an hour . Here i played only standing role as no ball was came to my end .When the orginal player came i was relieved from substitute services.

Second match , this time with new team i was asked to go for batting for last 4 balls (at non strikers end). I did run for the first ball and came back as non striker again as we took 2 runs. thast all about batting for me in this innings .

While doing the fielding for this game i was very much exited as the team i am paying for now had already scored good runs and opposite team need 10 runs per over to score . Now my big chance came in the match a player from opposition known for his good cricket abilities hit the ball straight towards me , i positioned myself correctly to catch that ball . When the ball came just near me , it swung away not a huge deviation but it went past me for boundary . i didnt understand. This hasnt happened usually with me i have often caught better catches I thought of forgetting this catch as even best players have dropped catches it happens once is acceptable and match continued

Few minutes later another ball came straight towards me from the same person ,this time around i positioned my self cleanly to catch the ball, and in a split second i dont have any idea what happened i dropped the ball it just went through my hands. Two times is okay happens sometimes it happens

Again few mintues later one more ball came toward me directly to cathes however landed in just front of me and was going toward boundary i intercepted the ball and threw back to bowler, i wonder weather this also people must have thought i dropped another catch. Every one started discussing only point of discusion was me . God where to run this way or that way captian of the team immediately posted me to a position where player dont hit that often . And this way it ended the match The team from the side i was playing won the match insipte of me dropping catches

Immediately ran for lunch after comming from lunch i heard another team needs one more player as subsitute well what the heck i accepted again , By this time around some of the player became extra smart they started to hit the ball towards me new captain was smart too , he immediately positined himself in my place in whenever this player used to come for batting and trick worked he took the catch ultimately the team from which side i was playing won

I tired to understand what had happened why did i drop catches only possible answer came to my mind was when ball is comming toward i get distracted for a sec or 2 , and when ball is in my hands it used to jump back . Then i realised i was never good at taking catches using tennis ball. Tennis ball just jumps out of my hand .

Good thing was that whichever team i played did won the match even thought i dropped few catches

Moral of the story: if indian team wants to win at international level keep saiprasad madhale as substitute fields man after all who care about dropping catches importing thing is that we should win the matches.