Monsters beat Monsters ..LOL!!!!
As always a lot has happened within RRCC over the last few weeks as we know will keep happening over the next several weeks, months and possibly years (with Neev being upgraded to admin well before most of us thought he was due for that). But being one hell of a lazy observer, sharp nevertheless, I’ll pick up my reporting from the RRCC’s RPL season-2 game of Monsters vs Punters.
The game was always touted to be an exciting one given the prospects of seeing two RRCC old timers clash, of course there was enough credit to be given to the FB chatter building up to the game. Talking about FB chatter one cannot not mention about the “cycle” thread which started off as being a
harmless buy-sell post before eventually being relegated to a mixed bag post with a film rating equivalent of “18+” due to violence and some coarse languages used within the thread. Did I not mention, we RRCCians ALSO happen to play cricket?
Nevertheless, cometh the game day cometh the team captains and the enthusiastic bunch of RRCCians pouring into the field from as early as 4:15 am. Yes, this is no joke, NKK was there at that time, though he eventually clarified it was out of his sleepwalking habit more than love for RRCC…some hardcoreengleees-showoffs would call it “somnambulating symptoms” but Rama simply put it down as “saala nymphomaniac hain woh”. Anyways as usual the morning started with FB and WhatsApp messages from Rama, Sachien and also the likes of Priyank Chopra, ManickamBadshah, ChiraunjilalDubeetc who many of us have no idea how and where they exist or they come from. But Sachien has been doing a great job so far in keeping a track of people who turn up, neatly documenting that via HOF.xls(version 1,321,378,991) so at least we do know who has ever turned up for a real game with RRCC and not just passing remarks over social media. Vijesh-ji had this to say about the gap between the numbers available on the FB community vs those turning up for the games “Life is like that, we will always have a lot
who will ‘want’ to, but only a few who ‘will’.I really hope to see some of them eventually getting to play with us, but until then if there is any doubt about who is really playing for RRCC just look atHOF.xls(version 1,321,378,992)* , Haath kangan ko RRCC kya?;)”The last line of his statement pointing out to the wit that only comes with …hmmm age experience that a man gains over time.
So finally the toss happened and as Mani the Punter-captain won the toss opted to bat first with as much conviction as one has in answering the ‘chicken or egg first’ question. Mohit the monster claimed that he already knew what was going to happen. Game began and Punters started slow and steady but later on in the game just retained the slowness and sacrificed the steadiness to head to a total which experts claimed was quite under par and Mohit again claimed“I knew this was roughly going to be the total even before the the first ball was bowled”. Punters chose to defend their total using words to start with by saying it was just an auspicious number that they settled for and nothing really about how they were pinned down to it by the disciplined bowling from Monsters. The first innings wasn’t short of action though. There was an instance where Harsha was bowled off a no-ball from Rajesh G and the entire paltan on the ground erupted into an animated debate over the rules and regulations. KunalNandy on hearing that ran all the way from MohunBagan ground with a copy of FIFA International Soccer Rulebook- 2006 Edition. Everyone jumped on the book trying to find the exact definition of the no-ball rule, but no sooner as people browsed past the off-side ruling did Navin Sane spot the most glaring error in referring to the aforesaid rulebook..“Guys aren’t we looking at the wrong book? This is 2006 edition remember there has been things that have changed so much since then, haven’t they?”That’s when everyone backed off and let the game proceed. Afterall there is at least one Sane person in RRCC, finally indeed.As soon as the first innings got over people’s phones started beeping with the WhatsApp from Nipun“Sorry guys, I woke up very late and can’t join today..LOL”, which is when we reminded him that he had already excused himself citing work as a reason for not being able to join the Saturday match, to which he replied saying “Sorry guys I just forgot to switch off my auto-WhatsApp message broadcaster..LOL”.
However there was one phone that beeped twice again, it was none other than Surya’s iphone which on closer look seemed to be a message from some guy seemingly named MazharMajeed and the message was in mixed English and urdu,not readable entirely despite my superzoom camera, but had vaigue mentions of what I thought as MohdAsif and something like ‘best rgds from Salman Butt’ etc etc. Now this time everyone would go the Mohit way in saying “hmm…we knew that already, didn’t we?”Rest of the match was simply an ignominy for Punters. Though Rane claimed a hat-trick in the very first over which was something like this “0 .1 W W 1NB W”.Only blotch in that over being the no-ball which apparently was because Leg-umpire Rajesh C failed to raise his hand to signal a no-ball. Rajesh C in his defense said “Main kabhi haath nahin utatha hoon..Main gandhigiri mein vishwaas karta hoon. Bowling bhi is liye hi choddiya”; ofcourse once this was clarified there was no further debate. Punters were tamed and Monster growled at the end of the match. Mani was seen running in the direction of pavilion as soon as the game got over, Sachien Mittal too followed him. They discussed for a while and did something on the phone. Exact details of that conversation could not be recorded but all we know is the cricHQ scorecard still reads as “Monsters beat Monsters”. We don’t know if the two are related but due to lack of evidence we will assume that they are.
So there you go with another day in RRCC…how things are run and why it is fun being an RRCCian. With many more games to go rest assured of some undercover reports on few of the remaining matches as well as from outside of the oval.
Your’s truly,
Rocket Singh
PS: * this wasn’t just a gimmick but a true demonstration of my attention to detail in recording the latest HOF version even by change in a split second and also to show how frequently HOF is updated
As always a lot has happened within RRCC over the last few weeks as we know will keep happening over the next several weeks, months and possibly years (with Neev being upgraded to admin well before most of us thought he was due for that). But being one hell of a lazy observer, sharp nevertheless, I’ll pick up my reporting from the RRCC’s RPL season-2 game of Monsters vs Punters.
The game was always touted to be an exciting one given the prospects of seeing two RRCC old timers clash, of course there was enough credit to be given to the FB chatter building up to the game. Talking about FB chatter one cannot not mention about the “cycle” thread which started off as being a
harmless buy-sell post before eventually being relegated to a mixed bag post with a film rating equivalent of “18+” due to violence and some coarse languages used within the thread. Did I not mention, we RRCCians ALSO happen to play cricket?
Nevertheless, cometh the game day cometh the team captains and the enthusiastic bunch of RRCCians pouring into the field from as early as 4:15 am. Yes, this is no joke, NKK was there at that time, though he eventually clarified it was out of his sleepwalking habit more than love for RRCC…some hardcoreengleees-showoffs would call it “somnambulating symptoms” but Rama simply put it down as “saala nymphomaniac hain woh”. Anyways as usual the morning started with FB and WhatsApp messages from Rama, Sachien and also the likes of Priyank Chopra, ManickamBadshah, ChiraunjilalDubeetc who many of us have no idea how and where they exist or they come from. But Sachien has been doing a great job so far in keeping a track of people who turn up, neatly documenting that via HOF.xls(version 1,321,378,991) so at least we do know who has ever turned up for a real game with RRCC and not just passing remarks over social media. Vijesh-ji had this to say about the gap between the numbers available on the FB community vs those turning up for the games “Life is like that, we will always have a lot
who will ‘want’ to, but only a few who ‘will’.I really hope to see some of them eventually getting to play with us, but until then if there is any doubt about who is really playing for RRCC just look atHOF.xls(version 1,321,378,992)* , Haath kangan ko RRCC kya?;)”The last line of his statement pointing out to the wit that only comes with …hmmm age experience that a man gains over time.
So finally the toss happened and as Mani the Punter-captain won the toss opted to bat first with as much conviction as one has in answering the ‘chicken or egg first’ question. Mohit the monster claimed that he already knew what was going to happen. Game began and Punters started slow and steady but later on in the game just retained the slowness and sacrificed the steadiness to head to a total which experts claimed was quite under par and Mohit again claimed“I knew this was roughly going to be the total even before the the first ball was bowled”. Punters chose to defend their total using words to start with by saying it was just an auspicious number that they settled for and nothing really about how they were pinned down to it by the disciplined bowling from Monsters. The first innings wasn’t short of action though. There was an instance where Harsha was bowled off a no-ball from Rajesh G and the entire paltan on the ground erupted into an animated debate over the rules and regulations. KunalNandy on hearing that ran all the way from MohunBagan ground with a copy of FIFA International Soccer Rulebook- 2006 Edition. Everyone jumped on the book trying to find the exact definition of the no-ball rule, but no sooner as people browsed past the off-side ruling did Navin Sane spot the most glaring error in referring to the aforesaid rulebook..“Guys aren’t we looking at the wrong book? This is 2006 edition remember there has been things that have changed so much since then, haven’t they?”That’s when everyone backed off and let the game proceed. Afterall there is at least one Sane person in RRCC, finally indeed.As soon as the first innings got over people’s phones started beeping with the WhatsApp from Nipun“Sorry guys, I woke up very late and can’t join today..LOL”, which is when we reminded him that he had already excused himself citing work as a reason for not being able to join the Saturday match, to which he replied saying “Sorry guys I just forgot to switch off my auto-WhatsApp message broadcaster..LOL”.
However there was one phone that beeped twice again, it was none other than Surya’s iphone which on closer look seemed to be a message from some guy seemingly named MazharMajeed and the message was in mixed English and urdu,not readable entirely despite my superzoom camera, but had vaigue mentions of what I thought as MohdAsif and something like ‘best rgds from Salman Butt’ etc etc. Now this time everyone would go the Mohit way in saying “hmm…we knew that already, didn’t we?”Rest of the match was simply an ignominy for Punters. Though Rane claimed a hat-trick in the very first over which was something like this “0 .1 W W 1NB W”.Only blotch in that over being the no-ball which apparently was because Leg-umpire Rajesh C failed to raise his hand to signal a no-ball. Rajesh C in his defense said “Main kabhi haath nahin utatha hoon..Main gandhigiri mein vishwaas karta hoon. Bowling bhi is liye hi choddiya”; ofcourse once this was clarified there was no further debate. Punters were tamed and Monster growled at the end of the match. Mani was seen running in the direction of pavilion as soon as the game got over, Sachien Mittal too followed him. They discussed for a while and did something on the phone. Exact details of that conversation could not be recorded but all we know is the cricHQ scorecard still reads as “Monsters beat Monsters”. We don’t know if the two are related but due to lack of evidence we will assume that they are.
So there you go with another day in RRCC…how things are run and why it is fun being an RRCCian. With many more games to go rest assured of some undercover reports on few of the remaining matches as well as from outside of the oval.
Your’s truly,
Rocket Singh
PS: * this wasn’t just a gimmick but a true demonstration of my attention to detail in recording the latest HOF version even by change in a split second and also to show how frequently HOF is updated