One lazy Sunday afternoon, Sachien Mittal was lazing around watching some cricket match on an impeccably dodgy streaming website when his missus, fed up with his nonchalant ignoring of household duties, yelled at him saying.. “Cricket cricketcricket…who the hell do you think you are? You are Sachien Mittal, not Sachin Tendulkar..get off your damn couch and do something worthwhile, like making tea for for a starter, before getting on to doing my pedicure”. At this stage a bolt of lightning struck Sachien and he thought to himself.. “True, I am Sachien (likealmost Sachin) but importantly I am a Mittal and Mittals do something which Tendulkars don’t….Eureka..I will create my own team, my own league and my own everything” What happened after is not exactly known, but suffice to say it is all history.
From humble beginnings of online cricket among an enthusiastic couch cricket group consisting of Sachien, Mohit, Khairha, Sumit Rastogi, Nishant Bansal and some random virtual players, what we see today is Rivervale Rockets beaming out with a couple of dozens of regular cricket enthusiasts and many more random virtual players who appear in the list but just never turn up. Some of them I feel are Sachien’s imaginary friends that he must have added to bloat the team list well enough before an IPO isissued sometime soon in the near future. In Sachien’s words they started cricket at the backyard for Blk157C Rivervale crescent more than a year back, before gathering enough numbers to move over to the ground, though I find that dubious in that I never spotted any of them ever despite my habit of a regular walk around that side. OR perhaps they were just playing an awesome game of invisible cricket OR going back to my original hypothesis they just played stick cricket online. Who knows, but fact is also that in the long walk from the backyard to the ground Sumit and Nishant became so tired that they never reached the ground it seems like. Wonder who apart from Sachien has seen them?
Betweenthe differing narrations and stories what remains true is that Rivervale Rockets is now a reality, very much in existence, growing rapidly and here tostay. If rumors are to be believed Rajasthan Royals want us to collaborate with them for the next IPL but obviously we turned them down saying that we don't play for shietty teams!
Whenwe asked some of the co-founders for their quick take on their contribution tothe rise of rivervale rockets:
Sachien:"I came, I saw, I conquered and I roped in Khairha, Bansal, Aroraetc"
Khairha was as swift as Munaf Patel when coming up with his counter story:" I came I saw kicked Sachien off and conquered, I am the original starter”
Bansaland Rastogi were unavailable for any comments while Mohit Arora was simply not interested much. After a lot of coaxing all he said was “Credit koi bhi le, khelna hai mujhe bas sirf khelna hai. Par yeh Sachien ...sala duplicate Sachin hota kaun hai discipline ke liye -5 dene wala? School hai kya yeh?”
True, when they say Failure is an orphan and Success is a b#$%^&d
From humble beginnings of online cricket among an enthusiastic couch cricket group consisting of Sachien, Mohit, Khairha, Sumit Rastogi, Nishant Bansal and some random virtual players, what we see today is Rivervale Rockets beaming out with a couple of dozens of regular cricket enthusiasts and many more random virtual players who appear in the list but just never turn up. Some of them I feel are Sachien’s imaginary friends that he must have added to bloat the team list well enough before an IPO isissued sometime soon in the near future. In Sachien’s words they started cricket at the backyard for Blk157C Rivervale crescent more than a year back, before gathering enough numbers to move over to the ground, though I find that dubious in that I never spotted any of them ever despite my habit of a regular walk around that side. OR perhaps they were just playing an awesome game of invisible cricket OR going back to my original hypothesis they just played stick cricket online. Who knows, but fact is also that in the long walk from the backyard to the ground Sumit and Nishant became so tired that they never reached the ground it seems like. Wonder who apart from Sachien has seen them?
Betweenthe differing narrations and stories what remains true is that Rivervale Rockets is now a reality, very much in existence, growing rapidly and here tostay. If rumors are to be believed Rajasthan Royals want us to collaborate with them for the next IPL but obviously we turned them down saying that we don't play for shietty teams!
Whenwe asked some of the co-founders for their quick take on their contribution tothe rise of rivervale rockets:
Sachien:"I came, I saw, I conquered and I roped in Khairha, Bansal, Aroraetc"
Khairha was as swift as Munaf Patel when coming up with his counter story:" I came I saw kicked Sachien off and conquered, I am the original starter”
Bansaland Rastogi were unavailable for any comments while Mohit Arora was simply not interested much. After a lot of coaxing all he said was “Credit koi bhi le, khelna hai mujhe bas sirf khelna hai. Par yeh Sachien ...sala duplicate Sachin hota kaun hai discipline ke liye -5 dene wala? School hai kya yeh?”
True, when they say Failure is an orphan and Success is a b#$%^&d