I was in class 4 when the awful news came
"Son, we'll b3 moving to South Korea next year."
I was like... what the luck?
Where did that shit even come from.
This didn't happen in my previous regression.
In the previous regression, we were never supposed to be an upper middle class family, nor was my father ever going to work for *Amsung.
And than came the news that he was stationed in South Korea.
I was like... does that even fkin happen?
And since than, I've been living a life of utter solitude with kids not even wanting to talk to me.
I am pretty much isolated in 1 place minding my own business since nobody was interested in knowing what that business was.
I just sat by myself studying, hoping to become something big in life.
And possibly go back to my pack, away from these racists.
Until I found some peculiar friends who were chill with every fkin thing known to human beings.
Like they were the most chill people I ever met in my life.
I felt like they were a million times better than any friend I had in my life.
Ever.
And than one day... my uncle, who came to Korea to greet us, got me a damn cricket bat.
Since nobodyfkin knew what the c of cricket stood for.
I couldn't really play it, except for with my father.
For people who Don't know.
Cricket is a sport where there's a wooden bat and ball which is usually a tennis ball for Road side cricket and for professional cricket, it's made of a material called leather.
It's hard asf, multiple times harder than a baseball.
And if you catch a highball without any experience, you'll have a big black spot for a long time and it'll hurt like shit.
If it hits a funny place, it might just fracture your joints.
Except for that, it's a chill game.
The bowler who bows the ball throws it from 1 side of the pitch which is made of soil or clay.
With some having grass covers and some not having em.
Anyway, This pitch is a 22 yard rectangle.
And the stadium is a circle, and you can hit the ball anywhere within the 360* angle.
But if you hit a sky all and a fielder catches the ball it means you are out.
You don't get another innings. That's it for the day for you.
The bowler bowls from one side of the 22 yard rectangle and on the other end of the rectangle is the batsman whose sole purpose is to hit the ball that comes at him.
While protecting the wickets behind him.
Wickets by the way are these 3 cylindrical slim long wooden objects slammed onto the ground, on top of which are small cylindrical objects called bails.
The entire purpose of the bowler is to hit those 3 stumps and make sure the bails on top cone off.
If you hit the 3 cylinders and the bails on top Don't come off which in itself is a bigger miracle than a person scoring a 300 in a t20 game.
Than it's not out.
The bails are delicate, even a slightest bit of touch will make em fall.
Anyway, the bowlers purpose is to out the batsman on the other end, and the batman's purpose is to score runs while safeguarding his stumps and not getting out on any other methods.
For instance there are about 10-11 ways of getting out in cricket out of which th3nmost common are bowled out.
Meaning the bowl hits the wickets and rhe bails come off.
The 2nd way is catch out, except for the bowler and the keeper who stands behind the batsman, there are 9 other fielders spread all around the stadium ready to catch the ball.
And if the batsman fails to clear the stadium on full and someone catches the ball on full, that would mean the batsman is out.
Now the 3rd way is stumped out, this is when the Wicketkeeper who is behind the batsman catches the ball that is missed by the batsman and the batsman is out of his crease mostly because he used his feet to hit the ball.
Than, if the keeper successfully receives the ball behind the 3 wickets and uses his hands with the ball in contact and hits the ball onto the wickets that'd mean that the batsman is out.
That's the 3rd way of losing your wicket.
The 4th way is a run out, in the 22 yard pitch, there are 2 batsman on either end called the striker and the non striker.
The striker hits the ball and runs to the bowlers end while the non striker who is at the bowlers end runs to where the batsman was before I.e the striker's end.
And in that time, if a fielder successfully receives the ball and hits one of the 3 stumps before the batsman reaches the white crease, which is the starting point, like the base for baseball.
Than he's out.
The next and the most complicated way of getting out is LBW (Leg Before Wicket.)
The batsman wear thick materials called pads on their legs.
When a batsman takes the crease and stands before the 3 stumps, there is a chance the ball might miss and hit his legs.
And when that happens, an unhurt to the leg might occur so that's why these pads are worn for safety purpose.
But there's another reason why these pads are worn.
When The batsman is taking guard and safeguarding his 3 stumps and when the ball hits his legs, and if the ball would have hit the wickets of his legs weren't in the way than it'll be given out.
For example, a batsman hits a ball or trues to hit it and the ball hits these pads.
And the wickets are right behind him, and when that happens, the bowler and the fielders can appeal politely asking
"HOWWWSSS THATTTT!!!!???"
(How's That?)
And if the umpire riazes his index finger up in the air like this ☝️.
That means the batsman is out.
There are other unconv3ntional means of getting out but they aren't as important since they rarely happen.
Anyway, let's now talk about how a batsman scores runs.
He uses the bat to time the ball between fielders and hope he doesn't get caught out by a guy called Glenn Phillips or Ravindra Jadeja.
And if he successfully in picking the gap, he has to run from 1 end to another (batman's end to bowlers end)
And the nonstriker has to Run from bowlers end to batman's end.
Thay completes 1 run.
And if they do this again of the same ball2 runs will be awarded and if the run 3 times on the same ball 3 will be awarded.
You run 10 runs of the same ball than 10 runs too will be awarded but running 4 of rhe same ball is extremely rare that in the 2 centuries of cricket it has only happened a handful of times.
That too in test cricket.
Anyway, the other ways of scoring are hitting boundaries.
If you pick the gap and nobody is able to cut the ball off (stop the ball) before it reaches the fence or the boundary line which is either a cushion or a rope spread out on 360* angle.
Than you will be awarded a four.
Abd if the ball goes in rhe air and doesn't go into a fielders hands but instead goes over the boundary line without bouncing on the ground basically a homerun but with smaller distances on average and a way easier hit because of the bat's structure.
Than you'll be awarded a six.
Those are the 2 boundaries you can be awarded which give you 4 and 6 runs respectively.
There are other ways to get runs called extras like wide or no ball or leg bye but we'll talk about that when the chance comes.
Anyway.
Now that you know the rules, you will probably think cricket is easy.
And that, the ball hitting the 22 yard pitch and coming to you will decrease the pase of the ball and it'll be easier to hit.
Especially due to the fact that you can hit anywhere in the ground.
Since there is no foul hit.
And that would usually have been the case. And made cricket the most easiest sport anyone could play.
But, if that really were the case, people would have scored more centuries that 100.
That's the highest number of centuries or 100's a person has scored in their carrier.
And only 2 people have scored that many centuries.
Nobody takes into account a demon called the pitch.
Yes, it's the very 22 yard pitch that a bowl is bowled into that is a demon for every batsman if it starts misbehaving.
Which usually happens due to climate conditions, rainfall and humidity.
And also what kind of a soil or clay the pitch curators (makers of that particular pitch) use.
Now imagine, a bowl comes at you 5 bowls at the usual speed, direction, length, etc.
But, the last ball just up and turns away from you or bounces way more than you anticipate, or worse, get stuck a little on the pitch and comes to you slower than the usual speed.
This is how 99% of International World cup matches are played.
Th3 pitch is unpredictable.
Sometimes the ball comes at you ultrafast, sometimes it stops on the pitch and arrives slowly.
And sometimes it hits the seam and skids on at a higher pace and hits your stumps and sometimes it bounces higher than anticipated and hits you right in the fingers, crushing them between the bat's wood and the ball's pace.
It's like your nails getting struck between a door.
Or, the ball will also bounce lower than expected Which is even more deadly because if you don't pick it early, it's just crashing onto your stumps and you won't be playing another match for 3-4 days until the next fixture.
Imagine you are on 99 playing your best innings and one ball just bounces lower than most of the balls and the batsman jsyt up and decides to hut a glory soit and get a 100.
And this is just for pace bowlers, this isn't even considering Spinners and their irritating bowling action.
If you Don't pick what bowl they are bowling, you will mist often than not hit a cover drive for one that's coming in because it feels like rhe line and length will mage it go out.
A team that scores in excess of 280 runs in a Match will get bundled out (all out) for 120 odd runs if The pitch starts misbehaving.
That's how much of a difference a good pitch does to a game.
Aah fuc* I went off on a fkin rant.
Damn, why do I always like talking to myself so much when it comes to this game.
What cam I do... I'm eating lunch by myself on the rooftop and there's this fkin pretty girl next to me.
I have to calm down and for that... I have to talk about cricket.
The 2 things that calm me down in front of an ultra beautiful women is either Anime, Manga, Manhwa or Cricket.
Tho... The world truly is a strange place...
A women as beautiful as her is having lunch by herself.
Just as I was glancing at her thinking of how weird it was watching a beautiful women like her eating by herself.
The door slammed open and 2-3 women came rushing towards the blonde haired women
"Bomii!! What the hell... why are you by yourself... eating all alone. Should have come to the canteen with us."
The short red hair stadium as she hugged her friend from behind as she hung on Her.
"It's irritating watching that women cling so much to Daewoo like that. It fkin kisses me off."
She stared as she crushed the juice bottle on her hand.
With some spilling on me.
"Aah... sorry about that."
She said.
"It's fine.'
I reied calmly, as I walked out of that wretched place.
I clenched my fists tightly as I thought to myself.
That bitch... she did that on purpose didn't she?
How tf do you throw juice from that far off unless you planted it.
Fk... I can't even say anything even though I know they are being so blatantly racist.
...
"Bahahahh!! How the hell did you manage to throw tgebjuice so far back. You should've seen his face as he left hilarious."
"Hey, stop being so Disrespectful."
"What? The luck I wasn't. It was you, throwing that over there on purpose lmao."
"What? Why would I do that on purpose?"
"No... why else would that fall so fat away... unless it was intentional."
"Girl, if I intentionally did it, it wouldn't even have reached half the distance."
"Haha... that's true, Your aim fkin sucks."
"You know... you'd be so much cutre with your mouth fkin shut."
"What? Bitch... hahaha ha!!"
The short red haired women put her hand on her head as she said.
"Both of you are fkin crazy."