Uncle chale Amerikaa

Sledging seemed to work. We were winning. Though it was a time pass match, we played it with full spirit, especially Kshitij.

 Tej, Chaitanya and I were in the same team, while Kshitij, Rahul were in our opposing team. Kshitij was umpiring as he had got out on 1st ball duck, as the rule says ‘Umpire is always from the batting team, no matter how partial he is’.

The batting team needed 13 runs to win in 4 balls.

Chaitanya bowls and NO Ball signaled by the umpire and the batsmen take 2 runs.

10 to win in 4 balls now.

Chaitanya runs in and bowls the next delivery, Batsman misses.

‘That’s a NO BALL’ shouted Kshitij the umpire.

Tej comes fuming towards the umpire from silly point and and shouts,”Kya Cheatingkarta hai !@$%%^  ?“

Kshitij ignores for a second. Tej returns back to his fielding position. Kshitij walks towards the non-striker stump. Poses like Cristiano Ronaldo taking a freekick, thinks he is Pepe and stump Messi, then kicks the poor, helpless stump with all his might.

Poor stump flies in air and falls a few feet away.

What the duck had just happened!

Before rest of the people on the ground could recover from what they had just seen, came the legendary dialogue from Kshitij’s mouth in full Singham style.

“KUCH BHI BOLNEKA BUT CHEATER NAHI BOLNEKA”

Over the years I have realized that you should never laugh at Kshitij’s foresight.

Four years ago, he had said that Harbhajan singh should be dropped from the Indian cricket team and replaced with a young flop Ravindra Jadeja.

Umang and me had ridiculed but had not realized what was going to unfold in coming years.

When Sir Jadeja retires and becomes Sir Shri knighting hood, Lord Ravindrasinh Jadeja, he should come and personally visit to the man who had faith in his cricketing (supernatural) skills, abilities.

He believes in astrology so much that he once when he was high asked Umang whether he would marry boy or girl, after being scared by Tej.

“ Kshitij doesn’t have peer pressure but has cousin pressure”

One of the LOL moment was when a girl had asked him to come with him to Lonavala for overnight stay and he refused by saying he had pracs the next day.

Tej had once joked a shayari after being high after having 2 cups of coffee, referring to the souvenir Kshitij had bought from Kerala

“Nilgiri se Uncle laya Saap

Nilgiri se Uncle laya Saap

Budda hoga tera Baap”

So from next week, maybe Suraj or Farhan will ask for 20 % discount in a restaurant, no one would shout so loud in a park on a tour when we don’t act according to his scheduled plan, and in Engineering drawing, finding missing view is very easy, just have to draw 4 lines and join 2 corresponding lines.

Finally, what is YAW, PITCH & ROLL?