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Story Time: Ahmad’s night match
It was a very cool night. Ahmad was watching his favourite drama serial on television. Suddenly the doorbell rang. As there was no body at home except for Ahmad, he went to open the door. To his utmost surprise all of his neighbourhood friends were there.
“Come outside,” said one of his friends.
“What’s the matter?” inquired Ahmad.
“We are going to have a night match tomorrow. Do you want to play? Asked his team’s captain.
As it was the first time that Ahmad was asked to play a night match, he was not sure but said, OK.
“Fine, now go and bring twenty five rupees for the match”, said the captain.
Next day, Ahmad woke up early in the morning in the excitement of the game.
“Beta! It is five 0’clock. Why did you wake up so early today? Your match is at night,” remarked Ahmad’s mother.
But Ahmad was so excited that he would not even listen to his mother. At last, it was 8:00 pm and the whole team was on the ground. The match was scheduled to start at 8:15 pm, Ahmad was taken as an attacking fast bowler of the team.
After the arrival of the players from the opponent team, the proceedings of the match were initiated. Ahmad’s team won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Ahmad’s captain gave him the first over. He was a bit nervous, but excited all the same, because he had never played a match under floodlights before.
He marked his run up and started running to bowl the first delivery. It was a no ball. But, to the misfortune of his team and its captain, this no ball was definitely not the last of this over. After ten minutes, the scoreboard showed that the opposite team had already made thirty runs in just three balls. Ahmad was hit all around the ground and he conceded many extra runs. His captain was furious because of this.
“What happened to your bowling? Don’t put extra effort to your bowling. Drop your pace a bit and control your line and length,” said his captain, “try to control or you won’t get another over in the match.
Ahmad shook his head, now he was tense. He started running to bowl the next ball, hoping for it to be a good one. Bang!
The batsman played a very powerful shot, which hit Ahmad’s head.
Suddenly he opened his eyes and found himself on the floor. But where are the floodlights, the umpire, captain, batsmen and fielders. Oh, it was just a dream and was very horrible one for that matter. He looked at the clock. There were still 10 minutes for the match to begin.
Oh my God, I am getting late, I must hurry up.
He ran quickly to the ground, hoping that his dream did not come true. But I have a feeling that Ahmad’s stars were not shining that day, because he even forgot to change. And reached the ground in his night suit!
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