A Serious Cricket Match

Your POV


It's the next day.


My mum obviously had to pull out the childhood pictures of me and my brothers. I am not actually embarrassed of them. I mean I look like a boy in every picture because I would only and only wear my brothers hand-me-downs. There are some pretty cool pictures of me. Especially from the sports days in school. Harry was the most interested in seeing those.


Asher was making fun of me cuz whilst I was in 6th grade the Cricket team I was in lost at the finals. We all siblings went to same schools and he was in 12th grade that time.


"you guys lost because your PE teacher made you the Team Captain." he laughed. I heard my dad snickering as well.


"seriously?" I looked at my dad.


"seriously!" Asher nodded.


"it was not anyone's fault, we didn't practiced well." Ajiah supported me. She was in the same team as mine.


"yeah! I was in 6th grade, I can really beat you in Cricket right now." I challenged him.


"oh really?"


"yeah, really!"


"let's have a match then!" he challenged me back.


"come on then!" I am so ready to prove him wrong.


"this is not world war 3 guys stop it." Samar said trying to calm us down.


"THIS IS The World War 3" I said. "come on!"


"are we gonna go play cricket now?" Eshan asked.


"hell yeah!" I exclaimed.


"but where are we gonna go?" Ajiah asked.


"you really used to live in this building right?" I asked her.


"oh yeah I forgot." she smiled sheepishly.


"let's go, let's go, let's go!" Reyan said getting up.


We went to the Cricket ground just behind the Building. There were few boys playing there already. They were nice enough to let us play with them cuz there were not enough of us. Eshan, Samar, Keesha, Ajiah, Harrison and Harry were on my team. Whilst everyone else including those 3 boys were on Asher's team.


My maternal grandparents were here so my Nana offer to be the Referee for this match because he knows Asher cheats alot. Soon my parents joined too. My dad was on my team and my mom was with Asher.


"looser will take everyone out for dinner tonight." Asher offered.


"deal!" we shook hands.


This is a serious Cricket match now.


Asher wanted to bat first. We all took our positions on the ground while my dad balled. This was more intense than I thought. My dad's over was done.


"are you on his team or mine?" I asked my dad taking the ball from him.


"of course on your team. I am an old man now." he shrugged.


"yeah!" I rolled my eyes.


Asher alone made 50 runs before I got Run Out. Everyone else was easy to get rid of. Leaving us to compete with total of 109 runs, 110 to win. Ajiah and my dad went first, they scored 30 runs before Ajiah was out and I went to Bat. Asher is Balling amd my dad is at the front. I need to fix my gloves so I kept my bat down fixing it. Luckily I realised I was standing out of the line I quickly stepped in before Asher could notice it.


He got our dad out, now it was Samar's turn. He's good at this game. And we alone completed 90 runs. Only 20 more to go in 3 overs. We can do this.


It was getting intense. One of the boys playing here earlier was Balling this time. We mamaged to earm 10 more. Now 10 more to go. We wasted an over, finally Asher was Balling again.


I hit the six on his first ball. "yayyyy!" Samar and I screamed.


"you still need 4 runs!" Asher said.


"yeah, watch me!" I said. He balled again and I hit it as hard as I could. Reyan caught the ball but he was out of the boundry line I noticed.


"you're out!" Asher celebrated.


"no, he's out of boundry line!" I defended. I looked at Reyan who was standing inside the line.


"Nana he's cheating!" I made my way stomping to him.


"yes Nana I saw him, he was out of the boundry line!" Ajiah shouted from the other side of the ground.


"yup! I saw you were out Reyan!" My nana announced. "Yn's team in the winner. They won by 2 runs!"


Ajiah and everyone came here and we celebrated our victory. "this is why you never challenge legends!"


"huh! You and legend?" Asher said with an attitude.


"come on guy we should go. Sir Looser Asher is taking us out for dinner tonight!" I announced.


"awww!" Samar tapped Asher's cheek mockingly.


We all headed back to my parents house and got fresh. Asher took us all out for dinner. And we all went to sleep. I snuck in Harry room again. My dad still doesn't know about us.

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