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Sreeram Ramachandran
India
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
I spent the first 4-5 years of my life listening to eager and excited elder brothers, uncles, aunt and my parents yelling, shouting, cursing as some men in white and coloured flannels did unusual things with a bat and a ball. I have spent the next 16 joining them, and frequently outdoing their theatrics.
My early impressions of cricket as I saw the rest of my family jump around revolved primarily around wondering why were grown men getting to spend so much time playing, and presuming 'India' was actually the name of a player (for some reason,I thought it was Gavaskar)and not a team.
I missed some of India's greatest moments in cricket - the 1983 World Cup win, the 1985-86 World Series Cup win in Australia - on account of the fact that I wasn't yet born back then.However once here, I did try to make up for lost time and caught on quick. It was around the 1996 World Cup that I was well and truly hooked on to the game.
Although,much to my lasting regret, I never got around to giving competitive cricket a fair shot, I have had some idea of what it might feel like ; thanks to several violent and intensely passionate sessions of gully and backyard cricket where bats,stumps, window panes have been shattered,and words that would have put the Aussies to shame have been exchanged.
Of late, one of my growing areas of interest has been Cricket's development and evolution into a global game becoming popular around the world, and hopefully, sometime in the future, coming close to Football's stature. which is why it gives me great joy each time I hear about large crowds turning up for matches in countries outside the subcontinent, when I see Cricket being given enough screen time in News shows and programmes targetted at a global rather than an Indian audience, when I see Hollywood movies such as The chronicles of Narnia have shots of the kids playing cricket, when Italian Footballer Christian Vieri claims he is a great fan of Allan Border and wished he had been born a cricketer rather than a Footballer, and so on.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, I try and concentrate on my career prospects as a Writer. Having graduated with a degree in Mass Media last year, I write articles,ad scripts,spoofs and so on.Some of my work finds it's way into print, some goes online, some goes on TV but most goes into the Recycle Bin.
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