Bouncing Yorker?

It's been an age since I wrote here; in fact I had even forgotten the login & password, and a lot had changed with Blogger since I wrote the last post here...Anyway, I managed to retrieve the blog; hopefully this innings will be a bit longer... [consistency of my writing seems to mirror the consistency of India's performances on a cricket field... ].

Anyway, I am glad Bouncing Yorker is revived/ retrieved----- just a few months ago, I managed to meet up with the long-lost friend in whose 'honor' i had named this blog thus. Despite being in Singapore for almost 3.5 years, we hadn't met till contacts of some contacts on Orkut managed to get us each other's contact details........when i received a call in that typical mischevious tone "Can I speak to Mr.Manoj Aravindakshan", followed by a loud "Munna bhai!!", I was elated. I was back in touch with Yogesh Naik, aka Yogi....wicket-keeper cum opening batsman [for a brief while I partnered him at the top of the order] during the REC Durgapur days back in the 90s..

Yogi was the chirpy wicketkeeper, who reminded me greatly of Sadanand Vishwanath in the 1980s..... Mr.StyleBhai..... I still remember standing at first slip and Yogi shouting out to the bowler... "let's have a bouncing yorker.." (whatever that was... if his intent was to psyche a batsman, I don't think he was successful.....).

Back in those days, I had decided that I had to write something called Bouncing Yorker at some stage in life.......there were times when I allowed myself to think it would be a book by that title.... the book is far from reality... but I'm glad 'bouncing yorker' has been delivered... in some form..

Yogi continues his love affair with cricket and has become an international cricketer --- he plays occasionally for Singapore. As for me, the only cricket bat I have held in recent times is a plastic one to teach my 3 year old son how to hold one. Yogi has promised to let me roll my arm over with my "leg spinners" at the club he plays one of these days........ I can imagine my friends and erstwhile teammates chuckle at the mention of "leg spinners" {it's a little trade secret that I am not in a hurry to give out to the world yet...}