Cabana bola aana aana...

After a tiring week and a dull practice session for me on the Sunny Saturday. To have a chilled out Sunday, we made plans to do something really interesting and freshning - Time to Say Go Cabana ! 28th Mar 201, the day of BBMP elections, most important than the outing ;). 10 big time sport crazy guys started off for the adventure after completing the right of being the citizen of the Country.

It was 10:15 when we started, delayed by an hour :) picking up guys on the way and thanks to New Airport Road traffic which made us reach the place at 11:10.

The first thing which each of us was a breakfast and the last thing we want to know was that the "Breakfast is closed". God! We got pooris' finally with handful of saagoo. Had our favorite coffees and teas and left for the starter - adventing ;)

I had great plans of playing cricket there, but later decided to play all other games available but for cricket ! :D We started with Tennis, which was the most fascinating and the highlight of the day ! :)

5 Teams - Fixture being - Round Robin - Each team face every other team once... Best 2 teams would challenge each other for the championship. Rules followed - Normal Doubles Rules and following the Badminton Pattern of scoring.

It was great fun! Sunil, the most targetted was hit with the tennis ball four times - unknowingly though ! ;) The under-dogs reaching the finals and the team with university level player being eliminated... Tinku Brothers losing without troubling minds to decide on the top 4 in the points table. Gaurav with wonder serves and Karthik with fabulous way of winning net-points. Ajit and Sunil being the most hilarious team among the 5 and finally Ajay and I, LoL ! Ajay was praying to not have me and him sharing the same side of the court, but the destine was different. :)

We reached the finals losing 1 game against the deadly combo of Gaurav and Karthik off the 4 in the league. We had to face them again in the finals. The script was changed, we had the momentum, leading them 6-0, but the tables were turned when Ajay lost his serve. We had a bad run of serves and recieves again... ending up in the losing side... we lost 9-11 against them. Even after losing, I guess Ajay now would be happy to share the court with me :).

Well that was the story of the likes of Paes and Bhupati combo who won the Runners. 'twas 2:30 at the end of play and we had to run for lunch and then had plans for a game of Bowling. Luck turned out the other way, we had to wait till 5:30 in the evening for our turn, so we decided to go splash into the Water World! Slides, Lazy River, Tubes, Wave Pool and Back massages... Aww !! it was stupendous! At about 5:30 we called off from the water and headed to have drinks break... Hi-Tea! Water Massage and Tea / Coffee, the feel was different and were relieved. Got ready for the bowling! Another big time losing game for me... I was challenged to score a hundered there at least and later learnt that it was only 5 games a person. Final decision the final score would be doubled. I had to score a 50 and I am known to score quickly. (You may look into my previous posts to know more). And I scored 63 off the 5 with 1 point behind the leader Suneeth. It was fun though :)

We thought of calling off for the day, but woo woo ... there was more to come... How could we leave without having our hand on the bat and ball... It was the time for CRICKET! 5 of were in Red Ts' and decided to play Reds against others. For a change, I captained my side ;) ... Thanks to AJ! :) I lost the toss and we were put to field under the dimming lights. 5 Overs a side. Out after being caught with one hand - 1 pitch from the bat - a special rule. Was set a target of 22 from 5 overs. We got a great start from the Gopura Baay Ajit but faded as the lights faded. We lost by 3 runs at the end. An experience of being a captain of a team after a long time... Was made to talk post match.

Ajay: "How are you feeling after your first loss?"
Sudu: "I thought it was only one team that played with the Spirit and it us" ;)
Ajay: "Right helu magane!"

LoL ! ;) and at this note... From the Presentation Area, this is Sudarshan saying See ya! Have fun and more to come ;)