IITH Trip - Sports Fiesta!

Sports Day!
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The day started early. Nike woke me up @ 5:30. (bugger)

Naresh, me and nike started from kothi to paradise @ 6 AM

As usual, the hyderabadi IITH bus driver said he will reach paradise in 5 mins @ 6 AM.

We started @ 7:30 from Diamond point near paradise, picking up people on the way.

Finally after going through desert, crossing mountains, oceans and a few cows, we reached the metal factory where the current IITH campus is located.

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Our first impression on seeing the campus was, "where is the campus?"

:) We were expecting huge labs, buildings, workshops, ad-block, library etc, etc.

We had to manage with one flat warehouse structured hostel "boys Hostel". And the real insti was 2kms away(which was the only multistoried(2) building they have!)

But the priority of the moment was quickly shifted to food ! (we were all hungry!)

We entered "the mess", and i was "macha, same seats as himalaya opp godav in iitm".

And to our surprise, paratha's and Chai-coffee glasses were also similar.

~ We quickly munched away the breakfast, took few snaps of noticeboards and moved to the Battle Zone.~~~~

Since we arrived a bit late, we adjusted our schedules a little bit.

~~TT~~

We started off on a winning note with PAN IIT's Invincible TT team of Ashwini Chadda and Ajay Gupta - IItian team was like "jahanpannah tussi Great ho".

~~BAdi~~

At the same time, in Badi Court, We were on a losing streak!

There badi insti no.1 was standing and making our teams run from one corner of the court to another. In 30 mins, we were 2 matches down.

(Pasha-Shailesh and Dinesh-Naresh both lost :P)

Somehow we managed to regain some lost pride when Godavari-Saraswati Combo of IITM (Mahek and Nimit) beat there team of Badi no.1 and Sports Secretary!!

~~Anyways this was just the beginning. ~~

The iitians were smart. They knew that our numbers were limited and participation would be a bit repetitive, so as the day progresses we will get tired. We moved to cricket after two games(TT and badi)

~~Cricket

LO. SHOCK OF THE DAY. We were asked to play with GLACE BALL. Naresh, who went to Gym for three days and had done extreme preparation for the Cricket match, almost ran away from the field. :P

We also came to know, that the IITH cricket team practices everyday from 7-9 in morning. They have been doing it for past 16 months.

We unanimously agreed to play with glace ball (although everyone was shit-worried about balls getting tampered in the process :P)

We won! (the toss) and elected to bat.

We had only one strategy in mind: if we do very badly, we will bat our innings and get lost. :)

The Team: Mr. X, Dinesh, Sanjay, Nimit, Arun, Mahek, Nikhil, Pasha, Ajay, Ashwini, Naresh and one IITH electrical Prof.

Somehow, We managed to put up 82 runs on board after a blistering, mind blowing and ball-saving 4-5 runs from two overs start, by our opening batsmen :P!

Mr. Extras top scored for our team. :D with 25% of the runs coming in extras :P only Two people managed to reach double figures. :P Most were happy to get out and pass the guard onto the next batsmen. :D

~~ But with only 82 on the board we were a bit worried. We started off well and picked up a few wickets in the first 3-4 overs, until there real batsmen began to dominate. We had a very high scoring over from sanjay and a never-ending over from Nike to cheer us up! Poor Naresh didn't get a chance to take ha-trick for which he had practiced in Gym for three days. :P

Khaled from IITH was the top scorer (i think) who was making fun of bowlers and hitting them all over the ground.

~~End of Part 1~~ Lunch Session~~

"Tu kahaan tha, kal raat" - Popular quote quoted by Pasha on the field.

---- Story to continue -----

(Watch the pics in the mean time: http://picasaweb.google.com/mahek.m.shah/PANIITTripIITH?feat=directlink )

While we all were playing cricket, Shiv(Shivaldo) , madhu and few other pan-iitians were at war in Scrabble. They even had a few tit-bits -- small kids-- in there cheering squad. Kite-flying was also going on outside the boundary line.

~~ coming back to the match ~~ :) Sanjay's body line bowling troubled them for a while.

But in the end, we lost gracefully. They took much more time to win than we had anticipated. :P

~~ Lunch !! ~~ Roti's were exact photo-copies of iitm mess!

After lunch, we thought, we will play one game and head back.

We ended up playing Basket ball, football and Volleyball !

Basketball was new for many of us! we just wanted to have some fun! The real fun was the iitians were badly cheering for us and mocking there our mates! After sanjay scored our first points, people were religiously chanting, "sanjay ka tempo high hain!"

Football - Instead of 6-a-side, we played full ground 11-a-side. With high hopes on Shivaldo, Pasha(aniket), and Nimit, we kicked off the game. At the end of 30 mins, they scored 5 goals and ran 20 times more distance than us. We again came to know, these guys also practice for two hours everyday, religiously. The second half saw us returning with a few attempts on there goal ! But no glory for us!

And it was 5:30 PM. We were all very very tired. Wanted to go back to mess and get some grub! We ended up playing volleyball for 45 mins!!

Myaan. Playing half-a-dozen games in one day was tiring.

For a change, it was good exercise. Nice to meet new people and scared college students who were worried about jobs after passing :P !

Sanjay and U B desai(Director) finished off the day with a promise for more such games and meetings in future!

Nitin from IITH had made perfect arrangements and his day ended up being tagged as "uncle" by Sanjay's younger son :D

Thanks to Harish the Sports secretary for planning out a marvellous schedule!

more pics from naresh:

http://picasaweb.google.com/neo.iit/SportsMeetIITH?authkey=Gv1sRgCIuGvaHkoPrr0wE#

more pics from Madhu:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=189826&id=717642488&l=d1b7166ed8

~~ signing off ~~