Essays

Cricket is popular game in our school. Many studentsstudent play it while other enjoys seeing it. Our Principal is a' great cricket enthusiast. We often play and practice cricket we have a large play ground.

The other day a very interesting cricket match was heldin our play ground. It was a One-Day 20-20 Over

Match it was played between the team of Jain HappySchool and Our School team.

We reached the school early that day. The matchstarted at 9 A.M. The Jain Happy School team also

Arrived in time. The two Umpires entered the ground.

They were followed by the two Captains. There was a'toss of a coin. We won the toss and elected to bat first. The players began to warm up. They stretched andjumped.

Our openers went to bat. They were loudly cheered.There was crowd of about 500peeople. They made goodstart. But then Naresh was out when the score was 20.He scored 12 runs. Karnal walked in. He played some

Good strokes and scored steadily.

Gagan was caught behind the wicket. He was dismissedfor 18 runs. Then came in our Captain Anil. He is an

All-rounder. He scored 30 runs before he was declared LBW.

It included a six and two fours. Later Shankar playedwell and scored 25 runs. It helped our side to reach 120 Runs for eight in allotted 20 overs.

After lunch the Jain Happy School Team startedbatting. Their opening batsman played intelligently.

They scored slowly and steadily.

But their middle order batsmen could not face ourattack. They were soon out one after another. They

Made 70 runs in 15 overs and gave away five wickets.

Their tail Enders played boldly. But then they were allout for 105 runs. We beat them by 15 runs. I took their three valuable wickets.