DVG Cricket Gang Part II

Continuing on from my previous post....

Takloo - His real name is Bharath Mohan (read Moghan) but hey, what's in a name? He got a good price for his corner sites....i.e. on both sides of his head and he sold his real estate to the devil! Very lucky for us, he didn't grow horns! Well, that brings us neatly to his not so imaginative nickname takloo....later further shortened to Taks. While we are on the point of shortening, might I also add that taks is a short guy....but there ain't nothing short about his attitude! :-)

On the field, he was a cunning bugger with a lot of cricketing deception...well, I'm no specialist in sun signs and shit but I believe Scorpios are cosmically wired that way! :-) He used to bring that deception in those wily bloody leg-spinners that went clean around and behind the batsman's legs and invariably hit the...duh....legstump! He was a firebrand batsman as well and mostly got his runs with some well placed "adda" shots. "Adda" kinda sorta means shots that lacked proper cricketing technique but very extremely effective. He was a master Sweeper of the ball, having the ability to despatch the ball from even outside the off-stump to pretty much square on the leg side!

Off the field, he was (and is) a fantastic guy....with a razor sharp wit and a mouth to match! His innate ability to....err....rub people the wrong way got him into trouble occasionally....but the tactful bugger got off easy thanks to the gift of the gab. Probably the only guy on this planet never to dis-obey his dad, he managed to piss off the rest of us regularly by not showing up on time at the field! Taks, if you are reading this - forgive me bro, but there have been number of occasions when we have started a brand new match, on purpose, just when we saw you coming around the corner so we could make you wait until the next one started!

Though most of team pretty much belonged to RVCE and were very close to one another, Taks, Umi and Dumma are family! On quite a separate topic, he was instrumental in "introducing" Dumma and me to Jyothi - a firecracker of a girl! For that gesture of yours taks, we are immensely pleased! :-) That's a separate blog and is coming with all its gory details.....later!

Umesh - Umi for short. He had the nick of "bajaj" for a while (christened by Vishwa's mom) as he used to comb his hair in the rear-view mirror of a scooter just like the guy in the Bajaj Ad....phew....no wonder that didn't stick for long! Umi used to be the cool dude with an easy going attitude :-) making fun of Shiva and CNP was his main time pass + paisa vasool for the day! Used to ride a Hercules bicycle initially and many a times, used to carry Takloo's ass to the field on his rear carrier! :-) For that the rest of us are very grateful!

On the field, he was mainly an off-spin bowler and got his fair share of wickets....the cleverer batsmen would begin to read him well and that would spell trouble for dear Umi. He mostly scored his runs from the off-side too....coming to think of it! dunno what Umi's obsession with the "off-side" was coz I remember him mostly fielding in the covers....maybe a hot chick peeking through the windows from one of the houses outlining the field.....Bastard! I do know that he and Maamu (tbd) had a thing for this chick whose house was directly in the mid-on direction....and they would compete to run and go get the ball when it went into that house compound! Well, that pretty much explains why Umi was there in the first place..... :-) Sorry bro, I hope Jayanthi is NOT reading this, else you may be sleeping on the sofa..err...for a while! :-)

Off the field, He was a fantastic guy and used to go out of his way to help others....he and Sriram (Bong - tbd) hit it off pretty well as they had similar attributes - both smoked and called the ciggy as "energy stick"....they also had a weird but highly effective mechanism of taking the first alphabets of the key words of any topic in a subject and converting it to a perverted acronym of sorts...so that they could remember all the points and write the exam well.... Anything that was perverted had a higher chance of retention in the memory...ergo...better success in the exams.... I guess those were the only two guys who were "gifted" that way and good decent grades as a result! The rest of us never honed in on the "technique"! Double Oops brother......if you haven't told your missus that you used to smoke....I can visualize your ass lying on that sofa for a looooong time!! :-)

Well, it's 11:00 p.m. and I need to go hit the sack! have a long day and an even longer week coming up....

ciao for now!