For those who came in late - I am part of the P&G cricket team - which true to P&G culture was the best at work life balance but thats pretty much where it all ended.. nets was an unheard of concept and playing a match with 11 was as real as getting incremental money at the end of the fiscal.. notables on this team included Sriram 'blast from the past' , manish 'got married and disappeared' Chaudhury and Nitin 'runs as fast as he walks' Gajria and me ..
Every match was a combination of a) a flawless execution of a middle order collapse b) a bowling line-up that was determined to help the opposing batsmen get a few runs (some1 needs to do that right!) and c) incessant intellectualisation on what worked and what not after that match - all fairly unactionable stuff..
In between, we went a step better - we joined Kaybee - a team that was as splintered as ours, Ganji loved the guys who played there - with a seasons cumulative score of less than the number of Km from Newton to Novena - id think he had good enough reason to be pissed off when he wass dropped from the team ;) - but the external perspective while playing for these guys was helpful.. we realised others sucked just as bad - and Sriram took the leap of faith saying 'P&G will field its own team this year'..
And when u could just hear the laughter dying out (as a reaction to Srirams statement) - we saw the advent of a new generation of cricketers in P&G - Bakir 'demolition man' Shaikh, Paddu 'Nazi captain', Tapish - the ice cool killer, Raffy - the diversity quota (hehe - actually the Gilchrist) and Bharat 'currently limping ' V. ..
More about what happened to this team - in my next post..
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Good going. Looking forward to more.
"Nazi Captain" ?!?!...Shiv wait till he reads this ;)
excellent write-up shiv!
Shaishav
Kaybee sports club.
shiv - coming from someone who spins the ball more in his hands than off the pitch, that's rich. now i'm also keen to hear what happens next!
haha - super Shivie...(or should I say, sizzling? :-)
@Ganji - it's not like he said anything untrue! stop bullying him!
7th July is the day, Shiv to find out which team is more splintered:)
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