Even governments and big corporations try hard to replicate the craziness involved in cricket to some other sport. But, for us, it took a bunch of frustrated kids to brainstorm on something ethnically and culturally!
Those kids who could not get placed in any cricket team must have been felt unhappy. They will neither go to the library nor will go to play indoor games. Hanging around in the bar area, they started to play a new game- Seven Stones. It is called as Lagori in north-side and Ezu Kallu in Tamil. Those who don’t know the game, please click on the below link,
At first no one took it seriously, after all cricket is our national sport!, but later it got the attention, just because of the ability to hit someone with the ball. Any kind of academic revenge was sorted out with the hit.
Gradually, the students playing seven stones out grew cricket. The usual rush into the games room to pick the beloved cricket bats was gone. The cricket gear were orphaned. Suddenly, the stones became scarce, some even took the stones from their native. Personal stones!
The game was good, lots of running than cricket, but there was a risk of getting hit in the unforeseen places. You understood, what I meant, those embarrassing moment. Few got hits.
Later the hostel staff got the grip into this matter and they banned this sport. In spite of the ban, those who played the seven stones, were taken to the mess storeroom for a nice treatment, remember this was Shutter Island (This was how I felt earlier) and the storeroom was the lighthouse!
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