Cricketing in PQ

Purana Qila, where my Ma's family resides, is a crumbling neighbourhood, not falling into total disarray because of the presence of Akhilesh Das (the Babu Banarasi Das foundation that he manages is also the sugar-daddy to my gradschool in Delhi). Besides Akhilesh Das, PQ is known for some lesser people, like Baba Sehgal, the first of Indian rappers, who managed to stay afloat with hits like "Thanda Thanda Pani" (a rip-off to "Ice, Ice, Baby"), "Manjula Manjula" and "Aaja Meri Gaadi Mein Baith Jaa", , and stayed 3 or 4 homes away from Ma's; and Bipasha Basu's mother, who stayed about 8 homes away as a tenant while she was attending her college in Lucknow. There must be others, but I have no idea.

Shouldn't have bothered with that much detail. All I wanted was to scribble down a single over of cricket I played with a cousin (about 9yrs old). I took the bat and stood next to the neighbour's garage, while he took his bowling position across the road, and next to him a vegetable basket was suspended mid-air (a convenient way to shop from the comfort of your first floor). There was a single lamp lighting the street in a dim yellow.

Ball 1: a black hog/pig darts across
Ball 2: wide ball
Ball 3: a cow darts across
Ball 4: the hog darts across again (back where it came from)
The rest of the over was a normal affair - forward drives, fumbles, all that.

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