It was the weekend of the finals of the World Cricket Cup and my family were making our pilgrimage to Cricket Island to watch our team, The West Indies in their struggle against New Zealand.
On the Island behind the cover of the perimeter tree line my brothers and uncles had set up the satellite dishes necessary to beam the game onto our home made screen.
Our family was big and the passion for cricket amongst us had never waned.
It was a complete weekend away. Camp sites were allocated and everyone brought food to share and we knew it would be a great time, a lot of fun, our own cricket matches played both on the sandy beach and on the flat ground in the middle of the camp.
We all had our favourite players both present and past and so often we played believing we were that player who ruled over either batsmen or bowler.
On Saturday evening when the game begun the excitement among us could be felt. We all wanted our boys to do well but we also knew our opponents were an excellent team.
Our fortunes rose and fell as the evening went on. At one point we would be up at another defeat stared us in the face.
A six-hour cricket match with so much riding on it is an exhausting business. We knew whatever the result we would sleep well that night.
(Tomorrow Saturday the West Indies play New Zealand in the quarter-final of the Cricket World Cup)
Written for: https://penntonic.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/creative-expressions-14-caribbean-island/
Great write, Michael 🙂 This is also Him Indoor’s idea of a holiday/paradise – watching cricket!
What a great man HIM must be, how lucky you are to have such a man in your life…big day down here as Australia plays Pakistan in the quarterfinal….
Yes, I’m lucky to have to have HIM in my life, he’s lucky to have me, too (I think). Enjoy cricket!
I am sure he considers himself a lucky man.
I’m presently watching Australia V Pakistan. If we win tonight, maybe it will be a New Zealand V Australia for the big one 🙂 I have wonderful memories of listening to the cricket on the wireless with my Dad when I was a kid, and then watching it on the telly when we bought our first TV.
Yes those days I had a crystal set I could hook onto the venitian blind to pick up the signal and listen to the tests in England….Go Australia….
I know nothing of cricket, but it sounds like a wonderful way to spend a Saturday evening. Thanks for participating. Well done!
A very interesting response to the prompt Michael ~ Cricket and Barbecues on the beach, followed by the big match on TV ~ Excellent thought ~ 🙂
Who won the game on Saturday?