Oxford Cambridge Day

Sports is fun. And more so, when it is between arch rivals like India-Pakistan. Yesterday, it was Oxford-Cambridge. A day that began with a variety of sports and ended with music n masti.

Squash, soccer, touch-rugby, cricket, badminton, rowing. Oxford came on top except the last one. The domination continues and tradition lives for another year.

The weather was perfect for outdoor activities. We guys were looking forward to a win against Cambridge after our loss to St. Hughes couple of days ago. More so, as it would act as a good confidence booster ahead of our next Oxford inter-college match next week.

We lost the toss and Cambridge invited us to bat. What followed was absolute mockery of the new ball/old ball attack :) Murtaza, our star opener, punched boundary after boundary. As runs continued to flow from his blade, the team ended the innings at a very healthy 240 (20 overs) - Murtaza's contribution: 149 runs. Exhilarating.

It would always have been a difficult chase barring some outstanding performance from the opposition. And Adi took 2 wickets in his second over which forced them on the backfoot. We kept on maintaining the pressure right through and bowled them out in 12 overs for some 60 runs. It was absolute demolition. Some call it Murtaza v/s Cambridge - No doubt. My contribution - 2 catches, imp because catches win matches. Pics below.

Murtaza and Anuj - Openers going in

Murtaza in action

The brigade cheering the openers

Oxford XI

(Sitting: L-R) Rahul, myself, Chris, Anuj, Kartik

Standing (L-R) Satya, Andrew, Rushabh, Sumit, Murtaza, Adi

Another Team Pic

Red Cherry

Oxford and Cambridge XI

After the match

Cambridge guys in whites and light blues

Winners take it all