sketches in Mar10 [2]

Cricket is the most popular sports in India. There is a new shorter duration format of this game - T20. After this format became popular, the BCCI launched the India Premier League or IPL as it is better know. 2010 is the 3rd season. The entire team of Rajasthan Royals were on the Indigo flight that I took on my way back from Ahmedabad. One can only imagine the excitement that the 80 odd passengers had travelling in that small space with their heros... I am not a very big follower of cricket. And so it didn't strike me that I take an autograph even though I passed a couple of pages from back seats to Yusuf Pathan and Shane Warne for autographs... I however made this sketch :)

sketch at cricket venue

Winter season is a time when a lot of sporting activities happen here in India... in the sense that one can think of playing out for a longer span of time... other seasons are either too hot or too wet... most of the schools would have their sports days in dec-jan... we also have our office cricket tournament LPL... I got an opportunity to represent the Max Red team... after the first innings, we were chasing a score of some 80runs and the top order was so strong that we didnt get a chance to bat :)... so grabbed this time to make a quick sketch... the perspective went a little crazy and looks as though I sketched from an elevated ground... quite contrary I was at the ground level...