He got me run out!

This morning, we played cricket after a really long time.

But it was no ordinary game of cricket.  It was a limited overs (5 to be specific) game between teams of two kinds of cars.  (Aditya is currently hooked on to different makes and models of cars and the features therein.)

So Aditya would play taking on names of various cars made-in-Asia-- which he spontaneously picked as a black stick shift Honda Civic, a metalic blue automatic Toyota Camry, a golden Hyundai Sonata, a green Nissan Quest, a turquoise Honda Fit, a black Toyota Prius, a red Toyota Camry Solara, a stick shift Mitsubishi Gallant, an automatic Hyundai Santro, etc.  (Frankly, I forgot some of them... although I am sure he remembers all! And yes, he picked these all in a blink of an eye.  He knows all about who makes which cars and where!)

Baba on the other hand, had a white Audi TT (the TT suggested by Aditya of course) leading a team of European made cars, including a Crimson Pearl stick-shift Wolkswagen Jetta, a red Ferrari, a dark blue Saab 93, an orange Fiat Paleo picked by me, a Fiat 360 recommended by Aditya, an Opel Astra, a grey stick shift BMW, etc.

Aditya batted first and scored 73 for 5 wickets.  Baba batted and lost 3 quick wickets to amazing yorkers sent in by Aditya who was at that point pretending to be a grey Stick Shift Honda Odyssey.

White Audi TT the captain came in and scored 48 runs. Things got more interesting!

In the final over Baba needed 7 runs to win.  Aditya sent in another couple of yorkers getting him out twice!  On the last ball, Baba needed 3 to win.  He touched the ball and ran two runs.

At the top of his motivation,  Aditya threw the ball some 5 feet away directly at the make-shift stumps!

Baba was out, but elated at this amazing feat by Aditya who once had no ability to throw the ball at all!

Baba then gave Aditya the reward of a ride on his back.... but it was not an ordinary ride.  Baba was a stick shift BMW that Aditya operated using a table tennis stick racket upside down!  Neutral to 1st, back to neutral, switch to 2nd, back to neutral... and so on!

What a refreshing way to begin our day!