From Matunga is the author of Man From Matunga . Nancy is the author of Perforated Lines .
Cricket is a funny game, very loosely related to baseball.
There are two teams of 11 each and one team bats while the other bowls and fields. The aim is to score runs by hitting the ball with a bat. The ball is bowled by a bowler and the bat is wielded by a batsman. There are two batsmen at any given time, one on either side of the pitch. The bowler's job is to prevent the batsmen from scoring and to get them out either by knocking off one of the three stumps behind them or by making them play the ball in such a manner that it gets caught by a fielder, straight off the bat.