Cricket Tour

As a student of Victoria I must not only be good in my academics but also in sports. I have been cricket fan from my childhood and hence i choose cricket as my main CCA. Last year November school holidays our school had organized a Cricket tour to Kuala Lumpur & Penang. The main aim of this trip was to expose us to a higher standard of cricket and enhance our bondage as a team.

Our first day of the tour was a day full of travel and settling in. We all assembled in school early in the morning. Since three CCAs were going the travel agent had booked two buses. One for soccer and the other for hockey and cricket. We then left for Kuala Lumpur in the buses which were allocated for us. It was a hurting 5 hour travel by bus. most of us were listening to music, playing cards or even sleep. Well i took the simple way of sleeping.

We had lunch at a restaurant on the way. At about 2 pm in the afternoon, we reached Concorde hotel, Shah Alam. We were then designated to our different rooms with three people in every room. Just like the first day the second day was also moving and settling in. We had a boring 7 hour bus drive to Penang. We had to gobble down our food at the hotel. but this time i didn't sleep. But i played 'titi', the card game, with my friends. Even our coach joined us. Well this was one of the best fun i had in the tour.

Finally after a long period we reached Penang at about 1.pm. immediately when we reached we had to go for our match leaving our luggage in the bus. Well this was an extremely fun match but in the end we won eventhough i did not bat.


We then went to our beach hotel. it was fantastic. But in fear of getting dirty we went to the swimming pool instead of the beach. we spent the rest of the evening wetting ourselves in the swimming pool and playing beach volleyball. At night we went to a shopping mall and ate dinner at Pastamania and played pools in the mall. then We returne and went to sleep at midnight.

There was another cricket match the next day. We played against the same team but this time we lost by a very close margin. We returned and played corridor cricket. It was a fun mini game which we made ourselves. We went to sleep at night thinking about the series decider the next day. We played the last game of our tour against Penang Free Schools. This was an extremely close game but in the end we clinched the victory by just three runs.What a match! Our coach was very happy with our performance.

After dinner we watched a movie and then went to sleep with a sence of pride that we had done our school proud. The next day we left for Kuala Lumpur.

In the hotel at night we had watched the thrilling Liverpool match against Manchester City. Well it was a dissapointing two, two draw.

The next day morning we left with memories we would never forget for the rest of our lives.