My Cricket Camp

During the March holidays last year we had a cricket camp in our school. It was three day- two night camp. This was a tradition carried out Victoria school of organising a cricket camp each year to invite the secondary one students into the CCA, prepare them for the Nationals tournament ahead and obviously enhance the team bondage. I was very excited for this camp.

On the first day we met at the school canteen at one in the afternoon. Then we brought our luggage to Class 1I on the second floor. We then had a short and brief speech about what we will be doing in this camp. After the briefing we then went to the gym for a work out. Then it was the harder part of the training. We went to the field and started with various drills which will help to improve our cricket skills. After a tiring training session we had a little bit of fun by playing a mini game between ourselves. After a fun period of games we were sent for hour dinner break where we had gone to marine parade for our dinner. When we returned we took a rest for a while and played another mini cricket game in the field. The game was very fun. This was one of the parts which I really enjoyed in the whole camp.

At night, at about nine o’clock we watched three movies back to back. They were ‘Transformers’, ‘Disturbia’ and ‘Holes’. We only went to sleep at one midnight. The next morning we woke up at nine brushed our teeth and went for a slight breakfast and went to the gym at 11 and then we were released for our lunch at about one in the afternoon. Them from 3.30 pm to 6 pm it was intensive training. This part of the training was nearly unbearable.
I could feel my heart pounding at my ribs after this training. After two hours of ‘torture’ training we were allowed to take a rest and play the Playstation3 (PS3) which my friend had brought from home. Fortunately this was the last training we were going to have this camp. Well, after playing the PS3, we went for our dinner and returned for the most anticipated event of the camp. It was none other than the ‘Night Walk’. We were made to watch this horror movie, ‘Shutter’. It was about a ghost haunting this man via a camera. The movie really freaked out all of us. Then at exactly midnight we were sent one by one to carry out different challenges where our seniors will scare us to our nerves. I was really scared in this ‘Night Walk’. But after a good night of sleep everything was back to normal.

The next day was supposedly the best part of the ‘Cricket Camp 09’. Our teacher-in-charge had booked a cricket pitch for us play against ourselves. This was where our training throughout the camp was put to the test, both in tactical and physical ways. We split ourselves equally into two groups and played a proper twenty-over match. I had played a big part for my team but we still lost. But in the end of the day we knew that we have done our best and it was just a practice match. We then returned to school and were dismissed home. We left for home with memories that we will never forget.