Evan Schultz stepped up to the wicket Saturday night. The score was 42 to 39, and his team was down.
With three bowls left, Schultz, a skinny University student in glasses and an Empire Strikes Back T-shirt who had never played cricket before in his life, needed a four-point hit to the fences at the turf field outside the Student Recreation Center to win the cricket match.
An experienced bowler, student Suraj Yalamuri wound up at the opposite wicket 60 feet across the field. Whipping his arm over his shoulder, Yalamuri sent the wood-hard ball screaming toward Schultz. It bounced a few feet in front of him and up into the sweet spot on the broad paddle of the bat.
At the tremendous crack, the other players gasped and stood to watch the ball’s flight.
It was the Students of the Indian Subcontinent’s first weekly game of cricket –
Crazy for Cricket
October 1, 2006
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