Cricket-Squared: Earthling Dictionaries

A Story by Abishai100

Portrait of cricket-writing for an Earthling with ambition-memory for imprints of sportsmanship/superstition jam.

Cricket fan tale. Enjoy (Happy Holidays!),

DISCLAIMER: This work of fiction contains images/references with no commercial/explicit ties to any person(s)/body (e.g., Indian cricket sports) and is cast as purely a 'personal' expression for social arts (for 'open' views/interpretation).

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Amlan thought a great deal about how his father enjoyed cable-paid world cricket sports programming on weekends while he toiled-away in his room studying to gain admission into the prestigious Ivy League of American Homeland colleges/universities. When he was waitlisted from MIT and got accepted into Johns Hopkins, he knew he had a choice to make, for his father insisted on Ivy-education, and Amlan was admitted into a whopping 3 total Ivy-programs, but MIT and Johns Hopkins were among his fave academic environments. In the end, he chose an Ivy-school to his own liking ironically. Amlan became a sports-journalist and never forgot those weekend mornings when his father (Emit) would enjoy cricket on TV, while Amlan studied. It informed his writing for cricket daydreams now for world journals and social media culture (Facebook-like!).

STORY_EXCERPT: "The young man of the United Kingdom enjoyed varied developments in world cricket cyber-presentations (video games); and he thought about his growing fan-love of world-teams (nations!) like West Indies and India and England and Pakistan for World Cup real-world play; and he thought about great performances now featured on YouTube and elsewhere...and he realized he'd become a view-boy for cricket's unique bat-and-ball field/defense/runs sport of elegance and charge for uniform daylight."

STORY_EXCERPT: "The married couple, otherwise a tremendous fan-duo of science-fiction cinema for Earthlings, turned their eye on World Cup cricket, of an '83 moment featuring an India-England rivalry, spotlighting greats in the game and for both nations aspiring to get the final title; this sportsmanship 'consciousness' for the bat-and-ball world fields game made the couple feel the English cool of Earthling shapes of race self-identification, and perchance why humans thought about transformation and space travel and species/contact; and why cricket contests ironically reflected such sports-for-politics for honey/bread."

GIRLFRIEND: You've a shadow in your writer's blocks from boyhood, love.

AMLAN: You're correct, me thinks.

GIRLFRIEND: Well, cricket's become a home-medicine cabinet for ya.

AMLAN: You're correct, me thinks.

GIRLFRIEND: You need to translate languages into real daydreams.

AMLAN: For a medicinal view of father-land consciousness, right?

GIRLFRIEND: You said it...cricket's sun for invention in the fan/writer.

AMLAN: You're correct, me thinks.

GIRLFRIEND: Fashion a planet...an environment...for synthesized dream.

AMLAN: Aha, a fantasy-arena for teams and plays (in my brain!).

GIRLFRIEND: The son also rises (Selfie-like).

AMLAN: Cool (good reading).

Well, for Mr. Amlan Satan, world-writing for that swift game of cricket came with superstitions and lines of boyhood memory; and he took his girlfriend's stern advice and thought about fortune-readings for personalized daydreams, perhaps to transcend youth and embrace the adult Earthling 'world' of capitalism-friendly bat-and-ball thought (for the Ego).

GIRLFRIEND: You got me a sari-mannequin for Valentine's.

AMLAN: Good reading in reciprocity in gratitude for what's gained for me.

GIRLFRIEND: So, you made that daydream fantasy cricket ground for you.

AMLAN: I have, love; and it's a great medicine for adult expression for me.

GIRLFRIEND: Are you a batter or a pitcher in this dream-land, love?

AMLAN: Batter, ironically.

GIRLFRIEND: Your father preferred pitching, eh?

AMLAN: You guess everything...this mannequin's a capitalism-Aphrodite.

GIRLFRIEND: Sport-class (Facebook-like).

AMLAN: For leviathan/uncertainty.

Amlan made toast of his education and writer's developments and cheer for his cricket-dreamscape with a world-exchange 'reflection' (Indian) luchi-bread thanksgiving-diner plate chat(s) and thought deeply about how cricket had transformed his 'consciousness' and made him an Earthling pensive of the links between hospitality...and jitters (wow).

STORY_EXCERPT: "As an older man, I confessed I was both drawn into the new-gen 'universe' of emerged striking batsmen/bowlers for that great world-sport of cricket now; and I remembered with fondness my fascination with the greats of that older time my father cheered; I'd become an equal-fan of multiple generations for social media 'culture' and helmets; and I wondered if my own Selfie-age of sportsmanship superstition made cricket something of a synthetic for team-or-nation text (for all!)."