We were in the process of disposing off old items in the house when an old notebook running more than a quarter century caught my attention. I was quite fascinated to see that I had documented handwritten scorecard of all ODI matches played during the 1999 World Cup along with plenty of other notes pertaining mainly towards cricket, a bit of movies and some random scripts.
This was much before the advent of blogging came into existence. I recall around the late 1990s and early 2000s, most homes didn't even have a personal computer and it was only around the early 2000s that internet came into existence with the good old netcracker dial up edition which used to take quite a while to connect.
I had also incidentally penned a summarized version of the year 2002 that played out in test cricket chronicling on the major events that took place during the year. I couldn't beleive it myself that I took the pains to write about test cricket decades back when I was a wily teenager hooked on to the sport in a major way. Also looking at penning scorecards from cricket matches noted down from newspapers brings back a lot of vintage memories.
I am sharing below my hand written documentation of the 1999 ODI World Cup match played between India and Pakistan and producing verbatim my write up of the year 2002 and how it was for test cricket.
2002 - The Year that Was
2002 will go down in history as one of those years in which bat completely dominated the ball.
