As I write this Samhar,The IIMC-IIMB sports meet is just about to get over.And it has been awesome.Something totally new for me as we didnt use to have events like these back in our engineering days.And boy did we miss something?having experienced this over 2 days now I think the spirit of a campus shines through so beautifully its amazing to be a part of it.
We had girls and guys from IIMB coming down here for the meet this time around.Before I describe the whole event let me just say that this event is just 2 years old from what I have heard.So it doesnt have the history that lets say an IIMC-XLRI sports meet has attached to it.But boy I cant imagine what will the event be like when its 38 years old which the XL event is now(even after the XL guys chickened out from coming here last year:P).
Ok so this weekend we had about 100 IIMB guys/girls coming down here for the various events.The events total 17 in number to be exact.The problem with our campus is that we dont have a lot of sporting practice facilities.So our teams can only practice when some event comes around.Last year IIMB had hosted the event and it was kind of a disgraceful result for us.We had managed to win just 2 out of 17 events.Those events were namely girls badminton and snooker.This time we were hell bent on putting a tougher fight.We welcomed the IIMB contingent and the event started with the girls throwball event.Now their girls were mostl well built atleast as compared to our girls.We were humbled in the first set and though our girls put up a better fight in the 2nd set we could not hold off B.But soon enough news came in that we had thrashed IIMB in cricket by a whopping margin of 45 runs in a 25 over game.In response to our 189 the B guys were at one stage 29-7 but managed to get close in the end.The evening started with the tennis event where our captain came up with a wonderful performance in the first match to come back from a set down and win it for us.Slowly other results started coming in and we had won guys basketball,snooker,athletics,guys table tennis,swimming but managed to lose girls and boys badminton,girls table tennis,girls basketball, volleyball and carrom.At the end of the 2 days the scoreline read 9-7 in favour of IIMB.The tennis event could not be completed in the end.
As I said we did promise a fight and we did give one.Here the spirit I am talking about came to the fore.You just had to be here to see the sledging show put on by our guys.It was one thing we surely beat them in.Anyway it was a wonderful experience for me.Hopefully next time during the planned IIM CABL meet in january i would not only participate in cheering but also try and win some event for my college.bring on January.