An Examination from the Point-of-View of a Cricketing Brain

Though the Exam is a three-hour job like a T20, you feel it is like a whole test match, with all the highs and lows and difficult periods during the paper. But in the end, the whole thing turns out to be a ODI.

I personally feel like a batsman playing on foreign soil.

When you enter the examination hall, you want to acclimatize with the conditions, sit in the exam hall and try to brush off your tensions and get fully fit to face the balls.

Then you warm up, start reading the question paper to get your eye in so that later you can score.

First, there are the one and two-mark questions or the singles and doubles for the taking. You require to do swift running and get these runs quite quickly as they are easy to get unlike the big hits.

You also have to try and get all of these right or else you will be run out and lose an early wicket. Also, the initial over score often helps if you can't get the slog in in the end.

Then come the three markers or the middle overs. These are the toughest, as they are in the majority and you do not have a batting power play here. So you just have to get your hand to run hard over these. Losing a wicket (marks) at this time can really affect your final score.

Now come the long awaited slog overs! You just got to make the most of these six and four mark questions. Even if you can't hit a six ball all the way you have to ensure you at least get a four out of that ball.

This is the stage which can really boost your score if you have a strong base, but if you don't this is the only hope to put up a decent total.

TUNG TUNG TUNG!!

And there goes the bell the overs are up and you are ready to put your feet up for the interval. You know you cannot correct your false shots now but you still practice them over and over and wish you would have played your innings better but TOO LATE.

Now the second innings will start when the examiner checks your paper. Your bowlers then have to force the examiner to play each ball or give you each and every mark. But that is not in your control now you just RELAX.

Now, if you like my exam just give me a POTD and that would be passing with distinction