Some of them would have picked up fairly round or even roughly round stones to aim at electric poles on the way; aspirant and perhaps would-be bowling arsenals of the team. Well, I surely did with mixed results. Others would have stood outside TV shops, electronic repair shops, any shops which would have had a box turned on with a live match playing, for a minute, an hour or more depending on their craze. I could actually go inside and watch the gentleman’s game at a vegetable vendor’s, an Indian who shared my love for the game, on my way back home from school. At least an hour would pass by on match days. A small number of people of that generation would have actively followed the arrival of an Indian team led by Ambati Rayadu to play a series against their budding home side at Kirtipur stadium which the latter lost. Those were the early days. Enthusiasts like me would have gone berserk at the televised sight of Manjit Shrestha knocking Rayadu’s middle stump. Oh! That sweet yorker! That very generation would have heard and witnessed the arrival of Roy Dias, a good Samaritan from an Island nation, who worked towards expanding the country’s cricketing horizon. And some of that very generation would actually have made it into the team guided by Dassanayake, another guiding light in the sport’s unprecedented success that beat Afghanistan in the 2014 T-20 World Cup! Yes in the ICC World Cup T-20 match televised on Star sports! That very crop of senior cricketing statesmen and presently not minuscule but considerable Nepali populace would very recently have witnessed the under -19 boys defeat New Zealand -- a test playing full ICC member side -- in the World Cup and mused, ‘Oh! The future of it is in safe hands.’ But then, the very players, appreciators and lovers of the game would have felt utterly dismayed and dejected at the off-field happenings inimical to the development of the game in the nation. They would have felt strong revulsion against the politicking and mismanagement at home. They would have related to the laws of the very game; that there are no straight red cards but then two high voltage balls above waist by a bowler or obstructing the pitch or handling the ball by a batsman do lead to an ouster. Not once, not twice, things have been going wrong at the helm of the nation’s cricketing body for quite a while.