A man was walking sorrowfully across the pavement. He was the sports adviser and his head of department had just exploded the bomb. He had asked the man to develop a new kind of sport that people would find interesting and which would help the company earn a lot of money or he would be fired. This was what he was disappointed about, for inventing a new sort of game, and one too that will be an instant hit was not a joke. The man’s friend saw him and went to greet him and was surprised to see him in a sullen mood. But not long after he came to know about his plight and went into deep thought. After hours of thinking, the man’s friend gave up and advised him to get another job because nothing seemed to come into his mind. Let us now leave the two men to their discussion and travel to another place on the asteroid 7b101 some light years away from earth. A royal escort was standing there, a king and two guards. They were presumably anticipating a guest and he soon arrived, another king with two guards in his spaceship. They landed and the travelers came out and the two kings bowed a little to greet each other. The meeting was about an important matter, about their interplanetary game. They droned on into their conversation which soon began to grow into a quarrel. The host said
“We have the right to cut the pig to start the tournament. After all, among the 8 planets, we have won the tournament the last couple of times.”
“True, but the rule for cutting the pig was not that you had to win the tournament but that the most worthy planet would get the honor and I believe we have far exceeded the requirements by being the best.” retorted the guest king in anger.
They kept quarreling for some time and then decided to fight it out. Each got into his own spaceship. The hosts said that they would smash their opponents by hitting them hard with their bat-shaped ship and the guests, whose ships were round shaped like a ball retorted that they would dodge each blow or resist its power easily when their ship was hit and, also, that it would be they who would win.
They started to fight and unnoticed by either party, soon wandered into the earth to the very place where our two dejected friends were sitting. They were stunned to see two flying objects drop in the backfield and they went to check. What they saw made them go “Wow” and “Oh” all over themselves. One ship was trying to smash and the other continuously dodged and when it did get hit, went far due to the powerful blow but came back again to smash the other ship. Soon after the two ships left, without even a slight change in their corundum, our hero’s friend went back to ponder over their original problem when the ships departed but our hero was jubilant. The ships had given him an idea for a new sport.
The next day, people had made a big line into a field where you pick a bat and hit a ball which someone throws at you. If you guys still have not figured it out, this is the invention of the popular and well-known game called “Cricket” made by a man who got the idea from a fierce battle between two alien spaceships. Of course, everyone was told differently about its invention. As for the aliens you ask? Well, my best guess is that they are still in full war as to who gets to cut the pig and I hazard that they will fight for it for generations come.
