Books, cricket vie for attention

Shreya Ray / TNN / Feb 25, 2006, 00:19 IST

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As if it's not bad enough that less than a week is left for the board examinations, students about to sit for them are gripped with an even bigger anxiety.

NEW DELHI: As if it's not bad enough that less than a week is left for the board examinations, students about to sit for them are gripped with an even bigger anxiety �� the India-England cricket series.
Though the usual nervous pangs are surfacing in most students about to take the exams, they're also concerned about how they will manage to watch the series.
Tanay Chaturvedi, a self-confessed cricket fan says that the series would be a huge distraction during the boards.
"I just thank God that the India-Pak series got over before my boards started because then there's no way I would have been able to study," says Tanay, a Class X student of Birla Vidya Niketan. "India-England to phir bhi ho jayega," (India-England is still manageable), he adds.

Lakshya Kapoor's anxiety about his exams has completely been overshadowed by the bigger question of how he will juggle cricket with his exams. He just can't believe his bad luck.
"It just had to be me. Why did my boards have to be so ill-timed, so as to collide with the India-England series?" he mourns. Not that he plans to give up on all the fun.
"I have decided that I will watch the highlights at night, after I have finished studying," adds Lakshya, who is also studying in Class X in Birla Vidya Niketan.

Twelfth-grader Sameer Dixit, of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, is not losing much sleep over missing the test matches. Claiming that test matches are "too slow and boring," Sameer has set his sights on the one-dayers.
"By the time the one-dayers start, the boards would have already finished, so I'm not very worried," he says.
In fact, Sameer is hoping to catch any of the matches live in the stadium. "There will be one in Delhi, Faridabad so I may go for those. And there's one in Goa on April 2 and we may even go to Goa," he adds.
Of course for someone like Itti Seth, a Humanities student of Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, the India-England series is no problem.
Itti, who doesn't bother herself with cricket, says that for her the biggest distraction is movies. "I'm going to catch a show of Taxi No 9-2-11. But it is healthy to have these distractions once in a while," she adds matter-of-factly.

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