Cricket Story/Poem Contest, 2004

Hi Everyone! Come and enter this fantastic contest! The Theme is Cricket in an India-Pakistan Friendship era!

All you need to do is to Write a short story not exceeding 1500 words on the theme described above OR Write a poem, not exceeding 60 lines.The poem should describe or narrate some story-line, if possible. Real-life characters may be used as props to create an ORIGINAL story. Post the ready story or poem as a bitem link in

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If you need any help in following these instructions, feel free to contact me either by e-mail or in the ""Invalid Item"   by A Guest Visitor " Forum pages.

The contest is open to all members, not just the members of the India group. I especially welcome members from all cricket playing countries, Pakistan being at the top of my list.


For those who do not understand the game of cricket, but are still keen to participate, here is a link to useful general information on cricket as a game: http://www.informationheadquarters.com/Sports/Cricket.shtml

Contest ended on 30th April 2004

PRIZES:

First Prize: 25000 Gift points or an equivalent Awardicon!
Second Prize: 10000 Gift points or an equivalent Awardicon!
Third Prize: 5000 Gift points!

Best of luck.

Thanks to laurencia for a donation of 100,000 gift points for this contest! Thanks to writetight for a generous donation of 2500 gift points too!

Thanks also to Dr M C Gupta for his encouragement and advice.

This is your chance to add an Awardicon to your portfolios!

OUR JUDGE IS: laurencia

WINNERS:

First Prize: Bhaskar for:

Of Cricket and The Way of the Pigeon  (E) Friendship and the game of cricket, #842088 by Bhaskar

Second Prize: Dr Taher writes again! for:

The Giant Screen: Love in a Glimpse  (ASR) Combines the theme of Cricket, Indo-Pak relations and Romance #839224 by Dr Taher writes again!

Third Prize: Dr M C Gupta for:

AN ODE TO CRICKET--award winner  (E) An ode to cricket [India is one of the eight countries that play test cricket] #842366 by Dr M C Gupta

Consolation Prize: Dr M C Gupta for:

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-Taher