🏏 The Unwritten Rules of Gully Cricket (That Everyone Broke Anyway)
If you grew up in the 90s or early 2000s, chances are your first cricket stadium wasn’t Eden Gardens — it was the narrow gali outside your house, with slippers for stumps and a taped tennis ball that had seen better days. Gully cricket wasn’t just a game, it was survival of the fittest… and the funniest.
Here are the sacred unwritten rules that every team swore by (but no one actually followed):
1. “Ball Lost = Batsman Out”
If you hit the ball into Sharma ji’s balcony and his dog ran away with it → congrats, you’re out. Doesn’t matter if you just hit a six worthy of Sachin Tendulkar. The gali had no third umpire.
2. “One-Side Batting = Universal Law”
Too many windows on the left? Fielders couldn’t handle it? Simple solution → only one side batting allowed. Hit the ball on the wrong side, and everyone screamed “OUT!” before the ball even touched the ground.
3. “Last Batsman = Last Over Hero”
Every team had that one player who couldn’t hold the bat straight. But when he was the last man standing, suddenly the rules bent: “Arre, chal tu maar… 6 ball aur.” And of course, he’d miss all six.
4. “Window Broken = Match Cancelled”
The sound of glass breaking was the real wicket-taking delivery. Once a window shattered, everyone disappeared faster than fielders in the 49th over. Match abandoned, no result declared.
5. “Bowler = Fielder = Ball Finder”
If you were bowling, you were automatically the ball retriever too. Hit for a six? Sorry bhai, tu hi leke aa. No arguments allowed.
6. “Bat Owner = Captain, Umpire, & Boss”
Whoever owned the bat was basically the BCCI president of your gali. No matter how many times he got out, he’d declare: “Ball change ho gaya, not out.” Democracy did not exist in gully cricket.
Why It Still Matters đź’›
Gully cricket wasn’t just a pastime — it was teamwork, arguments, friendship, and memories stitched into our childhood. Every cracked window, every lost ball, every “not out” scream is part of who we are today.
At 90sRetroStories, we turn those same memories into wearable stories — like our Gully Cricket Tees. Because nostalgia isn’t just a memory… it’s a uniform we still wear.
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