It doesn't get sportier than this!

I have always been associated with sports. I played competitive Lawn Tennis while in school, was my brother's training partner when he practised for competitive Table Tennis and then was the Sports journalist for Express. So the tryst with sports goes back to my teens. But little did I know that me and sports will be so much into each other at a certain point of time.

To put it on the table, my annual overseas vacation is to that part of the world where some mega sports event is taking place. I sit up at 2 in the night when Drogba scores a goal or Tiger gets a birdie or for that matter when Phil Taylor wins at Darts. Yeah, we watch Darts championships too. And F1 Racing and swimming and Trick Shot pool. I watch them all with my sports crazy husband.

While watching and loving sports has been endorsed from him, Sports writing has come naturally to me. Maybe its from my Express days that I picked up a flair of writing about sports. If I start counting, then there isn't a sport about which I haven't written. I have written sports reports about cricket, football, hockey, cycling, roller skating to name the ordinary. In addition I have also written about the unconventional bullock cart racing, fencing, fishing, horse racing, jukskei, weightlifting and many more. These are some sports I didn't know much about and still have no clue about. But i write about them because I just love to discover each one of them and talk of them.

Currently, I am writing for 5 sports blogs, each for a different game. Goal Post is my favorite one and also the first one that made me so close to football. Many other football blogs followed but Goal Post is stationary for me. Small contributions for cue sports followed and then for racing sports. I have been trying to get a cricket news blog of my own started and hopefully it will be on track by year end.

Plus, I also write for the online game side with online casinos being the biggest contributors. I am not sure if they are a sport but I have written 1000's of articles on them and have mastered slots, poker, bingo...All thanks to my writing skills.

Lately, I have been involved in a Fantasy League in which people make a virtual cricket team and then score points based on the players real life performance. Couple of friends and Mohit and I were participants and this is the second league I am a part of. In the Champions Trophy, I came third and was fairly proud of it. But in the just concluded Champions League I topped a list of 14 people and am elated.

Though my contribution was limited to selection and it was the players who did the real job but strategics did take up a lot of time. After playing two of these Fantasy Leagues at CricInfo, I have come to appreciate BCCI Selection Committee a little more.

Anyhow, with each passing day, I keep going deeper in the sporting world and am learning a little about poker these days. So next time someone wants to discuss any sport, they know who to chat up with!!!!

P.S Did i mention that I have written Punjabi sports news? And hey, what about that time when I did a TV news report on hockey in Punjabi...Truly Sporty!