Cricket Ascend System

Chapter 46: Attention

The numbers changed everything.

Not inside Riverside.

That had already happened long ago.

Inside school cricket circles.

Now whenever Shastri School fixtures got announced—

people checked one thing first.

"Is Sahil playing?"

Because even opposing teams had started adjusting entire bowling plans around him.

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Wide yorkers prepared beforehand.

Slower balls in death overs.

Some schools even discussed him before Kabir now.

And that honestly surprised older coaches.

Because technically—

Kabir still looked like the more complete batter.

Cleaner defense.

Better against swing.

More classical.

But Sahil?

Sahil changed match momentum faster than anyone else.

And modern school cricket valued that heavily.

One afternoon during practice—

Coach Verma pinned printed statistics onto dressing-room notice board.

Immediately players crowded around.

SHASTRI SCHOOL — INTERNAL PERFORMANCE SHEET Top Batters Player Runs Avg SR Sahil Choudhary 1271 84.73 179.26 Kabir Ahuja 982 61.37 124.2 Aman Sethi 611 33.9 138.4 Boundary Leaders Player 4s 6s Sahil Choudhary 101 69 Kabir Ahuja 94 9 Aman Sethi 48 21 Milestones Player 50s 100s Sahil Choudhary 14 1 Kabir Ahuja 11 0 Aman Sethi 4 0 Finishing Efficiency Player Not Outs Chase SR Sahil Choudhary 9 248.4 Kabir Ahuja 5 129 Aman Sethi 2 151

The dressing room reacted loudly immediately.

"69 sixes is insane."

"How do you even hit that many?"

"Bro has more sixes than some teams."

Sahil pretended to stay calm.

But honestly?

Seeing those numbers felt addictive.

Then someone pointed at another section.

And suddenly the room started laughing.

LOWEST SCORES Player Score Sahil Choudhary 0 (1) Aman Sethi 1 (6) Ritesh 2 (11)

Aman immediately grinned.

"See? Even superstar has duck."

Kabir smirked slightly nearby.

"That duck honestly helped him."

Sahil looked confused.

"What?"

Kabir folded practice gloves calmly.

"After that match you stopped attacking first ball randomly."

That made Sahil pause.

Because annoyingly—

Kabir was right again.

Earlier Sahil thought failures ruined momentum.

Now he understood something important.

Failures adjusted him.

Sharpened him.

The system appeared quietly.

PERFORMANCE TREND ANALYSIS

Host growth accelerating due to repeated adaptation cycles.

Key Pattern: Failure → Analysis → Immediate correction.

Then another line appeared.

RISK WARNING

Rapid reputation growth detected.

Opposition preparation level increasing.

Future matches expected to become significantly harder.

And honestly—

Sahil had already started noticing.

The next few practice sessions became brutal.

Bowlers stopped giving easy length balls.

Spinners attacked wider angles.

Fielders crowded boundary zones perfectly.

Even practice throwdowns became more targeted now.

One net session especially frustrated Sahil badly.

Arnav Mehra had come for mixed-school practice camp.

And the left-arm pacer absolutely attacked him.

Sharp bouncers.

Late yorkers.

Wide slower balls.

For almost fifteen minutes—

Sahil couldn’t middle anything cleanly. freewebnσvel.cøm

Finally frustration exploded.

He attempted wild slog.

EDGE.

Caught.

Arnav smirked immediately.

"There’s old Sahil again."

That line irritated him deeply.

Because it was true.

Pressure still dragged old habits out sometimes.

The system appeared immediately afterward.

NET SESSION FAILURE REVIEW

Primary Mistake: Impatience against sustained pressure.

Current Weakness: Host still seeks domination too early against elite bowling.

Sahil sat silently afterward holding gloves tightly.

Because deep down—

he understood the scary truth.

School cricket was catching up to him now.

Which meant only one thing.

He needed another evolution.