My second article at Cricbuzz.
Addendum: In the line ” Maine Kol-Kanta ko chhoda” I did not know whether to spell it with one “h” or two “h”s.
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
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We are back. With the team round-ups. Arranged in order of the GB-factor. The best comes first. And the worse—we don’t care if they come or not.
Deccan Chargers: In IPL 2008, Deccan Chargers were the Air Deccan of the franchises, finishing at the very bottom and finding it nigh impossible to take off on time. Since then they have gotten their act together and identified their shortcomings.
Bhajji was lucky to escape criminal action after he racially insulted a monkey and then slapped another.
He then further pushed his luck by dancing dressed as Ravana with Mona Singh as Sita. This greatly insulted people who found the fact that Ravana and Sita could dance together outside the VVS Laxman Rekha to be despicable.
Dhoni too had been pushing the envelope by his acts of random sexiness which were also pretty offensive, like him allowing his name to be used in songs like “Set kara di life he Baba Dhoni sang hamaar ho” which single (and married) women all over India were singing.
It was only going to be a matter of time before the law would catch up with this duo. And it finally has. A law-suit has been filed against Dhoni and Harbhajan for “defamation, criminal intimidation and intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace”.
Mohammed Kaif [Image: Tribune], Rajasthan Royal (the only team whose owner is a PhD)’s most expensive recruit, is taken to South Africa. He then plays one match against the Cape Cobras, scratches around as he has done for the most part of his career, hits one lofted shot to the boundary and then gets a leading edge to the spinner and walks back.
Next thing he knows he is on the flight back to India, his services no longer needed.
This is even the more shocking because an astrologer had said that Kaif will “rock” this year in the IPL. I presume that means he will be listening to rock music while the IPL is on.
At least it is good to know that while one Kaif is going out, another Kaif, who will definitely provide more entertainment to all, will fly in.
Of course it would be most inappropriate to say that Kaif has been fired. Not at all. Using the euphemistic vocabulary perfected by Indian IT majors none more than this company with whom the Royals have a tie-up, it should be said that Kaifu has most possibly been sun-setted/deprecated and will no longer be maintained.
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