Indian Cricket Curry

With each setback in the SA Series, the Indian media and public seem to be getting hotter. The recent debacle along with the diatribe that followed has put the Indian team in a soup. They definitely seem have gone into the skin of the Ooh Ah Ouch India.
Poor Vengsakar who just started playing the role of a chief selector has been made a messenger at the hands of the BCCI. He has been flown to South Africa to convey a message from Parliament. The Board has either been unable to reach Chappel through their (remember sponsors Reliance) phone lines or they feel pigeons are best way to carry messages across.
Staying with the BCCI, recently the BCCI chief was heard saying that he wanted India to have someone like Ponting. Wow, wouldn’t the BCCI want to see the ICC Chief, Malcom Speed (Former Cricket Australia chief) shoved and pushed. What a spectacle would that be.
Also as Imran Khan suggested the Board's considering having more grounds in the country, that would give young kids more room to explore their talent. They explored all possible places including the Indian airports and found ‘no space’. We were surprised and immediately decided to call ‘WorldSpace’ - whose automated reply said 'there is so much more to hear'. Well, we thought we have heard enough and so hung up the phone. Probably all of us could learn a lot from our politicians who never give-up or retire.
The country's Politicians (especially ones from Bihar & UP) seem to be on a vacation mood, this season. Besides planning for their usual paid trip to Goa with friend and family, they also seem to have enough time to watch and analyze cricket in depth. Some of them are likely to take up Television commentary after the UP elections a la fellow parliamentarian Siddhu. While Lalu wants those who endorse products to be banned (read carefully, he doesn’t say ‘banned products’), another politician, a Samajwadi Party MP in his typical political estyle wants Greg Chappel to be sacked. MPs never expected Chappel to respond and were in for a rude shock when Chappel eventually did, he however stopped short of the finger or probably it was editing while on its way to India.

Here's good enough reason behind the baby-boy(calls home(UP) everyday) Raina-Chappel chemistry. Like many of our colleges, Chappel too wants ragging to be curbed and dealt with more stringently. One wonders if he’s talking about Suresh Raina. Anyways here’s some small talk we heard on the young and senior players.
Yuvraj Singh – Has always been called a youngster, even after 7 long years of cricket. But without doubt he’s definitely a naughty boy.
Mohammad Kaif – The youngster has started growing a beard now. Also to avoid ugly situations, he has used Berger weather coat exterior emulsion paint for his house.
Irfan Pathan – If Dinesh Karthick can play as a pure batsman what makes Irfan impure. Is it his bowling, eh?
Suresh Raina – Plans to move in with Greg Chappel. Chappel is fond of Raina and thinks he has brilliant hands.
VVS Laxman – He has been trying to convey his love for batting to Chappel through his phone(obviously reliance) but to no avail. He has finally managed to speak to Raina and they have decided on signing a MOU (VVS bats and Raina only fields).
Anil Kumble – He too has been trying to reach Chappel over his phone (Reliance-remember he too has a similar contract). In fact he’s been trying for the last 13 Months and only recently seems to have got his line.
MS Dhoni – The last words the man said on TV were ‘Deepika Padukone’. She’s his favorite model and sometimes he models himself like her.
Saurav Ganguly – The pepsi star has realized that staying away from the team has done him a lot of good. He now has more support than ever before and many have become vocal too (probably eager to see Dada shirtless again). Will all this crap restore tranquility and peace is anyone's guess.
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