Tuesday 24 November 2009

Kanpur Test Day 1: My 7 suspects

1. The cake Amit Mishra -- he turned 27 today even though his look suggests 72 -- received from team management had 'Happy-Birthday-Omit' written across it;

2. "Sorry Bhai" is the Bollywood movie that pretty much sums up Pragyan Ojha's feeling towards Amit Mishra;

3. The only explanation of Sri Lanka's frequent dropping of anything flying off Sehwag's bat is -- they consider it below their dignity. They steadfastly refused in Ahmedabad till one accidentally got stuck to Angelo Mathews' reluctant palm. Here too Mahela dropped Sehwag on duck before Dilshan caught him. And that because Sehwag happens to be Dilshan's Delhi Daredevils comrade;

4. After their union in Ahmedabad, the Jayawardenes clicked in Kanpur as well. Well, this time for India, by collaborating to spill Sehwag on zero;

5. The secret behind Sehwag's uncharacteristic patience is Dhoni's threat to make him write Welegedara's full name -- Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara -- 10 times if he got out early;

6. Harbhajan Singh's mild throat infection had the team management worried because they know his real craft lies in his larynx;

7. When Sehwag said Gambhir is the best Indian opener since Gavaskar, he meant Srikkanth was a motormouth madcap, Ganguly an ill-tempered mule and Tendulkar a petulant holy cow.

8 comments:

Soulberry said...

A friend was taking pride in the fact that two of his three suggestions were applied by the Indian team management. The third of his suggestion was dropping of Mishra, the second was dropping of Ishant and the first was dropping of Sehwag.

Another friend mentioned that Sri Lanka didn't need the first friends suggestion for Lanka had already determined to drop Sehwag fi every test.

Som said...

Soulberry, that is an ingenious one. Hahaha:)

straight point said...

in between sidhu is also thinking of having one to one with sehwag...

soulberry... simply hilarious... :)

Satrajit said...

What would Sehwag say about other test openers like SS Das, Deep Dasgupta, Wasim Jaffer, Devang Gandhi and others in this league of cricketers? Som any take?

Som said...

SP, Sidhu is apparently not here. Would have heard his cheshire smile, make it laughter, by now.

Som said...

Satrajit, Sehwag believes they were, at best, can-openers and not innings openers.

namya said...

Som,
Viru may be talking about Test openers, I think

Som said...

Namya, whatever he says, Viru makes you sit up and take note. He's the only guy who seems still unadulterated by spin doctors and PR cons.