Monday, 21 July 2008

Of Nadal, asteroid and an Indian XI

The other day, Rafael Nadal, that veritable Spanish bull on two legs, had an asteroid named after him. Here goes an Indian XI and things that could have been named after them:

  1. Irfan Pathan = Meteor
  2. Ajit Agarkar = Comet
  3. Virender Sehwag = Aircraft Safety Hazard
  4. Sourav Ganguly = Kamikaze Planes/ Nail Clipper
  5. Rahul Dravid = Defence Headquarters
  6. Sachin Tendulkar = Peaks/National Museum/Departmental Store
  7. S Sreesanth= Tinder Box
  8. Ashish Nehra = Band Aid
  9. Anil Kumble = Diplomatic Mission
  10. Harbhajan Singh = Nuclear Reactor/Volcano
  11. Zaheer Khan = Nursing Home.

14 comments:

  1. Gaurav Sethi 21 July 2008 at 12:32

    VVS Laxman: extinct species
    Jaffer/Karthik/kartik: stepney
    munaf patel: stepney's stepney

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  2. Anonymous21 July 2008 at 13:40

    NC, spot on. I think I should issue a second XI! By the way, Munaf's was mindboggling!

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  3. straight point21 July 2008 at 16:43

    mahider singh dhoni: singh is king

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  4. Som22 July 2008 at 09:48

    SP, you want a film on Dhoni? I think Tarzan would be good as well.

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  5. straight point22 July 2008 at 11:41

    for that we have

    ishant sharma: vertical tarzan

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  6. Anonymous22 July 2008 at 15:03

    SP, I would rather cast Ishant as Mowgli in a new Jungle Book.

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  7. Anonymous24 July 2008 at 22:32

    Hilarious! #1,5,10,11 were my best pics. Allow me to add one:

    Yuvraj - for anything that sells the "hurt bunny look"

    @SP, Som, Mowgli! Now I know who Ishant reminds me of. Thank you! :)

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  8. Anonymous25 July 2008 at 09:09

    VM, the moment I first saw Ishant, he reminded me of Jungle boy. He has an alternate career option, it seems.

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  9. Soulberry30 July 2008 at 11:34

    Dada fits the Nailcutter while Yuvraj is the Kamikaze Ace.

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  10. Anonymous30 July 2008 at 12:54

    Soulberry, indeed Kamikaze fits Yuraj. I thought it fits Ganguly as well since his impressive record of numerous running outs of partners.

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  11. Soulberry30 July 2008 at 20:41

    Ah, the run outs...of course. Our very own Inzy minus the blubber.

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  12. Soulberry30 July 2008 at 20:42

    But Nadal - he's truly a star.

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