Hiya friends.
Having lost poorly against Australia, India went on with their consistent performance and lost against Zim, England and Pakistan, and involved in a major upset of the tournament by beating Namibia by 1 run. After having received death threats from terrorist cricket fans in India, Indian players have decided to forfeit their trip to India and decided to settle in SA itself.
All the sponsors got frustrated and contacted Dalmiya for some solution. Dalmiya consulted the expert team of Mandira Bedi, Rubi Bhatia, Maria, Raveena Tandon, and Charu Sharma and decided to host another ICC (India Chale Chalo) world cup with tough teams like Holland, Namibia, Canada & bangladesh. They formulated several rules in favour of India:
1.If Ganguly wins the toss, India will bat first... else the opposite team will field first (as Indians are poor chasers)
2.Each Match will be of 40 overs only
3.Matches will be held in Holland, Namibia, Canada & Bangladesh. All nations except India will host the match (As host nations never won the worldcup)
4.Pool A comprises of India, Namibia, Holland, Canada & Bangladesh, and for Pool B India only, so that if India wont qualify from pool A, they definitely will qualify from Pool B.
5.Indian pitches will be taken & relaid in all the matches.
6.Balls bouncing above knee high will be termed as noballs, and if a bowler bowls above 120 kmph will be removed from the attack, as its dangerous for Indian batsmen.
7.Man of the match will get Adidas/Nike contract for a month...man of the series - for a year...Indians prepared very hard for the tournament by shooting ads in the jungles with rats, rabbits etc.. etc...even Parthiv got some assignments in Johnson & Johnson Baby products.
Finally the big day came... India’s first match against Kenya...Sehwag finally opened the batting... First three balls... he chased the ball... chased the ball... but the bowler is too smart..he bowled too wide that even sehwag cannot touch the ball...suddenly something hit him on the helmet... sehwag thought.... wow what a ball !!!!! oh.. no its not the ball...its a cell phone...he took the handset... its a reliance one... he saw somebody’s photo... not able to recognize...wow its his sponsor’s photo...boy ..if you are not scoring some runs... you are losing our contract. The next ball flew out of the ground...All the players got some calls from their sponsors and India scored an whooping 359 runs in the allotted overs.
Kenya came to bat... they tried very hard and in the final over - 8 needed off 6 balls with 1 wicket in hand.. srinath bowled a verrrrrrrrrrrryyyyy very slow ball. It bounced atleast some 10 times and finally reached Tikolo (who is in the pavilion) yepp. Our Gateway of India Dravid missed the ball and went for a four. Now 4 needed from 5 balls... a big thud...its not the batsman hitting the ball... its me who had fell down from the cot... There ends my world cup DREAM...
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’’DADA DADA ... MERA CHAKKA DEKHA’’
is now
’’DADA DADA ... JAA BALL LEKE AA AB’’
PS:it is just a crazy thought. pl. do not get carried away. we all know that WHAT INDIAN CAN DO & WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF!!!!
comments appreciated.
bhatt