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India to send team to Book Cricket World Cup:BCCI


As if the cricket calender of the Indian cricket team was not already packed, Sharad Pawar - President of Bored of Choosing Cricketers for India (BCCI) - has decided to send a full-strength team to the Book Cricket World Cup to be held later this year. "The Mega event comes once in four years and our participation has been long overdue but todays superlative batting performance by the Indian team has convinced me that the time has come for us to explore this avenue in search of success", informed the Politician cum Cricket Adminstrator.
Pawar was particularly impressed by Indias batting display in the second Innings in the just concluded Third Test played between India and England at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The Indian team showed amazing team work to put their heads down ( in shame ) and put up an imposing score of 100 runs.
Book Cricket, a form of Cricket that developed in the extremely boring classrooms in India, is a great leveller that makes the miserable performers with the bat in regular cricket post mammoth scores. Book Cricket pundit Rahul Singh, a std 7 student, cites this as the reason for betting on India in this tournament. "After having displayed its complete inability at countering pace India today displayed that It had no idea whatsoever when it comes to spin too, therefore I think they make real good candidates for Book Cricket", said the Book Cricket aficionado. Within hours of the announcement made by the BCCI President, India assumed the tag of favourites to lift the cup which features teams with famed batting lineup such as Brazil,Cambodia,Mongolia & the Canary Islands. The selectors meet in a fortnights time to select the team for the World Cup. However, according to Book Cricket Gurus the constitution of the team is a foregone conclusion. Making up what is being already termed as the best batting lineup in the world of Book Cricket are the names of such strokemakers as Virender Sehwag, Wassim Jaffer, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh and a relatively unknown player with an MRF sticker on his bat. "Mere Maa ka phone aur aashirwaad dono mere saath hai" said Virender "245,4,5,6,2,3," Sehwag who earned that middle name for his wonderful 'once in 10 innings' batting performance. Sachin Tendulkar is learnt to be the other contender for that middle name.
Last heard Saurav Ganguly was having a hearty laugh.
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iyeranna said…
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9:14 PM
iyeranna said…
Well written...as always!! But you are too acerbic with your criticism of the Indian team. I dont discount their really bad performance, in all depts, but they are not deserving of the massive opinion swings that we Indians have after every match...win or loss....immaterial!
9:16 PM
Perestroika said…
another hilarious post, btw i have u linked to my blog, so can drop in here more often.
6:31 PM
themadrasi said…
Thats a good one. Book cricket seems to have been a passion for all of us eons ago. Acerbic in your criticism ...There's no doubt about the presence of the monstrous monstraleena stream in your DNA . Little wonder that ppl fear you so much in office.
10:21 PM
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