bang and a whimper

A para is in order for the mauling we received at the hands of the springboks (or is it proteas now?)in that great national pastime of ours: cricket. We should have seen it coming, with Ishant chucking oranges at Nagpur and Harbhajan seriously considering using his middle finger, not for letting people know what he thinks of them but as his spinning finger. (Last heard Sree had nibbled at bhajji's forefinger, with a few appams). Our batters thought it was still IPL and that Steyn had only four overs to bowl; before they could complain to the umpire they had their stumps cartwheeling all over the place, poor things! Poor Wriddhiman got drafted as a stumper then picked as a batter and finally replaced with another keeper, all this when the selectors kept harping that all they needed to do was to bolster the batting. Maybe he should consider taking up hockey; with the experience of this episode and the state of affairs of Indian hockey, young Saha might just be made the captain of the squad! Last heard, undertakers were supervising the track at Eden for the next test and a plan is in place to experiment with Bhajji opening the batting with Viru. To that effect the Indian team management has already slipped a cd of bhajji mauling Sree into Dale Steyn's room.