It has come
to be known, that India’s match against Sri Lanka was being written off as a
practice match – by none other than the Indians themselves. Sri Lankan
wicketkeeper, Niroshan Dickwella, speaks of extracting revenge, even as he says
that such things have no effect on the Lankans.
Anyhow,
after the rude shock of losing to Sri Lanka after beating archrivals, Pakistan,
the Indians woke up dazed. As early as 3 am, an Indian cricketer was seen
sleepwalking towards the swimming pool of the hotel. He then proceeded to sleep
talk, “I deserve to drown myself in shallow waters” A crude translation of the
Hindi saying, ‘Chullu bhar pani me doob
mar’. Giridhar Gupta, the guard on
duty, was disappointed that the Indian cricketer did not recognise a fellow
Indian.
While most
of the players surfaced well past 6:00 am, the Indian coach, Anil Kumble and
captain, Virat Kohli, were spotted getting a net way earlier, at 5:00 am –
while Kohli failed to contribute with the bat against Sri Lanka, he did bowl
three overs of his concoction of slow seamers with a leggie’s action. Those who
spotted Kumble and Kohli claimed to see the two working on the captain’s
bowling. After that, it appears the two were working on the coach’s batting.
Seeing the calm between the two, it is now being said that the captain and
coach have turned a corner in their relationship. Still others said that this
was just being done to ease out disharmony between the two.
Sourav
Ganguly, however, said he fully believed that the two were champion cricketers
and there was nothing wrong between the two in the first place. “I repeatedly
said in commentary that India will score 330, and because India fell eight
short of my target they eventually lost. If you see, Shekhar’s hundred…” When corrected that it was Shikhar and not
Shekhar, an oblivious Ganguly marched on, “as I was saying, Shekhar’s century…”
When
approached, Kohli said he wanted to dismiss the defeat to Sri Lanka as a bad
dream. “While it is nowhere as deflating as our continuous defeats playing for
RCB, turning up as the losing captain had a sense of Déjà vu. Yes, you can say,
Sri Lanka turned up today, and I do think 320 was a defendable target and we
just didn’t bowl well enough or field well enough for that matter, even though
there were two runouts, we let some easy ones go…” the interviewer was quite
flabbergasted when Kohli rambled on and left her with nothing to ask.
When the
players assembled at 7:30 am for breakfast, they sat with their empty plates, looking
as if they’d just been caned by a missionary school headmaster. Umesh Yadav
broke the silence when he muttered, “Yesterday, I met Umesh Yadav older version
who would bowl at least two hit-me deliveries in an over. I never liked him.
But batsmen liked him. Yesterday batsmen liked him a lot. Not just like they
even shared my hit-me deliveries between themselves.” Umesh stared at his empty
plate, as Jadeja took over from him, “because of me, Virat and Kedar had to
bowl. Because of me, Ashwin did not bowl. Because of me…” When reminded that
there was no way Ashwin could have bowled as he wasn’t playing, he continued,
like a haunted man, “But we hunt in pairs, we hunted in pairs throughout the
home series”. When reminded that he had been listening to too much Ravi
Shastri, he said, “Because of me, Shastri is not doing commentary”.
Next,
Yuvraj Singh decided to own up, “After a match-winning innings for India
against Pakistan, I played a match winning innings for Sri Lanka against
India”. Everyone cracked up, and thanked Yuvi for being such a cool and funny
guy.
It was then
that Hardik Pandya chipped in, “I was nearly as expensive as Jadeja, if you
take away my maiden over, I went for 51 runs off 6 overs, Jaddu went for 52 off
his 6…and I dropped a return catch and threw my wicket away when I needed to
accel..”
It was then
that Kumble and Kohli walked in from their long net together. Kohli cleared his
throat. Silence at the table. “We have been discussing the defeat, and we have
decided to take it in our stride”, Kohli said in a very matter of fact way.
And with
those few words, suddenly, everything was good at the Indian breakfast table.
They started laughing and repeating to themselves, “take it in our stride!”
“take it in our stride!!” take it in our stride!!!”
The Indian
table resembled a Lok Sabha cheering session, with the players thumping the
tables hard.
Next, Kohli
commanded them to go fill their plates with every conceivable protein on offer,
“We are a champion side and we’re gonna have a breakfast of champions”.
Kumble
added, “Yes, Breakfast of champions is a book by Kurt Vonnegut…have anyone of
you read..”
But by the
time, Kumble could finish asking, the team had already started to attack the
buffet. Someone could be heard chirping with much euphoria, “muesli…take it in
our stride!!”
(However plausible this may sound, this is largely
a work of fiction.)
First published here
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