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Once upon a time there was TINA. TINA was extremely popular with the Blue Man Group. She charmed and mesmerised her minions for almost 7 years. While her stock has gone down of late there are still some of those Blue Men who like to HUM songs in her praise, when in fact TINA is well and truly past her prime. Maybe her aficionados are high on MSD? These men of questionable taste are also seeing MINA on the side. No one really knows what makes MINA so alluring but it's been rumoured that MINA is TINA's younger sister, let's face it, it's every hot-blooded male's fantasy to score the sister combo.
But while the Blue Man Group was been blinded by their love for TINA and MINA, poor little HINA was left in the cold. HINA is their step-sister, a modern-day Cinderella if you will. All she does is play darts in her basement and curses like a sailor who hasn't been laid in months. No one has noticed her so far even though she seems to be The One for the Blue Man Group. Does HINA have a fairy godmother? Will the fairy godmother turn HINA into a beautiful princess who captivates The Blue Man Group, or will the Evil Sisters continue to cast a spell on those unsuspecting men?
Cinderella Redux
Cricket Freedom.
What with India’s 62nd Independence Day, the whole freedom routine’s rubbed off our cricket too:
1. Indian cricketers’ freedom from the clutches of WADA’s ‘Whereabouts’ clause: whereabouts they will achieve this freedom is known – in BCCI they trust.
2. Sreesanth’s freedom from the heavy hand of Indian cricket in some far away English county.
3. Dravid’s freedom from that test cricket tattoo, gate-crashing the ODIs through the IPL – a more bizarre revolt in cricket is unknown.
4. Bhajji and MSD’s freedom from conservation: the Hummer. What next, the U.S. army? Afghanistan.
5. Ganguly’s freedom from John Buchanan. A freedom struggle that likened India’s non-violent revolt, a stoic and resolute Dada withstood the verbal canes of the goras, only to emerge as the father of the Knight Rider nation, again.
6. India’s freedom from cricket. Come again, when last did we play?
7. England's freedom from cricket. Come again, when last did they play?
Did Amit Mishra sleep with an orange cricket ball?
The future’s bright, the future’s orange. Looks like Amit Mishra is on to the right network finally. I actually read a Mishra interview today. And it appeared in the main paper, not in the supplement where page 3 cricketers like Bhajji pose with Hummers.
Mishra talked cricket, stuff about the Emerging Cricketers tournament, his success there, all routine. And then, he spoke about playing with orange, white and green balls down under.
“For a spinner like me it is imperative that I get a good grip on the ball. For that I did keep the orange ball with me the night before the match and kept spinning it from one hand to the other"
Good to hear Mishra’s being more vocal about playing ODIs. The way it’s going, so many guys keen to play so many formats, soon BCCI will have to lobby hard to make it 15 players to a team.
Care to read about Little Mishra's big strides?
Interview snippet from Times of India
dhoni and bhajji dancing to the tune of...
although bhajji wanted to purchase a hummer first but that slap gate put him 3 crores and few months behind...but now that dhoni has got it...he had to get it too...
while dhoni sang all the way from delhi to ranchi...bhajji is strangely sedate and wants to visit religious places before breaking into tune...
so whenever you will see bhajji and dhoni high fiving each other on field (and off field too) you know what song they will be singing...
*hummer...humma...humma...humma...hummar...
