It's weird I'm blogging about cricket...because c'mon it's not like I ever show any interest in the game...Hell, I didn't even watch the World Cup finals when the whole country was glued to their television like a sucker fish glues upon its symbiotic. So I have no clue why I am doing this now all of a sudden. Perhaps because there is suddenly a funny element in the cricketing world which has caught my eye. (Yeah, living in India, it's impossible to miss news from the "cricketing world.") And maybe it's not so much about cricket after all...
Well, so apparently, a test match is on between India and England, and yesterday was Day 2 of this test, where India seems to be performing pathetically. Anyway, the incident was something like this...
English cricketer Ian Bell was at the crease, facing the last ball before tea. Ishant Sharma bowls to him, Bell flicks his bat, the ball shoots somewhere towards the boundary, where Praveen Kumar is the fielder. It's a close call, and Kumar does some funny moves to get the ball off the boundary line, which interestingly the replay later shows that he has managed to. But no one thinks he has, hell, not even Kumar! His body language certainly seems to indicate so. So everyone's thinking it's said and done...Bell is down half the field for his tea, like a true Englishman, when suddenly Abhinav Mukund removes the bails and there's an appeal for run-out from the Indian side, decision goes to the third umpire, and hell! it's Out!
The look on Ian Bell's face! Mwahahaha....God, I loved this particular moment!
He's like saying, "What! You can't give an Out for me being eager to have my tea!"
"The relationship, oh the relationship! between the Englishman and his tea!
Missing a live ball, which he could plainly see
Got his Coach and Captain to plead
His case in the Indian campstead
Lord I was only having tea!
You have to understand you see
I bet there was laughter in his eyes
When Dhoni said, "'Course we do...
And so we'll have you back, you!
Then there was a lot of English press
Praising the Indian captain's gentlemanness
Because he understood an Englishman's desire for tea
When others in his place would not be
So he put a booing crowd
Out of doubt
That Indians could not understand the "cricketing spirit"
Of the English Tea.
Here's a small cartoon to spice up the humor here drawn by this guy who's awesome!
Missing a live ball, which he could plainly see
Got his Coach and Captain to plead
His case in the Indian campstead
Lord I was only having tea!
You have to understand you see
I bet there was laughter in his eyes
When Dhoni said, "'Course we do...
And so we'll have you back, you!
Then there was a lot of English press
Praising the Indian captain's gentlemanness
Because he understood an Englishman's desire for tea
When others in his place would not be
So he put a booing crowd
Out of doubt
That Indians could not understand the "cricketing spirit"
Of the English Tea.
Here's a small cartoon to spice up the humor here drawn by this guy who's awesome!
