Score that went sore

Conspicuous by his absence on the first day of July, Saurabh Ghulati, when contacted gave us more than what we asked for, as a piece of gossip-tidbit for this space. Not pleased with the frequent mishaps in Sachien’s scoring, Ghulati chose one way of keeping his stats preserved, by not showing up. When he was probed for the exact reasons, he went to the extent of claiming that those scoring mishaps were intentional, deliberate and conniving acts of miscounting and essentially “aakhde khaa jaana” a phenomenon typically associated with the accounting practices enforced by Suresh Kalmadi. Ghulati even went on to frame his own limerick…as an account of all that went wrong with the scoring. Though he claims it to be his original piece of work, we somehow thought it was inspired from the 2010 Bollywood film UDAAN (who cares… like anything here is original)..So it goes like this:

“Har ek over ka yeh ek-ek ball khaa jaye,

Iske haath pad jaye tho wide pe yeh no-ball bhi de jaye,

Yuvi ka fastest fifty chodo, yeh Tendulkar ka 100^th 100 bhi khaa jaye,

Aur parosa jaa sake to Debasis Mohanty ka bhi double hundred khaa jaye”

Wah wah mr. Ghulati wah wah. Irshaad..so much for resentment about the “jhol” in our scoring system.

That was a sharp lyrical attack, but not exactly a clever move form Saurabh Ghulati and let’s face it, with Sachien reading this piece we might have seen the last of Saurabh Ghulati lest he should come forth with an apology as unconditionally as Chris Gayle did to strike truce with the WICB…. Unless you have a muscular tattooed arm similar to Gayle which should work as well and then, in fact Sachien could be the one apologising to you.