"SehWAG will be the only decent player left after the World cup for India, said a WAG", Budhikshasan, my friend, who was busy all these days following the World Cup told me last night.
"But Sachin"?
"tENDulkar is reaching the END of his ODI career"
"Surely there is DhONi"
"You know nothing, Swamy. MSD is behaving more like a DON these days and is resented by the powers that be"
"yuvraj SINgh is doing well" , I was not going to let BR get away.
"His SINs are catching up with him. Guy has drunk and eaten so much, he can barely move in the field"
I had to concede that. "Umm. HARbhajan, then?"
BR dismissed it succintly "HARam. Selectors think that retaining him is a sure way to 'HAR' in the future. The guy calls himself a spinner but can hardly turn a cricket ball, and worse still dont know how to take a wicket"
"gowtHAM gambhir looks a good captain for the future"
"But he is so HAM handed when it comes to pushing the scoring rate in the middle overs. Test cricket - yes. ODI - no"
"How about the younger brigade? Surely some of them are good"
"viRAT kohli is looking upto to yusuf PATHan to show the way, but as afraid the bad mouthed RAT will not survive the drenching created by suresh RAINa. RATs dont like RAIN, after all. piyush cHAWla can only hum and HAW, but cant bowl a decent over of leg break.
"The older pace brigade?"
Of the old guards, there is a strong opinion amongst the public that ASHish nehra need to be burnt to ASHes after that disastrous last over against South Africa, and munAF patel is an oAF, and SANTHAkumaran sreesanth is anything but SANTHAm.
"zaheer kHAN?"
"HAN. Agree. You have a point there. That makes it two. Sehwag and Zaheer"
"And we may have a WINner in ashWIN" - I was not going to let BR get away with the last word.
