Category: Satire

Preity Zinta’s Reaction If & When Kings XI Punjab Win IPL

| May 18, 2011 | 0 Comments
Preity Zinta’s Reaction If & When Kings XI Punjab Win IPL

Sit in your time machine and zoom ahead to May 27, to the IPL 5 finals. Kings XI Punjab have won the tournament, and Preity Zinta is giving a speech on the occasion, a speech that she herself wrote, without any help from scriptwriters. Here’s an advance copy of the speech, in case you miss [...]

Continue Reading

Vijay Mallya’s Reaction If & When Royal Challengers Bangalore Win IPL

| May 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
Vijay Mallya’s Reaction If & When Royal Challengers Bangalore Win IPL

Vijay Mallya has done his bit to revolutionise cricket in India. It was the King of Good Times who brought in the idea of cheerleaders, and at least 50% of people (mainly those who don’t watch cricket) thought that was a great idea. Mallya, like other IPL franchisees, is busy as ever, and SportingAttitude has [...]

Continue Reading

Shahrukh’s Reaction If & When Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL

| May 15, 2011 | 0 Comments
Shahrukh’s Reaction If & When Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL

At SportingAttitude, we know Shahrukh Khan is a busy man, and may not have the time to write a speech, a speech that he may be required to give, without prior warning, such as if and when Kolkata Knight Riders win IPL. To save KKR’s owner the time and trouble, we have devised the speech [...]

Continue Reading

ICC World Cup 2011: Kamran Akmal Jokes

| March 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

Ross Taylor hit a century on his birthday to hand Pakistan a shock defeat in a Group A league match. Taylor was helped by three dropped catches by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal. Akmal went on to become the butt of jokes, Here is a sampling: What is Kamran Akmal’s favourite pick up line? “Can I drop [...]

Continue Reading

ICC World Cup 2011: India’s Secret Weapon

| January 31, 2011 | 0 Comments

When the ICC World Cup 2011 begins, other teams aspiring to win the cup will not only have to contend with favourites India but also a secret weapon, in the form of ‘pujas’. For the uninitiated, a puja is a ceremonial ritual aimed at soliciting divine help. Whenever there’s a major cricket event involving the [...]

Continue Reading

IPL 4: Harbhajan Interview

| January 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

At SportingAttitude, we pushed our time machine out from its garage, made sure we had enough fuel to get back, and travelled to the future, all the way to Mumbai Indians’ skipper Harbhajan’s post-final interview. Here’s the transcript: Interviewer Mike: Bhajji, you must be slap-happy after winning the final? Bhajji: I knew we would win [...]

Continue Reading

IPL 4: Harbhajan Slaps Symonds?

| January 8, 2011 | 0 Comments
IPL 4: Harbhajan Slaps Symonds?

Harbhajan slaps Symonds – could this be a headline we could be reading during IPL 4? Why should it happen this year, if it did not happen in the last three editions of the tournament? It does not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that an essential ingredient for ‘IPL Slapgate 2’ is present this [...]

Continue Reading

A Newbie Team’s Guide To Cricket Terminology

| January 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

The ICC is keen to make the game popular among unsuspecting people across the world. To help in this noble cause, we at SportingAttitude have compiled a dictionary of cricket terms, for use by newbie teams: All Out: End of misery for your batsmen. Beaten outside the off stump: Slapped by your captain for dropping [...]

Continue Reading

SportingAttitude: Top 8 Sports Videos of 2010

| December 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

The visual impact of sport is what makes it so popular in an age when live television rules. And some images remain etched forever in our minds. For the enjoyment of our visitors, we have chosen the top 8 sports videos we hosted at SportingAttitude in 2010: Video: Graeme Swann’s Ball of the Century The [...]

Continue Reading

SportingAttitude: Top 10 Sports Satire Stories Of 2010

| December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

Sports and satire often seem made for each other, with any number of characters helping to make sports more colourful. These, in my view, are the top 10 sports satire stories we ran in 2010: Escaped Tiger Panjo Looks For Vuvuze La Players If you had any doubt the Vuvuze La players at the World [...]

Continue Reading