Category: Bollywood Cricket

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 [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 3

| July 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

This is the third episode of the story of Bollywood directors invited to the commentary box at a  cricket match, to comment on an incident where an opening batsman is hit on the head by the first ball of the match and his physio takes him to hospital for a brain scan. Meanwhile, the bowler [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 2

| July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is a continuation of the story of Bollywood directors in the commentary box at a  cricket match where the batting team’s opener has been hit on the head by a bouncer and taken to hospital for a brain scan by the team physio. Also, news has come in that the bowler has announced his [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury

| July 23, 2010 | 1 Comment

An opening batsman is hit on the head by a fierce bouncer, the first ball of the match. He is injured and taken to hospital. Meanwhile, the bowler has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. In the commentator’s box, Sunil Gavaskar is joined by guest commentators from Bollywood, both directors of Bollywood films. [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: CID Agent 800

| July 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

A pair of Bollywood film producers were excited by Murali’s 800 wicket record and decided to make films on the subject. here’s a transcript of their conversation: Producer 1: I am planning to call my film, “Aa ‘Galle’ Lag Jaa” Producer 2: Mine will be “800 Phool, Ek Mali” Producer 1: I will have a [...]

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The Bollywood Cricket Connection Strikes Back

| June 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

Pssst…  Don’t tell my web master but here are a few more Bollywood lines for cricketers: Injured batsman to non-striker (while being carried away on a stretcher in the middle of a partnership): “Todenge dum magar, tera saath na chodenge…” Dazed batsman to umpire (after being hit on the hit by a bouncer): “Maa, meri [...]

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The Hidden Connection Between Bollywood & Cricket

| June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment

With every passing day, I am convinced that Bollywood dialogue writers rely on cricket for inspiration. Why do I think so? Take a look at some lines that may have been spoken to cricketers, or on the cricket pitch: Sehwag’s mother to Sehwag: Main Bhagwan se prarthana karungi ki chakkey mar te hue, tumhare haath [...]

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