Next stop for Bhajji: The Bigg Boss House

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Anyone taking bets on who’s next inside the Big Boss house? If yes, I’d like to put 10 rupees on Harbhajan Singh. (The monetary figure less reflective of my confidence and more of my finances.)

Let’s face it. If Andrew Symonds is in, can Harbhajan be far behind? Symonds without Harbhajan is like Shastri at the morning toss without a hangover. The picture is simply incomplete.

The sequence of recent events gives further credence to this possibility. The resurfacing of Harbhajan’s long-standing shin injury immediately after the Indian team for Australia was announced, which happened a little after he was belted around the park by Ranji level tailenders, which happened after he led Mumbai Indians to victory in the Champion’s League, which happened a few weeks after he abandoned the English tour with an abdominal strain that had him performing the Suryanamaskar on the field.

Now, if you are going to wile away your time in the house, might as well make some money doing so. And there ain’t any house better to do it in than the Big Boss’s house.

And at just this opportune time, Harbhajan’s car gets burgled, his passport and credit cards are lost, and he’s back in the news and starts trending on twitter. Perfect timing.

Harbhajan’s lost passport and credit cards were recovered a day after he filed the police report. While he was at it, he might as well have filed a report for his lost turn, loop, bite, and wickets too.

Gavaskar – On Sale

Sunil Gavaskar’s demand for the payment of $1 million per every previous season of IPL has been shot down by the BCCI again. Gavaskar claims that Sharad Pawar had promised him this sum.

He now joins millions of farmers who are complaining about the ‘ICC-President-by-day and Agriculture-Minister-by-night’ Mr. Sharad Pawar not keeping his promises. Last heard, he was looking for serial-slapper Harvinder Singh’s phone number.

In his battle with the BCCI, Gavaskar has received support from a not-so-surprising quarter – Lalit K Modi. Modi confirms that Gavaskar was indeed promised this sum.

“We used Gavaskar’s credibility and name when setting up the IPL,” he said. Used his credibility and name, mind you, and not knowledge and expertise. To a layperson this may appear as if Gavaskar sold his credibility and name to the IPL, but that’s probably not what Modi meant to say.

As his fans, we hope for Gavaskar’s sake that he gets the amount due to him because, as they say, there’s not much left in the bank after you’ve encashed your credibility.

Now, what needs to be seen is how long before Gavaskar does a U-turn on his opinion on IPL’s effect on Indian cricket and the reliability of the DRS? I’d say, it’ll start gradually from the first test in Australia and should be complete by the time the Australia tour ends.

Good morning, Dravid Sir!

Rahul Dravid delivered this year’s Sir Donald Bradman’s Oration in Canberra in which he talked about how India and Australia have fought wars together in Gallipoli, El Alamein, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Burma and the battle for Singapore. He also connected what happened to Don Bradman and Jawahar Lal Nehru on June 28, 1930.

As a result, Sehwag has offered him the position of head of department of History and Geography in his school. The only reason he didn’t offer him the English department also is that, when Dravid said ‘incongruous’, Sehwag heard it as ‘In Congress’. And we know Sehwag doesn’t like politics.

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