Mr. Lal ... koi hume aapse bachaye

Finally last week after lot of efforts our Cricket Team managed to win Couple of series. (they were played in INDIA). It was a gr8 feeling , team celebrating after sometime. It even marked the comeback of Dada n Yuvraj, so was even better. I was expecting Yuvraj to be Man of the Match n Dada to be Man of the Series, so was waiting eagerly for the presentation ceremony. And to my utter disbelief the man with the mike was Arun Lal.

This man has been patrolling the Indian commentary box for the past 1 year & I was desperately trying to figure out 'What spell has this guy cast to be still being present there ???'.

Now back to the presentation ceremony ... Man of the Match was not given to Yuvraj, but to a Sri Lankan debutant. That guy had played pretty well n actually deserved dat bit. He cudnt speak the Queen's Language n summoned his captain to translate the bit. And on the other side of the Mike we had our humble Indian ... mr. Arun Lal.

He just twists the already funny English to make it funnier. When he was calling the Sri Lankan captain I thought he was summoning some one for a court hearing. On another instance he was praising MS Dhoni. "Dhoni not only has Strong arms ... he even has Strong thighs .... Strong back & Strong Stomach". For God's sake whts a Strong Stomach supposed to be. Another instance was even more breathtaking , whne Mr.Lal was giving a pitch report he said ... "i just spreaded my fingers on the pitch".... wow some New words to learn.

Many such instances just leave me in splits ... like one where he described a Bastman to be having a Beautiful Leg. Only God can explain why these TV Channels keep on calling him to entertain Cricket lovers in a differnt way ... or may be it is their way of competing against Mandira Bedi.