A major controversy has sparked off in the aftermath of Rising Pune Supergiants’ (RPS) loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). RPS practically stand no chance to qualify for the play-offs. A day prior to this match, former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly in one of the TV shows subtly said that Dhoni’s time as a captain is up and that he doesn’t see him playing till World Cup 2019. READ MORE: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rising Pune Supergiants by 4 runs at Visakhapatnam, Stars and Flops
MS Dhoni has not taken these comments lightly and went on to tweet to Ganguly, “Does he have a son or brother who can play for India?”
According to our sources, Ganguly was apparently miffed and called up Dhoni, retorting, “I don’t have a son and Snehasish is well past his cricketing days.”
The Bengal Tiger also reminded the Indian limited-overs skipper that he is not an Australian reporter.
“I am not an Australian reporter. Dare not say that to the Prince of Kolkata. Ask another Australian by name Greg Chappell on how I can hit back,” he added.
Believing that Ganguly may soon be the BCCI boss and that he is not N Srinivasan, Dhoni deleted his tweet.
Mr Bachchan joins in
Rejoicing this scenario, Harsha Bhogle penned a 2000-word Facebook post praising Ganguly and having sniffed of the same, Amitabh Bachchan came into Dhoni’s defence but stating his disappointment that Harsha only talks about past India captains and not the present ones. ALSO READ: Amitabh Bachchan takes a dig at Indian commentators, MS Dhoni backs him
Tendulkar, the pacifier
It was finally the time for the most active former cricketer on social media, Sachin Tendulkar, to join the bandwagon and diffuse the tension. In a series of tweets, he mentioned, ” Dada has a daughter and while she can replace Mithali Raj, I have my son Arjun who can play for India. He is like me too, he wants to be the fast bowling all rounder but I have showed him Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron videos. He knows now what happens to Indian fast bowlers. He has already started taking wicket keeping lessons by watching Adam Gilchrist’s videos on YouTube!” READ MORE: Yograj Singh believes that his curse claimed MS Dhoni’s wicket; to apply as SRH’s ‘curse coach’
Meanwhile, this writer has cracked a top secret. Keeping hopes in Ganguly’s prophecy that Dhoni would not be around for the World Cup 2019, Dhoni’s assistant cum drinks-man or as Game of Thrones addicts would say, ‘squire’, has now started practicing wicket-keeping, in hopes to make a national or IPL comeback. When the surprised writer asked who he was, the voice replied, ‘Irfan Pathan’.
Pardon me for not identifying, I may be from Baroda but it has been a long time I have seen Irfan play cricket.
Please note this is a humour article — work of pure fiction
[Dr. Devashish Palkar is a sports aficionado, news addict and a patient of OCSD ( Obsessive Compulsive Satirical Disorder)].
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