With calls for their retirement after a string of dismal performances in the current series against Australia, India’s aging legends have decided to extend their sporting careers by trying their hand at cricket’s close cousin, baseball. At the end of the 2nd day’s play in the Perth Test, Viru, Rahul, VVS, and Zak flew to [...]
Continue reading …After a torrid time in the first half of the ongoing India Australia test series, Team India took a much needed break from cricket and went go-karting to distract themselves from events on the field. The idea, suggested by captain Dhoni and approved by coach Duncan Fletcher, seemed to be working really well to start [...]
Continue reading …With Team India staring down the barrel in the current test series down under, Dhoni has turned once again to his most trusted lieutenant to turn the tide in India’s favour. Joginder Sharma, veteran of the 2007 T-20 World Cup winning squad, is all set to join the touring party and provide some much needed [...]
Continue reading …ICC Match Referee, Ranjan Madugalle, reduced Virat Kohli’s offence from Level 2 (using language or gestures that is obscene and insulting to spectators) to Level 1.5 (doing so under extenuating circumstances) after the latter clarified that he had resorted to the obscene gesture to vent his frustration over Ravi Shastri’s banal commentary and did not [...]
Continue reading …Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni stunned media reporters at the end of the 2nd day of the Sydney Test by claiming that the current India-Australia series is merely a level 2 dream turned nightmare being dreamt up by his wife, Sakshi, during the couple’s vacation in Maldives. Dhoni hastened to clarify that the vacation in [...]
Continue reading …Micheal Hussey may exhibit the quintessential traits of a cricketer from Down Under – playing hard on the field and not giving any quarter to opponents – but his roots are very much Indian, Maharastrian to be precise! This stunning fact was indubitably confirmed when a distracted Rohit Sharma barged into the adjacent hotel room [...]
Continue reading …Yesterday, The UnReal Times joined a privileged group of people who can claim to have breached the Wall, when our source in the Indian dressing room managed to click snapshots of Rahul Dravid’s Facebook Wall, even as the batting legend was out in the nets practicing leaving balls outside the off stump. Here, take an [...]
Continue reading …It has come to our attention that reports of Greg Chappell sharing his knowledge about Sachin Tendulkar’s weaknesses with the Australian team are true. The UnReal Times‘ Australian correspondent, Alana Rice, who incidentally dates a certain upcoming Australian cricket star, happened to be present at the time Chappell delivered the dressing room pep talk. The following [...]
Continue reading …The RBI will be introducing special Sachin Tendulkar notes in Rs.99 denominations in a bid to arrest the rupee’s alarming depreciation against the dollar. Already over 80,000 bundles have been printed in the Noida mint and introduced into the general economy by way of purchase of Government bonds. This ‘out of the box’ monetary intervention, [...]
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Ravi Shastri suffers vocal stress fracture while commentating during Melbourne Test
December 27, 2011 5 CommentsVeteran commentator, Ravi Shastri’s larynx snapped and fell out of his throat after the former all rounder was about to say “Gone to the boundary like a tracer bullet” for a record 3,892,564th to describe a Tendulkar boundary. The incident occurred while Shastri was providing commentary during the post lunch session on the second day [...]
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