Grave Digger takes a dig at Dhoni

ICICI "not interested"

Mohen-jo-daro, November 10th 2008

The renowned archaeologist Harjagah Khode has accused the Captain of the Indian Cricket Team MS Dhoni for plagiarizing classical archaeological techniques to achieve victory "at no cost". He was specifically referring to the way Dhoni instructed his bowlers to "slowly and steadily chip away at the Australian batsmen" on the 3rd day of the Nagpur Test, a manner undeniably familiar to archaeologists. Mr. Khode, as readers may recall, has a record for falling into ancient graves that rocketed him into the Valhalla of Archaeology. He also happens to be a cricket aficionado - in his own words "Indian cricket is every archaeologist's dream - especially the way their batsman dig in and score a heap of ruins..err.. runs" and "the bowlers chisel out the batsman in time-honored archaeological fashion". He also had a tip for the selectors - " I tell you - forget all the foreign roaches.. I mean.. coaches. Appoint an archaeologist!" and promptly offered himself for the job.

In order to gauge opinion on the issue our reporters, who could not cough up the train fare to Nagpur, or the plane fare to London, instead rushed to the nearest ICICI bank atm to ask the security guard for his opinion. He was "not interested in this Dhoni-Shoni business" and requested our reporters to "give my lovely message a missus.. err.. missus a massage..err.. message". The contents of the message, although very revealing, will not be revealed. Our readers are asked to participate in this generation-defining poll: Should Dhoni be penalized for his actions? (See poll on left column). All abuse will be tolerated, if for the next week.