Monday, May 13, 2019

IPL Hangover

Vijay Bhai is still in shock
Vijay Jakhi lost his chocolate by one run. Bhaswati Bose had promised to celebrate with him today should M.S.Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) lift the IPL Cup. But as luck would have it, their team lost to Mumbai Indians (MI) in a nail-biting finish last night by just one stupid run.
“My chocolate is gone!” complained Vijay Bhai, forcing a smile. “Bhaswati-ben has not turned up today, obviously because she is in mourning. I too am unable to believe how MI could have won. I think Dhoni being given run-out turned the game in their favour.”
As expected, the match was analysed threadbare in the Garden and many theories were bandied about for yesterday's shocker. What emerged from the discussions was that a majority of cricket fans in the Garden were M.S.Dhoni supporters. The general feeling was that he did not deserve to lose.
Shekhawat (c) is back in the Garden from today
One fan went to the extent of saying that it was a rigged tournament with “U.S. money” being pumped in to ensure MI’s victory!
Be that as it may, the good news is that Shekhawat has started reporting for the exercises from today (ref post of May 7). On Saturday he had gone to the naval hospital in Colaba to get operated for the infection on his chest. But he was not admitted, partly because the surgeon who was to see him is on leave till June first week.
Earlier on (last Thursday), Shekhawat had gone to Asian Heart Institute in Bandra where his by-pass surgery was done in May 2013 (exactly six years ago). The doctors there examined him and recommended immediate surgery “to clean up the infection” so that there would be no recurrence of pus formation.
Shekhawat has the option of getting operated, either at Asian Heart or Ashwini, the naval hospital. He has chosen the latter. But the ‘problem’ last Saturday was that the infection had dried up mysteriously. He had no pus formation to show the doctors in Ashwini and be admitted. Moreover, as he said this morning, he was feeling fit as a fiddle.
Let us hope and pray, he remains so and is eventually, out of the woods.

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