‘Dhoni Ki Jai’

Bhaswati celebrates Dhoni's IPL victory

Echoes of the IPL final between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sun Risers Hyderabad (SRH) at Wankhede last night could be heard in the Garden today. Bhaswati Bose celebrated CSK’s emphatic win (by 8 wickets) with chocolates, but on one condition: Before handing each Perk, she insisted on raising a slogan for the winning captain, “Dhoni ki jai!”
Bhaswati is a die-hard M.S.Dhoni fan (regardless of the team he plays for) who believes that CSK’s victory was

Social experiment

a foregone conclusion because of the skipper’s superior strategizing skills. Yusuf Rassiwala however, felt that it took nothing away from SRH’s efforts, particularly that of the ‘mystery bowler’ Rashid Khan from Afghanistan in propelling the team to the final.
“It was actually Shane Watson all the way,” opined Siba Prasad Maitra. “He had a slow start, but once he got going, hitting one boundary after another, he had sealed the fate of SRH. Imagine, piling up 117 runs on a trot and remaining not out… Dhoni did not even have to bat!”
Clearly, everybody had watched the match on television last night. But Bijoy Gupta felt it was an unbearably “boring, one-sided affair” lacking in the

Santosh Tyagi delivers today's quota of jokes

nail-biting climax that “comes with having to score 18 runs with four balls remaining”. Kiran Prakash also sounded a discordant note. He is convinced that Watson was on steroids as it is “not humanly possible for a 37-year-old to score so many sixes”.
As a minor diversion, Santosh Tyagi came up with a list of jokes while Yusuf R posed a brain teaser (narrated by Bhaswati) in the nature of a social experiment. You are driving on a stormy night when you spot three people in a bus stop. One is the woman of your dreams. The second is a good friend who once saved your life. And the third is an old woman who looks really sick. If you had only one seat in your car who would you offer a lift to?
From Shekhawat to Bijoy Gupta to Arun Patil and Dilip Babani, everybody said they would offer the seat to the beautiful young thing. Only Kiran Prakash had a different take: “I would get down from the car, give the keys to my friend and ask him to take the old woman along in the car. I would then be left with the woman of my dreams!”

Bihari Milwani:
What is the full form of IPL? Is it a match in cricket or football, or hockey? Why the name of the game is given as IPL?

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
IPL contests are quite enjoyable. In fact, this is one event worth enjoying. All other events become secondary. It is nice to learn that all our members also enjoyed the IPL final and celebrated the victory of CSK. Good. Keep enjoying and laughing.