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March 3, 2009
Posted on 03/03/2009 in Extras
Facebook for cricket

From Barath Coleppa, United States

A few months ago, I read a rather funny piece in a random blog on how the Nazi Germans would have kept updating their facebook profiles as WWII progressed. I was wondering how our own dear cricketers and cricket related personalities would update theirs.

Jerome Taylor is furious. Monty Panesar and John McCain are now friends. Sarwan is wondering why he is still batting, when Shiv is out.

Sachin Tendulkar is finally in a place where the ball will come on to the bat. Younis Khan added the 'dead pitch' application to his iPhone. Matthew Hoggard feels left out.

Sangakkara is blogging. Allen Stanford is on the run, baby. Lalit Modi just lost the election, but is still happy. Viv Richards doesn't like beaches anymore.

Michael Clarke is feeling his throat. Andrew Flintoff is scheduled for surgery. Again. Giles Clarke is stupefied no one saw that coming. Lalit Modi wants to stress again that he is happy.

Kevin Pietersen needs time away from all the madness. He is going to the IPL. Chris Gayle just got referred. He didn't enjoy the experience. Mohammed Ashraful yet again hit 20 off 2 balls and got out. This has to end now.

Gideon Haigh is writing a piece on how he knew all along that Stanford was a sham. Steven Lynch is digging up records. Sehwag is looking for quick runs.

Stuart Broad's Stealth Zombie served a bowl of pain to Yuvraj Singh. Dileep Premachandran is done giving soccer analogies. Peter Lalor is taking a potshot at the BCCI. M.S. Dhoni is trying to stay positive. Ricky Ponting is mildly amused his team won.

Sambit Bal feels he shouldn't have written the article, after all. Iain O' Brien is exhausted. He will update his blog tomorrow, fans. Lara Bingle is no longer listed as single.

Mendis is wondering what's gonna come out next? Peter Moores is lost. Sourav Ganguly removed Greg Chappell from his list of friends. Irfan Pathan is tired of being treated like a spinner.

Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan has vowed to stop squealing during commentary. Samir Chopra is debating whether or not to blog full time. Shane Warne spent all his winnings on that random chick. In his defense, he was not sober.

Feel free to add your contributions. Barath.

PS: This is purely for the purpose of having some fun during work when my thesis adviser is not around. I don't mean to offend anyone. Seriously.

Comments (5)
Posted by: sam walls at March 10, 2009 8:44 AM

just want to point out that iain o'brien actually does have a facebook page.

Posted by: Sid at March 10, 2009 10:40 AM

so does Zaheer Khan apparently.. was on a news channel sometime back

Posted by: Gargesh VN at March 10, 2009 3:30 PM

Andrew Symonds is feeling FISHY...Mathew Hayden is cooking...Robin Uthappa is trying a new hair-do...Rahul Dravid is patching his wall...Ishanth Sharma is trying to grow..

Posted by: Neha J at March 12, 2009 8:22 AM

MS Dhoni, Lalit modi, Dileep Premchandran, Andrew Flintoff, and Yuvraj Singh too have facebook accounts.

Posted by: Ananth Kamath at March 18, 2009 6:29 AM

When he is batting, Sehwag cannot tell whether the game is a Test Match, ODI or T20.

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