I hate Navjot Sidhu’s commentating skills. Yeah, maybe he’s funny and all, but lets face it, I doubt he thinks before he says. Its more like he’s got this imaginary set of 100 or more sentences which he uses, irrespective of context.

I mean, sample this scenario. You’re reaching the railway station, and just getting on the overbridge, when the train pulls out of the station, and you’ve missed it. Now, any other human being would have said ‘ I saw you running, and hard luck, you still missed it.

Sidhu would probably go ‘ My dear sir, I saw you running faster than the Frontier mail, at a speed which even a Ferrari would perhaps appear stationary. It was an amazing sight, I would like watching a pretty Indian lady in all her true beauty, but alas!, as you approached the railway platform with all your vigour, the railway train decided to pull away, like how Draupadi’s saree was pulled in the Mahabharata. Remember, my dear friend, its not in how fast you run but where the race is held. A purple horse is seldom real, and the auto rickshaws of Mumbai are never green’ or something horribly out of context, like the last sentence.

I shudder to think what would have happened if we did not have a mute button on our TV sets..

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