Are they playing football? No. Are they playing Cricket? No. Then what is it these teams will be playing? "I also don't know," replies Sourav Ganguly, lead player of the Kolkata team. "My 3 year old son tells me its a PR event," says Wayne Rooney, lead kaftan of the Manchester United team."We're going to make it up as we go," says David Hussey of the KKR. "We'll put up a goal post and a boundary line and take the best parts out of each sport," Hussey added.
The more time we spent on the story, the more we were convinced that we were actually on a movie set. In fact, Ashutosh Gowarikar was in the midst with a camera, waiting, as the two teams got ready for the event. We suspect Ashutosh is making Lagaan 2, bitter after the fact that his movie lost out at the oscars eight years ago, while Slumdog won last year.
To be perfectly honest, as the game went on, we ourselves did not understand what was happening. Manchester United was wearing a blue uniform instead of their traditional red, while the Kolkata Knight Riders were dressed in formal wear. However, truth be told, it was a match filled with excitement and suspense filled to the brim - like a bad movie, you don't know who is going to yell what out when?!
The match did have its injuries. Fast bowler Ajit Agarkar fell down and broke his stilettos, while Christiano Ronaldo was attacked by a peacock.
In the end, Manchester United won by 18 red cards just after KKR substitute player George W. Bush was sent in. Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shakrukh Khan had the following to say, "Anybody want to buy a team?"
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