Cricket?

A cricket is an annoying little creature that chirps long into the night.

T-20 is something else and no less annoying.

For the next fortnight or so, all we're ever going to see on Indian TV

will be T-20 interspersed with the other great Indian Tamasha

If one has dogs messing up the pitch

The other has its own infinite variety of distractions

there was Varun Gandhi whose foot-in-mouth disease has not been cured

then there's Laloo the lantern man who is trying to derail the Indo-Italian express

then there's Sanju Baba who's replaces hardware with hugs, and is being gunned for by Mayawati who thinks mentions of public displays of affection are obscene...

By the way

the picture

has nothing to do with Mayawati or madness

It's there to keep me cool.

I'm hot under the collar

because I was stood up on Saturday

My date was watching the South African safari!