Ulta Pulta
Sticky wicket
Jaspal Bhatti

A burglar once broke into a hockey player’s house. He stumbled in the dark. Hearing the noise, the player got up. When he saw the thief, he pulled out his hockey stick from under his bed. He yelled, "How dare you enter my house? Don’t you know I am a national hockey player? I’ll smash your head with my hockey stick."

The thief burst into laughter and said, "World Cup mein to tum is hockey se kuchh kar nahin sake yahan kya kar loge?" The player was quite embarrassed.

Dejectedly he said, "You may take anything you want, but do not make fun of our performance in the World Cup. As it is we had been very unlucky."

The thief sympathetically placed his hands on the player’s shoulders and said, "It is not you but I who has been unlucky. By mistake, I entered a hockey player’s house thinking that it was some rich cricketer’s house."

During my morning walk I met a former hockey coach and asked him how could we popularise the game in India. He said, "Quota system." "You mean reservation," I asked.

"I mean every third advertisement of Pepsi or Coke should be reserved for a hockey player", he suggested.





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