I know that ideally I should be writing about the CWC than the IPL, but we bloggers are like that. We choose masala papad over nachos, hawai chappal over crocs, vijaykanth over rajnikanth and shakila over shakira. Finally our mallu friends have got a team of their own, though currently the connection seems thread bare with only Sreesanth being it. And now sources tell me Sreesanth is actually an alien disguised as human being by our RAW to test foreign psychology in terms of response to extreme neurotic aggression. (Think about it, if he were a true mallu, he wouldn't be named Sreesanth, it wud probably be Shinni, Soji or some other thing that one normally uses for a pet cactus) So I came up with probable ways to bring in the mallu connection.1) The first thought went to the name, but now the guys have outdone themselves.. Indi Commandos!! None of what I had come up with can hold a candle to it. You may say that there is no Kochi in it. But the mallu name speaks for itself. Lesson - you can take the Kochi out of a name, but you should never take a name out of Kochi.
2) The theme song. I came up with a few contenders for this. And considering how the theme songs of our Commonwealth and CWC went, ARR and SEL are probably good judges here. Presenting the contenders...
This one has everything, a catchy 'Silsila' on the lines of 'Waka waka'.
Tweaked Waka Waka. Can change it to include footage of Mohanlal playing cricket
My favorite, captures the essence perfectly
3) The cheerleaders, though foreign imborted, are put on a regime of healthy coconuty diet and every day coconut oil hair massage. So there you have your Kerala type cheerleaders, women with long curly wet looking tresses. Somewhat like this.
4) The team sponsors are 'Qatar Pafkis'. Every match that they play in, only Qatar pafkis are to be sold and none else. Not even local peanuts.
5) And finally, allow the players to have their own trade union, whose name starts with 'All India...'
