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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

A List of fictitious funny titles for books and movies related to cricket players and officials

During this world cup, Cricinfo introduced the chatterbox in its live scorecard and commentary. In one of those inconsequential boring matches involving a superpower an a superminnow, a nice idea took root in the chatterbox. How about we think up funny titles for books or movies that could be made for cricketers and cricket officials? And the idea spread like wildfire and could not be contained by any of the moderators until very late in the match, when they refused to publish any more comments on this. It was such a fun task, that I decided to keep a record of all the titles people came up with and share them in my blog. So here is the list.....Many of the titles are ideas of yours truly..

So start laughing:


  • "DROP Dead Gorgeous" - Kamran Akmal
  • "Kill Ball": Robin Peterson to Ashish Nehra
  • "Four Drops and a Birthday" - Kamran Akmal and Ross Taylor
  • "Taken" - Not written by Kamran Akmal
  • "Mr & Mr Smith" - Steven & Graeme
  • "The Dark Night" - World Cup 2007 final is more like it.
  • "A shot in the dark" - Last world cup final.
  • "The Namesake" - Ross and Brendan Taylor
  • "The wrestler" starring Andrew Symonds
  • "How I met Your Wife" - Shane Warne to Arun Nayar
  • "Pulp Fiction"- Batting Powerplays
  • "Much Ado About Nothing" - Batting Powerplays
  • "Damn Good Batting"- Ashish Bagai
  • "The Day the Score Stood Still" - Rahul Dravid
  • "King Bong" - The Bangladesh team against England
  •  "Flight Club" - Graeme Swann and Murali
  • "The day it spun" - Jason Krejza
  • "Lost in translation" - DRS reviews
  • "Star Wars" - Murali vs SRT
  • "The Singh's Speech" - Harbhajan on the pitch
  • "The Great Gambler" - MS Dhoni
  • "Face off" - Balaji Rao & Romesh Powar
  • "Match me if you can" - Muthiah Muralitharan & Sachin Tendulkar
  • "little red riding hood" - Tatenda Taibu
  • "Tu Chal Main Aaya" - Indian batsmen after Tendulkar
  • "Closed Eyes" - cricinfo on comments of some guy who tried repeatedly and failed!
  • "Unbreakable" - SRT's Dirty Bat
  • "Phas gaya re Odoyo" - Kenyan team
  • "Gold Finger" - starring ajantha mendis
  • "Up in the Air" - Tim Southee (He caused an uproar by kissing some passenger in his flight to India)
  • "Paranormal Activity" - by Indian batsmen after Tendulkar got out against South Africa in the league stage.
  • "honey, we shrunk the total" - Indian team to Sachin Tendulkar
  • "how to train your dragon" - Andrew Symond's Coach
  • "Ballman Begins" - Shahid Afridi on randomly becoming a bowler from a batsman
  • "Who's line (and length) is it anyway" - Ashish Nehra
  • "Karthik calling Karthik" - Murali to Dinesh
  • "Bend it like Bowden"
  • "The last fingerbender" - Billy Bowden
  • "The Blair witch project" - India playing Australia in WC2003 final
  • "Scent of a Woman" - Shane Warne
  • "Psycho" - Sreesanth
  • "Scream" - Sreesanth, "Scream II" - Harbhajan, "Scream III" - Kohli
  • "The Da Vinci Code" - Batting Powerplay for India
  • "I am legend" - SRT
  • "ek ruka hua faisla" - decision on publishing comments by cricinfo!
  • "The Curious Case of Bangladesh Batsmen" - BCB after the debacle against West Indies
  • "how to lose friends and alienate people" - Cricinfo commenatators for not publishing the last 99999 comments
  • "Dead spin society" - Harbhajan and Piyush Chawla
  • "A walk to remember" - Virender Sehwag on the art of running between the wickets
  • "The Shashank Manohar Redemption" - Lalit Modi
  • The Hangover - Andrew Symonds
  • Munaf Patel's fielding:- Dead Man walking
  • Bend it like Waqar - PCB
  • The Invisible - My Comments :'(
  • 12 Angry men - Indian team
  • How did the chicken cross the road? - Trent Johnston
  • Gone Baby Gone - Zulqarnain Haider
  • "The fastest Indian in the world" - Zaheer Khan?
  • Confessions of a Dropaholic- Kamran Akmal
  • Striptease - Saurav Ganguly & Andrew Flintoff
  • Jab We met - Bhajji and Sreesanth
  • dirty dancing - sreesanth
  • The Expendables - Associate Cricketing Nations
  • Eyes Wide Shut - starring k akmal and m van wyk
  • "Swing is king" by Dale Steyn
  • The last hairbender - Lasith Malinga
  • Legally Blonde- All Pakistani players with blonde highlights.
  • Clockwork Orange- Ryan ten Doeschate
  • Hair Color for dummies - Kevin O Brien, Zaheer Khan
  • "serendipity" - bollinger - hussey / KP - morgan
  • Dude, where is my spin? Harbhajan
  • Signs - Piyush Chawla's leg spin.
  • The (tv) Mechanic - Ricky Ponting.
  • The Replacements - Mike Hussey and eoin Morgan.
  • Flubber - Kamran Akmal.
  • When to end a topic - cricinfo commentator.
  • Disaster movie - Kamran Akmal.
  • "Lord of the swing" by Wasim Akram.
  • Black Swan-Gramae Swann.
  • 'The English Patient'- Kevin Petersen. 
  • Total Recall - by Murali. 
  • Once Upon a Time in India - Balaji Rao.
  • "ab tak chappan" Hashim Amla's avg. 
  • definitely,maybe- england team." 
  • I Know what you did last Summer " Salman butt, Muhammad Aamir, Muhammad Asif! 
  • Gone with the wind - Sultan Zarawani.
  • True Grit - Irish Team.
  • M.S. I Love you - Piyush Chawla.
  • There Will Be Blood- Razzaq, (Pak vs SA 2nd ODI).
  • Cast Away - Lalit Modi.
  • Love actually - Imran Tahir.
  • Bees Saal Baad - SRT.
  • "The Battle of the Bulge" Inzy & Ryder, Foreword by Dwayne Leverock.
  • SlumpForm Millionaire - Irfan Pathan ( $1,900,000 in IPL).
  • "No country for Old men" - Sourav Ganguly.
  • "Dude where is my swing" by Irfan Pathan.
  • "Who moved my Crease" - Inzy.
  • My Name is Khan - by Zaheer Khan.
  • Big Momma - Leverock.
  • "To kill a mocking press" - MSD.
  • Gone in 60 Seconds- Indian Lower Middle Order.
  • Scary Movie (Dhoni's batting).
  • "The twister" - by Murali.
  • "Two Thousand Splendid Runs" - SRT.
  • Jaws - by Shahid Afridi.
  • 127 hours (of doing nothing) - Gautam Gambhir.
  • Stumped!- M.S. Dhoni.
  • One Flew Over Kamran's Gloves.
  • How to squabble but still get away with it - Stuart Broad.
  • How to make people believe you are a batsman BY Afridi.
  • How to play a World-cup with no native players in the team - Canada.
  • "How to play test cricket for england" - Irish Cricket Team.
  • "Staying Focused" by Sreesanth.
  • "How to get into the Indian team" by Piyush Chawla.
  • How to create a list of totally useless and hilarious books that we would liked published, by yours trulies. 
  • a tale of two countries..by ed joyce and eoin morgan.
  • "Facing bouncers" By Suresh Raina & Rohit sharma, Inspiration Sultan Zarawani.
  • "How to win in a T20 final" by Misbah Ul Haq.
  • "Playing for the country" -MS Dhoni.
  • "still seventeen"-afridi.
  • How to make Two referrals insufficient - By Mr. Asoka di silva.
  • How to name IPL teams - By the Kochi Tuskers.
  • The Social Network by Kevin Peitersen.
  • "how to change names, get banned, retire and still continue to play"- Mohammad Yousuf.
  • How to Hug-Priety Zinta. Foreword by Yuvraj Singh.
  • "My Experiments with Chawla" - MSD.
  • "Staying Calm when 22 required of 1 Ball" by B.Mac.
  • How to Retire Young - Zulqarnain Haider.
  • How to hit hundreds that dont win you matches - Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
  • "Why are we here?" by the Kenyan team.
  • "How to make friends" - Kevin Pietersen.
  • "Being great 12th Man" - Raina.
  • "How to carry on an online discussion during a match without talking about it at all" - Foreword by guess who.
  • "Art of Ball Changing" by G Swann.
  • "How to be fat and fit- Jesse Ryder.
  • "How to forget about Camera's on field" - by Afridi.
  • "DRS wars- The Umpire Strikes Back" - By Asoka de Silva
  • "Having a doosra without a pehla" - Harbhajan Singh.
  • The art of using the batting powerplay - Team India.
  • "HAIR apparent" by kallis,strauss,bhogle.foreword by warne.
  • "Topic is over" - exasperated cricinfo commentator..
  • "Spoiling the fun by being uptight" - in reply to above!
  • "The art of disappearing" by zulqairnan haidar.
  • How to get a decent haircut by Ramiz Raja.
  • "how to hit 150 K's an hour" Praveen kumar.
  • Using the Commentator's Curse to good effect By Ravi Shastri.
  • The Heimlich Maneuver- By the South African team.
  • "how to celebrate" - Gibbs.
  • "the art of great death bowling" by every indian bowler.
  • Being Robin Hood- The English Team.
  • "Stretching a joke too far" - Chatterbox participants @ cricinfo.fr the online commentators..
  • " How about looking foolish in front of millions by ridiculous commentary".
  • "How to be a Notout Batsman in an ODI" by Dhoni.
  • "world cup semi finals" by Alan Donald. Foreword by Lance Klusener.
  • "100 tips to become team mate's favorite" by S. Sreesanth.
  • "No country for old men" by dada.
  • "the art of sharing the joys of winning" by eng cricketers.
  • "The art of praising SRT" by SMG ??.
  • How to ban players by PCB chairman Ijaz Butt.
  • "Ashwin - The Egg Layer" by Dhoni.
  • Why I Am The Best There Has Ever Been by Justin Green.
  • Dutch Pronunciation- By Eric Szwarczynski.
  • "How to change fast bowlers into medium pacers within a year"...by BCCI.
  • inception to implosion. by indian middle order.  
  • Salman Butt "Betting 101".
  • "How to win friends and influence people" by Bangladesh cricketers!."
  • Appropriate Behavior for Modern Technologies such as phones and Twitter" by Shane Warne.
  • how to keep hands clean' by punter.
  • "How to increase your tolerance levels" by Sidhu.
  • "Experiments with a Winning Combination" By Dhoni.
  • The Curious Case of Pakistani Wicketkeepers by Z Haider.
  • Chris Martin - "Batting 101".
  • "Blood Brothers" by Umar akmal dedicated to Kamran Akmal.
  • "How to lose a commercial on last ball" By Nehra ;)
  • 'The Art of Destroying Bowling Lineups' by Ross Taylor with help from Kamran Akmal
  • "how to bat"-chris martin.
  • "The Handy Manual of Fix-it-all" by Salman Butt
  • When to get injured by Umar Akmal.  
  • "A Slap from the TurbanMan" by Sreesanth ;)
  • "Catch Me If you Can" by Salman Butt forward by Kamran Akmal  
  • "Commentary for Dummies" must have a foreword by Ranjith Fernando!
  • "How to not get in trouble" by Andrew Symonds 
  • Biting the Cherry... by Shahid Afridi!
  • Commentary for Dummies .. A better book wud be written by Sidhu !!!
  • How to try to bowl yorkers and screw up..By Agarkar, Nehra and Munaf.
  • "Enigma of the last over" by Dhoni ;)" 
  • DANCING IN THE PITCH " BY SREESANTH  
  • "Commentary for Dummies" by Ravi Shastri?  
  • Ricky Ponting has been signed up to write "Clean hands and Personal Hygiene".
  • Targeting flies around the cricket field...by Van wyk..foreword by Kamran Akmal
  • " Unraveling the UDRS" by the ICC
  • "How to use the 12th man at all times" by Team India
  • "Brilliant Glovework" The art of keeping from Kamran Akmal.
  • "How to increase mental bench strength" foreword by MSD?
  • How to play the batting poweplay. Foreward by MSD.