Premier League Tamacha

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It's the latest craze in Junglistan. The Cricket Premier League -- a Twenty20 tournament that gives a Fifty50 chance to all teams. Anybody could win on a given day, a bit of luck can make up for lack of skill. The success of the CPL, more importantly the socialist nature of the capitalist game, had prompted the Junglistan Hockey Federation chief Kill Bill to explore the possibilities of a Twenty20 World Cup in hockey. He could see no other way of Junglistan winning a world cup berth. The Kuttappa Stadium, Junglistan's biggest, now famous as the Royal Challenge stadium, was packed to the last chair for the Yuvaraj XI versus Sachu XI match. Thousands had turned up, the rich and the poor, the carnivore and the herbivore. The millionaires had their seats on the Antiquity end, others on the Bagpiper end. Yuvaraj won the toss and....