Our cricket correspondent who had transformed herself into a mouse for the ride to Mohali was all excited as she trooped in to the news room. She whispered, I have a scoop! to Essbee and we all sort of edged closer to hear the squeaky details.

Apparently, Yuvraj was miffed that Sachin was playing chess all by himself ignoring Yuvi's entreaties to join the conversation alongwith Viru. Yuvi was excited about the planning that was going on for the moment when Sachin would reach 17000 ODI runs. Sachin kept his usual cool, aloof, ho-hum, I-am-sick-of-reaching-another-landmark self and concentrated on the chess board wondering if to go for a knight exchange or Queen sacrifice that would prolong the game and end in a dull draw.

Yuvi: Yo! Grandpa

Sachin squeaks: I am not a grandpa yet, many more years to go for that.

Yuvi: I meant that you are the grandpa of the dressing room.

Sachin squeaks: Oh, that! How silly. I thought it was Viru.

Viru: Dont pull my ankle yaar, it's already hurting and I wonder if I would play in Mohali.

Yuvi: You play cricket with the cricket ball and not foot ball.

Sachin squeaks: Nice point Yuvi!

Yuvi: How do we celebrate your 17000 runs in ODI when you reach it?

Sachin squeaks: I am bored of these celebrations yaar. You guys keep guzzling the champagne and Dhoni locks us in and peeps in from the window.

Yuvi: He, he, Dhoni wants to see what Bhajji does when he lets his hair down!

Sachin: Ask yourself, hehehe

Yuvi: Bhajji has become multilingual. He speaks English, sarcasm and smart arse all at the same time.
Sachin squeaks: I didnt mean that.

Viru: Don't talk about hair yaar, mine keep falling and I have to do hair stitching every time I get a break from the game.

Yuvi: Granpa, lets hear about the plans

Sachin squeaks: First BCCI has to give permission yaar. Krish is maha-pissed off that you and Dhoni did not go for a double century stand at the Kotla.

Yuvi: Krish is not the BCCI

Viru: And Jaitley too is grumpy that Gambhir and me spoke to the media about DDCA affairs.

Yuvi: Dump them yaar, so long as we perform and rake in the moolah whats the problem?

Sachin squeaks: That too! Actually I have lost count. What is a gadzillion?

Yuvi: Thats another landmark!

Viru: Yes, yes, we should celebrate that too

Yuvi: So no celebrations, Grandpa?

Sachin squeaks: Shall I go in for the knight exchange?

Yuvi: I give up on the plan

Viru: Me too, my ankle is sore and I cant dance with Gambhir.

Dhoni: What are you guys planning?

Yuvi: Plan? We are in fact tired of planning celebrations for Sachin. Every week, the guy goes on to make some record or other. How many times can you celebrate?

Our cricket correspondent switched off the tape-recorder on her tail and we went back to the injury list of both teams that threatens to become a Injury Eleven very soon.