By IANS
Chandigarh : Poking fun at Indian hockey team’s failure in the Olympic qualifiers, humourist Jaspal Bhatti Monday claimed to have invented a special “morale-booster” hockey stick for the lovers of the sport.
“The new stick ‘cric-hockey’ is a half bat and half hockey stick. The new game would have half the rules of hockey and half of cricket. You can score a goal with this stick and also hit a sixer,” Bhatti said in a statement here.
“As of today, the younger generation feels ashamed to move around carrying hockey sticks. But this new hybrid stick could be proudly carried along. The ‘cric-hockey’ stick would also attract advertisers as it has a portion of cricket bat attached to it,” Bhatti added.
Bhatti, who had recently tried to auction hockey and football players here for a miserly Rs.50 ($1) per player, said that hockey players can command a price of up to Rs.25,000 if they adopt the new ‘cric-hockey’.
He said that ultimately the country’s cricket board would adopt the ‘cric-hockey’.