Sunday, November 18, 2007

Tetoree Pav

Tetoree Pav is supposedly a lentil based parsi dish. From the description I read it seemed as if it was Misal Pav. Anyways there was this member of CCI who loved Tetoree Pav, hence was called by that name. The guy had some kind of bad luck associated with him. Whoever was greeted by him would have a bad day ahead , so the anecdote ran.

In 1964-65 Bobby Simpson's Aussies toured India playing 3 tests . They were on a high having just beaten England for The Ashes. The Aussies drew first blood at Madras, and quite comprehensively . During the next test in mumbai, one of the CCI members had this brilliant idea of introducting Tetoree Pav to the Australians on the day the game started hoping for some bad luck to rub on to the Aussies. 10 minutes after play started, Norman O'neil one of their middle order bulwarks complained of stomach ache and pulled out of the match. The Aussies thus played a batsman short in either innings. India won a close game by 2 wickets , chasing 264 on the final day. With rain playing its part in the third test, India managed to square the series against one of the strongest Aussie sides of the 1960's.

Tetoree Pav had dunnit . Again !

I'm tempted to say that line from Lagaan - " Aur Tetoree Pav ka naam Itihaas ke pannon mein kahin kho gaya "


Picked up from Willow Tales - Fredun De vitre

2 comments:

Arya Paturkar said...

welcome to the world of blogging

Abhijeet B said...

What a cricketing start to your interest in blogging! Well done....it was enjoyable reviving old cricketing memories.