The latest episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show Season 2 starred five

members from the T20 World Cup-winning squad — Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar

Yadav (SKY), Shivam Dube, Arshdeep Singh and Axar Patel. Let’s break the

episode down into sixers and singles.

SIXERS

Rohit’s scoop shot on World Cup final

This was the real high point of the episode. Hearing Rohit Sharma spill the tea on

India’s T20 World Cup win was a treat. From Rishabh Pant’s sneaky physio

delay tactic to slow things down and leave the South African batsmen fretting, to

the captain giving his boys full license to sledge (“say what you want, we’ll deal

with the match officials later”) when the runs:balls equation got tense for Team

India, this was pure cricketing and Kapil-show gold. Clearly, all is fair in our love

for cricket and Cup!

A game of dumb charades

Nothing spells ‘cricket fun’ like the team playing dumb charades with a twist.

Rohit trying to guess ‘MS Dhoni’ while Axar clumsily mimicked a six over long on

was great to watch. Luckily, SKY swooped in to save the day with a spot-on

Dhoni helicopter shot, leading to Rohit’s lightbulb moment. Dube’s clumsy

imitation of Virat Kohli also drew laughs. Again, SKY was on-point with

Harbhajan Singh’s bowling action. And Arshdeep did an easy-to-pick Jasprit

Bumrah.

Match the following film names and cricketers

Archana Puran Singh – for once – did more than just sit there and laugh out

loud(est). She hosted a mini-segment of calling out film names for the guests to

match those to team members. After some ribbing, both the Dabangg and

Ghajini titles belonged to Rohit Sharma, while the ‘Nautanki Saala’ crown sat on

Kuldeep Yadav’s head!

Shivam Dube’s smart captaincy reply

When Kapil tried to put Shivam Dube in a spot by asking him to choose between

M.S. Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings) and Rohit Sharma (Team India) as captain,

the big-hitting left-hander delivered a fine late cut by saying depending on which

team he was playing for, that captain was the best! This drew admiring applause

from the host, the captain and the full team.

SINGLES

In contrast with the easy banter of the cricketers on the couch, Team Kapil

appeared forced and unfunny. Soundous as trainee waiter, Jamie Lever as ‘Misri’

the AI robot (at least this was a fresh act for the show), Sunil Grover back as

Khali, Krushna Abhishek and Kiku Sharda in their repetitive act of Dharmendra

and Sunny Deol… all seemed to needlessly eat into our time with the cricketers

for more insights and laughs from them.