Sir Ravindra Jadeja’s greatness has breached new heights of dizzying stratospheric levels. In yet another display of brazen awesomeness that even Internet memes failed to anticipate and will find hard to exceed, easily eclipsing his past real and imaginary feats, the Saurashtrian all-rounder booked not one but eleven Tatkal tickets on the dreaded IRCTC server for the entire CSK team.
The feat has left even skipper Dhoni stunned. “Well, of course, what he did was awesome,” recalled MSD. “I had casually expressed a desire to travel by train to Pune for the CSK vs PW match, sick as I was by frequent air-travel. Sir said he’ll see what he can do but frankly I wasn’t expecting him to be able to book tickets through IRCTC. Just as I was packing my suitcase to catch the next flight, he strolled into my room and nonchalantly said that he had done the needful. Now I am known to keep my cool and all that but this was too much for even me. I began to scream hysterically, delirious with joy.”
Soon the news spread like wildfire with BCCI President, N Srinivasan, being one of the first to fete Sir followed by Railways Minister Pawan Bansal. World leaders including President Obama and Chinese Premier Xi Jin Ping also conveyed their heartiest congratulations with Obama texting this message: “A mere click for Sir Jadeja but a giant leap for mankind. This is up there with the moon landing. Sir has once again shown that yes we can by pushing the envelope of human achievement.” Jadeja downplayed the incident with characteristic false modesty. “I don’t think what I did was a miracle or that I’m a great man. I just try to deliver for my team,” he said.
Recalling the incident, Jadeja said, “Well, I logged on to the server and said I wanted to book 11 tickets on the fly. For a few moments, there was no response and I was about to give up when this message flashed across my screen:
‘11 tickets on IRCTC server, uh? Still ROFLing. Dude, who do you think you are? God?’
I nonchalantly typed: ‘No, I am Sir Ravindra Jadeja’. Within nano-seconds, the IRCTC server rebooted and booked not 11 but 11 compartments of the Chennai Egmore Dadar Express along with the message “So sorry sir, didn’t realize it was you. We apologize for the minor delay. Is there anything else we can do?’”
When Sir said that would be all and logged out of the ticket booking site, the server immediately crashed and remained non-functional for the rest of the day.