Applaud a sixer with 'Baroda bomber' this WC

CHANDIGARH: Get set to cheer your favourite cricketer with Master-blaster vodka, Baroda-bomber ' a cocktail of gin, tequila, rum, peach schnapps and iced tea based on Yusuf Pathan ' Tequila shot, Smoothy sixer and India's punch.
If that is too heady a concoction, you can opt for mocktails like Aai-la India and Captain's cooler.
With a couple of league and semi-final matches to be played at PCA Stadium, Mohali, a number of hotels, restaurants, resto and lounge bars have already finalized their cricket theme menu to cash in on the event.To go with the drinks will be a platter of snacks like fish tikka square, chicken LBW, chicken short-leg and chef's 11.
CITCO general manager (tourism) AK Malhotra said they have made all efforts to entice cricket lovers as well as the visiting players, with their special theme-based drinks and snacks. Another attraction would be a special menu card on a miniature cricket bat.
Panchkula-based microbrewery, Hops-n-Grains, plans to have a cricket theme in its three-floor joint. Microbrewery's proprietor Priyanka Gupta said their staff would be wearing Indian team T-shirts and cheering them. ''We would be rolling out two special cocktails on the master blaster, Sachin and Baroda-bomber, to get the attention of cricket enthusiasts. Apart from this, specially-brewed bottom-fermented lager beer would be offered. The menu, too, would be on the sports theme,'' she said.
A number of imported whisky and rum companies are also planning to popularise their brands by co-hosting the special drink sessions in the leading hotels and restaurants. According to a Scotland-based imported rum company's senior local representative, Rahul Pathania, ''We would be showcasing our flagship whisky and rum brands in these places.'' Another liquor company would be offering discounts on one of a popular whisky brand on every 50, 100 and so on, according to their spokesperson.