http://in.rediff.com/sports/2006/dec/23roger.htm (Federer plays cricket)
Man!!! If ever there was a news snippet which ruled like crazy, this is it.
Most of my friends, even after being Indians, somehow inexplicably are woefully ignorant of the glory of the best game on the planet. They say that the game is suited only for lazy people like me. Well, now you wouldn't call a tiger lying low, in wait for his prey, lazy, would you ? He is just silently waiting for that one moment of weakness on the part of his prey when he can explode with a debilitating burst of energy. My friends don't see the similarity between the tiger and a cricket fielder which I see. Cautious, silent, shrewdly calculating, ever attentive, he grabs on to the ball with fearsom energy when the situation demands.
Alas, they would rather see the glass half empty :).
Nevertheless, well ? Who has the last laugh now ? I am sure, watching the alpha male of human species himself adorn the beautiful game might have raised some doubts about some of your most fundamental beliefs. If you have finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel and come face to face with one of the axiomatic truths of the world i.e. cricket is probably the greatest atheletic activity ever undertaken by man after maybe Pheidippides' legendary run from Marathon to Athens giving birth to Olympics, then welcome to my side. If you are still unsure (read wrong, I like to be politically correct) and would like to believe that you still need a bit more time to accept what is only inevitable, be my guest. In either case, if I may just remind you of the fact that there are only two absolute truths in the world. The first is that Federer rules and the second is that cricket rules. And no scale has thus far been invented which could measure how much the spectacle of Federer playing cricket RULES. The only thing that could have beaten this scenario on this scale of fantabuluousness was maybe Federer playing cricket with Audrey Hepburn on the runner's end :).
Man!!! If ever there was a news snippet which ruled like crazy, this is it.
Most of my friends, even after being Indians, somehow inexplicably are woefully ignorant of the glory of the best game on the planet. They say that the game is suited only for lazy people like me. Well, now you wouldn't call a tiger lying low, in wait for his prey, lazy, would you ? He is just silently waiting for that one moment of weakness on the part of his prey when he can explode with a debilitating burst of energy. My friends don't see the similarity between the tiger and a cricket fielder which I see. Cautious, silent, shrewdly calculating, ever attentive, he grabs on to the ball with fearsom energy when the situation demands.
Alas, they would rather see the glass half empty :).
Nevertheless, well ? Who has the last laugh now ? I am sure, watching the alpha male of human species himself adorn the beautiful game might have raised some doubts about some of your most fundamental beliefs. If you have finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel and come face to face with one of the axiomatic truths of the world i.e. cricket is probably the greatest atheletic activity ever undertaken by man after maybe Pheidippides' legendary run from Marathon to Athens giving birth to Olympics, then welcome to my side. If you are still unsure (read wrong, I like to be politically correct) and would like to believe that you still need a bit more time to accept what is only inevitable, be my guest. In either case, if I may just remind you of the fact that there are only two absolute truths in the world. The first is that Federer rules and the second is that cricket rules. And no scale has thus far been invented which could measure how much the spectacle of Federer playing cricket RULES. The only thing that could have beaten this scenario on this scale of fantabuluousness was maybe Federer playing cricket with Audrey Hepburn on the runner's end :).
9 comments:
ha ha ha.... mast article!
your fantabulous scene will also be my fantabulous scene if you let irrfan khan (not pathan) bowl the first over :)
you've given as good an argument as anyone can to make some gullible folks believe this lazy game may have some merit, but all said and done, it may be hard to visualize Kumble as a tiger :)
abeeee masala reader, masala writer and hero worshipper, now you should never rue about why newspapers write about eating, sleeping, singing, bathing and other habits and disorders of stars and starlets because you are doing pretty much the same here. As long as Federer & Audery Hepburn does those things it is fine,isn't it?? You never cease to amaze me! :)))))
@Nitin: Somehow, I get this feeling that I might not have succeeded in converting all the critics out there. I am sure there will be some who will again pester me with rational sounding arguments (my roommate for one) :)...
@Amit: Come on, you surely are not trying to compare Federer or Audrey Hepburn with Aishwarya rai or Paris Hilton or other million celebrities there with mouths bigger than the size of their brains and pockets bigger than the size of their moral conscience, are you ?
Don't be too sure, you haven't seen the size of brain of Audrey Hepburn or Roger Federer either to compare with that of Paris Hilton or Aishwarya Rai. The same goes about their moral conscince.
@Amit: Actions speak louder than words my dear
some kid got Federer out! lucky ba****
Great reading youur post
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