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Loading ...I met that kid too. Thought he might have developed a bit over the last four years though.
No progress at all. Shameful.
The Indians who can do it all
By Will last year, at the end of August Leave a comment on this post
Being a cricket journalist while on holiday in India has its advantages, no doubt. Most people I encounter are keen to know my job (and even more importantly which company employs me), and quite a few know of Cricinfo and are desperate, it seems, to prove their cricketing worth. One young chap today (whose friendly nature threatened to descend into irritating begging) is surely the future of Indian cricket, if not the world.
He bowls leg-spin better than Shane Warne and models his off-spinner’s doosra on Murali; he opens the bowling at the speed of light, not unlike Darren Gough apparently; he keeps wicket with the feline-feet of Alan Knott (!) and bats like Marcus Trescothick, Michael Warne (it’s the accent, but I couldn’t help chuckling) and Adam Gilchrist. A killer player, then, if fantastical.
Watch out for him. He, and the identical dozen other youngsters who I’ve come across, will be dominating the world shortly…
Tags: adam-gilchrist, alan-knott, ambition, india, nilgiri-mountains, ooty, world-domination |
One Response to “The Indians who can do it all”
August 23rd, 2007 at 9.31 am
