An Adamantine Odyssey!!
A lazy Sunday meanders away in the dying moments of a Test Match. Two super-powers are rambling to the end of an encounter that has petered out to a dead end, as the audience begins drifting towards more worthwhile pursuits...Before a news-flash makes us stop dead in the tracks!
It was the same old story! Seemingly, the nonchalant batsman thrust his left leg forward, only to be rapped on the pads by the straighter one. Only this time, it wasn’t one bloke with a bat in hand whose professional endeavours were being thwarted.
There was to be no further addition to the tally of 956. Instead thousands, millions, billions had been caught napping. Before the magnitude of the loss had sunken in, a hero was revelling in his last hurrah. The 38 year old grabbed the spotlight, while his colleagues toasted him. As the opponents conveyed their regards and the cricketing fraternity rose to pay tribute, tears welled up in the eyes of his adoring fans. The Grand Old Man of Indian Cricket had had enough!
The Nascent Stages...
The convoluted journey commenced when a bespectacled 19 yr old engineering student first donned national colours in the dust-bowls of the middle-east.
An award winning performance in his third outing augured well, but he emphatically made headlines only in 1992 by condemning the international cricket comebacks to slow torture in a bowling analysis of 44-22-53-6 on their home turf.
It was the don of a new era!
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