3rd time in a year or so that Mr. So-Called-The-Great-Finisher Lost us a tightly contested match. This match, the T-20 match at Harare against Tiripano (who) bowling and the ODI at Kanpur against Rabada. All these matches were India's to lose after the opposition was dead and buried going into the final overs and MS made sure India lose them. Even a novice IPL watcher knows that DJ Bravo always bowles the slower bowl to outfox his opponents and MS doesn't only know this but has even seen Bravo doing that first hand under his captaincy innumerable times. Bravo backed his skills as he had nothing to lose but Dhoni misunderstood his skills, that of a scrapper and not a six hitter, and went for everlasting glory. There is a generation of Cricket fans out there who call Sachin, Ganguly, Gavaskar and Dravid selfish but were these three incidents recalled above and many more that I cannot, aren't enough to qualify MS for the same misbegotten sin? Moreover, T-20s are a game for youth and M S didn't invite Sachin and Sourav for the same reason in his 2007 WC winning Squad, so why is he still sticking to this illusory allusion of being a see-all, know-all? If our selectors are blind to it mainly because of his so-called 'standing' in the game, why can't he himself do the favour? It's a nation that devours cricket for its progression and sustenance. And redemptions that Cricket provides a plenty, might not do good to you at all if you keep tempering with its core and psyche.....Time for 'Enough is Enough'!!!!
It's really hard to switch on to a different language from the one you have constantly been tinkering with. I grew so accustomed to writing in Hindi in last few days that it started dawning on me that I might never be good again with my English. So this is a tester, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday, one of my movie group friends, an American by nationality, questioned my fondness of documentaries. I specifically wrote in one of my columns that documentaries demand your unwavering attention and once you gave 'that' to them, you are rewarded much more handsomely than a proper, narrative, fictitious film. My reasoning for believing so is that a documentary is an experience of a creative process. It doesn't get made to 'entertain' you. They are there to reveal something to you. They teach you something. You get overwhelmed by them. 'Racing Extinction (2015)' was one such documentary. I watched it in last couple of days. I couldn't complete it in one ...
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