Friday, August 04, 2006

Do you bat like you?

We are reading 'A Political biography of Ranjitsingji' by Mario Rodrigues, a book that is interesting to say the least. No, this is not a review of the book, we're too insignificant to attempt reviewing a book and we're certainly not one of those people who has the moxie or the skill to review a book without having written anything close to a book, yet. What we're attempting to do here is post a thought we came across in the book. On pg. 65 of the book, the author excerpts a snippet on Ranjitsinghji penned by Vasant Raiji in his volume on Ranji, 'Ranji: The legend and the man'. In the said volume, Vasant Raiji says, among other things, that "a man's character may be seen in his batting." Interesting thought, eh? Which makes us wonder, what does Sourav's batting say about his character? What does Sachin's batting say about his character? What does Sunny's batting say about his character? What does Rahul's batting say about his character? Does a man's batting say something about the man's character? And what about bowling? W do not know these great characters personally so we shan't venture to say much about their characters, but it does set us thinking. Hmm?