Sunday, January 25, 2009

We are like this only.........

I was going through the South Zone team for the Duleep trophy. I saw the name of Arjun Yadav. The name sounds illustrious and the lineage regal! Only the second great to don the name after the mythical Pandu's brave son! Coming back to 2009 and the Yadavpautra, I looked at his feats in domestic cricket. In his first-class career, he has scored 3146 runs in 66 matches at a grand average of 29.12. Obviously, his dad, the greatest offie after Prasanna, will testify that he is a much better batsman than his fiugres tell. I dug deep like a leggie trying to prise out a batsman on a flat track. His scores in the Ranji Super League were 9, 41, 9, 54*, 18, 118*, 6, 29, 22, 0, and 0. This stupendous performance was better than Ravi Teja (456 runs) and T S Suman (426 runs), S A Quadri (387 runs), who failed to make it to the South Zone team. They say, statistics is an ass, and the Pandu of Hyderabad cricket will tell you how his son's 118 n.o. was probably the best he'd seen after Tendulkar's knock at WACA in 1991-92! But like my grandpa used to say, "If your dad can't do this for you, will an outsider do it for you?"

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