This one's no advertisement for Sehwag, only a exercise in wonder yet again, as to how champions perform when they have people and quite ironically their own fans breathing down their neck, and breathing fire.
What do you do? What does one do ? How different will he be this time around when the neck is upon the altar? Its tempting to say that it's all in the mind. Well it could be, but is that all? Will the paddle sweeps change, or will the intensity of that slash cut get diluted in the process of appeasement?
Again quite ironically you would be playing to the same galleries that were agog a while ago, and now they are gunning for you. Where were those wagging tongues when you gave them joy no matter how flawed the execution was, or gave them their paisa vasool and in the process shredding conventional manuals to pieces? How do you answer? How does one answer? For the junta, sadly it's the results that counts and one has to live with it.
This is not about a certain Sehwag or a certain Tendulkar at all. If one looks closer, it could conveniently and with no guilt be extended to a whole lot of people we come across whose crime is that in their success they have given people hope and raised a few expectations.
It doesnt matter what you want. It doesnt matter what you do. It doesnt matter what you go through. It doesnt matter by what margin you lose. In the end it's the result.
While this freaky chakra of expectations and realisations continues, here's an imaginary quote from Sehwag, when a scribe poses a query regarding his "approach". This one's a little tangential.
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Times Now: "Viru, what have you got up your sleeve this time around? Now that you have been bestowed another chance to cement your position in the team, what is your strategy? You must be worried."
Viru: Up my sleeve tho maine phir se slash cut maarni hai. Yeh psychology and sports management principles kuch nahi hota.. sab BC bakwaas hai... mujhe tho bas field par jaana hai, gendh dekhni hai, aur bas thokna hai... Maine nahi badalna... BC, yeh sab bakwaas hai... Worried aur main? arrey koi nahi yaar... Bas lassi peeni hai, kheer khaani hai, do chaar paraanthe aur achaar ke saath, makkan maarke aur bas... BC, is baar tho bas ch**na hai. Dally (Delhi; rhymes with tally, pally) ke liye hameshaa aise karta aaya hoon aur BC, aisa hi karna hai maine.
What do you do? What does one do ? How different will he be this time around when the neck is upon the altar? Its tempting to say that it's all in the mind. Well it could be, but is that all? Will the paddle sweeps change, or will the intensity of that slash cut get diluted in the process of appeasement?
Again quite ironically you would be playing to the same galleries that were agog a while ago, and now they are gunning for you. Where were those wagging tongues when you gave them joy no matter how flawed the execution was, or gave them their paisa vasool and in the process shredding conventional manuals to pieces? How do you answer? How does one answer? For the junta, sadly it's the results that counts and one has to live with it.
This is not about a certain Sehwag or a certain Tendulkar at all. If one looks closer, it could conveniently and with no guilt be extended to a whole lot of people we come across whose crime is that in their success they have given people hope and raised a few expectations.
It doesnt matter what you want. It doesnt matter what you do. It doesnt matter what you go through. It doesnt matter by what margin you lose. In the end it's the result.
While this freaky chakra of expectations and realisations continues, here's an imaginary quote from Sehwag, when a scribe poses a query regarding his "approach". This one's a little tangential.
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Times Now: "Viru, what have you got up your sleeve this time around? Now that you have been bestowed another chance to cement your position in the team, what is your strategy? You must be worried."
Viru: Up my sleeve tho maine phir se slash cut maarni hai. Yeh psychology and sports management principles kuch nahi hota.. sab BC bakwaas hai... mujhe tho bas field par jaana hai, gendh dekhni hai, aur bas thokna hai... Maine nahi badalna... BC, yeh sab bakwaas hai... Worried aur main? arrey koi nahi yaar... Bas lassi peeni hai, kheer khaani hai, do chaar paraanthe aur achaar ke saath, makkan maarke aur bas... BC, is baar tho bas ch**na hai. Dally (Delhi; rhymes with tally, pally) ke liye hameshaa aise karta aaya hoon aur BC, aisa hi karna hai maine.
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