Its 7 in the evening, Bangalore is under a cloud cover, my manager has sent me a mail with some work just before I leave on a Friday, Shoaib Akhtar has been thrown out of the Pak team on disciplinary grounds and everything is fine with this world.
For the Shoaib part, this time for using an equipment he is ill equipped to handle. A bat. He aimed a cover drive at Asif’s thigh over a tiff it seems. You cant blame him for practising his batting though. It is that bad.
But he should have chosen his target a little more carefully IMHO. You know its round, its red and its made of leather.
Had he got a million for every act of indiscipline he has done, he would have been in the Forbes list by now. Most fast bowlers are dumb as per the stereotype. They may scream out against this branding (as any self respecting person should against any stereotyping), however, people like Shoaib just reinforce it. And he is a show pony to boot. Which is a ghastly combination in a game which involves the usage of the piece of muscle between the ears rather extensively.
Otherwise why oh why, should he take a furlong long run up when a shorter one would serve his purpose beautifully? Why should he put up that obviously fake accent when he has a fairly passable English? And why do we always see him barely clothed whenever we see him in a photograph in newspapers?
I think people like Shoaib are suffering from the ‘spotlights-on-me’ syndrome a mild version of which has affected our boy Sreesanth as well. They feel terribly inadequate if they wake up one morning and find not a single news item on them in the morning newspapers. Sad for such a talent (even with hyperextension and all that). High time he is kicked out from the game forever. We will miss the theatrics I know, but it is supposed to be a sport, right?
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