The greatestregret ive ever had in my life has been my inability to bowl fast..... curious as it may seem i had bet my whole life unto it...... If ever i had pur a quarter of an effort i put into my bowling .. in studies.... I would have excelled in academics beyond a peer (thats my belief)....
Well i started of quite a revelation... with ceratin satisfaction i may add..... Nothing in my life gave me pleasure greater pleasure than to see the rattled stumps...... It lasted like a fairy tale...... and ended like one.......Itwas on my debut match for my school agains the best in the business.... My first over got me two wickets and an applause from hundreds.....and hooror into the minds of the opponents(quite flattering ..i felt).... And at the very first ball i dislocated my shoulder.... I quite confess that i had stretched my body to the very limit..... At that moment i knew that a cricketing carrier i had waited so long ... so eagerly for.... had begun and ended on the mid summer afternoon of Friday the 14th of may 1999..... and never have i bowled since then.....
Quite a misery....But if i had my life to live all over again , i would not ask for sucess alone sweet though it is... i only wopuld ask the almighty to allow me to bowl fast once more.... Because iknow deep inside my heart ... that for those who have bowled quick ... really quick there is no comparable feeling in the world. The sudden clutch of suppressed anticipation as u mark out ur run, The hesitancy that blossoms into arrogant confidence...as from a shuffling slow start,the stride quickens....and becomes smoother...two yards from the wicket and now time to give evrything ive got. The body swiwells...left hand plucking at the clouds..right arm swinging in a deadly ever quickening arc as the batsman appears in sights over tha left shoulder..the left leg raised high..ready for the final crash...the skull shakes and the muscles of the body jar screaminglyas the fron foot thumps like a pneumatic hammer and the ball rockets its wayat the cringing batsman pursued as if by an avenging angel ...thats me.
Ah!What power there is in bowling fast!!!!! What a sensation of omnipotence......and how great is the gulf between this sublime sensation and ordinary , mundane everyday existance.....
If at all ive ever cribbed in life ..... its now.
had it not been otherwise i surely must have been the fastes vegetarian in the world!
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yah.. was diagnized with a weak ball and socket joint
I have always liked your cricket anthologies, quotes and articles. Keep them coming mate. Frankly speaking u awakened the slumbering statistic loving cricket freak in me. Still feeling sleepy tough. Good work
This post owns!! Fuggin amazing, the best way to put fast bowling in words ;)..
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