Saturday, October 8, 2011

Well, after a couple of somber postings re Jobs, something more earthly and recreational. Last couple of matched RCB played in CLT20 were simply superb. One can pooh-pooh these as "just club cricket", but no getting around the fact that the quality of batsmanship was simply top class. If Gayle and Warner were embodiments of sheer power, Kohli was absolutely grace personified. His fluent cover drives and off drives were from a different era of cricket. Reminded me of Tiger Pataudi and Doug Walters whose strokes in front of the wicket was as much folklore in my younger days as was Vishy (G R Vishwanath's) delectable square cuts. Such grace combined with power to clear stands by 10+ rows? Wow! I think we have India's future in Kohli for the next 10+ years!

At the team level, it was exciting to to see RCB successfully chase down 200+ twice in a row... of course, wish it was CSK though!

Cheers

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