POST # 10: VIOLENCE AT INDORE AND OTHER STORIES

Speaking of Dravid, he delivered this year’s Sir Donald Bradmanoration at Canberra (perhaps the first non Australian to do so). Of course, thefirst part of his speech was probably not the finest opening knock - where he spoke about how Indians andAustralians fought wars together on the same side and how in the World War II, there were Indian and Australian soldiers in El Alamein,North Africa etc, (how we wished this part of the oration was delivered byGanguly and Harbhajjan together!). Apart from that Rahul Dravid was simplyamazing. Remember Kapil Dev holding aloft the Prudential World cup or Laxman -Dravid, staring at defeat in Calcutta, without a blink, and won the match for India after following on? Or for thatmatter “the coming of age moment of Indian Cricket” when Gangulyswung his shirt after the Natwest finals or Kumble in Australia saying that there is only one team that plays cricket in the right spirit or Dhoni smashing the six to lift the2011 World Cup? Dravid’s oration wasright up there among those moments which really make you proud to be an Indian. Among other things, Dravid rooted for day and night test matches.There’s a lot of excitement for this proposal from Dravid. All the Insomnia patients have welcomed this suggestion. Just have an early dinner, and watchJonathon Trott bat and by 9 pm, you’llbe sleeping like a baby. If you are a chronic Insomnia case, then 20 minutes ofShivnaraine Chanderpaul’s batting should make you sleep like a log. Rohit Sharma, and Ravinder Jadeja haveobjected to this as it may eat up into their pub timings and that they may haveto rely heavily on “happy hours”.

Munaf Patel would be the least affected. Even if he sleepwalks on thefield in the night matches, no one would notice it. He does the same in the day matches too andwe have called it his bowling run up.