SEHWAG.......MY TAKE ON THE DASHER

THE MARAUDER WAS DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST....PULVERISE THE OPPOSITION INTO SUBMISSION.THIS WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THE PLUNDERING SPREES THIS SILENT SLAYER OFTEN EXECUTES. HE OF THE MULTAN MASSACRE AND THE CHENNAI CARNAGE.....THE ADELAIDE AUDACITY AND THE BLOEMFONTEIN BRUTALITY.AND THE JAT JAGGEDNESS.

AND IT IS THIS JAGGEDNESS THAT PROVIDES THE CEREAL FOR THE BREAKFAST OF HIS CRITICS.ELSE THEY WOULD BE STARVED TO DEATH.A MIND UNCLUTTERED FROM ANY OF THOSE SELF-AFFLICTING DOUBTS,WITH A THOUGHT PROCESS AS STRAIGHT AS YOU GET....................THATS SEHWAG FOR YOU.VIRENDRA SEHWAG.SAIIIWAG...AS THEY CALL HIM.

THE FACT IS THAT HE BELONGS TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE ..THE JATS......WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR SIMPLE THOUGHT PROCESS AND AN ALMOST VISCERAL LIKING FOR A FIGHT, AND A CHARACTERISTIC AGGRESSIVENESS HANDED DOWN BY GENERATIONS OF BRAVEHEARTS.YET THEY ARE EASY TO BEFRIEND AND ONCE THEY GEL WITH YOU LIFE SEEMS MUCH EASIER.THEY SAY WE JATS ARE LIKE A COCONUT...THE HARD COVER ENSURES ANY MONSTER WITH SINISTER INTENTIONS MEETS HIS FATE....BUT THE CORE IS SOFT...ALMOST.ITS NO SECRET THAT A JAT WILL HAVE NO MERCY WHEN HIS "OH SO FAMOUS" TEMPER RUNS RIOT.

BUT IT IS HERE THAT SEHWAG TAKES A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PATH....YOU NEVER SEE HIM LOSE HIS TEMPER.HE IS UBER COOL ....ALMOST STOICALLY INDIFFERENT TO PROVOCATIONS.THATS EXACTLY WHY HE SEEMS ALWAYS AT EASE WITH HIMSELF.ITS EVERY JAT'S DREAM TO HAVE A CONTROL ON HIS TEMPER...MINE TOO....AND IT REMAINS A DREAM FOR MOST OF US.WE ARE NOT CUT OUT FOR A LEVEL HEADEDNESS.THAT IS WHAT ULTIMATELY BECOMES OUR NEMESIS.

NOT IN SEHWAG'S CASE THOUGH.

AND THEN THAT ULTIMATE MARK OF A JAT...INSTINCTIVENESS.PERSONALLY,THIS IS WHAT DEFINES SEHWAG FOR ME.I ONCE THOUGHT I WAS THE MOST INSTINCTIVE PERSON AROUND...HAVING THRIVED WELL ON MY INSTINCTS....N THEN I SAW THIS GUY BAT...................I WAS FLOORED.HOW COULD HE BE SO VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT HE WANTED TO DO!!!!!!!THIS GUY STANDS AT THE CREASE AND DISPATCHES EVEN THE BEST OF BALLS WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST OF REGARDS.IT WAS NOT HUMANELY POSSIBLE TO POSSESS SUCH AUDACITY.AND YET THIS GUY HAD IT ALL IN HIM.I WAS MESMERIZED.WHEN HE TAKES THAT FRONT FOOT OUT OF THE WAY TO HAMMER IT OVER THE ROPES....YOU JUST CANT RESIST BEING A LITTLE NARROW MINDED AND FEEL A "RAJ THACKREY-ESQE" ELATION AT BEING A JAT.....IT JUST PUMPS ME UP.WHEN HE UNLEASHES THAT POWER LADEN FIERCE SQUARECUT...EVEN IN FRONT OF THE IDIOT BOX PEOPLE FEEL THE IMPACT.IT IS JUST SO CRUEL,SO BRUTAL.

A FUNNY IDIOT ON CRICINFO SAYS ""THIS GUY EATS MAN-EATING LIONS"".I DOUBT HIS BEING AN IDIOT....WHAT HE SAID IS WORTH A MILLION BUCKS.IF NOT MORE.

IT'S NO SURPRISE YOU FIND SEHWAG FRUSTRATING YOU TO YOUR WITS END WHEN HE GETS OUT AT 293.....BUT THATS THE ESSENCE OF HIS APPROACH...3 OR 9 OR 93 OR 193 OR 293......THEY ARE MERE NUMBERS...N FOR HIM NUMBERS DONT SPEAK.HIS BAT DOES.

ON A MORE PERSONAL NOTE,I TAKE THIS GUY AS AN ALTER-EGO......OR TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE......MY APPROACH TO LIFE RUNS PARALLEL TO HIS.......THE ONLY THING I LACK IS HIS CONTROL OF TEMPER.........N I KNOW I WILL NEVER MATCH HIM IN THAT RESPECT.SO I GOT TO EAT THE HUMBLE PIE.SEHWAG IS IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE ALTOGETHER.

AND BY THE WAY SEHWAG DOES NOT EAT "MAN EATING LIONS""!!!!!!WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE SECRET HIS ANSWER WAS---ITS BECAUSE OF THE QUANTITY OF MILK I DRANK WHEN I WAS PREPARING FOR MY CAREER IN CRICKET.

HAIL SEHWAG!!!!!!HAIL THE JAT COMMUNITY!!!!!HAIL INDIA!!!!!!!!