Sunday, January 15, 2006

Cricket Panchabhartruka (Cricket's Five Husbands)

Yeshhh... I dont have anything to do today. Such state generally results in some wierd thoughts flying wild.

Draupadi in here prior birth penances and Lord Sankara appears before her. I dont remember her name in her earlier janm. But thats unimportant. She asks Sankara to give her a husband who is an epitome of righteousness (Dharmam), strength (balam), valour (veeratvam), beauty (saundaryam) and patience (sahanam). Sankara ponders for a while and expresses his inability to create such an individual, and saying that he himself doesn't possess all such qualities. However, he further adds that her boon can materialise in her next birth if she can make certain concessions - to which she heartily accepts. But poor Draupadi, the meaning of the word concession dawned on her much later when she ended up with five husbands, each personified individually with each one of above qualities.

Today morning, watching Dravid and Sehwag take Pakistani attack to the dogs, I was wondering if the above five qualities were present in our Indian team itself. Except that the word beauty is replaced by a more contemporary - Glamour.

Righteousness: Anil Kumble (never was his name included in any of the controversies)
Strength: Dhoni (any doubts?)
Valour: Virendra Sehwag
Patience: Rahul Dravid (any doubts here too?)
Glamour: Yuvraj Singh

Strangely, as you may have noticed, Sachin isn't in any of them. But just let me remind you he is second in all the aspects except Glamour. So he aint that bad. Just that there is at least one person to elbow him out in each cateogory.

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