coffee_rules Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 http://www.cricketcountry.com/cricket-articles/Breaking-News-West-Indies-captain-Darren-Sammy-is-a-Tamil-Brahmin-/8928 West Indian skipper, Darren Sammy, is not of Afro-Carribean ethnicity as is widely believed but a pucca Tam Brahm! This stunning revelation came to the fore after the cricketer was spotted performing Sandhya Vandanam in the wee hours of dawn in his 5 star hotel before the team headed out for net practice. Darren Sammy, or more accurately Muralidharan Swamy (the name was anglicised after most West Indians found it impossible to pronounce the original South Indian monicker) hails from an orthodox Iyer family, the Swamys, who incidentally are distantly related to Janata Party President, Dr. Subramanian Swamy. The West Indian all-rounder spent his formative years in ChennaiÃÔ Mylapore before migrating to the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia in pursuit of his dream of becoming a pace bowler. Ŧven as a school-going kid, Swamy was rather different from his Padma Seshadri classmates, disclosed Ambi mama, SammyÃÔ maternal uncle. Ÿhile his fellow Iyer cousins reveled in solving Quantum Mechanics wave equations, cracking Mathematics Olympiad problems or listening to Carnatic music, SwamyÃÔ attention used to frequently drift through the window onto the neighbouring street where little urchins played cricket with a rubber ball. Swamy would often bunk his classes and join them. And to add to his parents consternation, Sammy idolised the fearsome West Indian pace battery of the ?0s rather than IndiaÃÔ legendary spin quartet comprising Bishan Bedi, EAS Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and S Venkataraghavan. Matters came to a head after the Tenth Board exams, when SammyÃÔ dad, Varun Swamy, asked him to Ã…Ãive up to the familyÃÔ scholastic tradition by getting into IIT. So the budding cricketer, very much against his wishes, was forced to attend three-hour long classes for IIT-JEE in T-NagarÃÔ Satyamurthy school. Sammy rebelled. With support from Ambi mama, Sammy found the courage to go against his parents wishes and migrated to the Caribbean where his cricketing talent blossomed after he was selected to play for St. Lucia in the Red Stripe Bowl. Within a few years, he earned his West Indies cap. Å¢iyyo, how much I told Murali to take up chess as a hobby after getting into a top Engineering college. But no use, he only wanted to play cricket, chae, wistfully recalled MuraliÃÔ dad, Mr. Varun Swamy, who still entertains hopes that DarrenMuralidharan will chuck his cricketing career and enroll for an engineering seat from Guindy Engineering College, his cousin Karthik AiyerÃÔ alma mater. Sammy is still very much in touch with his roots though. Å´wamy regularly does Sandhyavandanam, strictly avoids non-vegetarian food, including eggs, and absolutely loves curd rice. Why, just two months back he asked me to courier a new poonal, said Ambi mama, with a touch of unmistakable pride. However, Ambi mamaÃÔ only gripe is that Sammy chose fast bowling instead of the more cerebrally challenging art of spin bowling. Ã…*ook at Ravichandran Ashwin. He chose a trade where his natural Iyer intelligence will invariably enable him to shine. I donÃÕ know, but sometimes I feel fast bowling is a little..er.. un-Brahminical, frowned Ambi mama. Tam Brahms in general have welcomed the news that Darren Sammy is one of their own. Former Union Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, while criticising The Unreal Times for this blatantly casteist article, remarked in a soft voice, Å´ammy should suffix êyer to his name so that people donÃÕ misplace his ethnic identity. He had even me confused there. (Reproduced with permission from http://www.theunrealtimes.com/. The UnReal Times is one of the top websites for satire, spoof, parody and humour in India) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 this is a joke, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganeshran Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Darren Swamy :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSK Fan Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Northie Dhoni > Southie Sami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovish Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Are you serious ???? Love is eternal - Albus dumbledore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (Reproduced with permission from http://www.theunrealtimes.com/. The UnReal Times is one of the top websites for satire, spoof, parody and humour in India) this is a joke' date=' right?[/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshayxyz Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I see - I just saw the picture - which looked 100% morphed and didn't bother to read the article. Nice that they put the spoiler at the end of article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Lol. Padma Seshadri FTW! :icflove: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav92 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Darren Chamy? :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Srikkanth after getting to know about this , announced him as a replacement of Zak/Ishant for Aus tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav92 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karan114 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagalpanti Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D You preeeck :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganeshran Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 soooper mama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 That explains why he's a trundler & not a fast bowler :--D :fail: no Tam Bram Trundlers in the history of Indian cricket, except one guy named TA Shekar, who was resonably Phaast I believe and is now coaching Trundlers at MRF. :hahaha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Sekhar Sekhar was one of the fastest bowlers in India in the early eighties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 :fail: no Tam Bram Trundlers in the history of Indian cricket, except one guy named TA Shekar, who was resonably Phaast I believe and is now coaching Trundlers at MRF. :hahaha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Sekhar :facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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