Nothing More Important Than Rohit Sharma Batting At No 5 : Mukul Kesavan

[sscomp32]

Classic Mukul Kesavan article about rohit.  

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And, of course, the ability to change a Test in a session (henceforth ATCATIAS). That gift can't be quantified and it can't be learnt. Kohli saw it at once. It's what separates plodders like Pujara from dashers like Sharma. Pujara can bat the whole side into a hole with his blocking; Sharma buoys up the team by breezing through the bowling. A batsman who has two double hundreds in ODIs is just a knock away from setting a Test on fire. Contrariwise Kohli is certain that a man who averages 10 in ODIs at a strike rate under 40 (as Pujara does) will never impose himself on the opposition...or change a Test in a session. As someone who was the best ODI batsman in the world well before he became a Test batsman to reckon with, the skipper knows that Sharma's Test match time will come.

http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/the-importance-of-being-rohit-sharma-at-no-5-1442987?site=full

[sscomp32]

Either rohit doesn't understand satire or he liked it too much to share on his FB page.  

 

[CG]

Lol.

[Texan]

50 minutes ago, sscomp32 said:

Either rohit doesn't understand satire or he liked it too much to share on his FB page.  

 

 He really shared this. Unbelievable 

[gakgupta]

Classic Mukul Kesavan article about rohit.  

And, of course, the ability to change a Test in a session (henceforth ATCATIAS). That gift can't be quantified and it can't be learnt. Kohli saw it at once. It's what separates plodders like Pujara from dashers like Sharma. Pujara can bat the whole side into a hole with his blocking; Sharma buoys up the team by breezing through the bowling. A batsman who has two double hundreds in ODIs is just a knock away from setting a Test on fire. Contrariwise Kohli is certain that a man who averages 10 in ODIs at a strike rate under 40 (as Pujara does) will never impose himself on the opposition...or change a Test in a session. As someone who was the best ODI batsman in the world well before he became a Test batsman to reckon with, the skipper knows that Sharma's Test match time will come.

http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/the-importance-of-being-rohit-sharma-at-no-5-1442987?site=full

Wonderful satire..... Or journalist doesnt know anything about cricket

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[Laaloo]

Is this a joke? lol

[Ankit_sharma03]

The whole article has gems-

1.  The argument from averages is meaningless because Pujara's average has been in secular decline. 

2. To watch Pujara bat, squinting and careworn, to watch him run between wickets on those dodgy knees, is to see age in action.

3.On the other hand, Sharma at the crease, flashing outside the off stump like a happy cavalier, is youthfulness personified.

4.  Even when he spills catches at slip, he spills them with the nonchalance of youth. Kohli wants team mates who'll be young at forty, not old at twenty eight. 

5.Vijay might be fit, but he is, at best, a defensive opening batsman, a grinder. His comfort with the longeurs of Test cricket has made him India's most reliable batsman against fast bowling but he lacks that certain something, that ATCATIAS that defines Sharma. 

6.They point to career averages, recent innings, even age to deny Sharma's promise. Thus the fact that Ashwin's batting average is better than Rohit's after playing twice as many Tests is seen by these literalists as an argument against Rohit's inclusion. It's pointless explaining to these dullards that specialist batsmen are icebergs, their visible scores mere glimpses of a massive submarine talent. Class, to coin a phrase, is permanent.

7.The other line of attack is even more intellectually embarrassing. Rohit Sharma doesn't deserve a place in this team because in his last four Test innings he scored 2, 23, 1 and 0. What these book keepers fail to grasp is that Test cricket at the highest level is a matter of essences, not numbers. 

8.That Sharma scratched about for 9 in the first innings is unimportant; the game-changing knock that Kohli is looking for will come. It'll come in the second innings of this Test or the next Test Sharma plays or the one after that. It must. It's inevitable because Rohit Sharma isn't just a player, he's an immanent Idea, whose time has come. 

 

Initially i thought this guy is mad but this epitome of sarcasm, what a satire

Brillantly written

Edited August 13, 2016 by Ankit_sharma03

[tweaker]

[urbestfriend]

hahahah....Did he really share this article on FB?

[Ankit_sharma03]

3 minutes ago, urbestfriend said:

hahahah....Did he really share this article on FB?

yup he did 

https://www.facebook.com/RohitSharmaOfficialPage/?fref=ts

 

who handles their fb offical accounts, m pretty sure he wont share something himself this article is writing poor about his team mates. Its clear he hasnt understood that this is a satire

Edited August 13, 2016 by Ankit_sharma03

[express bowling]

2 hours ago, sscomp32 said:

Either rohit doesn't understand satire or he liked it too much to share on his FB page.  

 

 

He  shared this on his FB page  !!!!           

 

He is now the official  Most Over-Rated Offensive batsmaN  in test matches.

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

3 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

He  shared this on his FB page  !!!!           

 

He is now the official  Most Over-Rated Offensive batsmaN  in test matches.

 

 

Another gem from the article - Good as Ashwin is, the fact that he has two hundreds and a fifty in three Tests doesn't mean that he has the technique or the temperament of a Specialist Batsman...that's what Sharma brings to No 5. 
 

 

M pretty sure after reading this he would have been blinded and not understood anything post it. 

[Mosher]

3 hours ago, sscomp32 said:

Either rohit doesn't understand satire or he liked it too much to share on his FB page.  

 

He really shared it? He probably has a social media manager who shared it and he needs to be fired  

[Mosher]

Ahmed Shehzad would have been proud of this. Well done Rohit.

[philcric]

10 minutes ago, Mosher said:

He probably has a social media manager who shared it and he needs to be fired  

Poor @maniac

 

Those 3 sixes by Rohit yesterday ....... ohhhh myyyy gawwddd .... so much action in such little time .... he had to post on the various forums, change his trousers multiple times, control his hysteria and euphoria, worry about his carpal tunnel syndrome (for reasons more than just typing) ... In all this activity he may have shared the article by reading just the headline (Nothing More Important Than Rohit Sharma Batting At No 5) 

 

[express bowling]

Posting on FB

 

Dear Saar kaa shame  hai       

[diga]

Jive at Five .... 

 

@maniac

[philcric]

Looks like it's not just the social media manager who doesn't get the satire.

 

Here are a few gems from the comments ..

 

know the Difference between TEST and T20 Before writing an ARTICLE.

 

Paid news by Rohit Sharma?

 

Looks like Rohit has paid the author to write the article (about him).

 

Rohit has been around for last 10 years and is still a starter. Its a very poor article. Bad decision by Kohli. Is the writer saying 1 great innings followed by 10 useless innings is ok. Pujara and vijay far better than rohit in test cricket.

 

Very poor article. Guess Rohit Sharms's PR agency is working hard to create a good image of ROHIT batting.

 

For all his literary and writing skills the author forgot to mention an important word. It's called "temperament". The real question is whether Sharma possesses that quality to dig in, put a price on his wicket and build an innings and in that process to slowly then unleash his natural batting skills which is how a test innings is usually played. 

 

I wish I have same chances in life as rohit sharma gets. And it seems the author favoring him too much even though he haven't scored any runs in test cricket. He can only play in flat pitches. And please stop prasing this looser

 

The article is real fiction !! There is no denying talent but he has been treated like a prince . Indias obsession with him and others in the past has hit many talented Young Players

 

Rohit Sharma will doesnt have a single qaulity to be a test batsman. Pujara is 100 times better than Rohit will ever be. paid article

 

Author must have got royalty from Mumbai Indians and ad-partner for Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma cant even match the class & technique of Murali Vijay & Pujara we knew it....dont fool around. Rohit is emerging player since debut....thanks to Sanjay Manjrekar & Ravi Shastri for over valuation of capabilities of him in particularly in Test cricket. Shikhar Dhawan & Rohit Sharma is most favoured player in Indian squad due to their connection with BCCI/IPL heavyweights and also Mumbai-Delhi lobby. Murali Vijay & Pujara are not from Mumbai & Delhi so they have to warm up benches. SIMPLE

 

Really Mukul - what a waste of an article

 

NDTV should refrain from publishing such nonsense.

 

 

[Temujin Khaghan]

mukul kesavan and ramachandra guha are big Pujara fans

i am certain both of them called Pujara as the "lion of Kathiwar" in separate articles..

pujara's fanbase is mostly intellectual elite :D

rohit sharma - mass fanbase and also backing from Ambanis/Mumbai quota

[sarcastic]

7 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

yup he did 

https://www.facebook.com/RohitSharmaOfficialPage/?fref=ts

 

who handles their fb offical accounts, m pretty sure he wont share something himself this article is writing poor about his team mates. Its clear he hasnt understood that this is a satire

 

6 hours ago, express bowling said:

Posting on FB

 

Dear Saar kaa shame  hai       

That facebook group is maintained by the fans of Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma knows that the group exists and had some videos for them in the past. It is the largest collection of all of his fans... So the twitter account is connected to it. It is no way posted by Rohit SHarma himself...

Edited August 13, 2016 by sarcastic