Saturday, 5 December 2009

Sehwag: The Dream

Further to the post below, another measure of greatness could be the degree to which it penetrates the subconscious. Last night I dreamed about Virender Sehwag. We were at the top of a very high green hill, which opened out onto a spectacular valley, me, Virender and another nameless cricketer. Viru was dressed in his whites and still had his blue headband on. 

For some reason, we had to get to the bottom of the hill. It was wet and had deep, muddy furrows in it, but Sehwag said, 'come on' and simply ran through the furrows like a mountain goat. At the bottom, with the skyscrapers of a distant city before us, I found some cards of the kind kids are meant to collect. Imbedded in each was a bit of footage of Sehwag playing a shot. The one I looked at was filmed from behind a net, and Viru came down the wicket and smashed the ball hard at the camera. 

The dream ended there, argument settled...

NB: Thanks to Jrod in the comments on the post below for pointing out that the Don got six runs closer than Sehwag to the three triple centuries. But then they couldn't field in those days. Have amended the post. 

2 comments:

Brian Carpenter said...

You've really got it bad, haven't you, OB?

Couldn't agree more with the earlier post, though - a great batsman, and all the more great for the things which distinguish him from so many others - lack of conventional footwork, headlong speed of scoring, and so on and so on.

Brit said...

QED, OB. I've always said that far too few cricket debates are settled by reference to one's dreams. Did I ever tell you that one I had about Derek Pringle and the celery?