Copying Tendulkar in air-cricket
Barney Ronay, in the Guardian , pays a unique tribute to Sachin Tendulkar - copying his signature wristy flick for a strike-rotating single while playing air-cricket, with an imaginary bat and ball.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Barney Ronay, in the Guardian, pays a unique tribute to Sachin Tendulkar - copying his signature wristy flick for a strike-rotating single while playing air-cricket, with an imaginary bat and ball.
Air-cricket is instinctive: I have a friend who finds himself automatically playing a perfect, straight-bat air-defensive on entering any crowded room. Plus, you can only ever really play air-cricket shots that have "belonged" to cricketers you have loved. I still have a pirouetting Alec Stewart air-pull. Plus, brilliantly, I now have an air Tendulkar. It's a signature shot too, the wristy flick to leg for a strike-rotating single. Hand me an umbrella. Give me a wooden spoon. This is what you'll get. I have no higher form of praise.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo