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Thoughts of Navjyot Singh Sidhu (Skillful Cricket Commentator):
1. After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
2. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
3. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
4. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
5 . Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
6. Crowd's gathered outside my home at 3am, and my wife was so worried she called the police, but it was simply jubilant fans congratulating her for marrying a national hero.
7. Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
8. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
9 .He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
10 . I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
11. I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
12. If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
13 . It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
14 . Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
15. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
16 . One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
17 .The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
18 . The cat with gloves catches no mice.
19 . The gap between the bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it!
20 . The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
21 . The third umpires should be changed as often as nappie
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| Author: RBR Sarma 18 Oct 2007 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 5 |
Hi Arun,
Sidhu used to open the innings for India when he was wearing the national colours as a player.
He was a dashing batsman, played many explosive innings, and, on the whole, was moderately successful as a batsman.
He was, truth be told, an unmitigated disaster as a fielder.
The prize for the most awkward fielder had no other claimants so long as Sidhu was in the team.
After he hung up his boots as a player, he reinvented himself as a cricket commentator.
His commentaries used to be marked by overwhelming zest, abundant emotion, unstoppable eloquence and demonstrative gesticulations.
Once he shared the information with the viewers that he was a student of English literature.
There used to be a lot of punchlines in his commentary.
I am glad that you had collected some of them and presented in this forum.
Sidhu was never afraid of criticizing anyone, be they players or be they cricket administrators.
Cricket managers of our country were the favourite whipping boys for Sidhu.
He had an acerbic tongue and it never failed to bite his intended victim.
However, over a period of time, his one-liners started to lose the sting.
The repetitions began to turn stale.
The bandying about of the same aphorisms started robbing his commentaries of the trademark punch which he used to deliver earlier.
Besides, on many an occasion over TV, he was found wanting in adhering to the etiquette expected of a panelist or a guest speaker. He was trying, and succeeding most of the times, to hog not only the limelight for himself at the expense of others, but also the time by defying the attempted moderation of the anchor and refusing to yield the microphone to the other speakers.
This behaviour was found to be in bad taste.
He did make a mark as an enthusiastic commentator just as a he did serve the country as a national player.
But, time is a relentless pursuer and catches up with everyone.
Perhaps, it is time for our Sidhu too to call it a day as a commentator, and walk gracefully into the sunset.
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