Thursday 5 November 2009

REVEALED: Ponting was King Pyrrhus in previous birth!


Was he Al Capone, a gangster beneath his Canary Yellow who frequented speakeasies and patronized moonshining?

Or was he Idi Amin, the self-anointed CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire) even though he lost Ashes?

High possibilities though these maybe, allow me to let the cat out of the bag and tell you that Ricky Ponting was King Pyrrhus in his previous life!

A little explanation would render it less outrageous.

Well, when you are a second cousin of Alexander the Great, you can’t help winning wars. It just happens.

But then Pyrrhus was not Alexander but his cousin, and second one at that. He won the Battle of Asculum alright but it was such a cliffhanger that cost him irreparable damage.

The poor guy was left to mutter that one more such victory would completely undo him. And unscrupulous phrase-coiners minted money out of his predicament, terming it ‘Pyrrhic victory’.

Now sample this.

Ponting won Vadodara but lost Brett Lee.

He won Mohali too and Peter Siddle and Moises Henriques fell by the wayside.

Had you been a particular insect of the Diptera order on the wall of the Oz dressing room, you could have eavesdropped Punter grumbling to someone “One more such victory and mate, I’d be undone.”

(P.S. Staying with the reincarnation theme, read why Tendulkar is actually Einstein re-born).

Pix: Getty Images

7 comments:

straight point said...
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straight point said...

brilliantly som!

i bet you to come up with any angle and do justice to it...

i hope india care for his predicament and 'undo' him by winning...

Som said...

SP, thanks for the encouragement, as always but a look at my geometry marks would convince you I was never good with angles:)

scorpicity said...

Been reading the chronicles of Alexander eh?

Som said...

Scorpicity, history repeats itself, was revisiting history:)

muebles online said...

It won't really have effect, I think this way.

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