There was something magical, about Farokh Maneksha Engineer. Picture this. His handsome face, his Brylcream-dotted mane, his aristocratic, yet well-grounded face, his conspicuous sideburns, the walk with great aplomb, the riveting style he embraced, the transcendent poise he echoed, the commitment, flair and flamboyance with which he draped his electrifying batsmanship, juxtaposed by his exciting wicket-keeping abilities. To top it all, Engineer had a sublime sense of cricketing intelligence — which was, paradoxically, masked by the debonair-centric, swashbuckling charisma of his external personality.
The ancient Greeks postulated that the atom was the fundamental building block of reality. Other thinkers refuted that such a reality was infinitely divisible, or continuous. Although neither school of philosophy could prove its premise, Farokh, cricket’s first Engineer, believed that the two viewpoints couldn’t be right. He reckoned that the nature of his cricketing talent couldn’t have the smallest part and yet not have just one element — a possibility that began to assert itself in the sciences in the 20th century. This is now referred to as wave-particle duality.
Wave-Particle Effect
For anyone who watched Engineer bat, it would have been far too simplistic to appreciate his fine wisdom, or scale, of wave-particle duality — one that unravelled each concept, wave and particle, not just philosophically, but also scientifically in the cricketing sense. In other words, Engineer’s cricket existed in its own right — even if one were to filch it, with wily chicanery, it would still be there. This was primarily because Engineer’s cricket had a precise location and well-defined frontiers. Most importantly, when thinking of particles, Engineer’s batting and wicket-keeping attributes reflexively coalesced material and spiritual entities. This wasn’t all. Particles have mass; they are physical things and Engineer’s cricket had them in full measure — with a heightened sense of physiological, functional, or kinetic vitality.
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