A brace of Nostradamus’ predictions — albeit the maverick seer did not have a ghost of an idea about cricket — that had evaded the compass and radar of most Nostradamus scholars, or specialists, has just been ‘revealed.’ They detail, with veiled dexterity, certain effusive ‘gems,’ that were lost in antiquity, while presaging the classy virtuosity of contemporary cricket’s most exciting batting machine.Here’s one covert ‘maxim:’
Up from the North
Therefrom will arrive a fella
What he’ll have in his magic hands is a tow-coloured willow
A simple wooden blade with a patch of strange alphabets on it
A club that launches a thousand endorsements
This super-fit bloke will be a hard nut to crack
Just as he whacks the red, white, or coloured cherry whizzing to a patch of land
Beyond the ropes
Well, no other human can dictate terms to him when he’s in the zone
And, when he is out of sorts
Or, the rarest of rare lean trots, which is part and parcel of every great batsman’s career in any era, or epoch
Everybody’s upset.
So, there it is — the best there is to the ‘prophetic’ scrolls. Picture this. You know his identity. Yes, he’s none other than Virat ‘King’ Kohli — the run-machine that eloquently carries India’s batting arsenal, and hope, in Tests, one-day and T20 cricket.
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