Sehwag is too fat!!!!!

Don't kill me if you don't like the title. Actually I'd written an article when the T20 World Cup was at its feverish best. Though it's a little misplaced in today's context (India is playing a test match with Sri Lanka..moreover Sehwag has hit a swashbuckling century and still going strong!!!!), but just wanted to portray the perception the two sexes have on cricket, or rather on the gentlemen (if they can called so) playing the game. So here goes....


Sehwag is too fat!!!!!

"RP Singh actually is very handsome!!!"…."Bret Lee should be the Lead India campaigner!!!"…"You know what? Yuvi is single again!!!!"…..
Are you still wondering what’s going on? Well, it is the post-match discussion amongst the pundits of cricket, Gavaskar, Shastri and Bhogle. Ok…Ok….no more running around the bush. The above aphorisms are actually the signal that the mail bastion has been intruded, not by the aliens from Mars, but by the fairer sex from the Venus.
The other day, I overheard a conversation between two females that Virender Sehwag should be dropped from the team because he is too fat!!! Wow…. I was shocked, not because of where the statement came from, but because of the reason pointed out for cutting short poor Sehwag’s career.
But, to be very frank the latest avatar of the game, T20 has done a world of good for the coffee table discussions in the offices (and elsewhere :)). Earlier, the only common interest between the two sexes was "movies"; but that is passé, cricket is the in-thing now.
The T20 format has done to cricket what even Mandira Bedi had failed to do. To enable the male population to watch and enjoy cricket peacefully at home, without the nagging comments like ‘half an hour to go for the saas-bahu serial’, ‘have u paid the electricity bill’ or the most irritating one ‘how can you watch these 22 men for the whole day?!?’
If you are thinking, there are no side-effects to this phenomenon, beware. I asked one of my friends (female :)) to accompany me for a movie some days back. Very nonchalantly she replied, ‘Aren’t you watching the match tonight?’ Then I realized these new entrants into the fold of cricket euphoria are here to stay.
T20, I believe is a great concept as it infuses the much needed glamour quotient into the sport. So move away purists, the young brigade likes to keep it short!!!!!!