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Book Title: Myth-Busting Indian Cricket Behind the Headlines
Author: Gulu Ezekiel
Rohit Mahajan
Viv Richards, probably the most fearsome destructor of bowlers, trusted God to protect his head from the hard red ball hurled at him by fast bowlers. In an interview in 2013, he talked about playing for his team, West Indies, in nearly spiritual tones: “I don’t think I would have done that cap any justice if I had anything else on the head… I felt God will protect me from whatever I was facing out in the middle.”
It seems that Richards didn’t trust God and his cap completely at least not when he was donning the cap of a team in Australia or England. Gulu Ezekiel writes that the great West Indian occasionally did come to the conclusion that, just in case God decided to forsake him, a helmet might be useful to protect his skull.
March 10, 2021
The first month in high school can often be unnerving and discomfiting in a new environment. As a six-year-old stepping into Mumbai’s Campion School in January 1971, I was worried about being bullied by seniors and being away from home all day. I needn’t have bothered. Barely a month into school, I was being feted in the morning school assembly. It had nothing to do with any sporting or academic achievements on my part. My father, the late Dilip Sardesai, had in February 1971 just become the first Indian to score an overseas double century and everyone in school suddenly seemed to know that the scrawny little boy in class one was the “son of Sardesai.” It was a calling card that I have had to live with for much of my life, especially in cricketing circles.
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