Re: Kumble: Dus Numbri (No.10) Warhorse
Yorker
"Shiva IYER" <om.sr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ten seems to be a charmed number in sports
> No.10 Black Pearl King Pele
> No.10 Marad-hona-to-aisa Maradonna
> And the 10 wkt (1-test inning) haul against Pak by Kumble in 1999.
>
> Actually the word Warhorse that aptly fits Kumble is borrowed from
> baseball and here again the inspiration is number 10.
> In that epic MLB World Series of 1991, Jack Morris, as a grizzled 37
> year old ex-Detroit Tigers veteran gave an epic warhorse like
> performance in that heart stopping Atlanta Braves V Minnesota Twins
> Game-7 at the Metrodome, Minnesota. T
I knew the word Warhorse has been used even in the 80s many years before
Jack Morris won World Series for the Twins.
>hat was one heck of pitching.. a
> heart of solid iron... a warrior who refused to quit that night..and
> his beloved team the Twins from his own home state, clinched the game
> in the bottom of 10th with a flyer from the bat of pintch hitter Gene
> Larkin... I'll never forget that night as long as I live. Morris
> pitched high voltage nonstop for 10 innings and refused to listen to
> manager Tom Kelly when he came up to the mound with the intention to
> relieve Morris for the extra innings.. Morris then went on to win the
> MVP of that World Series and I can still picture him in my mind
> holding his two children in his arms post game.. .. the stuff of
> dreams....vow!!
>
> And again coming back to Kumble: another description ...
> He was many a time an engine dragging the 10 wagons of the rest of his
> faltering teammates heavily burdened with the freight of the
> expectations of an entire nation...
>
> I liken him to a blackened dusty diesel chugging tirelessly dragging a
> heavily laden freight train through the hot wastes of Rajasthan....
>
> And here I remember an old song from an old Manoj Kumar Bollywood
> starrer that fits Kumble aptly:
> "Ke Duniya Ek Numbari.. to mai Dus Numbari..."
>
> 3 cheers to Kumble
> Shiva IYER
> 101107
> Sarvam-Shri-Krishnaarpanam
>
Shiva IYER
>
> I knew the word Warhorse has been used even in the 80s many years before
> Jack Morris won World Series for the Twins.
>
Absolutely true.. the word warhorse is a very ancient word, but
for me personally, I got to hear it for the first time in a baseball
context and having listened to commentaries in other sports, I rarely
ever heard the word being used, esp in a cricket context.
And there are many players like Holding, Walsh, Warne, Kapil Dev,
McGrath that could easily fit in the mold of the Warhorse.
Regs
Shiva
131107
Sarvam Shri Krishnaarpanam