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THE RAHUL DRAVID CONCESSION Manu Joseph on the new Nehruvians and the Indian disdain for flair

The question was: “Why are you – one of the risk of being shamed, or disgraced, for most famous Indians ever, a global celebrity the small chance that a remarkable truth with vast romantic prospects – marrying a is spoken? Or is an unusual question a girl whom your parents have picked?” stunt performed in the shadow of a superstar? What did the young reporter I was 21, and it was the first question of expect Anand to say? “Like most Indian my life in a press conference. It was an men, I totally trust my parents to find me inauspicious start. The year was 1996 and a pure woman”? That would have been the question was put to chess grandmaster illuminating. So what is the objective of Vishwanathan Anand, whose arranged an indecent question? All of the above. marriage had been announced a few weeks earlier. For reasons I still do not Seven years later, Rahul Dravid, who know, his father was seated beside him at had dated women, entered into an the press conference, which concerned arranged marriage. I have not had a lecture Anand was to deliver. And it the opportunity to put the indecent was his father who answered: “It is an question to him. Between Anand’s inappropriate question.” marriage, when Altavista and AskJeeves were popular search engines, and Obviously. So? That a question should Dravid’s, when Google’s domination have an answer is not a requirement of was complete, had transformed. human communication, and certainly The urban youth were in the sway not the reason why it is asked. What, of the internet. Most urban Indians then, is the objective of a public had a mobile phone. But something question? Is it, as questions often are, about the new Indian middle-class an opinion masquerading as inquiry? Or male had not changed. A meaning of an act of altruism – a person takes the Dravid’s arranged marriage is this: in Anthony McGowan THE NIGHTWATCHMAN

a society where the state is useless and appeared to respect him more Dravid hypothesis – a path to greatness eye. He straightened the duvet, tugging and unreliable, the family is crucial, the than . exists. Not for a moment could Sachin at it till it was symmetrical on each side.” family is the state, hence an individual Tendulkar or Brian Lara convey that. They, concedes some liberties to the family Chappell’s infatuation is in line with the in fact, reminded the world that greatness Wood’s description of Chaudhuri’s work out of necessity or in gratitude. It is concessions that cricket’s intellectuals was unattainable to most people. Dravid as a “refutation of the spectacular” tradition, and tradition often is the usually make in the analysis of Dravid. The was the prophet, never the god. is filled with meaning for a reason graceful kimono of practicality. only batsman who was called “The Wall” is that some of the fans and foes of the one who holds the record for having His devotees then were and are Rahul Dravid would have immediately But that is not the meaning of Rahul been bowled the highest number of times the everymen, and those who had understood. Wood has borrowed the Dravid. Rahul Dravid, as sculpted in the history of , over 20 per contempt for him were usually the expression from Chaudhuri himself, in Indian public imagination by his cent of all his dismissals. Among batsmen spectacular and the stylish in their own who wrote this in a column in 2005: elite observers, was not an adorable who have played over 175 Test innings, spheres of work who believed they had “When [Satyajit] Ray speaks of ‘life’ and apology for tradition and the right of only four were more likely than him to be the genius in them. It is a view that riles the ‘raw material’ of life, he is speaking Indian parents to decide whom their dismissed in this manner. Not such a wall his fans, naturally – to be told that they of a refutation of the spectacular that son would marry. He was and remains after all, but an enduring beneficiary of love him because they, too, are ordinary. comprises the exotic, in favour of a symbol of change, modernity, urbane language. His inelegance, which he has But ordinariness is not a deformity, it is the mundane, the everyday, and the sophistication and erudition. The crucial always gracefully accepted, is consecrated a majority condition, the natural state transfiguration of the mundane.” question is not what he really is, but how as “determination”. His circumspection of the world. Genius is the anomaly. his glorious statue came about. And is feted as though he ever had a choice Sport, at its peaks, is a measure of Chaudhuri and Wood appear to see a why, no matter what he did or what he between flamboyance and caution. profitable anomalies. The rest of it is an distinction between “unspectacular” turned out to be, the master sculptors equal contest between the ordinary. In and a “refutation of the spectacular”. of public opinion around the world The most unremarkable description of its ability to move people, the idea of Seen in context, Wood’s use of the word persisted with a beloved notion of him. Rahul Dravid is that he had talent. Of the “ordinary” is underestimated. “spectacular” does not mean “exotic” course he had. Once, during the 2003 (Rushdie) alone, but also everything that In 2011, released his World Cup in South Africa, I asked him The literary critic James Wood, in a New “spectacular” means (Marquez, McEwan, memoirs, Fierce Focus, which included in the course of a brief interview that Yorker review of Amit Chaudhuri’s novel Morakami). And the word “refutation” an account of his torturous stint as India’s he had granted out of compassion for Odysseus Abroad, wrote that Chaudhuri includes the sense of “rejection”. When coach. (What use misery if it cannot be a persistent reporter, whether he was “has beautifully practised” the Wood writes that Chaudhuri’s body of published one day?) In the book, Chappell working on his -keeping skills to “refutation of the spectacular”. Wood work is a “refutation of the spectacular”, presents his view of , the ensure his place in the one-day side. He goes on to say that “Chaudhuri casts does he presume that Chaudhuri is Indian at the time when Chappell said it was an “unfair” question. He said he a lingering eye on London in the mid- capable of the spectacular and has was appointed coach: “His problem was would find a place purely on the strength 1980s. Nothing very much ‘happens’ in chosen never to indulge in the inferior art? common in India, where the cultural of his batting. Many would agree with him. the course of its 200-odd pages; the It is an important question, and it can be upbringing of such young stars had it book seems almost to relax itself into asked in various forms to all of literature that parents, teachers, coaches and other There was also much that he brought real time.” and Test cricket. If Chaudhuri is capable of mentors, managers and even sponsors, through his sense of ethics and decency the spectacular, then there is no evidence would make their decisions for them.” and his ambassadorial articulation, which Odysseus Abroad thus is a literary to suggest that because he has only was indeed superior to that of most version of a Dravid innings. It opens “practised” the refutation. If Chaudhuri is Dravid is not a part of this severe Indian cricketers. But on the high table with these lines: “He got up at around not capable of the spectacular, then the portrait. Chappell does not pause to of talent, Rahul Dravid was an everyman. nine o’clock with the usual feeling of “refutation” is a spectacular description wonder if Dravid too – whose “cultural That was, in reality, his charm among a dread. He threw off the duvet. Still of a mere necessity. upbringing” had allowed his parents to class of his admirers. Dravid reminded unused to being vertical, he pounded choose his wife – might be letting all them that superstardom is not the the pillow and the sheet to ensure he’d The lovers of Rahul Dravid, too, kinds of people make decisions for him. preserve of unattainable genius alone, dislodged strands of hair as well as the credit him with the “refutation of the In fact, Chappell had only praise for and that there was a way a normal man micro-organisms that subsisted on such spectacular”. They say he used to play Dravid, for his “skill” and “leadership”, can achieve. That was the unspoken surfaces but were invisible to the naked Test cricket the way it was meant to be

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played – without the exoticism of risk. the others. He held the fort for the as a reported fact, but as an opinion of the years about the intellectual inferiority In their view, the spectacular, violent greater artists to thrive. And in his quiet the editors, and of writers from good of Tendulkar and the wisdom of Dravid. batsmen, like , were endurance he animated the art of the stock who wrote what is known as long unsophisticated and their place in history most ferocious and cunning bowlers of form. What they saw in Dravid was an A few years ago, the Nehruvians were is as entertainers of the unsophisticated his time. Canvas, then, as art? Maybe. athlete who had attended an English- shocked when it was revealed that Sehwag masses. Even the genius of Sachin medium school and had gone to college; had no idea who the cricket legend Polly Tendulkar was suspect before the If Rahul Dravid were a literary novel, if he was articulate in English and he would Umrigar was. Actually, not many in India slow long-form of Dravid. In any case, he were a subjective art instead of the discuss the fine points of the game – seem to know him. In 2002, Umrigar went spectacular innings in Tests were rare. objective measurable art (which an unlike, say, from to the in to Most of the time the flamboyant and athlete is), he would have found greater another time, whose only stated analysis watch a match without the proper pass the majestic were conquered, they paid acclaim. In an ideal world the greatness of of cricket was: “Boys played well.” and he was turned away by a cop at what the price for not being Rahul Dravid. a novel would lie within its pages, but that was, in fact, the gate. But Hence they were unreliable, unlike is not how the world works. The fate of This was also the reason why Greg the Nehruvians could not comprehend the Dravid who was “Mr Dependable”. The a novel lies in the prejudices and frailties Chappell found a connection with Dravid. ignorance of a cricketer, a Test cricketer. unsaid supposition was that Dravid was of the cultural elite. It is they who make It was a warmth that Chappell extended Didn’t history matter at all? Didn’t what capable of the spectacular but he chose a novel great. And Dravid was always the to (who was somewhat the Nehruvians knew matter at all? Is it the dignity of circumspection. beloved of a class of Indian sophisticates posh too) and to no one else. There is enough to just score two triple-centuries – the new Nehruvians, who saw in him a moment that Chappell describes in in Tests? Shouldn’t a cricketer know his But there was a day when Dravid came the triumph of one of their own. It was a Fierce Focus: “Once in South Africa, I history? What kind of semi-literates were out to bat, angry and determined to be misconception but it has done its deed. called in Sachin and Sehwag to ask more entering the national team? One can see marvellous. It was in the course of a one- of them, and I could tell by the look on how comforting it must have been for day series in South Africa. Abused for The world of the Nehruvians is, to their faces that they were affronted.” them just to look at Dravid. weeks in the media for being slow, he borrow an expression from the writer Dravid then becomes the Australian’s decided to become a flashy beast. Allan JM Coetzee, “framed in English”. They cultural interpreter: “Later, Dravid, who Everything that mattered to them Donald came steaming in. Dravid went are mostly Indians. Once, they were the was in the room, said, ‘Greg, they’ve seemed to matter to him, or that was on the front foot and hit him for a six over old money, the socialists and Marxists, never been spoken to like that before.’” the impression Dravid gave. Sehwag, on mid on. Some of us in the room burst out but now they are much more than that. the other hand, stood for the irrelevance laughing. It was not joy, it was laughter They are still the primary patrons of There is something outrageous about of intellectuality. In the process, often at a sudden comical moment. He had hit fine arts and they engage deeply with the scene. Tendulkar and Sehwag – he said the cleverest things. Once he several sixes before, but that shot was by the intellectual exports of dominant one a genius and the other who has told in Hindi: “When you a blind man. It was an unnatural act. He cultures. They read, they write, chiefly in scored two triple-centuries, but both guys talk about cricket it seems very was not made for it. This is precisely the English. They have long been irrelevant vernaculars – pulled up by an Australian difficult. But it is not so hard when you reason why some of his admirers see him to politics and commercial cinema, and coach in front of the urbane Dravid, are batting in the middle.” as art – because he was not entertaining. now to cricket, as rising opportunities who later makes an anthropological It is a spurious argument. in small towns have transformed the observation in English. The Nehruvians celebrated all that they nature of national players. But they have could about Dravid – his “refutation But there is another way to look at a disproportionate voice in the media. Noted Indian sportswriter KN Prabhu once of the spectacular”, his articulation, Dravid as art. Millions saw themselves told me that Tendulkar would have been a his reading, and the fact that when he in him, the struggling underdog with In a typical Indian newsroom there is a better batsman if he had been educated, toured Pakistan he had the curiosity to limited skills, modest techniques caste system – the reporter is usually, by which he meant if he had gone to visit the relics of Harappan civilisation. compensated by laborious training, though not always, from a provincial or college. If Tendulkar had been educated, an ordinary man passing through lower-middle-class background, who Prabhu told me, he would have had the The Nehruvians built The Wall in their moments of survival and triumph, his sends money to his mother and whose intelligence to carry a lighter bat. I have own image. And that was why Dravid head always held high. Beauty is not English copy has to rehabilitated by the heard similar views numerous times over was not, in reality, The Wall. all there is to a moment. Also, Dravid editors, who are usually the Nehruvians. is art because he sustained the art of The greatness of Dravid did not emerge • • •

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CHRIS FAUSKE delay between the ball’s release and A Sint Maartener, a Leeward Islander, moving his eyes to where he calculated Dutchman, and West Indian, Martina’s it would bounce.” So Bradman was decisions have to be, he says, “just likely assimilating the coordination and what works for me.” Which might sum capacity to quickly sight, judge, hit and up the core of the problem for the control a moving ball better than any West Indies, comprising players with no player before or since. option but to look out for themselves in the absence of a development system • • • that makes sense.

TIM NOAKES • • • EXTRACTS Perhaps the ultimate importance of Tony Shillinglaw’s book is that, besides JON HOTTEN showing how and why Bradman batted ANTHONY MCGOWAN reach beneath a sink in Mazabuka. The Shillinglaw is a small man but lithe, and as he did, he has posed the larger I still liked to open the batting, but fastest man to 8,000 Test runs makes he moves with the ease and economy of question: why is the rotary action the rather than flay a quick 40, I was now his way off a train in Singapore, his the natural athlete. It’s hard to believe, best batting method yet discovered? labouring over a slow 12. On my good footwork light as he steps through the watching him, that he is 76 years old. What is it about our biology that days. And the bad days…? Well, last afternoon crush. None of them spares As he bats, he talks unceasingly about means humans find it more effective season my first four innings were 0, a thought for cricket. They barely know what he is doing and why he is doing it. to strike a fast-travelling ball with a bat 3, 0 and 0. The last two were golden it exists. His voice is punctuated by the thump by using a rotary action rather than ducks – the first I’d ever had. And they of the tennis ball on the wall. He stops the traditionally coached “orthodox” were both from the first ball of the quite suddenly, picks up a set of yellow method? I think he has uncovered the • • • match. Diamond ducks, I think they plastic stumps and invites us to bowl truth for he writes that the real key may be called. After the second of at him using the variety of balls in the to this method is that it produces a these – a high full toss I’d generously TANYA ALDRED bucket. He cuts and pulls and drives at coordinated movement of arms and scooped up into the astonished hands We love this ability not to be hurried by all of them, the tiny rubber balls flying legs (and therefore feet) that becomes of cover point – I silently walked off the clock, to fly in the face of modern away, the golf ball skittering across the automatic, essentially instinctive. the pitch and, without pausing, out of living, perhaps because cricket, or hard floor. The blue plastic bat makes the ground (which was next to Virginia at least first-class cricket, is so very a hollow thud every time he connects. • • • Woolf’s house in the country), and generous to spectators in its tempo. tried to find a stream in which to drown A day watching cricket, if it gives you • • • myself. Only the natural buoyancy of nothing else, gives you time. Time for SUPRIYA NAIR my pads saved me. a coffee, time for the paper, time for a In the mind’s eye, the Dhoni movie quick circumnavigation of the ground, TONY SHILLINGLAW unfolds as a series of thrilling moments: time to talk, to doze, with hours still The true significance of Bradman’s the overnight car chase to catch up • • • left to concentrate on the game. There unique form of development and the with a zonal team that selected him for is time to hear the rhythm of the training of his exceptional hand–eye its squad but had left GEOFF LEMON passing traffic, to feel the change in the coordination is highlighted by Sussex him behind; the heroic set of the young Down in Havana, a World Cup-winning temperature once the sun goes behind University Researcher Professor Michael Dhoni’s jaw as he trains alone in a bowler locks the door of her car and the West Stand, to smell how the air Land, who was testing how batsmen stadium in Kharagpur, a Batman whose walks into the practice nets. She cracks changes once September arrives. react to the ball: “I think batsmen will secret nobody else must know; the her knuckles before wrapping them be horrified to hear that they take their gunslinger squint of the eyes before he around a baseball. A three-format eyes off the ball. It certainly surprised us, performs his first ; and Botswanan wicket-keeper crouches to and the best batsmen have the shortest hordes of women chasing him, since

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art must imitate life. I’ve chased him for this 10-year-old. The trouble JOE WILSON suggest it has something added or myself, and am available to consult on was, no one had any advice if your “It was the loudest thing I’d ever heard. I something taken away. Hence, the the nuances of the operation. sporting hero was left-handed and was 100 per cent sure a bomb had gone Gillette Fusion razor (five blades? you were incontrovertibly, irritatingly off, because it rocked our building. I When will this madness end?) Hence right-handed. Months of trying to remember panicking because we were the bagless vacuum cleaner. Hence • • • bowl left-arm led only to frustration about four floors up, thinking, how are England have not only been playing and family acrimony in back-garden we were going to get away? And then a “positive brand of cricket”, but also MATTHEW ENGEL games. Finally, sadly, the experiment the whole place stopping, and just “without fear”. Perhaps because, after No life should be defined by the way to emulate Wasim was abandoned; life birds flying away. Everything suddenly a disastrous World Cup, the England it ended. In Roebuck’s case though, as a generic, typical right-hander was went deathly silent.” Equally I can recall team had to “reconnect with the understanding his death is fundamental sullenly accepted. running out of the commentary box cricketing public” by “showcasing their to an understanding of his life. But it is where we’d been watching play and talent”. Oh goodness. Now I’m at it too. all beyond comprehension. If suicide, then hovering, not sure what to do, until Is it possible to describe cricket without • • • why? How did it come to this? “You’ll be I saw my mobile phone start to ring on slipping into Newspeak? I fear not. chasing shadows,” Lane and Cartledge the desk. It was BBC News24 and within were warned by someone as they BOB KAPLAN seconds I was live on air, fortunately not • • • embarked on their task. That someone “Cunning and conning are so close describing the end of everything. was Peter’s mother, and she was right. because we’re beguiled by guile. It’s the merest half that separates clever from HARRY PEARSON • • • too clever by half. Cricket, as always, On summer Sunday afternoons we’d • • • holds the answer. Who wants to be congregate at one house or other, bored the length of a summer’s day by HASSAN CHEEMA draw the curtains and watch the John AAKAR PATEL watching or playing sheer stodge: what The tour was on, then off for half an Player League, munching on jam- In India we have the endless prattling of a writer in 1882 called ‘the old straight hour, before it was on again. Until the mallow biscuits, drinking strawberry Harsha Bhogle, (who has ahead honest system of “trundling”’? Zimbabwe squad landed in Lahore Cresta and filling the sitting room with three stock phrases that he turns over nothing was deemed certain. And they the overpowering odour of Northern every six deliveries) and the rest. Sunil landed with the whole might of Pakistani male pubescence. “It smells like a • • • Gavaskar once spoke about an early lesson television media present to welcome badger died in here,” our mothers in commentary from Benaud. A batsman them – the sort of reception most heads would cry, entering the dark, dank in had scored a hundred, and ANDREW ALDERSON of state wouldn’t receive. Their every room and flinging open the windows. raised his bat as the crowd applauded. I’ve treasured cricketing experiences in move was covered in detail. In the small We ignored them, for we cared for Sunny reached for the microphone to England, having now played for a variety hours of the morning, news channels neither oxygen nor hygiene. We were add his wisdom, felt Benaud’s hand on of social teams. They trump anything at throughout the country were running too busy chortling at Fred Swarbrook’s his, and stopped. Benaud’s message was home. I’m no Rain Man, yet I experience live feeds from the airport. The top brass bowling action or the fact that John this: let the audience soak in the moment rare photographic recall when listing of the PCB, and the home minister of Arlott calling Hampshire’s veteran and the ambient sounds, instead of you venues, results and performances Punjab – Shuja Khanzada – were present spinner Peter Sainsbury “a wily old fox” speaking over them. But did Gavaskar since my Clavering adventure. I’ve to welcome the Zimbabweans. As several was inevitably followed by somebody ever absorb the lesson, this man babbling played village matches in Beauchief, Zimbabwe cricketers would say later, it like Keith Boyce hoiking him over his banalities? Berkhamsted, Chorleywood, Farnham, was unlike anything they had seen before. midwicket for six (as Benjamin Disraeli Marlow and Ripley. I’ve scored 69 runs wisely observed: “The defects of great (I could recount the scoring shots if men are the consolation of dunces”). • • • • • • pushed), taken four catches, dropped three catches, enacted two stumpings • • • DAN BRIGHAM and remembered every afternoon tea PATRICK NEATE They say children want to emulate and pavilion as if reviewing for the Perhaps because, when you want to their heroes. Well, it was no different Michelin guide. sell a “product” (yuck!), you’d best

THENIGHTWATCHMAN.NET ISSUE 12 i WINTER 2015 12 13 ALISON MITCHELL ALEX PRESTON The strong smell of chemicals is quite The loss of my youth hit me with a overwhelming. Pale blue lambskins are warp-speed whump and sitting rigid piled high on a wooden clothes-horse, at my kitchen table I could feel entropy dripping wet. Six or seven cavernous taking place, my consciousness delving dye drums are rumbling and vibrating down to the cellular level where I was all around me, making me want to losing battle after microscopic battle. I cover my ears. My ten-year-old hand pulled at the skin of my cheeks, of my clutches my dad’s a little tighter. We throat, checking for the onset of jowls. turn a corner and the din dies away I ran my hands through what was left as we approach a towering pile of of my once-thick locks, looking down The twelfth edition of The Nightwatchman is published at the begin- smooth, shiny brown, luxurious skins, to see, clinging to my clammy palms, ing of December 2015 on a limited print . So subscribe or order and the chemical odour is replaced by dozens of strands of hair which had now to ensure that you get your copy. a much more familiar and welcoming given up the job of adhering to my scent – leather. increasingly visible, cadaverous scalp.

• • • • • • Click to visit NATHAN LEAMON thenightwatchman.net But lastly, and most importantly, it assumes that captains are able to use the toss to their advantage. This is not in any way proven. In fact the evidence suggests it just isn’t the case. At the time of writing, 1,048 Tests have been played since January 1990. During that period, the side that won the toss has lost slightly more (377) matches than it has won (374). Winning the toss in the modern era appears to give a side no advantage at all.

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