If the ’big 4’ was depleted with the exit of Azhar, another Hyderabadi quickly corrected the situation! with a knock that earned him superstardom, he displayed a repertoire as exhaustive as his name! But there were no further miracles blazing from his bat and to be fair to him it’s not polite to expect miracles over and again! But soon he came up with another blazing ton, against the same opponents, but this time in their own den! And once again he became the toast of a nation! And that is where the glorious part of his career ends! coz sadly for this highly talented player he failed to turn in consistent, good efforts rather than rare miraculous ones! And though he can always claim that he was never really accepted unconditionally, I personally feel a guy as highly talented as him should be able to make most of what he does get! But this guy seems to be much conscious of his stance and pose while batting rather than effectiveness!
And many times he undoes the hardwork required to get into the late 20’s by playing the wrong stroke! for him to shed his inhibitions of performing regularly at the highest level, he needs to stride in like a colossus rather than a probatory! guys with not as much as half his talent pretend like masters and this dude acts like a dud! Here is one guy who is clearly short of motivation; who needs people to continuously reaffirm their faith in him! for all his talent, cricket is also played in mind and this guy first needs to start believing in himself before he can expect a nation to believe in him!