by The Goldfish Bowl

Created on: August 15, 2008   Last Updated: October 10, 2008

You did it.You lifted your son onto your shoulder,then you seated him on your head.Then you did a little dance of joy and victory!You must have made the little angel think he is the greatest!It happened in your living room, theTV was showing the grand finale of the cricket Test match.Your country's team was going to win the test.Your favorite batsman was poised to hit-a sixer!Your eyes were glued to the screen, nothing in the world would make you take your eyes off that screen!Now, admit you could not keep your promise to yourself.Despite your conviction your eyes were wrested away from the screen,a split second!In just that time!Everybody was crying for a sixer! And your little one obliged.With all the wild childish strength, effortlessly he put all the power and"gumph",in one "hell" of an action imitating the great batsman hitting a sixer!The style, the action , the verve, the individuality, were so exactly captured in the copying of it;that you were mesmerized into believing for a moment, that the wonder batsman had stepped into your living room and filled every inch of it with his gigantic influence.How that little hit of a sixer co-incided into seconds timing with the actual six!Joy danced around in your room, unstoppable joy.Excitement supreme.Victory celeberations.From then on the" sixer batsman", was your hero, the family' s hero and of course, that of the next in line,King of test cricket, your son!Here I want you to just imagine the above scenario, with any other sports.It could be baseball, soccer, tennis, boxing!Get my point?Children will be children.And heroes will be heroes!

As predictable, there was a long line of equipmentology,' the best products for playing cricket.These grew in size, along with the growth and increase in age of our little player.Till they stopped looking like toys, or things you play games with,they looked serious stuff now, very very professional like.The baby, grew up to be a lad.High school now.He was all important for his team, because of him they won a number of matches.They were selected and sent to other cities of his country to take part in"test" matches.He was selected without fail.Soon there was talk of making it big!To the real thing, test cricket! International.Also there was the usual egg-on talk.Eat this, wear this, do this if you want to be like lets call him, from now,the Superhitter star!Or simply the Superhitter.The budding cricketer, when he played, looked exactly like the Superhitter, the style, the strokes....so

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