February 20, 2008

Napoleon and Einstein playing cricket

A man who responds to the name of two legends - Napoleon and Einstein - is currently donning the national colours for the U 19 Indian Cricket Team.
This has potential to make pretty interesting headlines which could be - "Napoleon disrupts the progress of the Barmy Army" or "Einstein relates his success to the quantum of the spin".
There have been some memorable names in cricket - perhaps none more so than Hogflesh - but there's one at the Under-19 World Cup that runs it close. Napoleon Einstein, an offspinner from Tamil Nadu, is part of the Indian squad.

"My grandfather was a scientist," says Einsten. "He wrote a letter to Albert Einstein and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm Einstein. Napoleon is my father's name.

"We don't believe in God. In our family, we're rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people." Link
Seems it won't be long before cricket turns itself from a gentleman's game to a rationalist's sport

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

after the auction cricket anyway is no longer a gentleman's game...
so no regrets

Mohan K.V said...

"Napoleon disrupts the progress of the Barmy Army", ROFLMAO! Brilliant find! :D