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Sandeep's avatar

Incredible piece ! Connecting purple rain with rishab brain .. how did you come up with this ? A shower thought ?

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you, Sandeep! Haha, wasn't a shower thought unfortunately. I reached there through a far more boring route 😂

To me, Pant is completely unique in how he approaches batting. You can't box him. Which reminds me of Prince. And every time I think of or listen to Prince now, I am reminded of *that* performance of Purple Rain. So..

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Avinash Shenoy's avatar

Boss!! You keep outdoing yourself.

Fabulous writing!

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Hahah thank you so much, Avinash!

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Renuka's avatar

I love your similes (that's what they're called right?). How do you "show not tell" so beautifully, each time every time? You're the Prince of Sports Writing boss. And I mean the artist. Keep on at it. Now I know that the word awe-some OGed here, after your writing.

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so much, Renuka! :D So glad you enjoy the essays!

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Rakhi Kurup's avatar

I am not even too fond of cricket, but I read it just to enjoy your writing Sarthak.

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

You're too kind, Rakhi :)

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Rohan Banerjee's avatar

Terrific writing, man. Too many gems but Melon is top of the heap.

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Sarthak Dev's avatar

Haha thank you, Rohan!

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Renuka's avatar

And I was sure that was a typo. 😁

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Matt Gately's avatar

There's stuff flying around everywhere in this so maybe I missed the bit where the BCCI makes like the Buchanans, breaks everything to bits and does a runner. Or the media centre at Lord's monitors and menaces like the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleberg. Or Pant beat on...or somesuch. Where The Great Gatsby has any relevance at all.

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