It’s amazing how people ruin their farewells by endlessly postponing the party date.
Kapil Dev knew exactly when to bowl that edge-inducing out-swinger. But he just did not know when to get out of the way when it came to his Test career. He was a caricature of a hero when he finally quit.
Decisive as death in his anti-terror campaign in Punjab, tough cop K P S Gill had to be thrown out of the Indian Hockey Federation. Even the stench from the corpse that Indian hockey was reduced to in his tenure could not wake him up to fact that his time was up.
Umpire Steve Bucknor’s refusal to walk away into the sunset even in his 60s reduced him to a joker in a white coat. Then he made a string of errors during India’s 2007-08 tour to Australia. ICC replaced him with Billy Bowden for the third match at Perth.
Courtesy: Ahmadabad Mirror.