Was just over at Homer’s site, and I saw a little tid bit about a young Indian player who has played a couple of list A one dayers.
His name is Napoleon Einstein.
Quick pause to let that sink in.
Homer being the respectable cricket writer, made a small comment about it and then moved on.
But at cricket with balls we take this name very seriously and would like to know everything about young napoleon.
My first question would be what is his height?
My second would be how did he go in high school?
I don’t consider my self an expert on the ethnic diversity of India, but I may take a stab in the dark and say Einstein is probably not the most common name.
If it was, we could be looking at Yuvraj Einstein’s and Harbhajan Einstein’s.
A team of Einsteins even.
Young Napoleon seems like a competitive chap, and he may already have taken over the most politically insane cricket players name award from Nixon Maclean.
But would you make him vice captain?
Napoleon Einstein has been captain of the Tamil Nadu under-19 team that lost in the Semi-Finals of the All India Cooch Behar Tournament. There is more about him in the Wikipedia entry.He is about six feet tall-see video http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=o6lgWs5bXWQTall for a off-spinner? He became well known to Netizens due to his batting..
You say he became well known for his batting you say, i say its cause of his name…
The latest news is that he has been selected to represent India for the Under 19 World Cup, to be held in KL from Feb. 08. Lets hope it wont be his “Waterloo”..Cheers
Recently, I read an article about him in deccan chronicle (chennai). He looks like a confident and a promising youngster. Hope all goes well for him in the world cup.
Guess his folks enjoyed the naming more than him! Like in the book/film, “The Namesake” – about a guy called “Gogol”, named after the Russian author, and his (not) coming to terms with that.
Believe it or not, there was a schoolmaster in New Delhi whose name included “Stalin”. Indian parents can be cruel sometimes (sometimes?).