Anil Kumble

This is not a yet another tribute to Kumble. This one is going to be different.
Yesterday, almost every paper wrote about him and everyone had the same - keywords Underrated, modest, humble, respect, admiration, dignity, integrity. (PJ: If i apply a machine learning algorithm, it will tell that each article is plagiarized from another with 95% confidence) Yeah, Yeah, i have read all articles out there. But this is not what i have in mind.

This post is a letter to you, Anil. I am not done with you so you can not just walk out. If you are thinking that you have already done so much for the country, the team etc and what does this blogger want now, then you are in for a surprise.

I want more. Yes Anil, if you are reading it, you have read it correctly. As simple as that. I want more from you and it does not matter to me if it is related to cricket field or not. Well, if you want to be a coach/commentator, then its fine by me but then that's not what i want. I want to know more about you, what you are going to do. Here is what i need you to do

1. Start maintaining a blog. Write what you feel like. Even if it is only a line like "Only one team played in the spirit of the game" . That one line will be enough to read the whole media coverage. And not just about cricket, write in general.

2. Write a book, your autobiography. I want to read it. Write what you think of Indian cricket, its good things as well as bad and esp the ugly, your experience and your take.

3. Just do not walk away from us like Javagal Srinath. It was good to see Srinath come and do some commentary in between but after than he never returned. Kumble sir, your opinions, suggestions , thoughts are extremely valuable. We may not reply back, we may not write about you, but there are still readers in this world who follow you closely, who respect your opinion.

You see, we are not the kind of media who will tent outside your house to track all your moves. But we will have our ears and eyes open to see what is happening. And we are the genY media - aka we also want our life to be easy, so we want you to inform us about your blog/book etc.

And before i end, i just want to say "Thank you". We are grateful for what you did in the game but we are more grateful for reminding us what the game is about.

Also your name is now included in the "saare gunah maaf" list.