The MCU list was on the radio this morning—I had to remind my bacche to stop comparing our school cricket trials to Avengers assemble. "Sir, if I can bowl like Bumrah, am I a superhero?" one asked. No, beta, you are a boy who must learn to tie his shoelaces before the PTM. But I wonder: all those films, so many battles won in the last act—yet our Proteas, year after year, the same story. Maybe the real marvel is a fast bowler from a pahad, bowling on a matting wicket after the rains, who never gets his blockbuster ending. That is the truth our craft teaches: you bowl your heart out, and sometimes the hero just doesn't come.
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