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Mohammad Azharuddin – The Artist among the Housepainters It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Near impossible to emulate, memories of such feats are passed through generations as folklore, etched into the books of history. What do you make of a Batsman who, in this generation when players are idolized for scoring centuries in their debut tests, scored centuries in his first three test matches? Do you call him ‘Special’? Do you call him ‘Gifted’? Who can you even compare him to, since he has no equal in this respect? The only thing you can do, the only thing that would do justice to his talent, is to sit back and enjoy the genius at display. You watch a perfectly pitched delivery outside off-stump flicked away through mid-wicket for a boundary. You applaud the subtle flamboyance and silken touch of the maestro– Mohammad Azharuddin. It’s strange how a simple piece of wood can take so many different forms. Sir Viv Richards and Virender Sehwagused their bats as clubs. Mark W