equatorI think Ishant Sharma is the most exciting young bowling prospect since Waqar Younis, assuming Waqar Younis was ever young.
But he is Indian, and a real fast bowler, so you would have to assume that somewhere along the line he will fade away or lose form.
Let’s look at the potential ways.
His adam’s apple is actually an alien, sent from the planet klaatu, and is intent on killing us all. 
Some Bollywood producer (aka India mafia dude) gets him a gig on the Indian remake of irreversible starring Aishwarya Rai, but he takes his scene too far and accidentally slams her head into the subway wall killing her instantly and is lynched by horny teens every where.
He listens to Navjot Sidhu and Bishen Bedi for 20 minutes and his head explodes.
He gets caught in a lift with Sunil Gavaskar whom rages about how all Australian’s are @ssholes for 2 minutes and his adam’s apple inverts and chokes him from within.
He gets given an English passport.
Playgirl magazine offer him a billion dollars to do a naked centrefold. Indian’s are outraged, as his Adam’s apple is air brushed out.
Tania Zaetta meets him in a bar, and they have a torrid lust affair in which Ishant falls madly in love with her and follows her to Sydney and lives out his days as Mr Zaetta.
He shaves for the first time, but being that he is so awkward he accidentally cuts his own throat and kills himself.
Inspired by his love of Jason Gillespie he grows a ponytail and starts breaking down.
Bored with cricket, women and millions of dollars he starts practicing Auto Erotic Asphyxiation. His first time ends in heart break (insert Adam’s apple joke here).
He remembers he is Indian and starts bowling left arm orthodox or straight breaks.
The Indian government give him Bangladesh as payment for being so good, which starts a war with Pakistan, which results on America bombing the whole region, Ishant dies whilst tying to save a whole village of cricket academy students whose rich parents couldn’t make it in time.
Me and Andre take over the world and we abduct him from India and make him play for Jrodre, the new world super power.
Pakistan get bored and fire nuclear missiles at India, thus ending his career, and the lives of countless others. Sunil Gavaskar survives.
He is raped and killed by a pack of super monkey’s who are trained and controlled by Navjot Sidhu.
Everyone in India tells him he is gods gift to fast bowling until he becomes Shoaib Ahktar.
He joins the circus.
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I wish I had an imagination like yours. Are you being inspired by England’s impressive performance today? Top stuff.
worrying sign: he smiled the other day, posing with SRK.
Thanks MF, although an imagination like mine is not always a good thing.
I think he’s going to turn into a praying mantis, and get snubbed by his family. They’ll lock him in a room and provide him food under the door.
Hilarious Uncle J. I agree with MF.
I’m impressed with your knowledge of bollywood btw… and also that u r aware of Ashwariya Rai and Tania Zaetta..
“Pakistan gets bored and starts firing nukes” – Hahaha!!
Uhh isn’t Tania Zaetta Australian? Ashwariya has been in some pretty high-profile things, so a fair few people know who she is here.
Yeah Aishwariya has become quite a global name. But its still quite amazing that Non Indians and Pakistanis recognize her as a signifiant someone.
Is Tania Zaetta Aussie? I know she’s appeared in a couple of Bollywood movies.. I haven’t seen them but heard of her definitely from the Bollywood grapevine.
Zaetta is Australian, i only know of her because she was on who dares wins with mike whitney. Worst show ever made in Australia, and that is definitely saying something.
And Rai was in Bride and Prejudice and the loreal ads.
Q you know i hate bollywood films.
Yeah I know Uncle J
I did a quick search and fugured that out after MFs comment. Zaetta appeared in 1 bollywood movie and she’s filming for another one. She’s now known as the most succesful Australian actress in Bollywood.
Not for long though. Brett Lee is appearing in a bolly flick soon I hear.
http://www.bollywooddreams.net.au/page.cfm?PageCode=tania_zaetta&site_id=1
Tania Zaetta has been in Bollywood movies? That’s hilarious. I thought that was just a random image of her prancing around in a sari.
I wonder how that talent-spotting process works.
MF, I give you the tip miss field, her career here was over and she met a producer and thought, hell what have i got too lose.
Haha, she starred in “Salaam Namaste”.
The link I’ve given says she was in India with the “Queensland Creative Industries Delegation”.
It also says:
“Tania is a very friendly and gorgeous Australian beach girl who has done extremely well in Bollywood and is ever supporting of the projects between India and Australia.”
“gorgeous Australian beach girl”
I think “Australian” is more fitting.
Besides, she isn’t blonde, and we all know that only blondes are beach people. The rest of us just aren’t real Australians I suppose.
I think gorgeous is pushing it.
Yeah, I guess its the Indian media being enamoured with one of the handful western faces in their film industry.
I’ve yet to see any media, which in covering the stars in an industry, does not go over the top. So I don’t think this has anything in particular to do with Indian media fawning over Westerners.
As for Ishant, I suspect he’ll just get injured.
Its all in his hair. First time he gets a haircut, Samson like, his powers of fast bowling and making loudmouth Ozzie captains jump around like bunnies are gone forever. Lalit Modi will then ban the responsible barber from ever playing any kind of cricket in India.