But there’s something much more than melancholy – a crushing finality, rather – about a cricketer’s premature death, one who has been fêted in a career replete with accomplishment but is unable to come to terms with the hollowness of life in retirement’s wake. Sport can be unforgivingly cruel. Sharad Kohli … Sport mirrors life. Success and failure on the field, court or track are but an echo of our everyday highs and lows. This was brought home recently, in the Olympics but more poignantly in cricket. Besides highlighting the fragility of our existence, the passing of Graham Thorpe shone...
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