Position Applied for: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) medium-fast specialist for Tiger's National Team, Bangladesh
CONTACT INFORMATION
Name Mir Zeeshan Mahmud (Gopal Bhar)
Address Anaheim, California (full address withheld)
Telephone (withheld)
Cell Phone (withheld)
Email (zeeshan.mahmud11atgmaildotcom)
Date of Birth 10/18/1983
Place of Birth Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citizenship Dual- US/Bangladeshi
Visa Status N/A
Sex Male
Optional Personal Information
Marital Status Single, celibate
Spouse's Name: You kiddin' right?
Children: N/A, Not known too
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Work History: Various shifts as Security Guard, Fry's electronics trainee, Orange Coast College (dishwasher) , Disneyland
Academic Positions: Sadly, none
Research and Training: Facebooking
EDUCATION
High School: Garden Grove High School
University/College: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa
Graduate School: N/A
Post-Doctoral Training: N/A
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Certifications and Accreditations
Computer Skills: Facebook, Myspace, Internet
AWARDS
None
PUBLICATIONS
- Cricket and the Art of Memory (Espncricinfo)
- James Southerton: An Immortal Inspiration (Espncricinfo)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philately Club
INTERESTS
Almost anything imaginable
Area of Expertise
Wicket on will.
Personal Skills
- Egoistical not team player
- Likes Cricket
- Fame hungry
- Attention whore
References: Dr Zunaid Kazi, [Insert Signature]
Philosophy and other personal comments:
As Dr Jekyll
I believe in the power of wicket on demand. Envisage, a cricket ball hitting you at knots, which got power to destroy you physically and cause instant death. I have personally been influenced heavily by Waqar-Wasim-Javed and Lillee's school to cause scourge of God and fear instilled when I run upto the crease. All I need is once chance, just once chance and I guarantee while I cannot guarantee it would be a maiden over without wides, but you WILL get a wicket. I ball to kill. I am an assassin. I have assassin's mentality. To an en expert a cricket ball is not a ball but a weapon of choice. Toe crushers, yorkers, reverses, beamers I do it all and I can make one utter japmala haplessly as I see myself break wickets from short-run up generating medium pace. My grip is normal, rather loosey-goosey with wristy action to generate swing, and I usually consider myself as a discus thrower rather than a cricketer who wants to get the crystal skull of glass jaw of the victim batsman. Yeaaah, whuzzzz up...
As Mr. Hyde
Not sure if Vasari or who said it that polymath Renaissance Man Leon Batista Alberti could throw cards at the ceiling a trick copied by Las Vegas magician to cut a water melon like a ninjutsu's shuriken. Thing is a cricket ball is a projectile and it can kill. Yes, and that is why I fear Herr Doktor. Even if I am wearing guard and batting, the shock generated by a heinous scumbag hell bent on hitting my nuts can kill. Yes, I don't like batting. Batting is my greatest fear; I have battophobia. Yes, this is what fast bowlers like Steyn, Lee, Malinga, Akram, Ambrose instills in you. F-E-A-R.
Yes, holistically through my dichotomous behavior I can mange a vicious fast bowler. I have good control of my line and length and I come from the street with uncanny ability to pin-point any location on pitch to land my ball. My greatest fear to face ball is my greatest asset to summon that fear as a bowler. Finally, as Ian would have it:
Just a posting from an interview I heard when the GB Olympics team came back from Beijing with more Gold medals than ever. There was a radio interview with the Performance Director of the squad. He was asked: "How did GB win so many medals in the rowing?"
His reply was beautiful. And for me, it sums up what professional sport is all about.
He said: "We took the guys into a training camp and worked out the most efficient way of the rowing the boat. It took us a couple of days hooked up to machines to show us what muscles did what job and what seat angle and body angle helped generate the best force on the oars. Once we found what it was, we trained the whole crew for days and months on making this as close to perfect as possible. We went out on the practice lake and did this over and over and over until it became like clockwork. They could almost row in their sleep. We only allowed them to do what they would need in the race, no more, no less.
"In the final of the Olympics, the gun went off and the crew just did what they had practiced in training. 1,000, 2,000 3,000 strokes. Only focused on the movement, only thinking of what they were doing. One stroke at a time.. one perfect movement at a time. And when they looked up, they had won the Gold medal.
"The secret of winning the race was not to focus on that, but to concentrate on rowing the boat. Once the whole team did their job the outcome was inevitable. Nothing was left to chance. There could not have been any other result.
"This is how we coach and train athletes. We teach them that if they master the processes, then the outcome will take care of itself. That's why we won so many Gold medals."
I really couldn't say this any better myself
That's how I treat a ball, one ball at a time. And if my life depended on to ball a single ball in a single over, I would make sure it's a shot worth it.