Australian
Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman was
recently in the India for the promotions of his latest film, X-Men:
Days of Future Past. He spoke
about how closely he follows cricket, which mutant he thought would be best at
cricket, and how he is inspired by Sachin
Tendulkar
In an
interview with The TOI, Jackman said, “Am pretty sure
Wolverine [
would be
a bad cricket player — he would not have the patience.
Jackman
continued, “I do follow it as closely as I can. I just discovered, in the last Ashes series, that on channel one thousand
and seven in America, you can watch all the cricket. So I have it on quite
regularly, and of course, as an Australian, it’s been a pretty good series in
South Africa, the English series was great, T20 not so great. Of course, now
that we [Australia] are not T20 champions, it’s all about Test cricket for me.
“I loved
while growing up how some countries would have captains who were not the
greatest cricketers, they may actually have been past their prime — I remember Mike Brearley. He was not regarded as the
greatest cricketer, but he was regarded as one of the greatest captains of all
time. Now, cricket is a mind game. I mean, [Sachin] Tendulkar is who he is,
very talented, but I’m most inspired by his mental strength, and how he seems
to wear it so easily. So someone like Professor Xavier [the handicapped mutant
with telepathic and telekinetic powers] — so long as he could walk – having
that mind ability, I’d want him as my captain. Knowing which bowler to bring
on, knowing when they’re getting tired, oh, he doesn’t like the short ball, or,
he likes the short ball — all of that, he’d be best.”
