Can you explain this paragraph?

Question

All that is good and bad about Sreesanth's spunk epitomises this new Kerala. He does occasionally come across as shallow and sophomoric but that shouldn't detract from the kind of triumph he is constantly seeking over, yes, himself. I


t's there in the obsessed mumbling as he goes up to his bowling mark, the comic calming-down mime that he practices, the ritual gestures as he steps on to the field or takes a wicket, the aggression that he dredges up as witnessed in that patented war dance after slogging Andre Nel for a six: to outsiders, all these may border on the grotesque, but anyone with any inkling of what the weight of inherited attitudes can be will realise that he is trying to educate himself into more liberal convictions.

So how do the two Sreesanths square with each other


I am wondering what the bottom two paragraphs mean?

Answer 1

They are both verbose but both are about maturity, coming of age and accepting growth through seeing yourself more honestly.

Par. #1) Seeking himself through recognition and honest self-evaluation to overcome his sophomoric (youthful) behavior.

Par. #2) The desription of sophomoric behavior, sometimes odd to the point of being grotesque but at the most important level educating himself through the events and growing in understanding (convictions)

Now - compare and contrast them from the above summaries.

Answer 2

Sreesanth and Andre Nel are two famous Cricket players.

Kerala is a state in India.

The two are playing cricket. Sreesanth is coming up to bat. He had already gotten a six on Andre. He acts childish when he plays cricket. When he got the six on Andre, he did a dance (kind-of like a touchdown dance). People see him as stupid, but if they understand what kind of weight he is feeling, they will know why he acts that way. He always wants to better himself, and that is what keeps him so tense. He does all these rituals to calm himself down.

That's what I got out of it.

Answer 3

After the magnificent show he put up at the recent South African test to become the Man of the Match some of his peculiar mannerisms appear to have caught attention. Almost every cricketer worth the name has some such peculiarities but these attract attention only if he scores. Otherwise these are put down to personal indiosyncracies indulged in to attract attention.This could also be case with Shrsanth and it has now caught attention. By themselves they may signify nothing and if my conjectue is that by and by these will disappear. I remember a Charlie Chaplin picture. In this ,of all things he enters a boxing ring. Before entering in the make up room he finds another boxer picking a doll and taking it three times about his head. When asked he says that this is his omen. The boxer leaves. Charlie also picks up the dol and moves it round his head as the boxer. Before the third round is over the said boxer is carried in in a stupor.He has received a sound beating and was out. We see Chaplin terrified taking the doll about his head in a reverse direction; Though not as laughable as Charlie's the idiosyncretic actions of Shrisanth may essentialy be similar.

Answer 4

sorry hard for me too