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Old September 1, 2017, 11:20 AM
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Moni: The Bad Boy of Cricket



Unlike most of the above child prodigies and geniuses, our next hero never had the chance or opportunity to be brought up with silver spoon or as a de rigueur talent nor as someone steeped in encyclopedic knowledge only to maximize their talents and flashes of brilliance with hard work and effort to keep soaring with the rest in their vimana.

Former crack dealer, who could easily have been another statistic in Gulistan literally turned his life around in a trip to Ibiza. As the story goes, probably apocryphal, after a whirlwind all night-all weekend party in the coast of Spain as he lost control of his ice-blue Lamborghini, he frantically kept pushing his brake. "If it wasn't for divine intervention", he later confirmed to TMZ, "I wouldn't even be here." In fact, as he kept moving his arms and legs desperately, his elbow 'mistakenly' pushed the gear to 'neutral' thereby saving his life as he crashed onto the side cliff veering off shoulder. And that motif has been his guiding force for the remainder of his tenure.

Known for extraordinary umpiring skills, after the sport he would embrace wholeheartedly following his great Awakening to detox his mind, body and spirit of the years and years of harmful substance abuse, he is often described as "tough nut to crack". Fondly referred by his colleagues, umpires and admirers as the "Simon Cowell of Bangladesh" it is perhaps to great irony the man who survived most of his teenage lives evading the law would rise up to be great adjudicator of the Noble Sport.

His name "Moni" refers to one of the three "jewels" of Bangladesh. The other being Jewel Aich and Jewel Rana. It is also emblematic of his "All-Seeing" Eye of Horus nature when umpiring on field as well as his face being the mascot for Panopticon that has recently replaced the official logo for PRISM, the global mass surveillance unit.
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