If you have played the game of snake and ladders and remember the gamble it presents, you can draw its similarities with the way Rohit Sharma invents his dismissals. Why do people talk so much about him in particular, both with passion and hopelessness? Why does it seem that when he goes out to bat making nervous gestures, he's accompanied by old demons? why me?!@#$ When Rohit is batting with form and confidence he's conferred with the clichéd batting adjectives of the highest order. The most remarkable qualities I noticed are his first rate stroke-making ability on either side of the wicket and on either foot, never looking awkward or out of balance. The wrists are borrowed from Azhar and VVS; he could easily be mistaken for a Hyderabad batsman for his game of spin bowling. The stance is free of artifacts and the movement at the crease is liquid, free of jerks. There's no trigger mov...