Dying of a voice: Kishore Bhimani, a commentator who enlivened sport

Kishore Bhimani, 80, died on Thursday

Time was when aspiring cricketers and footballers, when they had the foreboding that they could never measure up to the standards of the sportspersons who haunted their dreams, would often end up imitating radio commentators who gilded half-centuries or goals with florid language. Some (sports aspirants) became highly adept at that and often disported their friends and teachers, even principals, with their mimicking skills on the last day before the school let out for winter vacation. And though it may be difficult to take in in this day and age, it wasn’t then not difficult to come across people who