The Definition of Sehwagology

The first time I came across "Sehwagology" was in Kuttappan's Blog. Being a fan I quickly soaked the word up and set upon using it like Maslow's Hammer. Seems only the word is new, its essence was captured years go by C L R James in his seminal "Beyond a Boundary". Reading the book, I was struck by how perfectly James' vision matched Sehwagology. Here is James.

"Some young Romantic will extend the boundaries of cricket technique with a classical perfection. He will hit against the break so hard and so often that the poor bowlers will wish he would go back to hitting with it. He will drive overhead and and push through any number of short-legs, as W. G. used to do, so that a whole race of bowlers will go underground for fifteen years as they did once, and once more emerge with new tricks. Some of the new tricks, it is already clear, will be old, such as pace, sheer pace, pace as new as the pace at which Kuk ran three miles in the Australian Olympics. Our Romantic will do these things or other things - what
he will - and the big battalions will follow in his train. We shall extol his eyesight, his wrist-work, his footwork, his audacity, to which some nationalist fanatics will add his ancestry and climate. He may come from Pudsey or South Sydney, Nawanagar or Bridgetown. But wherever he comes from, and whatever he does, he will be
doing what W. G. did - so reshaping the medium that it can give new satisfactions to new people. "

This piece written in 1963, I propose as the definition of Sehwagology.