Move Over Oakleys! Please!

Oakleys are a passé. Well, at least the extra-galactic designs are. Would be, should be! You wouldn’t disagree if you saw Chris Gayle in yesterday’s match. He made quite a statement with his red rimmed sunglasses. Bright red rim – goes well with the team’s crimson-red jersey; and impenetrable dark lens – goes well with the captain’s imperturbable attitude.

I think, I hope that this would bring about a renaissance in eye fashion and oust the multicolored Oakley lenses that are the fancy of all Cricket stars. If you take the kaleidoscopic lens as a metaphor for the gentleman’s vision of Cricket’s glorious uncertainties, then Gayle’s black lenses seem to suggest that he wouldn’t be bothered about minor turbulences – or he knows that he doesn’t have to.

Now you’ll tell me that the Oakleys are special purpose vision enhancing lenses. Absolutely high-end, supreme quality, I know! Perhaps they even add a whole new dimension like the glasses you have to wear to watch 3D movies. But I can’t stand the design. It seems fit for an android.. Oakleys are too ‘star-trek’ for my taste.

So the red rimmed ones were quite a refreshing sight. Almost as refreshing as the break from the T20 overdose of last few months. Finally an ODI – 100 overs and about 650 runs scored! I am not sure if those runs were caused by extraordinary batting or poor bowling. The batting style seemed to be typical T20 – scoring any which way, but scoring. Commentators couldn’t help be pleasantly surprised every time someone hit a technically correct, by-the-book shot. One commentator overwhelmingly described how Yuvraj Singh kept his eyes on the ball through out a well executed shot.

Eyes, see that’s the basic thing. That brings me back to eye gear and Chris Gayle. He has always done the needful when it comes to setting eyewear trends. His red-rimmed ones are making me hopeful that he would cause another shift in the tide.