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Day five, the Test’s still alive
By Will 2 years ago, mid-December Add your comment below
India need 256; England, just nine wickets. The greatest game of all is still alive and well, and there is a small but delicious irony in the delicate state this match finds itself in. That it is taking place so soon after the Mumbai terrorist attacks is honourable and pleasing. But that Chennai should be producing such a corking match, in India, at the end of a year which has seen the Twenty20 machine snowball almost out of control…it’s a reminder to everyone, in particular the often one-eyed BCCI, of our responsibility to cricket’s richest asset. Not Twenty20; not television or advertising revenue; not even Sachin or Brett or MS or KP, and certainly not Mr Stanford. But Tests. The oldest and still the most rewarding format of the game, and possibly the best of any sport there is.
It’s like a really good bottle of port to Twenty20’s vodka and Red Bull: rich, occasionally musty, with a multitude of flavours.
Tags: BCCI, england, england-in-india, india, test-cricket |
8 Responses to “Day five, the Test’s still alive”
December 15th, 2008 at 2.07 am
December 15th, 2008 at 8.21 am
Amen to that! A fantastic, fascinating test. 5 whole days of tension. Bloody marvellous!
December 15th, 2008 at 9.32 am
330/4…I still cannot believe how England screwed it up.
December 15th, 2008 at 10.37 am
In the end, it was an anti-climax. Such a comfortable victory. In one of my previous comments, I had mentioned that there was no way India could NOT lose from here. I am still wondering how England managed to do it.
December 15th, 2008 at 10.43 am
What a match. Fabulous win to India who really look like the new power in world cricket.
December 15th, 2008 at 10.57 am
It’s ok, England, I know how you feel. We Aussies were competitive at times against India too, but on Indian soil, they are so, so hard to beat.
December 15th, 2008 at 11.01 am
This is Sachin’s tribute to Mumbai. No force in the World could have stopped him today, definitely not the English bowlers. 
December 15th, 2008 at 12.04 pm
An Australian empathising with a beaten English team? The tides have turned – next summer could end up being about deciding who the 3rd best test team in the world is at this rate….
Haven’t been able to watch much of it, but it seems we’ve missed Sidebottom who would have offered a different challenge to the Indian batsmen. We’re still far too reliant on Flintoff’s bowling, and 1 wicket between 2 spinners on a 5th day pitch in India tells a story. Saying that, there’s positives to be taken from this match, and if we can improve in all areas for the 2nd test we’ll surely keep India honest at least.
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