I wanted to get rid of this habit of following cricket with more than just passion, but somehow I still haven't gotten rid of it completely. The recent test match series between Australia and India has enticed me too much that cricinfo is always an open window on my laptop. I just imagined what would be there on the Indian papers before the last day's play and here it is.
"We want to win it for Gilly" declared Clarke on a day when India did not demonstrate any trait to beat the world champions. "Australia have to bat last and nobody can say what's going to happen" averred Pathan who got his first and his hundredth test wicket in this very ground. In what appears to be vastly an uninteresting finish to the cricket lovers who were taken more than once during the test to a decade or two back with a couple of hundred runs scored and just a few wickets falling on a day, these statements from the campaigners Down Under are more of a rant than a declaration; you can as well wipe them off as a splash of water on glass.
Indians have manifested time and again that they cannot just stand the fifth day's wicket under pressure even as the Australians have taken every oppurtunity to slap it on the opposition when it comes to proving why they always are the number one. But then neither will the highly famed batsmen of the peninsular nation allow resoluteness to take over their class nor will a bowler like Kumble reel to any sublimation when challenged.
Whether it is going to be a Sehwag cracker with support from the special four in posting an unreachable target and then an outstanding display of accurate bowling that can give the guests a chance to level the series; or a defense breaking bowling and then a spectacular exhibition of power play from the hosts to give them more than a convincing series victory; or a complete batting collapse of the touring side with Dravid and Laxman humbly trying to save the game; or an unsporting declaration from Kumble batting almost till after tea against a team that knows the only way to win a test match is to attack; whatever it be, everyone's sure that there's going to be a lot of heat around the Adelaide Oval on the final day of the final test match in a series that has been flashing in the front pages for more than just cricketing reasons.
"We want to win it for Gilly" declared Clarke on a day when India did not demonstrate any trait to beat the world champions. "Australia have to bat last and nobody can say what's going to happen" averred Pathan who got his first and his hundredth test wicket in this very ground. In what appears to be vastly an uninteresting finish to the cricket lovers who were taken more than once during the test to a decade or two back with a couple of hundred runs scored and just a few wickets falling on a day, these statements from the campaigners Down Under are more of a rant than a declaration; you can as well wipe them off as a splash of water on glass.Indians have manifested time and again that they cannot just stand the fifth day's wicket under pressure even as the Australians have taken every oppurtunity to slap it on the opposition when it comes to proving why they always are the number one. But then neither will the highly famed batsmen of the peninsular nation allow resoluteness to take over their class nor will a bowler like Kumble reel to any sublimation when challenged.
Whether it is going to be a Sehwag cracker with support from the special four in posting an unreachable target and then an outstanding display of accurate bowling that can give the guests a chance to level the series; or a defense breaking bowling and then a spectacular exhibition of power play from the hosts to give them more than a convincing series victory; or a complete batting collapse of the touring side with Dravid and Laxman humbly trying to save the game; or an unsporting declaration from Kumble batting almost till after tea against a team that knows the only way to win a test match is to attack; whatever it be, everyone's sure that there's going to be a lot of heat around the Adelaide Oval on the final day of the final test match in a series that has been flashing in the front pages for more than just cricketing reasons.
