This match was supposed to be a TIE. It was supposed to be BCCI's gift to the ICC for saving ODI cricket (at present ODIs are on the ventillator breathing its last). What better than getting a tie, which would have let the commentators make full use of the superlatives in their vocabulary. L Siva...

It started out as a race for number one two days of boredom two days of fun but by the time the curtain came down all the Indians could manage was a frown as the Saffers reverse swung into action

One has just started reading ' The Picador Book of Cricket ', edited by Ramchandra Guha and more on the book later. But it recounts an extremely funny incident/ anecdote that one has no choice but to narrate it. The little Pakistani's (Hanif Mohammad's ) classical technique and monumental...