The past week or so has been very quiet on the test match front and I would like to share some other related topics that I have been reading about. The India-England ODI series has started but judging by the pace of the first three games, I would not be surprised if we win this 7-0. Anyways, I am not covering any ODI topics here.
The over rate controversy has been hounding Ponting back home and he is not smart enough to ignore the noise. As Dilbert says about the inDUHviduals, he opens his mouth only to change the foot. The best response from him would have been an improved over rate against NZ and that would have silenced the critics. We can expect his “Captains Diary” being published any day now. He is creating some news bytes every day to attract attention from Indian media. He took a jab at Gavaskar and then went on to praise Ishant Sharma very lavishly for his spell in Perth. On the over rate controversy, I read a very interesting blog by Comedian and satirist, Andy Zaltzman on Cricinfo. His suggestions are really very “out of the box” and I quite like the soccer like reduced-men proposal. The cricket administrators need to think positively and use the infrastructure that is available today like the computers and online score boards to improve the game for the spectators. You can read that interesting blog here. http://blogs.cricinfo.com/andy-zaltzman/?addata=blog_az_comms.
As I write this the first Oz-NZ test is almost nearing completion. Australia should win this test barring some miracles. Once again one got to see the fragile Aussie batting line up, but I don’t think the NZ team has the batting required to put pressure on the Australians.
PS: I finally had that bottle of Fosters yesterday.
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