Waiting for Wehby action, WI wonders about Pollard’s promotion and the Peter Principle
On the radio on Friday morning, the announcer broke the news this way: “
As expected, Bangladesh defeated the West Indies by seven wickets in the second ODI earlier today.”
Photo: Bangladesh players celebrate the fall of a West Indies wicket during the second ODI meeting between the two teams.
That she should so matter-of-factly say ‘as expected’ is bad enough. What is worse is that she was neither making it up nor offering an opinion. The hosts occupy seventh spot in the ICC ODI rankings, two places above Kieron Pollard’s white-ball side. Defeat by Bangladesh is indeed what we were expecting.
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Swinging By Adelaide Oval
At this time of the year, early mornings in Manchester are not a great time to wake up and watch sport. Certainly not for someone who is going to be 83 in February. But then, India was to play a Test after almost 10 months and that too in Australia. I have happy memories of Adelaide. I can’t remember failing at this picturesque venue. It was December 1967 and the first of a four-Test series. The dates (December 23-28) included Boxing Day and remember, we had rest days then! Bobby Simpson won the toss and elected to bat because the wicket, as always, was a beauty. We responded well to Australia’s first innings score of 335. I opened the batting with Dilip Sardesai and top scored with 89. Chandu Borde, our captain, scored 60 and Rusi Surti 70 as India were all out for 307. Australia rode centuries by Simpson and Bob Cowper to score 369 in the second innings. The right-arm fast bowler David Renneburg t
Nearly a decade later, Bishan Singh Bedi s side came even closer against Bobby Simpson s Australia. The home team had lost its key players to Kerry Packer but was still a handful with speed gun Jeff Thomson, Gary Cosier and Peter Toohey in their ranks. It was a seaming track suited to the pacers, remembers Madan Lal, who took 5/72 wickets in the second innings. This was a rare Test in the Seventies where the pacers Madan Lal and Mohinder Amarnath took more wickets (10) than the spin trio of Bedi, Chandra and Prasanna (9).
India pursued 340 in the fourth innings. Sunil Gavaskar (113) led the chase. A newspaper report described it as a patient and chanceless innings where hardly a ball passed his broad bat. Gavaskar was technically sound as ever, recalls Madan Lal.
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