Five reasons to watch Test cricket
1. No. 10 pair Monty Panesar and Steve Harmison peppering the boundary with some carefully chosen shots much to the annoyance of the Aussie bowlers2. Gorgeous Test match batting by Sachin Tendulkar in the first innings at the Wanderers. An effort that was 90% perfect, with some assured leaves and masterly drives. It was not quite a masterclass, but a great tutorial. But only 90%, because 9% docked for getting out to a good but not unplayable (from my seat) Kallis delivery, and 1% for a Nel ball that got him into an awkward spot.
3. Adam Gilchrist striking the ball with such élan to bring up the 2nd fastest ton in Test history. If Umpires Dar and Koertzen had "wided" a couple of ungettable balls, then he'd even have gone past Sir Viv. The hygiene of his hitting would have made mothers all around the world proud. If I am not mistaken, he now has the 2nd fastest hundred and double hundreds in the profession.
4. An Indian pace attack skittling out a Test side in 25 odd overs for under a 100. Away.
5. The Channel Nine coverage: the "3-tracker", the "hot-spot", the "ultra slow motion" make viewing a pleasure. They also introduced the simple but novel idea of three commentators at the same time (which Star Sports have picked up too). As long as one of them is not Tony Greig, it's a great place to watch cricket.
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True..all reasons do make me to watch cricket on net at least. You didn't mention anything about Sri Lanka and New Zealand match which is also going for a sitter with New Zealand losing its charm in its own paradise.(Which they hardly face such a situation except when they face aussies)
Missing fun :(
Missing streaming from H12 !!
janak: kyo.n? it's up and running :-)
yogesh: didn't see any of that nz-sl match, so hence no mention of it.
You saw that bit when Chapell was talking about that incident with Murali being runout by McCullum and how it was unsporting? Chapell pointed out that KP was out gardening on the pitch and that Gilly would have done nothing wrong or against 'the spirit of the game' by running KP out. He went on out professionalism and stuff and how 'spirit of the game' should not be taken in conflict.
Then Tony Greig just grunts and says in his queer voice, "Yeah, I had a similar incident with Kalicharan a long time ago", trying to defend his apalling run out attempt.
That was just about the best situational comedy can get :)
Nikhil: missed that little bit.
Indeed, Tony Greig made a career out of shoving his foot into the ethics book, so that was funny. Something about the Antipode teams.
I think Chappel(IAN) was supporting McCullum.
He said if he himself was the captain, and McCullum didn't run out Murli, he would have kicked Keeper's backside.
There is some confusion out there.
No confusion :)
I meant the same, implying that when Ian mentioned about that thing, Greig pitched in and tried to prove that he was an angel 'cos already according to Ian he had done nothing wrong.
And of course after that he said, "The crowds would have burnt the stadium if Kalicharan wasn't reinstated."
We all know that Ian or any of kins are no angels either :D
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