Here comes India’s first competitive match of the tournament, and it’s against a team that was saying a lot of things before they got whipped by Australia. England still doesn’t know what its strongest side is, and what their order should be, and maybe that’s preventing them from being as good as they’re capable of being. The Castrol Index doesn’t rate England...
The India-England rivalry at the world cup has, over the years, produced mostly mildly existing contests, without any game really going close. England won in 1975, 1987, 1992 while India have matched it with wins in 1983, 1999 and 2003. India, led by a great man’s misplaced and unnecessary, stubbornness, never treated the 1975 game as a "contest". Knowing how Gavaskar’s mind works...
So, it’s over. The series, the #1 ranking, and the bubble of unquestionable success that enveloped India after the World Cup win.
It’s just one bad series, India may just continue to win from this point, but this still happened. Their best performances with the bat all series came in the final two innings, but were still nowhere near enough what was needed to even save the game.
The...
Another match; another couple of fake reports about real games, credited to fake people whose given names have no express intention on our side to indicate real peopleThis report comes from Real Sunil Gavaskar and Real Michael Atherton.Report from "Real Sunil Gavaskar"For decades now, people remember my 36* from 60 overs in the 1975 World Cup and greet me with a mixture of secret admiration (mostl...
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