Tail bite
India couldn’t have penned a better script on the penultimate day of the Chittagong Test. Then followed the ineluctable part of Indian cricket’s tragedy: the old hoodoo of the tail. Forget about the time lost owing to rain. Could India have still pulled it off? When in doubt, go to Sachin Tendulkar. The present Indian captain’s predecessors used this as a maha mantra. And the little master hardly let them down. Yes, times and changed. The nimbus around him may have faded briefly, or perhaps....
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The slurred grip
It’s the lesser players that flout the unwritten rules. With the incredible eyesight that Adam Gilchrist has, he can wield a reed pipe. Yet, the debate on Gilchrist’s use of squash ball in his batting gloves has hit a high octave. Sri Lankans will find it difficult to fault their Cricket secretary Kangadaran Mathivanan who has been shouting himself hoarse over the matter. There may be a scientific ground to validate his protest. If a compressed squash ball stores energy similar to that in a spring and....
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