Australians should probably take it as a back-handed compliment that so many people from around the cricket playing world derived so much joy from India’s triumph in one of the greatest of all Test series. But I don’t think many of them do. They should probably remind themselves of the decades of world domination that they enjoyed and tell themselves that it was for that reason that every touring team which plays down under is regarded as firm underdogs – and that most of us are inclined to support the underdog.
Cricket needed this Indian series win, for more than just cricket, it has been a horrid season, pandemic has ruined so many games and series, and at the far end of a long year of lockdown, beer rationing, arrests for surfing, then 4 games of pure magic, from 36 all out to a series win, India might have won the series but everyone benefited, to have 2 games go down to the last hour, almost to the last ball, 10 days of cricket was pure bliss...
Cricket needs more of this, of games going to the wire, watching winviz swing from 98% Aus win to 1%, back to 90%...all in the space of hours, insane, it was such a great series and in a way sad it ended... I am sure that we can forgive the Indian team for their misjudgement and mild whinging about going to Gabba.. but in the end, they went, fought like Gods and did the impossible...
Sport loves a comeback, remember back in '95 the All Blacks sent the Japanese a message..127-0... Years later we, SA had to pay the price for that sms.. We got hammered by the Cherry-Blossoms in the land of Rugby..
That is why cricket is such a brilliant game, you just cannot know really until the last ball is bowled and Time Gentleman is called the result.. No one thought that an Indian series 2-1 would result.... Thanks to all the players, officials, broadcasters for putting up with the pandemic regs and rules, the isolation, thank you for bringing one of the best series in a long time, we all needed it!!!
Well, what a wonderful win and who knows Ashwin's prophetic statement "The Gabba will be your last test" may well come true. The Aussies think that all or the worlds sun shine right out of their proverbial, so it is with wonderful delight I watch them lose - anywhere - Home or Away. Perhaps one day, the arrogance will be "batted" out of them. So I continue to support ABA. (Anyone But Australia). Cheers to another great insight.
Thanks for your wonderfully written and insightful articles Manners. They keep me interested in a game I love dearly and in which I had lost interest due to the manner in which it has been mismanaged and in which "politics" has become more important than producing exceptional cricketers and a formidable Proteas team! Keep up the great work! I can't buy you coffees so will pop something into your collection box! Kind regards, Bryan - East London
Cricket needed this Indian series win, for more than just cricket, it has been a horrid season, pandemic has ruined so many games and series, and at the far end of a long year of lockdown, beer rationing, arrests for surfing, then 4 games of pure magic, from 36 all out to a series win, India might have won the series but everyone benefited, to have 2 games go down to the last hour, almost to the last ball, 10 days of cricket was pure bliss...
Cricket needs more of this, of games going to the wire, watching winviz swing from 98% Aus win to 1%, back to 90%...all in the space of hours, insane, it was such a great series and in a way sad it ended... I am sure that we can forgive the Indian team for their misjudgement and mild whinging about going to Gabba.. but in the end, they went, fought like Gods and did the impossible...
Sport loves a comeback, remember back in '95 the All Blacks sent the Japanese a message..127-0... Years later we, SA had to pay the price for that sms.. We got hammered by the Cherry-Blossoms in the land of Rugby..
That is why cricket is such a brilliant game, you just cannot know really until the last ball is bowled and Time Gentleman is called the result.. No one thought that an Indian series 2-1 would result.... Thanks to all the players, officials, broadcasters for putting up with the pandemic regs and rules, the isolation, thank you for bringing one of the best series in a long time, we all needed it!!!
Well, what a wonderful win and who knows Ashwin's prophetic statement "The Gabba will be your last test" may well come true. The Aussies think that all or the worlds sun shine right out of their proverbial, so it is with wonderful delight I watch them lose - anywhere - Home or Away. Perhaps one day, the arrogance will be "batted" out of them. So I continue to support ABA. (Anyone But Australia). Cheers to another great insight.
Thanks for your wonderfully written and insightful articles Manners. They keep me interested in a game I love dearly and in which I had lost interest due to the manner in which it has been mismanaged and in which "politics" has become more important than producing exceptional cricketers and a formidable Proteas team! Keep up the great work! I can't buy you coffees so will pop something into your collection box! Kind regards, Bryan - East London