More on the Oz series....

Much has been written about the direction in which Test cricket is headed; and, as one writes this blog, much advise is being tossed in the wind - the fact that the turnouts were low, that two matches were drawn, that Nagpur was a showcase of negative cricket - all of which, one was told, had surely ushered Test cricket towards dreary death.

I had always thought that Test cricket could be enjoyed only if one had a different mindset and a different expectation. I remember, in the salad days, sitting through Anshuman Gaekwad's 201* against the WI, in which, one is reliably told, the slip fielders actually fell asleep on their feet! Now, if that did not manage to kill off Test cricket, then what we saw in the just-concluded series was actually engrossing and at times, insightful test cricket. And was I glad to read this brilliant article by Chris Ryan! He argues along the same lines and goes on to expand on the theme with breath-taking eloquence.

A shard on Bhajji - here is he, almost crowing in ill-guised delight at the drubbing that India handed to Oz. This was his comment, 'I think they were busy writing for their books, while we were busy preparing for the series'.

LOLZ, unbeatably raw and pithy - it's sure to send Ozzies writhing into uncontrolled spasms of invectives.