Sunday, February 27, 2011

Magnanimity

I wonder if the overwhelming response to the India/England tie at Bangalore would still have been of "a great advertisement for 50-over cricket" and "neither side deserved to lose" if Graeme Swann had hit Munaf Patel's last ball slightly more to the right of Yusuf Pathan at cover. 


England needed 30 runs to win off 12 balls with tail-enders at the wicket - if you're "happy with a tie" Mr Dhoni, nothing will ever feel like a defeat. 


Oh, and when Zaheer Khan got run out going for a non-existent second run of the 299th ball of the Indian innings, he ran the first run short. Just saying.  

1 comment:

Unknown said...

why you want to spoil the party, i say....

I'm not sure if there's a point to this story but I'm going to tell it again.

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