Very very impressed with South Africa's decision to call time on their first innings at The Oval on 2/637 with Jacques Kallis eighteen short of a double hundred. Brings home once again how the attempt to win a cricket match should always be far more important than an individual milestone. I'm sure an Indian captain denying Sachin Tendulkar a double hundred would've been vilified by the "fans"; hell, I'm sure there are still those who haven't forgiven Rahul Dravid for declaring in Pakistan when Tendulkar was six short of a double hundred. End of daily quota of Sachin hating.
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Is someone as monotonously average as Hashim Amla really possibly the best Test batsman in the world? Has the balance between batting and bowling in cricket really swung so far in favour of batting that one of the best bowling attacks in the world has been neutered to such a pitiable extent in supposedly helpful English conditions?
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