Tuesday, March 15, 2005
India Vs Pakistan: 2nd Test
I was following the first test between India and Pakistan and was only a little bit disappointed when India didn't win the match. It's heartening that the encounter was turned around by a little known wicket keeper and a man fully of potential but vastly unrealized. I remember the days when Razaq was the next big thing in the world cricket -- somebody who was deadly with the ball and the bat. And the series needed to maintain it's interest unlike the last test series where it was a conspiracy theorists dream: India goes 1-0; Pakistan levels it 1-1; then Pakistan plays dead by rolling over in the third and India wins the series 2-1. I doubt it was a set up then but one has to admit the matches were one sided. With so many catches going down for Sehwag I thought this one was going the same way. Tendulkar was left six short of his 35th century, just like he was with 194* on that ocassion. These days Tendulkar reminds me of Gavaskar in his last days when we used to say he's only playing for records. I agree with him that his batting has matured and he is no longer the young blow-away-the-opposition kind of guy; but doesn't it make sense that his batting order need to be changed to accomadate for his new found maturity? More on batting order later. I hope to see a tense encounter in the second test as well. Thanks to Cricinfo for making this possible.
# posted by Ravi @ 2:44 PM 
