I felt very bad to see Sachin being glorified as the savior of the first test by the media though I am an ardent fan of the maestro. The credit should have been given to someone who always stayed away from the limelight, the Mr Cool-Rahul Dravid, who single-handedly fenced India to escape defeat quite a lot of times
Dravid, the one who saved a reeling India in the first innings with the company of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in an effort to offer Lanka a formidable first innings score to chase is really the one who deserved the applause. Unfortunately, things went otherwise. This note is not to take anything away from the master’s innings, but just to pop up the real catalyst that gave wings to India’s dream of escaping a defeat.
Dravid, who played several innings of this sort, had faced the same destiny of walking off the ramp in the past. Sachin who completed his century only did his part of the job in a dead pitch, and this also remains as a concern for the curators. Why this sort of a pitch was prepared for the test match? Is it for the sake of killing time or to offer net practice for the batsmen to pad in the game that follows? Let us share this cup of tea.
2 comments:
it's always a delight to watch him playing. but it seems he is doomed to be sidelined. Whenever he score a century steering the team into victory there had been be a Sachin or gangualy to score another (just one run ahead of R) pushing him into the shadows :(
A Legend indeed , without any flaws in the technics. Proved himself in the bouncing turfs many times.
I wouldnt say he was sidelined, but being defensive during his captaincy and long badforms made his critics happy.
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