The Australian Maccabiah team may well have thought they were playing against the Australian test team

Eshkol Solomon put in a man of the match performance

It is unclear if the Maccabiah archives include cricket statistics, but if there were it is a safe guess the records would have been broken one after the other at Lod today

Israel made a disappointing start to their 19th Maccabiah campaign, losing a tight game by two wickets to a motivated, organised and disciplined Indian team on Friday