Ashes will hold its own against India-South Africa
Cricket in the ongoing Ashes series may not measure up to what India and South Africa may offer in their three-match Test series, but the build-up to the latter is hardly the stuff of 'marquee' contests, says Scyld Berry in the Daily Telegraph .
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Cricket in the ongoing Ashes series may not measure up to what India and South Africa may offer in their three-match Test series, but the build-up to the latter is hardly the stuff of 'marquee' contests, says Scyld Berry in the Daily Telegraph.
Nothing, I am afraid, quite on this plane in the Ashes series. The top-five batting of both South Africa and India is as formidable, in talent and stats, as any series can have seen. But what a shame that the two boards, and especially India’s, do not allow all the potentialities of this heavyweight contest to breathe. It should be ‘a marquee series’ of five Tests, including one on the lightning pitch at the Wanderers where England shrivelled in January – not a three-Test squabble between backpackers over where to pitch their tent.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo