Cricket Is uplifting
In an old cover story for Open , Sandipan Deb wrote about how cricket suddenly became boring, due to the overdose of games
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
In an old cover story for Open, Sandipan Deb wrote about how cricket suddenly became boring, due to the overdose of games. But the India-South Africa Test series has made him change his mind about the game. It takes a compelling Test series to draw people back and the main players in the series - Sehwag, Sachin, Steyn, Amla - need to be credited for that.
Has there ever been a series where a team lost by an innings and then came back to win the next match by an innings? And when was the last time that a player from the losing side got a Man of the Match award, and that too without any doubt that he should get it? And what is wrong with the man called Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar? When will he stop? When will he say that he has done enough? Clearly, there has never been a cricketer like him, even perhaps a man like him. Who could have ever imagined the feats that he has achieved, and who can imagine what more he will?
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo