Star who ran himself out

With Sachin Tendulkar likely to play his last Test match in England, at The Oval, Derek Pringle spares a thought for a player who may well have upstaged him at the very beginning - Vinod Kambli. Kambli's story, particularly when placed beside that of his childhood friend, is a modern tale of how quickly sport's shining paths can lead to a dead end once the small details are ignored.

In the team meeting beforehand, one of England's pace bowlers had piped up that he could get him out with an orange. When Kambli reached 200 in front of an ecstatic home crowd in Mumbai, Robin Smith turned to the bowler in question and said - "don't you think it's time you pulled out that bloody orange."

Read the full piece in the Telegraph.