There is life beyond internationals
It isn't just nation versus nation contests which stir the public's imagination
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
It isn't just nation versus nation contests which stir the public's imagination. The ongoing Champions League seems to have brought the best out of certain players, especially the unknowns, and it's thanks to these tournaments that the game is still alive, writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express.
It could never, for example, allow you to experience the combination of disbelief and joy that we saw with Alfonso Thomas of Somerset. Not many people knew much about him, we knew that he was a cricketer, no more, but against the Deccan Chargers he kept his cool, took his side home and then produced one of the most wonderfully innocent and unrestrained exhibitions of happiness I have seen. “I can’t believe what I’ve done” he gushed and for that moment alone I thought the Champions League was worth it.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo