50 Not out !!Mankad-Roy record stays put
On a gloomy Lahore afternoon, where hardly 3 overs were bowled in a complete day, Viru managed to get out and theyby not overhaul the 50 year opening partnership record of Mankad and Roy (413) by a mere 3 runs. Rahul must have cringed on seeing Viru attempt a 3rd upper cut off Rana and get a feather touch to the keeper. Viru had shocked the media by saying that he does not know who Mankad-Roy were !! Does not make much news, according to me because that is Viru for you. Anything conventional - goes out of the window. I will rather have a swash buckling opener, who does not know history of cricket rather than some one who knows it all but bats dourly (Ah! don't spring on me saying what is the connection between knowing history and batting care free. Well ! that is where the so called stereo typing comes into play).
We move the circus to the next test venue- Faisalabad now. From what the weather pundits say, the climate is going to be no different from that in Lahore and I guess, real cricket will begin later in the 3rd at Karachi.
We move the circus to the next test venue- Faisalabad now. From what the weather pundits say, the climate is going to be no different from that in Lahore and I guess, real cricket will begin later in the 3rd at Karachi.
posted by Crick_Love at 11:59 AM
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nagu : A lot of theories are floating around about the scheduling but the one gaining prominence is that the original schedule by PCB with Karachi as the 1st test was rejected by BCCI. If they have really done that for cricketing reasons, it is smart but the security team had denied such rejection..so like so many other mysteries, this one will go into the history books with no solution.
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