Raj Singh, at it again !!

Raj Singh Dungarpur(RSD), perhaps knew that the 1^st day of the tour match is going to be not much of a news maker and promptly made up for it y’day, when he came out with fire against Dada. http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2006/jan/06raj.htm

I may not disagree with most of what RSD is saying but this is not the time to wash dirty linen in public, especially when the tour is just starting. In any case, all it did was to raise some hot air in chat rooms and blogs – when the for and anti Sourav groups dueled it out. RSD of course, promptly did the old hat trick of denying the whole thing.

The tour match started with all round news black out. Crickinfo for some strange reason did not cover it live and with 500 spectators on the ground, Indian team would have felt that something must be wrong here. Normally, they are used to 10 times that crowd watching them practice in nets. Anyway, based on sporadic news culled from here and there (chat rooms, blogs, Geo TV bulletin and phone calls to friends), it was finally clear that India is batting. When it all ended, the first day was not bad from the point of warm up. Gambhir (GG) Vs Jaffer (WJ) duel is still undecided, although I feel that GG has now got the edge. He seemed to have played more positively and he is also the current opener (the old adage of status quo maintenance). Another observation is that just 77 overs were bowled. If this is any indication of Lahore light during winter, we can pretty much assume a draw since neither side will be able to take the 20 wickets of other (unless there is some abysmal failure of the batsmen).