Kumble's Swansong !!

If someone had told me that in a 3 test series aginst England, the only batsman to score a 100 will be Kumble, I would have simply laughed it away and said that 'you must be nuts'; but that is what happened on 2nd day and Jumbo weaved, swatted, swayed, hoiked his way to a memorable 100, that produced as much delight in the dressing room as if some one had hit a Brandmanisque 300 in one single day. I was saying y'ay that the tail must hang around and they did that precisely and the English morale kept dropping.
The morning session began with the sedate Tendu (what is new ?) and a classy VVS, who almost overtook Sachin with a cream of boundaries on the leg side. Dhoni then consolidated things with a clinical assault when he cleaned up the useless post prandial dollies from pie throwers. (I infact liked the way, Dhoni made Kishore Bhemani look silly in the post match interview. Kishore said - Ah ! Mahi- you have not been in the best of form to which MSD quitely replied with a wry smile - the only innings I did not score was in Trent Bridge).
As the evening wore on, Jumbo's 100 became a reality and Shreesanth (man !! if he can show some more of a temperament, he looks a better batsman than even Zaheer/RP) and he got it with a typical mess up (by who else but Prior) between keeper's legs, the Indian dressing room is a scened to be seen. Wide smiles from Karthik to Ramki and Venky Prasad, whistling to celebrate his B'lore buddy's 100.
I did not know why Dravid did not declare that very moment since that could have been used toturn the screw even further. Strauss messed up an easy bouncer but Cook looks to be in good touch and the pitch is still full of runs. Kumble must be waiting to turn his arm over in a typical India like pitch.