< 1 minute readAnd that’s make a really obvious and not-particularly-funny joke about something entirely unrelated which would have been timely had it appeared seven months ago, but which probably still wouldn’t have been original even then. Brace yourselves… So, hey, is Justin Timberlake’s ‘new’ album, like, all about Twenty20 cricket or what
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Rahul Dravid: the barometer of class
3 minute readLooking through the archives, we’ve written surprisingly little about Rahul Dravid. Many of his best innings predate the site and also – partly as a result of that – we’ve always just assumed that everyone knew how good he was. Forward defensives They call him The Wall. It’s meant as
Continue readingWhen Dravid is better than Tendulkar and Sehwag
2 minute readWe went overboard with the Tour de France references last month, so we’ll avoid making one here, even though we want to. Just as you can win the Vuelta a Espana without winning a single stage, so you can be considered the best batsman without being the best in every
Continue readingRahul Dravid can cope with a good pitch
< 1 minute readThis is a good pitch. It has led to good cricket. A one-day pitch can be flat, because the game progresses with each over, but Test matches progress with the fall of wickets. When a match is progressing, other events other than wickets also matter more. It is how Test
Continue readingGet The Wall on the board
< 1 minute readIt’s not the usual way round, but it makes a lot of sense if you follow cricket. Rahul Dravid should be on the Lord’s honours board. And now he is. After Dravid made his hundred, there were a lot of people implying that he has played in the shadow of
Continue readingCall Rahul Dravid if you need a grown-up to do a job for you
2 minute readGambhir, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Yuvraj aren’t playing against the West Indies, so there were plenty of chances for India’s up-and-coming batsmen to make their mark. Suresh Raina got 82 in the first innings and Harbhajan 70, but other than that it’s all been eights, twelves and fifteens. But batting’s been
Continue readingRahul Dravid still has some runs to score
< 1 minute readDid anyone outside India really think that Rahul Dravid should have been dropped at any point during his relatively prolonged spell of poor form? We certainly didn’t. It’s Rahul Dravid. Looking back now, it seems that run of poor form ended about this time last year in Mohali when he
Continue readingRahul Dravid: best bridesmaid ever
< 1 minute readRahul Dravid hit his 10,000th Test run today en route to his 25th Test hundred. It’s a little bit overshadowed by Sehwag’s triple hundred, but that’s pretty much the way it goes for Dravid. Dravid was very much the support act for Sehwag yesterday, hitting 68 in a partnership worth
Continue readingVirender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid are back
2 minute readVirender Sehwag hit a typically outrageous hundred at the weekend against a group of bowlers we’ve never heard of. Some might say that it wasn’t testing enough to warrant a return to the Test side, but Virender Sehwag doesn’t really work like that. Whether Virender Sehwag succeeds is largely down
Continue readingRahul Dravid resigns Indian captaincy
< 1 minute readHe was a reluctant captain. He was a reluctant wicketkeeper. When will people realise: All Rahul Dravid is interested in is batting. And batting and batting and batting. Fancy a bowl, Rahul?
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