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23 July 2007
A Cricketing Anomaly
What do Sachin Tendulkar and Brain Lara have in common?
Plenty of course; they were the two pre-eminent batsmen on their generation, both have more than thirty test centuries to their name, both have over 10,000 test runs, both dominated the greatest spinners of all time who happened to operate in their era and both were […]
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20 July 2007
First Test, Day Two, Lords
Resuming on 268-4, England rolled back the years with a swift collapse to 298 all out after the morning session was lost to rain.
The English bowlers then showed the sort of concentration their batter failed to do by restricting India to 145-4 by the close. James Anderson using the swinging conditions well to capture […]
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19 July 2007
First Test, Day One, Lords
England closed on 268-4 at Lords having been penned back in the First Test by… well, it wasn’t India’s quality bowling.
At one point, with the likes of Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar bowling it was clear that the Indians were waiting for the rain that has graced most of this English cricket season. Having […]
