Galle Test so far

Day 1 : India’s bowling lives upto its fame and reputation. Sehwag was the lone spinner who got the wicket(s) ahead of Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan IPL Ojha. Ishant Sharma continued to baffle and Mithun unexpectedly bowled good lines to end up with a solitary wicket to his name.  Paragraph (unable to recall his full name) and Character King pawned runs and centuries to end up at 2/256 in 68 overs possible in the day.  Dhoni dropped few, Dravid dropped one and the rest just ran behind the leather.  The Indians are not sure if they would be getting a chance to bat this Test match owing to 2 factors : impending rains and the SL desire to make up for the Test runs they lost for 50 years.  SL debuted in Tests in 1982 and India in 1932. So I guess, the SL batsmen want to make up for those 50 lost years to come at par with India. 

 

They have got dead wicket to help them and 9 more sessions to play in next 3 days provided rains allow. They would like to take this opportunity to go on and on and on and on and on to make at least 800 runs. So what if Murali cannot take 800 wickets, the batsmen would make 800 runs thus providing a symbolic get off to Murali. If there is a time, the SL would also like to have a go at quick runs and try emulate 1000 run mark, something that murali was tipped to get when he was in his pomp and was taking wickets like Dharmendra used to suck blood out of villains……

 

Day 2 : Rains wash out the play and now Murali is increasingly seeming in the danger to miss out on 800 wickets.  Mahela, the biggest cheap run maker in SL history after Attapattu is on the crease and Thilan Samarweera who is weer only on dead Lankan pitches is yet to arrive.  As Chaminda Vaas raced to a 50 in that 952 Test match, who knows Angelo Matthews could also go on to harvest runs in the flow.  And if SL are unable to bowl, who knows Murali would postpone his retirement by one test. And then he would walk up to his IPL captain and ask “Bhagwan ke naam pe ek wikat de de anna”.   And then may be MS could decide to open Yuvraj with Gambhir so that Murali could take at least Yuvraj’s wickat.

 

SL are known to kill the soul of Test cricket with their dead pitches and batting runathons.  To me they are a disgrace to the Test cricket and they play a pathetic brand of Test cricket. Its fairly unfortunate that BCCI falls prey to the yearnings of SLC to help them with some money. 

 

With Pakistan finding T20 in every Test they play, BD losing every Test they play, SL piling on runs that don’t count for anything and that don’t help them win anything its only India who plays some bit of positive cricket, but with a second string bowling attack they would not cling to the top ranking for long. Of course they can but would Srikanth want to ? Only if he could stop selecting dud pacemen and look out for some genuine pacemen who could generate some pace and also take some wickets. No military medium pacers please.