This Border-Gavaskar Test series is at a fascinating pass – and the great thing is that there are still three more matches.
is that it was in just the second Test of five. There is still so much cricket to come, so many ways this could play out. Credit where credit is rarely given to those who pushed for five Tests between these teams. It’s a latter-day rarity, but it’s put the serious back into series.
Ditto Marnus Labuschagne: he’s made some runs, but needs more, which means more innings. There must be an allowance for accidents, like leg-side strangles, for instance.and Nittish Kumar Reddy have made eye-catching first impressions, but even with one more match they would constitute only glimpses. Don’t be misled by the Jaiswal’s ducks; they’re an opener’s occupational hazard. There may come a time when we’ve seen too much of him, but it’s not yet.
In a short series, there’s no tomorrow, and often that governs the tempo. The compression sometimes makes for good entertainment, of course. But in a five-Test series, there nearly always is a tomorrow, and that makes for a whole new set of delectable unknowns. And it creates leeway for interference from weather.Now that the Australia-India scoreline is 1-1, the Boxing Day Test will be live, and with luck the New Year’s Test in Sydney, too.
Some of that is down to the rattling pace of the game now, leaving no time for brooding or dwelling. Setting aside five days for a Test match now is not a schedule, but an ambit claim.
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