Of late, I have begun to ponder the question, ‘Why is that, like clockwork, every few months, someone starts fearing for the future of Test cricket?’
Let us see the list:
To give it a thought, Greg Chappell in 2004, feared for the future of Test Cricket, because the Australians were on rampage. No other team looked like stopping them and Greg feared that paying public of other countries will soon lose interest if their home team(s) never win against Australia.
But today, when the Aussies are being beaten black and blue by the English team in the Ashes, Graham Gooch has started to fear for Test cricket! Just cannot understand this logic.
Ooff! Time for a bit of humour- from Guardian.co.uk’s Andy Bull.
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"Cricket. What's that all about?" Gwyneth Paltrow grapples with the evergreen question that has taxed innumerable Americans in England before her. "I try to understand cricket, really, I try and I try," she says.
Her husband Chris Martin is, she says, a big fan. "One day, I was like 'right, I'm going to get into it,' and I sat down and I was watching. And watching. And I carried on watching and then I said to him, 'Look, I am enjoying the game but is anything ever going to happen?'
And he said 'Is anything going to happen? ...........
These are the highlights.'"
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Though the First President of the United States, George Washington (1789–1797), was a cricket buff, the game somehow withered away across the pond. Thus we have the current President trying to swing the bat as if it is a cross between a baseball bat and Golf club.
:-P
Let us see the list:
- Graham Gooch - July 2013
- Greg Chappell - Feb 2013 (once again)
- Kapil, Azhar - Sep 2012
- Wisden Almanack - April 2012 (no less)
- Rahul Dravid - July 2012
- Tony Greig - June 2012
- Andrew Strauss - Oct 2011
- Michael Holding - Aug 2011
- Geoffrey Boycott - Jul 2011
- Brad Hodge - Jul 2011
- Mike Brearley - Jul 2011
- Arjuna Ranatunga - Jun 2011
- Ricky Ponting - Mar 2011
- Imran Khan - Jul 2010
- Greg Chappell - Nov 2009 (again)
- Kevin Pietersen - Jul 2009
- Gary Kirsten - Jul 2009
- Michael Vaughan - Jun 2008
- Brian Lara - Apr 2007
- Greg Chappell - Dec 2004
- Adam Gilchrist - Aug 2002
To give it a thought, Greg Chappell in 2004, feared for the future of Test Cricket, because the Australians were on rampage. No other team looked like stopping them and Greg feared that paying public of other countries will soon lose interest if their home team(s) never win against Australia.
But today, when the Aussies are being beaten black and blue by the English team in the Ashes, Graham Gooch has started to fear for Test cricket! Just cannot understand this logic.
Ooff! Time for a bit of humour- from Guardian.co.uk’s Andy Bull.
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"Cricket. What's that all about?" Gwyneth Paltrow grapples with the evergreen question that has taxed innumerable Americans in England before her. "I try to understand cricket, really, I try and I try," she says.
Her husband Chris Martin is, she says, a big fan. "One day, I was like 'right, I'm going to get into it,' and I sat down and I was watching. And watching. And I carried on watching and then I said to him, 'Look, I am enjoying the game but is anything ever going to happen?'
And he said 'Is anything going to happen? ...........
These are the highlights.'"
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Though the First President of the United States, George Washington (1789–1797), was a cricket buff, the game somehow withered away across the pond. Thus we have the current President trying to swing the bat as if it is a cross between a baseball bat and Golf club.
:-P
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