25 July, 2011

England v India

This was the 2,000th Test Match and the 100th between England and India. It was at Lord's, the home of cricket. The weather wasn't bad. The world's top scoring batsman, Sachin Tendulkar, playing almost certainly his last match at Lord's, where he has never scored a century, came in with 99 international hundreds to his name. He failed to score one here but in every other respect the match lived up to the hype, and England won a dramatic victory.

For a cricket fan, sheer unadulterated enjoyment.

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