Tag Archives: CRICKET: THE NEW BALL CHALLENGE

There are a few tasks as daunting as climbing Mount Everest, and to open the batting in a Test match in Australia seems to be one of them — especially if the openers hail from the Indian subcontinent where batsmen grow up playing on low, flat tracks. Before the advent of ‘drop-in’ pitches in Australia, wickets (pitches) were quite notorious …

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