Inshan Ali hailed from a tiny Trinidad village called Preysal. He bowled consistently confounding big-spinning wrist spinners. So bamboozling were his each-way breaks one day in the 1973 Trinidad Test, that after two or three plays and misses, Australia’s captain Ian Chappell lobbed back a return catch. Inshan always prized that wicket as the most […]
A distracted and under strength Sri Lanka could again be embarrassed in Canberra’s inaugural Test match. Rarely has a Test team looked so out of its depth as the Sri Lankans these past few New Year weeks.
It was a runs record even Don Bradman could not match: the highest first-class batting average of all, 207. Sydney’s Norman Callaway played only once for New South Wales, scoring a double century in his only innings. A year later, aged 21, he lost his life during World War One.
Those in control of Australian cricket can blame only themselves for the loss of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, even before Friday’s Sydney Test. They were stood over and bullied by their Indian counterparts.
