The best sporting contest of the lockdown era has been full of qualities we’ve all needed: endurance, patience, transcendence
Every man has his breaking point. You and I have one. Navdeep Saini, India’s seventh-choice seam bowler, reached his at The Gabba on Friday morning.
Let’s take a walk, for a moment, down that quarantined hotel corridor. It is now five months since India’s cricketers began their bubble-bound odyssey across the continents, from Dubai to Sharjah to Sydney and Melbourne, ferried in sealed isolation from airport to hotel to empty concrete bowl.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/15/bouncers-sledging-and-mischief-why-australia-v-india-cricket-is-a-series-for-these-times under the title “Bouncers, sledging and mischief: why Australia v India is series for these times | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
